Alexander the Great: The Battle of the Granicus, 334 BC ⚔️

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The Battle of the Granicus was a large battle fought between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire in 334 BC. The battle took place along the Granicus River in what is now modern-day Turkey.
Alexander and his armies were able to defeat the Persians and gain control of a significant portion of Asia Minor. The victory at the Battle of the Granicus was a key moment in Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire. It helped to establish him as one of the greatest military leaders in history.
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0:00 Introduction
1:55 Alexander invades Persia
8:46 Battle of the Granicus
16:07 Aftermath
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  • @HoH
    @HoH Жыл бұрын

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  • @LoLMasterManiac

    @LoLMasterManiac

    Жыл бұрын

    I enjoy your Alexander the Great series, but will you continue Frederick the Great's series?

  • @HoH

    @HoH

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LoLMasterManiac definitely

  • @LoLMasterManiac

    @LoLMasterManiac

    Жыл бұрын

    @House of History thank you sir, I'm watching all your videos, can't wait for continuation of Frederick's series

  • @aw7108

    @aw7108

    Жыл бұрын

    @@HoH hey man could I please get the music playing in the background at 10:00 ? it is so soothing

  • @OptimusMaximusNero
    @OptimusMaximusNero Жыл бұрын

    Speaking of Alexander, there is a completely unknown but pretty good 1981 mini-series about his life called "The Search for Alexander the Great". As the life of the Macedonian is shown and narrated by James Mason, we watch his friends, family and even enemies meeting and talking between them in the after-life, with their old feuds completely forgotten by something they all have in common: their infinite respect for the Great Alexander

  • @thatromanguy1906

    @thatromanguy1906

    Жыл бұрын

    everywhere i Go, i see you

  • @vandare6913
    @vandare6913 Жыл бұрын

    After the battle of the Grannikos: "He sent to Athens three hundred Persian panoplies to be set up to Athena in the acropolis; he ordered this inscription to be attached: 'Alexander son of Philip and the Hellenes, except the Lacedaemonians, set up these spoils from the barbarians dwelling in Asia'." (Arrian I, 16, 7)

  • @HoH

    @HoH

    Жыл бұрын

    That's the quote I used after the battle. 😀

  • @vandare6913

    @vandare6913

    Жыл бұрын

    @@HoH Yea, sorry i was only listening and didn't notice that you used it in the video.

  • @vandare6913

    @vandare6913

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Uptotheceilingdowntothefloor Turkotroll alert lol

  • @vandare6913

    @vandare6913

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Uptotheceilingdowntothefloor "The ANCIENT MACEDONIANS WERE GREEKS, THEIR LANGUAGE WAS GREEK to judge by their personal names, and by the names of the months of their calendar" George Cawkwell, Emeritus Fellow, University College Oxford

  • @vandare6913

    @vandare6913

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Uptotheceilingdowntothefloor "The latest archaeological findings HAVE CONFIRMED that Macedonia took its name from a tribe of tall, GREEK-speaking people, the MAKEDNOI" Nigel Guy Wilson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece, Routledge, 2009, p.439:

  • @davidhughes8357
    @davidhughes8357 Жыл бұрын

    I'm always excited when I hear and see the bell ring on your channel for a new documentary!!!

  • @pomicultorul
    @pomicultorul Жыл бұрын

    thank you so much, yours's is a channel headed for greatness!

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Жыл бұрын

    Most informative & interested episode, thanks

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ Жыл бұрын

    Terrific video! ⚔

  • @joeblagden1814
    @joeblagden18144 ай бұрын

    Superb ... I love history .. 👍

  • @JoeOvercoat
    @JoeOvercoat Жыл бұрын

    The genius of buying time for the phalanx to cross the river and form up cannot be overstated. The Persians didn’t realize how important it was to prevent the crossing of that small contingent of infantry because they didn’t realize how formidable they would be…once formed up, with hoplites on their wings.

  • @Hillbilly001
    @Hillbilly001 Жыл бұрын

    I've gamed out this battle, Issus and Gaugamela in miniature and hex and counter, the one thing that can't be replicated is Alexander. To paraphrase Napoleon, he was that one drop that makes the cup overflow. Excellent video again HoH. Cheers from Tennessee

  • @KHK001
    @KHK001 Жыл бұрын

    Good more Alexanders videos!

  • @HoH

    @HoH

    Жыл бұрын

    More to come!

  • @the10thhokage60
    @the10thhokage60 Жыл бұрын

    Great video as usual but quick question are you finished with the Frederick the Great series?

  • @HoH

    @HoH

    Жыл бұрын

    Certainly not. I am just taking a slight detour to maintain variety. I am working on the Battle of Maxen in the background.

  • @denniscleary7580
    @denniscleary7580 Жыл бұрын

    This is the stuff I like 😊

  • @davidhughes8357
    @davidhughes8357 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent as expected. I do love ancient military history. Thank you so much. And don't be so concerned about pronunciation. It's all good! My only concern is your product. Happy!!

  • @MM22966
    @MM22966 Жыл бұрын

    Technical question: Where did the commander's portraits come from? Commissioned art? AI work???

  • @notthefbi7932
    @notthefbi7932 Жыл бұрын

    Alexander vs Caesar would have been an interesting battle 🤔

  • @zurgesmiecal

    @zurgesmiecal

    Жыл бұрын

    who of them is the bigger war criminal

  • @notthefbi7932

    @notthefbi7932

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zurgesmiecal They where all atrocious war criminals back in those days, submit or die was the law

  • @zurgesmiecal

    @zurgesmiecal

    Жыл бұрын

    @@notthefbi7932 that's how it was all the times

  • @deusvult5247
    @deusvult5247 Жыл бұрын

    Would it have been possible to cross through Byzantium ?

  • @vandare6913
    @vandare6913 Жыл бұрын

    “Such was the end of Philip … He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes, while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.” (Diodoros of Sicily 16.95.1-2)

  • @vandare6913

    @vandare6913

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Uptotheceilingdowntothefloor "We know the Macedonians were fundamentally Greeks, that is to say they were Greek speakers and ethnically they were Greeks" [Donald Kagan, Sterling professor, Yale University]

  • @vandare6913

    @vandare6913

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Uptotheceilingdowntothefloor "Your ancestors came to Macedonia and THE REST OF HELLAS (Greece) and did US great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed LEADER OF THE GREEKS, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you..." Alexander's letter to Persian king Darius in response to a truce plea, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian; translated as Anabasis of Alexander by P. A. Brunt, for the "Loeb Edition" Book II 14, 4

  • @vandare6913

    @vandare6913

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Uptotheceilingdowntothefloor "The ANCIENT MACEDONIANS WERE GREEKS, THEIR LANGUAGE WAS GREEK to judge by their personal names, and by the names of the months of their calendar" George Cawkwell, Emeritus Fellow, University College Oxford

  • @vandare6913

    @vandare6913

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Uptotheceilingdowntothefloor "As members of the Greek race and speakers of the Greek language, the Macedonians shared the ability to initiate ideas and create political forms" N G L Hammond (1992), 'The Miracle that was Macedonia', p 206

  • @vandare6913

    @vandare6913

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Uptotheceilingdowntothefloor "The latest archaeological findings HAVE CONFIRMED that Macedonia took its name from a tribe of tall, GREEK-speaking people, the MAKEDNOI" Nigel Guy Wilson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece, Routledge, 2009, p.439:

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 Жыл бұрын

    I once saw an anime series about Alexander the Great and his conquests in life. It was really interesting to watch.

  • @damienbazin9940

    @damienbazin9940

    Жыл бұрын

    How is it called?

  • @brokenbridge6316

    @brokenbridge6316

    Жыл бұрын

    @@damienbazin9940---Sorry I don't remember. It was a long time ago.

  • @BLASTIC0
    @BLASTIC0 Жыл бұрын

    What did you think of Freeman’s book?

  • @johndaugherty4127
    @johndaugherty4127 Жыл бұрын

    My hero.

  • @BLASTIC0
    @BLASTIC0 Жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know where I can find out more about Parmenion’s ordeal in Asia Minor when sent by Phillip, supposedly as a scout/probe or something, prior to Phillip arriving.. though he died and Alexander came.

  • @vespasian606

    @vespasian606

    Жыл бұрын

    I'd be quite interested as well. There is an 8hr audio book by Karol Bunsch on KZread but it's in Polish. Closed captions for that language are not available but maybe one day.

  • @davidwallace3871
    @davidwallace3871 Жыл бұрын

    You deserve more views than you get. I hope you stick with it and

  • @HoH

    @HoH

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks David. I am not sure what the "missing" element is. Everything seems right: the analytics on my videos are better than some larger channels. My videos just consistently do not get recommended to people. I love doing this work so I am not stopping anytime soon.

  • @shaundavenport621
    @shaundavenport621 Жыл бұрын

    B,Jaysus not those Teebans again!!🤣👍👍

  • @skyhappy
    @skyhappy Жыл бұрын

    The thumbnail of Alexander looks so odd I'm sure he wasn't that chiseled lol

  • @vangelisskia214
    @vangelisskia214 Жыл бұрын

    "Alexander inherited the idea of an invasion of the Persian Empire from his father Philip whose advance-force was already out in Asia in 336 BC. Philip's campaign had the slogan of "freeing the Greeks" in Asia and "punishing the Persians" for their past sacrileges during their own invasion (a century and a half earlier) of Greece." Fox, Robin Lane (2004). "Riding with Alexander". Archaeology. The Archaeological Institute of America

  • @Nomadicenjoyer31

    @Nomadicenjoyer31

    Жыл бұрын

    Since no language can be separated from closely related languages 100 % empirically. one must say that Hall makes an unfair demand on Herodotus and the Greeks. Yet, even if it is impossible to draw an unambiguous line between language and dialect. there can be no doubt that Classical Greece encompassed a linguistic community which included a range of mutually intelligible dialects. There may have existed border cases. The Macedonian dialect is probably a good example of that and an example invoked by Hall. Both the ancients and the modern scholars disagree as to the ethnic affiliation of the Macedonians. The birth of the Slavic Republic af Macedonia in the 1990s has made the Hellenicity of the ancient Macedonians a matter of high political and scholarly priority. Thus, many scolars now conclude that the ancient Macedonians were in fact some kind of Dorians. However, the glosses of the ancient lexicographers give the impression of a language that was closely related to Greek, but different in some fundamental aspects, and the Macedonian dialect seems to have been unintelligible to the Greeks (cf. Curt. 6.11.4). To my mind the linguistic ambiguity of the Macedonian dialect is not only parallel, but also correlated to the ethnic ambiguity of the Macedonian people. At any rate, the Classical Greeks probably had an intuitive approach to the dialect division. They may not have known exactly where to put the finger, but they were certainly able to tell the provenience of a fellow-Greek by his accent alone. Alexandria: A Cultural and Religious Melting Pot (AARHUS STUDIES IN MEDITERRANEAN ANTIQUITY) Hardcover - Illustrated, December 31, 2009 by George Hinge (Editor), Jens A. Krasilnikoff (Editor) p.68

  • @wankawanka3053

    @wankawanka3053

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Nomadicenjoyer31 next time use actual historians as source little turkgay troll😘

  • @vangelisskia214

    @vangelisskia214

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Nomadicenjoyer31 Alexander I, King of Macedon (reigned 498-454 BC): "...you should say to the King [King of Persia] who sent you, that A HELLENE [Alexander I of Macedon], the Grandmaster of Macedon, welcomed you...." Herodotus [5.20.4] "πρὸς δὲ καὶ βασιλέϊ τῷ πέμψαντι ἀπαγγείλητε ὡς ἀνὴρ Ἕλλην, Μακεδὼν ὕπαρχος, εὖ ὑμέας ἐδέξατο". Alexander III AKA the Great, King of Macedon (reigned 332-323 BC): "Your ancestors came to Macedonia and THE REST OF HELLAS (Greece) and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed LEADER OF THE GREEKS, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you..." Alexander's letter to Persian king Darius in response to a truce plea, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian; translated as Anabasis of Alexander by P. A. Brunt, for the "Loeb Edition" Book II 14, 4 PHILIP V, King of Macedon (reigned 221 to 179 BC): "For on many occasions when I AND THE OTHER GREEKS sent embassies to you begging you to remove from your statutes the law empowering you to get booty from booty, you replied that you would rather remove Aetolia from Aetolia than that law." [Polyvius, 18.4.8]

  • @vangelisskia214

    @vangelisskia214

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Nomadicenjoyer31 "As members of the Greek race and speakers of the Greek language, the Macedonians shared the ability to initiate ideas and create political forms" N G L Hammond (1992), 'The Miracle that was Macedonia', p 206 "The latest archaeological findings HAVE CONFIRMED that Macedonia took its name from a tribe of tall, GREEK-speaking people, the MAKEDNOI". Nigel Guy Wilson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece, Routledge, 2009, p.439: "The ANCIENT MACEDONIANS WERE GREEKS, THEIR LANGUAGE WAS GREEK to judge by their personal names, and by the names of the months of their calendar." George Cawkwell, Emeritus Fellow, University College Oxford

  • @Nomadicenjoyer31

    @Nomadicenjoyer31

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vangelisskia214 No amount of reason will shake modern Greek faith in the Hellenic ethnicity of the ancient Macedonians and their kings. It is more than a political prefer ence: many Greeks see it as a necessity, despite the inconclusive ancient evidence on the nationality of the Macedonians. But recent scholarship has begun to provide a response to old Greek arguments. There is an insufficient amount of evidence-the existence of Greek inscriptions in the kingdom of the Macedonians notwithstand ing-to know what the native language or dialect was. E.g., several dialects of Greek were used in ancient Macedonia, but what was the Macedonian dialect? The evidence of ancient writers suggests that Greek and Macedonian were mutually unintelligible languages in the court of Alexander the Great. Moreover, if contemporary or his torical opinion from antiquity means anything, the ancient world from the fourth century B.C. into the early Hellenistic period-roughly the age of Philip and Alexan der-believed that the Greeks and Macedonians were different peoples. None of which, incidentally, denies that the Macedonians, at least in their court and gentry, were quite highly hellenized, as recent archaeology has clearly shown. See E. Badian, "Greeks and Macedonians," Macedonia and Greece in Late Classical and Early Hellenis tic Times, Studies in the History of Art 10, ed. B. Barr-Sharrar and E. N. Borza (Wash ington, D.C., 1982). 33-51: Eugene N. Borza, In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon, rev. ed. (Princeton, 1992), ch. 4 and pp. 305-6; id., "Athenians, Mace donians, and the Origins of the Macedonian Royal House," in Studies in Attic Epigra phy, History, and Topography Presented to Eugene Vanderpool, Hesperia suppl. 19 (1982). 713: id., "Ethnicity and Cultural Policy at Alexander's Court." AncW 23 (1992): 1999. The eye expanded. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, p.263.

  • @jibran4794
    @jibran47946 ай бұрын

    The map at 3:01 is inaccurate. The whole of Arabian peninsula is included in the Archaemenid empire which wasn't the case.

  • @MrJherime
    @MrJherime Жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @HumanBodyMaintenance
    @HumanBodyMaintenance Жыл бұрын

    Please do a video on napoleon’s retreat from Russia!!

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    Жыл бұрын

    Napoopleon was nothing compared to Alexander, because Napoopkitty won by masonic collusion since he wsa a puppet of the Synagogue of Satan hence his masonic gestures such as the hidden hand.

  • @JoeOvercoat

    @JoeOvercoat

    Жыл бұрын

    Check out Epic History on that subject meanwhile.

  • @HumanBodyMaintenance

    @HumanBodyMaintenance

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JoeOvercoat That's what turned me on to it! Thanks for the tip

  • @JoeOvercoat

    @JoeOvercoat

    Жыл бұрын

    @@HumanBodyMaintenance Also, Kings & Generals, if you like battlefield maps, which I do!

  • @vangelisskia214
    @vangelisskia214 Жыл бұрын

    ".. do not forget Greece, Alexander ..It was for her sake that you launched your whole expedition, to add Asia to Greece .." Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 4.11.7 «.. τῆς Ἑλλάδος μεμνῆσθαί σε ἀξιῶ, ὦ Αλέξανδρε ἧς ἕνεκα ὁ πᾶς στόλος σοι ἐγένετο, προσθεῖναι τὴν Ἀσίαν τῇ Ἑλλάδι ..» Ἀρριανός, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 4.11.7

  • @Nomadicenjoyer31

    @Nomadicenjoyer31

    Жыл бұрын

    The Macedonians were probably not Greek; scholars are still unsure whether the Macedonian language was an archaic dialect of Greek or an altogether separate language. The Greeks certainly viewed the Macedonians as barbarians, although the Greeks allowed them to participate as “Greeks” in the Olympic games beginning in the fifth century B.C.E. Unlike the Greeks, the Macedonians were mostly rural folk and were organized in tribes, not city-states. Western Civilization: A Brief History 9th Edition by Jackson J. Spielvogel (Author) p.74

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Nomadicenjoyer31 Many of the elites were Greek but the majority was barbarian such as Illyrian. It was similar to Carthage being led by Phoenicians but being mostly Berber. I heard that Hannibal had an Iberian mother.

  • @wankawanka3053

    @wankawanka3053

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Nomadicenjoyer31 start using actual historical sources and not propaganda magazines 😂

  • @wankawanka3053

    @wankawanka3053

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scintillam_dei not even close the Macedonians had made it pretty clear that illyrians and thracians were barbarians to them not only by expelling them from macedonia but even the kings like Alexander called them his foreign troops or even ptolemy keraunos who declined help from dardanians calling them barbarians

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wankawanka3053 Sources please.

  • @heypaul7646
    @heypaul7646 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine what miles of 20,000 horses smelled like.

  • @phantomswordorpoo
    @phantomswordorpoo Жыл бұрын

    Is it only me or everyone else feels that crossing the river against double the enemy forces sounds dumb

  • @rubenheymans1988

    @rubenheymans1988

    Жыл бұрын

    he only had to face the cavalry and he had equal or even more men, he just had to hold his ground because his infantry could easily beat the cavalry. Why his cavalry won on his right flank idk, probably because the death commanders, or because the center started routing first?

  • @JoeOvercoat

    @JoeOvercoat

    Жыл бұрын

    The crucial thing being his infantry could form up in the phalanx once they were across the river, but they couldn’t cross the river in formation. The Persians had to be wondering what those long spears were for. They found out, the hard way. When you look at it in that context, the golden helmet and wings makes military sense. He did it to attract the attention of the enemy cavalry. Dude was mucho macho. Fun fact: Alexander later killed the man that saved his life that day, in a simple rage.

  • @JoeOvercoat

    @JoeOvercoat

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Kemetyu-Centered36 No question mark involved. I have this crazy idea that homosexual behaviors were considered normal back in the day, so it was not remarkable for Alexander to be bisexual. That is why it’s not described as Alexander killing one of his best friends in a jealous rage of some kind, but odds are some kind of Power of Attraction applied, there. Fatally, as it so often does.

  • @dan_mer
    @dan_mer Жыл бұрын

    Sorry, but I have to say it: Wasn't Parmenion old and bold? He was born in the year 400 BC. Was it necessary to choose that long and magnificent mane for a man who probably shaved his head?

  • @HoH

    @HoH

    Жыл бұрын

    Good point, I will adjust that in future videos.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 Жыл бұрын

    Alexander is the Top G-eneral.

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    Жыл бұрын

    Gangsters are disgusting. Alexander was epic except he was a drunkard.

  • @OptimusMaximusNero
    @OptimusMaximusNero Жыл бұрын

    Alexander's conquest of Judea is also really interesting. The night before arriving to Jerusalem, God appeared to the Macedonian in a dream and told him not to destroy the city. When the Jewish priests showed Alexander the prophecies of Daniel that spoke of his future conquests, he decided to respect the Jews and their religion. The people of Israel would experience a long period of well-being with Alexander and later with Ptolemy and his descendants. Too bad it all fell apart when the Seleucids conquered them

  • @BOSIE321

    @BOSIE321

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't think there's a single source other than Josephus (a Jew living in Rome around 300-400 years after Alexander's death) that even mentioned Alexander in connection with Jerusalem and there was no real reason to either as it was little more than an irrelevance situated between much bigger and more important cities. I doubt very much Alexander even visited the city let alone had a dream from Zeus (the pagan religion he believed in).

  • @Proud2bGreek1

    @Proud2bGreek1

    Жыл бұрын

    Based Seleucids.

  • @scintillam_dei
    @scintillam_dei Жыл бұрын

    See my series "Greeks, Latins, Iberins and Jews were, and are, NOT BLOND!" Alexander was part blond because of Illyrian ancestry, but I have to double check on him. He woud be the exception to the rule maybe.

  • @captainw0w
    @captainw0w Жыл бұрын

    Alexander the great looking, apparently

  • @BoromirTheGrey
    @BoromirTheGrey2 ай бұрын

    This is the only thing Rome 2 is good for... visual tool for documentaries!

  • @alaksandutheexorkizein7634
    @alaksandutheexorkizein76347 ай бұрын

    Not always so brilliant. He dhould have incorporated the greek mercenaries.

  • @Gb80788
    @Gb80788 Жыл бұрын

    Please do videos which are not covered by other channels. Alexander conquest is already covered by every other history channels.Pls don't work on this campaign

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    Жыл бұрын

    For real history instead of just mainstream, superficial history, try "Islam was invented by Jews."

  • @franciscovelasco5422

    @franciscovelasco5422

    Жыл бұрын

    @georgeben8078 I agree. I guess if the videos don't perform above average, he'll notice that there is less interest because other channels have already covered it.

  • @wankawanka3053
    @wankawanka3053 Жыл бұрын

    Macedonia 🇬🇷

  • @Nomadicenjoyer31

    @Nomadicenjoyer31

    Жыл бұрын

    The Macedonians were anxious to assert their Greekness (the Athenian orator Demosthenes called them barbarians), but their own language (apparently unintelligible to other Greeks) lacked the cultural prestige to match their imperial ambitions. New Testament Greek: A Reader (Reading Greek) by Joint Association of Classical Teachers (Author) pp.204

  • @wankawanka3053

    @wankawanka3053

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Nomadicenjoyer31 🤡 😂🤡

  • @wankawanka3053

    @wankawanka3053

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Nomadicenjoyer31 macedonia 🇬🇷

  • @OptimusMaximusNero
    @OptimusMaximusNero Жыл бұрын

    Alexander: "Now that Greece is ours, it's time to take over the entire Persian Empire and avenge our ancestors!!!" Ptolemy: "By the way, Alex. While we're in Athens, I've met a girl. I want her to come with us on our adventures." Alexander: "Oh, yeah? Let me check if she's worthy. Introduce yourself, sweetie." Thäis: "Hi! My name is Thäis. I like poetry, Egyptian culture and watching Persian temples burn!" Alexander: "Congratulations, Ptolemy. Your girl will come..." Ptolemy: "Nice!" Thäis: "...inside my tent" Ptolemy: 😐

  • @potpolima
    @potpolima4 ай бұрын

    alexander is no different from hitler and yet we praise him like a g0d..

  • @maghrebforever2012
    @maghrebforever2012 Жыл бұрын

    Constructive criticism: narrator's voice is not pleasing. Cadence and accent is strange

  • @AntonioCruz-uw3ue
    @AntonioCruz-uw3ue Жыл бұрын

    He was " de Great " indeed....

  • @Nomadicenjoyer31
    @Nomadicenjoyer31 Жыл бұрын

    No amount of reason will shake modern Greek faith in the Hellenic ethnicity of the ancient Macedonians and their kings. It is more than a political prefer ence: many Greeks see it as a necessity, despite the inconclusive ancient evidence on the nationality of the Macedonians. But recent scholarship has begun to provide a response to old Greek arguments. There is an insufficient amount of evidence-the existence of Greek inscriptions in the kingdom of the Macedonians notwithstand ing-to know what the native language or dialect was. E.g., several dialects of Greek were used in ancient Macedonia, but what was the Macedonian dialect? The evidence of ancient writers suggests that Greek and Macedonian were mutually unintelligible languages in the court of Alexander the Great. Moreover, if contemporary or his torical opinion from antiquity means anything, the ancient world from the fourth century B.C. into the early Hellenistic period-roughly the age of Philip and Alexan der-believed that the Greeks and Macedonians were different peoples. None of which, incidentally, denies that the Macedonians, at least in their court and gentry, were quite highly hellenized, as recent archaeology has clearly shown. See E. Badian, "Greeks and Macedonians," Macedonia and Greece in Late Classical and Early Hellenis tic Times, Studies in the History of Art 10, ed. B. Barr-Sharrar and E. N. Borza (Wash ington, D.C., 1982). 33-51: Eugene N. Borza, In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon, rev. ed. (Princeton, 1992), ch. 4 and pp. 305-6; id., "Athenians, Mace donians, and the Origins of the Macedonian Royal House," in Studies in Attic Epigra phy, History, and Topography Presented to Eugene Vanderpool, Hesperia suppl. 19 (1982). 713: id., "Ethnicity and Cultural Policy at Alexander's Court." AncW 23 (1992): 1999. The eye expanded. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, p.263.

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    Жыл бұрын

    Most in Greece are Slavs who wish they wre Greeks, and believe the lie. See my series "Greeks, Latins, Iberians and Jews were, and are, NOT BLOND!"

  • @Nomadicenjoyer31

    @Nomadicenjoyer31

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scintillam_dei In the European cartography of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, "Grecia" included Dalmatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, the coastal area of Asia Minor, Albania, and the Aegean islands (Karathanasis 1991, 9). For the Western audience in Germany, Austria, and Hungary, "Greek" (Greek Orthodox) was synonymous with Orthodoxy (Stoianovich 1960, 290). Regardless of their ethnic origins, most Greek Orthodox Balkan merchants of the eighteenth century spoke Greek and often assumed Greek names; they were referred to as "Greeks" in the sense that they were of the "Greek" religion. During the eighteenth century, the ge- ographic dispersion and the urban nature of the Greek ethnie in the Balkan peninsula transformed the "Greeks" into a Balkan urban class (Svoronos 1981, 58). Hence, the "Greeks" were not only the ethnic Greeks but generally included all the Orthodox merchants and peddlers, many of whom were Grecophone or Hellenized Vlachs, Serbs, or Orthodox Albanians. Roudometof, V. (2001) Nationalism, globalization, and orthodoxy: The social origins of ethnic conflict in the Balkans. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p.54

  • @Nomadicenjoyer31

    @Nomadicenjoyer31

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scintillam_dei Indeed “Greek” was an emic term in the Hellenistic period, referring generally to both the original Greeks and the Hellenized population. Greek resurrection beliefs and the success of Christianity (with preview) New York: Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 Dag Øistein Endsjø The Hellenized peoples of the eastern Roman (later Byzantine) Empire consistently referred to themselves as 'Roman' (Romaioi) because, even though they were culturally Greek, they considered themselves a part of the Roman Empire. Barnett, G. (2017) Emulating alexander: How alexander the great's legacy fuelled Rome's wars with Persia. Barnsley: Pen et Sword Military. "Like all citizens of the Byzantine Empire. the Greeks were called Romaei Romaioi (i.e. Romans, a hang-over from the days of the Eastern Roman Empire of the 4th to 7th centuries. which gradually became Hellenized and was called the Byzantine Empire, from Byzantium , the old name of the city that was later renamed Constantinople after the Emperor Constantine , who transferred the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium in 330 A.D. ) . Pappageotes, G.C. (1960) Modern Greek Reader Demotic = Anagnōstikon Dēmotikēs. New York. p.7 I use the term Hellenic in order to differentiate 19th and 20th century national identity in modern Greece from the earlier, not so clear, use of terms like Graikos, Romios and, sometimes, Ellinas, which were all more or less synonymous for the Greek-Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman heartland. Hereafter, I use the term Greek to allude to the ambiguour use of this word (esc) bir contemporani scholar who refer without proper discrimination , to the representatives of the larger Greek - Orthodox Ottoman community , mostly hellenized or Greek - speaking , who probably considered themselves not as Hellenes but simply as " Romaioi " and Christians . Historein: A review of the past and other stories (1999). Athens, Greece: Nefeli Publishers. p.69

  • @wankawanka3053

    @wankawanka3053

    Жыл бұрын

    Peak turkgay education be like:

  • @vangelisskia214

    @vangelisskia214

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Nomadicenjoyer31 "The "highlanders" or "Makedones" of the mountainous regions of western Macedonia are derived from northwest GREEK STOCK; they were AKIN to those who at an earlier time may have migrated south to become the historical "Dorians"." Eugene N. Borza 1995, "Makedonika", p. 114

  • @giod6266
    @giod6266 Жыл бұрын

    It is so sad that you too are going same way and making same videos about same battles as other history KZread channels do. When there are soooooooooo many untold stories and battles out there, and in some ways no less cooler and interesting than what we are seeing on KZread so far.. Sad, very sad..

  • @BFEentertainment9278
    @BFEentertainment9278 Жыл бұрын

    Makedonians? Seriously?

  • @Holybatman3603

    @Holybatman3603

    Жыл бұрын

    That's how it's actually pronounced, MaKEdonian is the Greek spelling.

  • @BFEentertainment9278

    @BFEentertainment9278

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Holybatman3603Are we speaking Greek? Didn't know I spoke Greek! Cuz it's English. If we have to embark on pronouncing every single word based on it's origin we would go crazy.

  • @allanroser1070
    @allanroser1070 Жыл бұрын

    House of fake history

  • @riderledesmaczech1541
    @riderledesmaczech1541 Жыл бұрын

    Sub in spanish please!!

  • @horror11
    @horror11 Жыл бұрын

    the persian invaded, alexander liberated.