What are the Largest Battles of Ancient Greece? (500 BC - 1500 AD) DOCUMENTARY

A history documentary on the data behind the largest battles of Ancient Greece. To learn more go to curiositystrea... and use code INVICTA to save 25% off today. Thanks to Curiosity Stream for sponsoring today’s video.
In this history documentary we look look at the history of Greece from Antiquity to the Middle Ages through the lens of its battles. To do so we have collected data on all major battles with recorded figures. We then present these on a graph for context while rendering them in 3D battle dioramas to give you a more real sense of their scale.
The documentary begins in 500 BC at the very outbreak of the Ionian revolt which in turn leads to the Greco Persian wars. It is here that the famous battle of Marathon, battle of Thermopylae, battle of Salamis, and battle of Plataea stand out as some of the most intense conflicts of the period. In the aftermath, the ensuing Peloponnesian war saw battles of higher frequency but lower magnitude. Yet with the rise of the Macedonians and the Roman invasion of Greece both of these would increase. The siege of Corinth and the battle of Pydna in particular stand as massive clashes.
The ensuing Roman era would see few battles but when they did occur, either due to civil war or barbarian invasion, they tended to be quite large. The Roman campaigns into Dacia and Illyria were particularly bloody. Battles then see an uptick in the crisis of the third century and maintain a relatively high level due to the persistent wars between the Byzantines and their rivals. The crusades and the rise of the Ottomans in particular greatly increase the size of battles in the late medieval period.
Finally we summarize the history of ancient greek battles with analytics and compare them to those of other regions such as France and the British Isles. Stay tuned for our next episode as we explore the history of ancient Italy with the explosive rise of the Romans.
Credits
Research = Sophia Ware
Script = Sophia Ware
Narration = Invicta
Artwork = Penta Limited
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[@InvictaHistory]

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[@brokenbridge6316]

Nice video

[@mrpink8951]

How about the smallest battles with the largest impacts?

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@mrpink8951---That would be really interesting to watch

[@nikola7211]

E Invicta you know why the Otomans began there counqests of Vizantian teritories?Beacuse of the Serbian-Vizantian wars of the 12. and the 13. century wich forced the Vizantians to hire Otoman merceniaris wich begin piliching the Balkans and build up there influence and then begin there counqest.After they counqured most of Trakia they where opoused by the Serbian king Vukasin Mrnjavcevic and his brother despot Ugljesa in 1371 at the climactic battle of Marica when the Otomans destroyed the best Serbian armies and readed for the counqest of Serbia

[@nikola7211]

Also its belived that the Serbian army in the batlle of Marica had from 40 to 60.000 man

[@TetsuShima]

The conflicts between the Greeks and Romans (from the Pyrrhic Wars to the Battle of Corinth) are so fascinating that it's absurd that Hollywood just ignored them. At best, there's the 1961 movie "The Centurion" (starring Drew Barrymore's father), but it's not a very good one.

[@Alexq79-]

Romulus you are everywhere

[@manuelacosta9463]

Indeed. They were decisive curbstompings and literally ushered in a new era for Greece. All the Romans did was advance when least expected, the Greeks panicking did the rest.

[@rob6927]

Not sure it's a bad thing Hollywood ignores it 🤣

[@EnriqueAquinas]

Black Romans

[@Anonymous07192]

Hollywood would just screw it up. I'd prefer just watching good channels like Invicta explain the situation in history.

[@Onezy05]

This is a great series. I can't wait to see you delve into other battle infested areas on the continent!

[@palkia192]

I love everything about these videos! Keep it up!

[@nathanaelsallhageriksson1719]

I always thought that one major reason why the battles of antiquity were larger was because technology favored smaller, but better equipped armies. But this data suggests that although that was part of it, the far more major reason was just societal organisation and centralization.

[@Крэйден_х]

It's sad that you didn't mention the battle of Ipsus in 301 BC. A large-scale battle that put an end to Antigonus One-Eyed's plans to restore the empire of Alexander, and completed the first stage of the struggle of the Diadochi for his legacy. In my opinion, a hugely underestimated battle that shaped the balance of affairs in the Balkans and the Middle East before the rise of Rome, and allowed this very Rome to break into the world stage when the state of the Diadochi fell into decline.

[@kaiza9184]

The sheer amount of elephants at this battle was interesting too. And where Demetrius the Besieger lost his father. Epic battle 10/10

[@xtratex1019]

I guess you mean the Battle of Ipsus, Issus was one of Alexanders battles. But both of them took place in Asia so I guess they might be covered in another episode of this series that covers "Near East Asia" as Invicta called it at 2:45. If he ever covers this area he won't be able to avoid it I guess. :)

[@IA100KPDT]

One Question: Greek had enemy within and without. Assuming the total strength is 100000. What makes Alexander decided to go on an expedition to conquer even India that is 5775km (direct distance and maybe 7000km if u take in the twist and turns and mountains). The moment Alexander stepped out of Greece, there is Persia and all the big and small armies and kingdoms in middle east waiting for him. How in the world did Alexander do it? How long is the supply chain gonna be? How many soldiers are following him?

[@IA100KPDT]

@@wedgeantilles8575 Thanks for the tips. As far as history is concerned, it does matter which authors, they must base in on historical record or documents. Else its all pulling numbers from thin air. I will look into them and see what they said.

[@IA100KPDT]

​@@wedgeantilles8575 yea, I watch his interviews and it confirmed what I thought about western histories: There is really no credible sources and according to him, writings about Alexander and Philips were written a few 100 years after they died. Actually to be honest, there is no such vocation as a historian in the past. It's a 18th century creation Even in China. the Emperor always had scribes to record what he said and what was done or those who followed the generals to war to write down what they saw and report it to the Emperor. All these reports, administrative writings were then organised by latter scholars and it becomes known as histories. So no one really write histories, even in China. According to one record by a Chinese expedition to the west (Persia and beyond) around 220bc. This is what they saw: "The people are hairy, no knowledge of paint, no knowledge of smelting metals, hence still using wooden spear, no knowledge of using gold and silver as currency of exchange." It is said that they turned back because they didn't see anything of value, nor is the land so good and fertile for them to keep going west.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Wild how massive these battles of the past were.

[@auto952]

That's both Ancient and Medieval Greece.

[@jesseberg3271]

It seems worth mentioning that even the revised figures you give for early antiquity are somewhat controversial, precisely because they are so big. That alone is a complex topic, but even in a cursory overview it's important to remember that these are controversial estimates.

[@cc0767]

just say "I dont trust the numbers" and they qualify as "controversial". I would not read too much into it.

[@linming5610]

Well, if you take into consideration that antiquity have larger population than early medieval era, and the existence of large centralized state/empires, you would not really be that surprised.

[@ianwilkinson5069]

I tend to believe the accounts of the ancient historians and philosophers that were actually there and saw it with there own eyes and wrote this down compared to some college grade that is more than 2000 years removed from the event that "thinks" oh that cant be right.

[@jesseberg3271]

@@ianwilkinson5069 ok, but what about the contemporaneous accounts of groups of people with no heads? Like, living people with no heads and faces on their chests. That's also in Herodotus.

[@MrFerrell55]

​@@ianwilkinson5069 Then you have the critical thinking capacities of a toddler. Do you think Megasthenes, who personally traveled to India, was telling the truth when he claimed that there were tribes of dog-people in India? Do you honestly believe that Herodotus, who wasn't a contemporary, and Simonides of Ceos, who did live during the Greco-Persian wars, were telling the truth when they claimed that the Persians invaded with a force of over five million men? Or is it possible that the ancient historians were, in fact, real people who often didn't have access to primary sources, didn't personally witness almost anything they wrote about, were often very heavily biased, and faced political pressures to write histories not so much for facts but for propaganda purposes?

[@mezcashis]

Always excited for another Invicta video!

[@EpicBattlesEpicBattles]

Nice video my friend!!!

[@manuelacosta9463]

The Byzantines just couldn't catch a break. With so many crushing defeats and slain Emperors it's amazing they held out for so long.

[@linming5610]

I am more into, a lot of legacy that can be taken from unified roman empire, they inherited the negatives the most. (Political instability)

[@armandom.s.1844]

When you say Ancient Greece I also expected the Near Eastern Greek battles, like Alexander's, to be covered here. I hope those will appear in your Near East video as they are amazing. Issus, Granicus and Gaugamela are the most famous, but after those, the Diadochi battles were crazy. The numbers at Ipsus, Raphia, and Magnesia should be treated in such a topic.

[@herbthompson8937]

The battles between Eumenes and Antigonus had crazzzzy numbers

[@robbabcock_]

Wow, awesome video! These analytics studies are quite illuminating. ⚔🔥🙌

[@jamiezagoritis2079]

really great video. Extremely nteresting

[@-RONNIE]

Wow thank you for the video it was really educational 👍🏻

[@meradinfly]

Very interesting series of videos, I will love to see the map expanding further east covering the steppes, India and Asia and further south, covering Africa. I know the data are hard to come by, but I feel history for most western countries is too centered around the Mediterranean see. I think it will be nice to compare very different civilizations and their battles and their numbers. I would like to point out that the "out-layers" were almost lost to me in between the vignettes at the top of the graph, so may I suggest to use the vignettes as a background element, keeping the graph and the data points as the front-most item in the infographic

[@db123OG]

Really love this series

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

The dankest battle has to be where Leonidas and Xerxes had a breakdance off.

[@vangelisskia214]

"FOUR THOUSAND YEARS OF GREEK HISTORY have produced four Greek heritages, each of which has had an effect on the life of the Greeks in later stages of their history. The Hellenic Greeks received a heritage from the Mycenean Greeks, the Byzantine Greeks received one from the Hellenic Greeks, the Modern Greeks have received one heritage from the Byzantines and a second from the Hellenes.” The Greeks and their Heritage, A.J Toynbee, 1st Korais Professor of Greek Studies

[@giffica]

Id have liked covering since the first Greek recorded war, the Trojan War, which is a verified event. Would be helpful to discuss what exactly is going on.

[@arnthedragonborn8306]

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, but is the Trojan war properly recorded by multiple believable sources with relatively accurate numbers? As far as I remembered while we could nowadays prove the existence of the city of Troy (some still bring counter arguments to its location to this day), I have yet to hear of any contemporary sources other than myths and legends spread through a more oral tradition (that the helenic people had after the bronze age collapse and till the formation of the modern greek alphabet) rather than through writing, and if there is any information somewhat more grounded in reality rather than the myth, I seem to remember that it was written centuries after the supposed fact which mainly just recounted and compiled multiple myths and legends from various regions across modern greece and put them down in written form. I am curios to hear your thoughts on the matter and find out whether there were, to your knowledge, any written texts detailing this event in a more realistic light. Have a great day!

[@giffica]

@@arnthedragonborn8306 Uh writing is a far less believable source than Oral tradition what. Oh wait you're one of those materialists?

[@HellenicWolf]

Great work man, greetings from Athens!

[@keiththomas1180]

Pretty good, like it

[@GunterThePenguinHatesHugs]

3:08 when you're 16 and come home at 10pm instead of the previously agreed 9pm

[@xergiok2322]

The Hellenistic Era does not stretch back that far. It's preceeded by the Classical Era and only starts with the death of Alexander the Great.

[@ianwilkinson5069]

Btw the classical era was less than 200 years so does it even count lol

[@maxnetirtimon4121]

I believe archaeologists found many Acheamanid Administrative seals dating to the time of Artaxerxes I in the black sea region so I don't think greeks managed to push Acheamanids from Europe entirely.... maybe just northern Greece?!

[@amfa42]

Hi there! Would be possible to get access to the data set??

[@Vandelberger]

I wonder in the antiquity period, what a swing in population had for deployment numbers.

[@jatzi1526]

Thank you for not using violin plots

[@c0nstantin86]

Maybe thracians and greeks ware more numerous then the franks/saxons/germans/latins ...

[@TetsuShima]

Greeks: "WHY DID YOU BURN CORINTH?!" Romans: "Do you know who Aeneas is?" Greeks: "No..." Romans: "The father of all Romans. He barely escaped alive from a burning city called Troy..." Greeks: "SKATÁ!!!"

[@auto952]

Greeks took over the Roman Empire when the West fell and ruled it for more than a thousand years.

[@christosnitsos4040]

so the burning of a real city, and the incessant looting of the Greek region, is justified by a fictional character in a mythical epic poem, the last word in your comment sums it up nicely.

[@ianwilkinson5069]

@@christosnitsos4040 in a 1000 years George Washington will be a mythical character that ppl probably will think was made up.

[@christosnitsos4040]

@@ianwilkinson5069 that's a speculation that cannot be confirmed, same as it cannot be confirmed that the episodes or characters of the Iliad were real.

[@wankawanka3053]

But the romans were never trojans

[@ilijas3041]

Nicephoros I could not have taken 70k combat ready men to Pliska. On the back of Caliphate centuries when Romans just stoped fighting pitched battles and almost exclusively fought ambushes on the enemy bogged down by loot and slaves, an army of 70k would have looked like a pure mythology, something straight out of a glorious past that noone is really sure actually happened. Not even Constantine the IV against Asparukh could have mustered such force. And then Bulgars with 50k, that simply cant be the case. There was a core of 12k elite level steppe riders and maybe some additional levied peasantry...

[@vangelisskia214]

"Throughout history, Greeks have created types of societies and political systems very different from one another. If they have continuously inhabited the same southeastern corner of Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, they have also, at different times, put down roots in many different places. Again and again, they have proved resourceful at reinventing themselves. They have fought against different enemies, traded with different partners around the world, worshipped different gods, even called themselves by different names. We call them 'Greeks', and their land 'Greece', in English today because the ancient Romans first encountered a local tribe of Greek speakers whom they called, in Latin, Graeci. In their own language in ancient times, these people were known as 'Hellenes' and their land as 'Hellas', as they have been known once again since the early nineteenth century. But they have also, at different times, been Achaiwoi (Achaeans) and Romaioi or Romioi (pronounced Romyi), meaning literally 'Romans'." Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021, Preface, pp. 13

[@seamonster5510]

Does anyone know what song is playing from around 12:36 onwards?

[@christosnitsos4040]

Ancient Greece included many regions from Marseilles in the West to the Black Sea and Crimea in the east and North, to Alexandria in the South, including Sicilym Southern Italy and Asia Minor. Some of these regions remained Greek well into the Middle Ages. The allocation of the Greek region in your video, therefore, is completely arbitrary and contains only the core of the Greek world of the era and not its vast periphery. Your results are in turn missing the numerous, and significant military campaigns fought on these regions over the entire time span you cover in your video.

[@zacharydelgado2279]

Love your other videos. I didn’t care for this one. Keep up the good work.

[@Onezy05]

So, looking at this chart, the largest battle Greece had during either antiquity or the middle ages was the battle of philippii?

[@dominicguye8058]

If you know how that battle played out, that makes enormous sense. The scale of that battle was crucial to how it played out

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

The whole of Greece was under foreign rule for many centuries,starting with the Roman conquest in the second century BC. What distinguishes the Ionian Islands from the rest of Greece is that, with some exceptions, they did not form part of the Ottoman Empire, while the rest of the Greek world was under Ottoman rule for anything between two hundred and five hundred years. The fact that these islands were ruled by Catholics rather than Muslims has made them strikingly different from the rest of Greece, in language, music, costume, cuisine and architecture. Hirst, A. and Sammon, P., 2014. The Ionian Islands. p.2.

[@wankawanka3053]

Keep coping turk

[@upontaker]

So, what's your point? Do you want to visit the islands for your summer holidays? Perhaps they are too expensive for you...

[@apmoy70]

-Græcia capta ferum victorem cepit et artis intulit agresti Latio Horace-Epistolarum, II,1,156 -Ἐσμὲν γὰρ οὗν ὧν ἡγεῖσθε τε καὶ βασιλεύετε ἕλληνες τὸ γένος ὡς ἥ τε φωνὴ καὶ ἡ πάτριος παιδεία μαρτυρεῖ - The people you're ruling and reigning over are Hellenes by race, as the language and ancestral culture testify. George Gemistos Plethon-Memorial to Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus (1418) -Τὸ δὲ τὴν πόλιν σοι δοῦναι, οὔτ’ ἐμόν ἐστιν οὔτ’ ἄλλου τῶν κατοικούντων ἐν ταύτῃ· κοινῇ γὰρ γνώμῃ πάντες αὐτοπροαιρέτως ἀποθανοῦμεν καὶ οὐ φεισόμεθα τῆς ζωῆς ἡμῶν-As to surrendering the city to you, it is not for me to decide or for anyone else of its citizens; for all of us have reached the mutual decision to die of our own free will, without any regard for our lives. -Emperor Constantine XI Dragaš Palaeologus-Last response to Sultan Mehmed (1453), considered the Medieval Molon Labe. -Ὁ βασιλεύς μας ἐσκοτώθη, καμμία συνθήκη δέν ἔκαμε. Ἡ φρουρά του εἶχε παντοτινόν πόλεμον μὲ τούς Τούρκους καὶ δύο φρούρια ἦταν πάντοτε ἀνυπότακτα. Ἡ φρουρά τοῦ βασιλέως μας εἶναι οι λεγόμενοι κλέφτες, τὰ φρούρια ἡ Μάνη καὶ τὸ Σούλι καὶ τὰ βουνὰ-Οur king (i.e. Constantine Palaeologus) was killed he never made truce. His garrison was in a constant war with the Turks and two of his fortresses were never captured. Our king's garrison is the so called klephts and the fortresses are Souli, Mani and the mountains. General Theodore Kolokotronis-Response to Admiral Hamilton on "why do you Greeks fight?" (1821)

[@kalajari1749]

Ah yes, my favorite ancient greek period, 1500

[@ChevyChase301]

Battle of ipsus

[@Crs-qt3uw]

What is the blue dot around 310 A.D.?

[@kng_bg1616]

Battle of Adrianople 324 A.D. between Constantine and Licinius most likely

[@johnpurcell9502]

Surprised there's no mention of The Punic Wars Carthage and Rome The great Commander Hannibal, also no mention of the Mongols Ghenghis Khan onwards. None the less still enjoyed this episode.

[@TheIronChancellor]

If prime ancient greece was united they could have qonquered the whole world

[@mattstrathis4328]

Shouldn't the Trojan War be at the top of this list? That happened around 1200 BC

[@cringlator]

Would it be pronounced Inwicta in ancient latin?

[@Joshua-uw7wm]

Overall the Persian empire had a million men but never in one battle I'm sure of that

[@michaelweston409]

Still massive for a ancient empire 2,500 years ago

[@pompacitokmakci]

'Greeks' and 'Romans' Constantine's city (Constantinople, the city of Constantine') occupied the site of the classical Greek city of Byzantion, whence the term Byzantine' and our use of 'Byzantium', but the citizens of the eastern Empire referred to themselves as 'Romans'. From this came the term Rum, used for the Byzantine empire in Arabic and Turkish sources, and Rumis for the Greek Christian population under the Ottomans. Similarly, Romios was used to denote a Greek until, with the development of the modern Greek state, it came to be replaced by 'Hellene". Though Greek was, and continued to be, the language of Byzantine government and culture a large part of the population at many periods of the empire's history spoke other languages. This was certainly true in the early period when the empire included Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia, whose languages included Coptic, Aramaic and Syriac, as well aatin-speaking North Africa, Italy and Illyricum. The Byzantine success in driving the Vandals from Carthage and North Africa in AD 533-4 led to the introduction of some Greek for official purposes until Carthage eventually fell to the Arabs in 696. At times in later periods large areas of the Balkans came under Byzantine authority, and places formerly under Arab rule were recovered, with the result that the empire included Slavs and Bulgarians on its European side and Muslim populations in the east. By the eighth century, versions of Slavonic appear to have been spoken throughout much of central Europe east of the Elbe'," and some of these regions, with their existing populations, later came for periods under Byzantine rule. Latin, Italian and Hebrew also coexisted with Greek. There were also other changes: in the Comnenian period (1081 1204) 'Hellene' begins to be used as a self-description, and a character in one of the twelfth-century romances is identified as 'a Greek [Hellene] from Cyprus," while in the last phase of the Byzantine state the term 'Hellene' came back into use in conscious evocation of Byzantium's clas sical heritage. In earlier periods, in contrast, the term 'Hellene' denoted pagan ideas or persons, and for the Christian Byzantines it carried very negative connotations. Plato, for example, was considered a 'Hellene', and his philosophy was condemned by the Church, and saints' lives, especially from the early period, are full of improving tales of the dis comfiture of pagans ('Hellenes') by Christian holy men and women; similarly, collections of miracle stories contain anecdotes demonstrating the triumph of Christian healing over 'Hellenic medicine. When the Emperor Justinian collected and codified the law in the sixth century it was Roman law in Latin that his team of lawyers made available to the Latin west and which became the basis of several European law codes."14 Cameron, A., 2012. The Byzantines. Milton Keynes: Lightning Source, p.6-7.

[@PMMagro]

The biggest battles did likely not include the Greeks? I imagine the naval battles between Rome & Carthege with many big rowed ships some loaded wth soldiers should have included most people....

[@EykisCorporation]

Was the Greece in a 1500 AD still an ancient?

[@joaomanoel3197]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@ryanhampson673]

We know it as the Byzantine empire but to those living in it back then they considered themselves not Byzantine or Eastern Roman, but Roman. Rome lasted 1500 years…Not a bad run if you ask me.

[@nicolaenicolae3289]

👍

[@pompacitokmakci]

Au contraire , with the introduction of Christianity the Greeks of old Hellas , who in part had remained heathen , ranked as second - class citizens ; with the introduction of Christianity the Greeks of old Hellas , who in part had remained heathen , ranked as second - class citizens ; the word “ Hellene " in Byzantium had meant the same as " barbarian " since the third century . The representatives of Byzantium who spoke koine and who called themselves Rhomaioi ( " Romans ' , i.e. ' East Romans ' and not Greeks ), did not bother very much about the rural Greek-speaking popu-lation of Old Hellas, who spoke a tongue drawn from the dialects and sharply diverging from the high reputation of the koine. Décsy, G. (2000) The linguistic identity of Europe. Bloomington, IN: Eurolingua. p..203

[@wankawanka3053]

This is like saying modern turks can't be related to old turks because they are no muslims 😂

[@TetsuShima]

Thebes: *Is completely destroyed* Athenians: "WHY DID YOU DO THAT? WE WERE ABOUT TO SURRENDER" Alexander the Great: "I'm sorry, but we couldn't let your rebellion go unpunished" Ptolemy: "Actually, Thaïs got excited and grabbed a torch while no one was..." Alexander the Great: "Shut up, Ptolemy! You and that crazy b*tch are going to ruin my reputation!"

[@al-muwaffaq341]

Before watching this vid ima guess that the Battle of Plataea and the battle of Philippi are the top 2.

[@Wolfshalifi]

If Ancient Greece would’ve formed 1 empire they would’ve been incredibly strong and probably would’ve beaten Rome

[@StudSupreme]

Modern historians are stoopidly wrong about Thermopylae. Herodotus got it right here. What modern historians neglect out of sheer ignorance is the Persian mastery of logistics (amply demonstrated by their foray into NE Europe across the Danube to secure the northern flank) and the fact that all of Europe (including Greece) back then was much more heavily forested, much more lightly populated and much cooler than today, which meant all the rivers encountered in their invasion had much higher water flows, allowing the 2M strong persian host to stay supplied during the approach from Byzantium to central Greece. EDIT: WOW. MANY errors in this vid. The Greek fleet was not 2-3x smaller, but about half the size of the Persian fleet (not counting the non-combat supply vessels the Persians were using to support the invasion.) Also, the defeat at Thermopylae was accompanied by a more or less simultaneous naval defeat near Euboea.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Again Koraes' careful rhetoric, which matches his self-projection, seems to be in play; his classifications of“Greek slavery under the Romans” and “Greek slavery under the Ottomans” are closely linked a few lines below: Modern Greeks could justifiably boast more than Plutarch's contemporaries, when freed from the yoke of the savage tyrant, compared to which the Roman yoke could rightly be considered a luxury, and after they gain their freedom, they are willing to maintain it...16 Xenophontos, S., 2019. Brill's companion to the reception of Plutarch. Leiden: Brill, p.551.

[@wankawanka3053]

Damn the earthquake missed a few 😂

[@GeorgeEstregan828]

The Iliad

[@philipzahn491]

"History" 🤔

[@beepboop204]

🙂

[@nenenindonu]

Fascinating how Greece was under two millennia long foreign rule from the Roman conquest in 2nd century BC up to independence from Ottomans in 19th century AD

[@TheHunterOfYharnam]

eastern rome was medieval greece. they weren't under foreign rule.

[@nenenindonu]

@@TheHunterOfYharnam The vast majority of Eastern Roman Dynasties were of non-Greek ethnic origins like Armenian, Illyrian, Arab, Thracian,... The armies were even more diverse including Wallachs, Varangians, Normans, Turks, Franks,... Claiming Eastern Rome as Greece is nothing but pseudo-historical nonsense

[@Strategikos]

Reality is a bit more nuanced. The Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire was heavily hellenized to the point that it basically became a Greek empire (albeit with multiple cultures within it, including non-Greek Emperors) so it was not regarded as foreign domination.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@TheHunterOfYharnam Au contraire , with the introduction of Christianity the Greeks of old Hellas , who in part had remained heathen , ranked as second - class citizens ; with the introduction of Christianity the Greeks of old Hellas , who in part had remained heathen , ranked as second - class citizens ; the word “ Hellene " in Byzantium had meant the same as " barbarian " since the third century . The representatives of Byzantium who spoke koine and who called themselves Rhomaioi ( " Romans ' , i.e. ' East Romans ' and not Greeks ), did not bother very much about the rural Greek-speaking popu-lation of Old Hellas, who spoke a tongue drawn from the dialects and sharply diverging from the high reputation of the koine. Décsy, G. (2000) The linguistic identity of Europe. Bloomington, IN: Eurolingua. p..203

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@Strategikos Christian Orthodox people belonged to the millet-i Rum, and progressively, Greek became the dominant means of communication amongst the members of the millet, who were called by others and were calling themselves. Romioi. Interestingly, the term 'Hellene' still signified for most people the pagan classical tradition, and it was a term that especially the clergy was keen to eliminate. Certain evocations of the term 'Hellene' by Byzantine scholars (e.g. in the twelfth century) contained some elements of contemporary ethnic identification, but it never acquired widespread currency, it never really "caught" on' (Beaton 2007: 93). Boys-Stones, G., Graziosi, B. and Vasunia, P., n.d. The Oxford handbook of Hellenic studies. p.21

[@herbthompson8937]

1500 AD is ancient Greece???????

[@pompacitokmakci]

The ancient Hellenes were conquered by the Romans . Emperor Justinian destroyed the last vestiges of Hellenic civilisation , and state Christianity created a new civilisation on the ruins of the old . Koliopoulos, G. and Veremēs, T., 2007. Greece: the modern sequel. London: Hurst & Company, p.242. Hellenes as they were called, were persecuted by the enforcement of these general rules; Justinian endeavored, above all things, to deprive them of education, and he had the University of Athens closed in 529; at the same time ordering wholesale conversations. The Cambridge Medieval History volumes 1-5 by John Bagnell Bury, Paul Dalen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) And there is also evidence that the word 'Hellene' now meant 'pagan', and Justinian did conduct persecutions of Hellenes. The world of Classics in the sixth century was not entirely rosy. Scott, R., n.d. Byzantine chronicles and the sixth century

[@wankawanka3053]

Keep crying

[@wankawanka3053]

Bro skipped the battles of the diadochi

[@XmENLA1]

Third parties everywhere

[@Killersanchez256]

first

[@RicoWolfman]

I,m actually ashamed man. Largest battles of history my a#ss Been a member of this channel a long time. But to mention leuctra as small as it whas and not gaugamela?????. Not even the granicus or battle of hydaspus. But leuctra? Whatttt. 1 subscriber less man. Alexander would turn in his grave

[@jackalope07]

They were just doing battles on the Balkan peninsula... Gaugamela is notably not there

[@rod9829]

Algorithm

[@ZhoZhaal]

Buy a better microphone and work on your enunciation please.

[@trixzify]

Bro what in the bloody hell happened to your microphone quality

[@RetiredMillennial]

most of this isn't about ancient greece at all...should have talked about peloponesian war and the successor wars and not the rest