Pylos - History of the City of Nestor (1600-1180 BC)

The city of Pylos was one of the biggest and most significant centers of the Mycenaean Greece. In this episode, we go through the history of this wealthy Bronze Age city.
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[@mercianthane2503]

Mycenaean story is always welcome and appreciated. Bronze age Greece is full mysteries.

[@taybak8446]

Wow! I did not know that Nestor's descendants continued on as Athenian nobility. Thanks for all this great information.

[@joshjacob1530]

damn so my ancesor literally like created democracy and shieet. We wuz republicans.

[@Jippa_33]

Wanax has some of the most informative videos on Ancient Greece on KZbin.

[@WanaxTV]

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[@ivacho9428]

Thank you for this channel!! I'm trying to write a novel set in the Mycenaean era and your content helps a lot. Greetins from Argentina

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[@Bogey1022]

Sandy Pylos.... Somewhere scrawled into the plaster "Telemachus was here"

[@PathsUnwritten]

I visited the Palace of Nestor last week. It's a significant distance from the modern city of Pylos, where the ancient city would have presumably been. This seems a little odd considering most other Mycenaean cities had their palaces in walled acropoli at the heart of the city.

[@talyn3932]

Pylos was ancient, its possible it was built before they adopted that convention?

[@uselesscoffeemachine5832]

Pylos was not in any danger before the Dorians and Sea Peoples, so the palace did not have to be in a location where it could be defended, but its odd from the administrative perspective.

[@Alusnovalotus]

Seems Mycenaean culture didn’t have that strong an impact on this region like it did in the east. From what I’ve read, they seem to have copied Minoan Crete more. Especially now that we know they copied the Minoan alphabet, sea faring trade and that there was much more literary evidence at Pylos than anywhere else in mainland Greece.

[@Salonicasoccerbattle]

The ancient city was near the palace,the site was abandoned after the palaces ruined in 1180BC. Modern city was inhabited later. Mykenai also was abandoned after the destruction of the city around the same time.

[@douglaskingsman2565]

I don't follow. Pylos probably had an akropolis with a palace. Just because modern Pylos was built further away means nothing. Ancient Mycenae is distinct from the current village of Mykenai too.

[@jonhstonk7998]

i love the bronze age! i never knew about pylos tho i want to know more about other polis too!!

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Thank you

[@EstateCareMV]

Hope to see more Sparta videos soon! Great work.

[@douglaskingsman2565]

Sparta is so overdone. It was not important as a city-state in the Mycenaean Age. Lakonia itself was the real home of Tynareos and Menelaos.

[@hessgdesd]

thank you

[@user-cg3no1lf5d]

Love from Athens to all who read ancient history...

[@user-mf7um5tl3l]

There are some mistakes in the map : Northern Thessaly (Magoula near modern Makryhori village), parts of Makedonia (excavations have been made in Mount Olymbos and script in Linear B in Western Makedonia) and North-eastern Aegean island of Lesvos (as well as Cyprus) where also parts of the Mycenean world. There aren't many excavations in Makedonia, but there are some evidences.

[@thodorisx8875]

Make a video about the history of arcadia!we waiting...

[@NovaSeven]

I enjoyed this video, but there are a couple small mistakes on the map (2:36): the (modern) settlement near Pylos is called “Iklaina” not “Iklania.” Also, Pylos (“Palace of Nestor”) is about 2.5 miles NW of Iklaina, but on the map it is located to the SW at the coastal site that Iron Age Greeks called Cape Coryphasium [Koryphasion] (see Thucydides 4.3), which lies across the bay from the modern city called Pilos (Navarino).

[@LuciusQuinctiusCincinnatus111]

This is very cooool chanal about ancient greece! Hi from russia! I am to interested by Mycennaenan civilization))))

[@LuciusQuinctiusCincinnatus111]

I am subscrubed)

[@jarlnils435]

Wasn't the ruler of Theben not Mykene, the one, who was called Brother by the great king of Hatti?

[@Alusnovalotus]

6:42 I think that's a bit of a stretch with 50,000 -120,000 inhabitants, considering the arable land around it, the technology in sewage systems and fresh water resources there. Wouldn't older centers be even more populated than Pylos at this time? Babylon barely Passed 70,000 inhabitants and it stood a millenium before Pylos at the time.

[@LuciusQuinctiusCincinnatus111]

What did I use to reconstruct the battle?

[@LuciusQuinctiusCincinnatus111]

how to contact you?

[@secularstones]

Consider this progression: Pylos -> Peleset -> Philistine Could it be that the Peleset who attacked Egypt at the close of the bronze age were in fact the people of Pylos?

[@talyn3932]

I think they are pretty sure that the Peleset were from Crete. Pele was a common sound in a lot of people in the region, Peleponese, Pelasgian, etc... Cool idea though!

[@henkstersmacro-world]

👍👍👍

[@douglaskingsman2565]

The "blink" of collapse??

[@LuciusQuinctiusCincinnatus111]

I made a diagram of the Mycenaean society and I am writing a Wikipedia article about the Mycenaean civilization

[@Salonicasoccerbattle]

I love this kind of videos but there are many mistakes in this one. For example the griffin warrior grave was not a tholos. And it is dated ca 1450 BC.

[@alexanderguesthistorical7842]

My thoughts are; Pelasgians=descendants of the neolithic people. The name coming from Pylos. Peleset ('Sea Peoples') = those from the kingdom of Pylos.

[@diktatoralexander88]

*P I Y A M A R A D U*

[@viorelpiscanu9425]

Is more fiction than reality thanks to that existiting(!?) Homer(s).... Myths are so much loved by humans ../

[@manfredfruhauf3557]

What is your mother-tongue?

[@douglaskingsman2565]

Never 120k people!

[@hanswi336]

Why are you singing in all your videos ??

[@JimmyTheGreek2000]

Not pielos! It is Pylos or Pilos !