Plato To Pythagoras: How The Ancient Greeks Created Our World | The First World | Odyssey

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  • @Pontiki1977
    @Pontiki19772 ай бұрын

    Shaptai/Sabetai Unguru @ 6:10, died this last January(06/12/2024). May he rest in peace. Thank you for your work sir.

  • @arissarkides1380
    @arissarkides13807 ай бұрын

    Along the same pattern I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's video "the rise and fall of the Hellenic civilization", especially as far as the rationalistic development is concerned

  • @JohnSmith-rw8uh

    @JohnSmith-rw8uh

    Ай бұрын

    Hasnt fallen nearly enough

  • @maplehugger1857
    @maplehugger18574 ай бұрын

    guys... remember that this is a documentary from 1990. of course it's not going to be 100% up to date.

  • @jormajokelainen9089

    @jormajokelainen9089

    Ай бұрын

    These 30 years maybe have not greatly changed our knowledge and understanding of ancient Greece! I do not see this as a bad problem, the video is that good!

  • @jaredsmith112
    @jaredsmith1127 ай бұрын

    Excellent video. The Greeks were fascinating and advanced for their age

  • @factsoverfear9771
    @factsoverfear97717 ай бұрын

    Egyptians 💡

  • @johnaugsburger6192
    @johnaugsburger61923 ай бұрын

    Thanks

  • @Merc_0158E7
    @Merc_0158E77 ай бұрын

    in accordance with the theme, don't watch the video just listen.... The editors weren't as good as the message. It's distracting.

  • @TheAnarchitek
    @TheAnarchitek2 ай бұрын

    Point of order: Pythagoras was born 150 years BEFORE Plato! Perhaps you mean Solon (laws - 638BC), to Socrates (Philosophy - 470BC), via Pythagoras (Mathematics - 570BC), Aeschylus (Literature - 525BC), and Hippocrates, (Medicine - 460BC).

  • @categories5066
    @categories50663 ай бұрын

    Pythagoras came before Plato. The title should be Pythagoras to Plato

  • @brandonleroux6059
    @brandonleroux60593 ай бұрын

    Judging by the sound I think this documentary was made inside a submarine.

  • @bsaxton6400
    @bsaxton64007 ай бұрын

    Dont forget about the Persians. They made the worlds first sewage system.

  • @user-hy9nh4yk3p
    @user-hy9nh4yk3p7 ай бұрын

    China was long ago - advanced in the work - with mathematics and the like. There were ancient ties of - India with Egypt and therefore links with Greece - in these fields. If one researches - ancient India - knowledge spheres - one will be truly amazed and grateful - to those seers. The Zero (all important concept) - arises out of the - being of Bharat. It was gifted - as so many of India's ideas - freely ..... Fare thee well.

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii79413 ай бұрын

    Speak truth to Plato

  • @13minutestomidnight
    @13minutestomidnight5 ай бұрын

    However, we all have different perceptions on reality, and so different perceptions on the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth may exist - in fact it does exist - but how we see it and understand it when we see it is key. Being able to look beyond the veil of mundane reality and understand truth is part of the human condition. On a side note, you cannot really call Russian communism a parallel to Plato's republic because it was quickly distorted and twisted by Stalin, who dominated it and used the entire society for his own personal gain - in fact, he became a tyrant King instead. This tainted all of USSR society which came afterwards.

  • @user-yy9hk9od9u
    @user-yy9hk9od9u7 ай бұрын

    The Ancient Egyptians had advanced mathematics thousands of years before the Greeks. They used advanced math to construct the pyramids with great precision.

  • @drdread9896
    @drdread98967 ай бұрын

    So before the “ancient Greeks” there was no math?!🤔🤣

  • @j.s3300

    @j.s3300

    7 ай бұрын

    Thats right

  • @drdread9896

    @drdread9896

    7 ай бұрын

    @@j.s3300 so people didn’t have any math before the “ancient Greeks??!

  • @j.s3300

    @j.s3300

    7 ай бұрын

    @@drdread9896 absolutely...birthdays were crazy

  • @manueldumont3709

    @manueldumont3709

    7 ай бұрын

    Before ancient-Kemet's wRAiting, thERE wERE(gRAmmAR)

  • @Lucy-mf5gk

    @Lucy-mf5gk

    7 ай бұрын

    Perhaps without great definition...

  • @ODGColornChrome
    @ODGColornChrome7 ай бұрын

    Trigonometry has been found on some of the Babylonian tablets well before Greece. Just saying, you may want to redo this vid!

  • @TalentedTenth

    @TalentedTenth

    2 ай бұрын

    Pythagoras spent 15 years in Egypt where he learned a thing or two about triangles.

  • @starcapture3040
    @starcapture30407 ай бұрын

    this title need some fixation, How Greek Philosophers added to Mathematics. Math existed long before the Greeks.

  • @sinusoidalsilhouette510

    @sinusoidalsilhouette510

    7 ай бұрын

    Not only that, but Plato and Pythagoras wouldn’t think that they “created” mathematics, but rather discovered.

  • @starcapture3040

    @starcapture3040

    7 ай бұрын

    @@sinusoidalsilhouette510 they already knew it from Mesopotamia and Egypt. this picture that westerners trying to make us perceive as if the Greeks were living in some sort of vacuum is weird and dumb.

  • @sinusoidalsilhouette510

    @sinusoidalsilhouette510

    7 ай бұрын

    @@starcapture3040 yea same with India and China. Math is just a very universal thing.

  • @starcapture3040

    @starcapture3040

    7 ай бұрын

    @@sinusoidalsilhouette510 indeed!

  • @LondonPower

    @LondonPower

    7 ай бұрын

    So why the word mathematics is Greek ?

  • @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
    @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro16027 ай бұрын

    This documentary is old and disseminates outdated ideas. The theorem supposedly discovered by Pythagoras was recorded in Cuneiform writing on a clay tablet made 1000 years before that philosopher. We owe modernity more to the Babylonians than to the Greeks.

  • @edwin-pixar1876
    @edwin-pixar18765 ай бұрын

    Mathematics is good for many things but it doesnt explain why or how.. only it is like this.

  • @adamlangley6033
    @adamlangley60336 ай бұрын

    who knows⁉

  • @ScarabChronicles
    @ScarabChronicles7 ай бұрын

    Very misleading... "Pythagorean" triples were found on Babylonian tablets and before that about 25,000 BC in the congo, the Ishango bone. It shows evidence of multiplication similar to the math found in Ancient Egypt. The Ancient Greeks were a great civilization but "everything's a remix" they borrowed from those before them.

  • @Komdwy

    @Komdwy

    2 ай бұрын

    Borrowed what? Can you prove that Pythagoras based his work on Egyptians' work?

  • @ScarabChronicles

    @ScarabChronicles

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Komdwy Borrowed many things. Can you prove all aspects of their civilization are independently developed without outside influence or cultural exchange? No, because almost all civilizations have borrowed from those before them, not just the Greeks. Also I didn't say Pythagoras based his work on Egyptians, although it's possible. I basically said he wasn't the first.

  • @Komdwy

    @Komdwy

    2 ай бұрын

    @@ScarabChronicles You claimed that Pythagoras based his work on Egyptian tablets or so. Can you prove it? "Europeans" can't accept the fact that ancient greeks were the Inventors of western civilization.

  • @glps6167
    @glps61672 ай бұрын

    As Pythagoras lived before Plato, awkward title. How old is this documentary ? The claim that Pythagoras' theorem was a "new discovery" has long been disproved; the Babylonians knew it 1000 years earlier.

  • @Shaggy-8392
    @Shaggy-83927 ай бұрын

    And the sumerians, their forefathers and Egyptians were using guesswork to work out the stars and create their cities?

  • @publictv7473
    @publictv74737 ай бұрын

    who the hell titled this?

  • @bravebird1578
    @bravebird15787 ай бұрын

    Imhotep a polymath and an egyptian preceded them both. He was their teacher...another hijack. No surprise.

  • @fercos33

    @fercos33

    7 ай бұрын

    where did they say that Greeks invented math?

  • @walt3223
    @walt32237 ай бұрын

    Pythagoras was a student of Thales, so, his son. Thales brought forth to the ancient Greek world, Geometry and more. I find this video a downer and misleading.

  • @dariaangelopoulou
    @dariaangelopoulou3 ай бұрын

    We live in a Matrix 😀

  • @haruspexambient
    @haruspexambient7 ай бұрын

    thank you ancient Greece for our knowledge for trading 8 pieces of biface to 4 pieces of leather or something

  • @trojanpussy
    @trojanpussy7 ай бұрын

    💝🙏🕯very beautifull insight

  • @spj4188
    @spj4188Ай бұрын

    I agree Plato was a great man with great ideas and a profound philosophy, but man would have still made the same advancements regardless of his existence. No one man is responsible for all this video portrays. It is like saying only one man could ever come up with the idea of a wheel.

  • @MrDelvoye
    @MrDelvoye7 ай бұрын

    Yes greek invented math😂 funny joke

  • @zeroonetime
    @zeroonetime2 ай бұрын

    010 T.E.N. = The Eternal Now = OUROBOROS Timing Times Relativity = Timeism لا الله الا زمان لا اللهً الا سلام ابراهيم رسول السلام Go Go YAHWEH for all of humanity. Yahweh I.S. Information System.

  • @babusastry
    @babusastry2 ай бұрын

    Too many statements made with SPEAKER'S DECISIONS established. Would have liked to know some real anecdotes S P A, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. Bombastic statements, even if true, make listening to a narratio n boring. Sorry

  • @factsoverfear9771
    @factsoverfear97717 ай бұрын

    Fake news. Egyptians did 💡

  • @jacobrush8280
    @jacobrush82807 ай бұрын

    All the babies crying over Egypt lol

  • @King_Cantona7

    @King_Cantona7

    7 ай бұрын

    Sumerians, the ancient Chinese and Egyptians are downplayed and the Greeks are given all the credit/praise 😁 whitewashing of history.

  • @aarongriego429

    @aarongriego429

    Ай бұрын

    they forgot Greeks conquer them