Bettany Hughes is like a goddess Hera telling us the story of Crete. So much knowledge and wisdom, and an hypnotic voice. Truly wonderful.

@elainebenez1995

Жыл бұрын

Although the documentary spends too much time on her body.

@drjukebox

Жыл бұрын

@@elainebenez1995 why hold a smart and beautiful woman back.

@elainebenez1995

Жыл бұрын

@@drjukebox wdym?

@drjukebox

Жыл бұрын

@@elainebenez1995 because she makes me a feminist?

@elainebenez1995

Жыл бұрын

@@drjukebox she’s also very sexy.

After more than 43 years on this planet I am finally introduced to the splendor and wonder of Knossos. Cheers. Amazing.

I have a passion for ancient and not so ancient history. I can't get enough of it.

@spiritus-scriba693.

3 жыл бұрын

Ever seen "Lorra" or Martin Liedkte ?

@realjaxon

3 жыл бұрын

@@spiritus-scriba693. No. I've never heard of either one.

@spiritus-scriba693.

3 жыл бұрын

@@realjaxon they dig into some interesting old books. Those names are YT Channels. Also "newearth" channel. Want a peek inside Alexander the Great's Tomb ??? 2.5m and 3m solid gold statues, Alexander aparently in pristine condition. Tomb is full of gold and precious stones, an ark, horses, egyptian chariots, deer, eagles, huge gold murals, pretty amazing. Found in 2010 in the Jordanian desert. It will be released to the public soon.

@realjaxon

2 жыл бұрын

@KKmies Thank you. That is a good read.

Bettany's lectures are so well written , brains and beauty , have always enjoyed her docs

I adore the Minoan art, this little left after the catastrophe... Been on the Crete and still want to get back multiple times...

I never grow tired of Bettany's lectures, doesn't matter if 20 y. o. or just made, What she says is always fascinating! Bring them on, bring them on....

@heenanyou

3 жыл бұрын

I find the sexy outfits distracting and not appropriate.

@daniels1485

2 жыл бұрын

@@heenanyou She's a sexy woman. Anything she wears is a sexy outfit.

@raulsiniallikl2317

2 жыл бұрын

@@daniels1485 not anymore

@macbuff81

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I would love to take part in a lecture of hers. I always loved history and art appreciation in both high school and later college

@caesarillion

2 жыл бұрын

@@heenanyou She is sexy, yes. I would love to see her dressed as Minoan doing all she does in the vids. Wouldn't that be great? Now she can even speak Linear B.

Excellent. I visited Knossos and Crete over thirty years ago. It was good to revisit it with Bettany. Our tour guide at that time told us that the 'Minoans were very peaceful people' but I didn't believe it. To be as revered as they were in their time, they must have been very, very tough or very, very holy. Bettany's comments about it functioning like a monastery resonates to some degree because I have always seen it as a type of sacred island. I am glad the archaeological knowledge continues to evolve.

I've always been a huge fan of Bettany and highly admire her and anything she narrates and guides us through ancient history is always first class and she is so easy on the eyes also. Thanks Odyssey for keeping her busy for us~!

@jazzrossy930

5 ай бұрын

I want more (with all due respect) !

@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys

5 ай бұрын

@@jazzrossy930 I'm a History Buff and have followed her lessons for many years and she has "The It Factor" and one can't help but be captivated by her accent and Beauty~! Her intelligence is so impressive and Ancient History has never been more fun than when she speaks~!!!

With out a doubt this one of the best history documentaries

Can you reupload this please? The video is about 5 seconds behind the audio.

@OceanSwimmer

3 жыл бұрын

It corrects itself later in the video.

The amount of air and light in the palaces in really attractive, and modern.

@joem0088

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, without the roof and half the walls fallen down :)))

@Pistolita221

2 жыл бұрын

it's more eastern style than western.

Sound sync can be a real challenge sometimes.

@StanSwan

2 жыл бұрын

Slow media storage issue. The video lags behind the sound as the video is a larger file.

@niknikktm

2 жыл бұрын

@@StanSwan No excuse however. There are plenty of longer videos without sync issues and there are plenty of methods to adjust synchronization. I find this unwatchable.

@StanSwan

2 жыл бұрын

@@niknikktm I had no issue with it. The woman is very distracting though, good looking lady.

@Boomer848848

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/hJyqkrSkfsq8h5s.html&ab_channel=AbsoluteHistory this one seems to be synced better.

@amiga2025

2 жыл бұрын

With audio out of sync, it is too distracting to continue watching.

Never tire of this documentary. Thanks Bethany.

It is a joy to watch your history. And your voice is so captivating in describing what is being shown. Ancient history and beauty combined. You make it easy to keep ones attention. Thank you.

Hi, could you please re-upload this video?🙏🏻 the audio is out of sync and makes it hard to watch.

Wonderful content and great presentation on Old Historical Ages

10:42 To hell with the Minioans ! She is one fine bird !

first saw bettany Hughes on TV about Egyptians she's a great presenter with lots of work regarding islands of the med is a great person to learn from. Great video about the minator fact or fiction.

Love the way you tell those fascinating stories!!! Very intersting for sure ;)

Gosh she is absolutely amazing as story teller,, and quite lovely to look at aswell.. and she still is to this day

I love how the purple chromatic aberration in the shots correlate with the purple dye what made the minoan culture rich. Quite poetic even if it was unintentional.

Once again - Bettany and Odyssey - Wonderful.

Simply outstanding series.

Wonderful Bettany. Thank you for your work. It's about time I got more interested in ancient man as I am ultra interested in ancient religions.

Dear Bettany & crew well done and thank you.

Thanks you for this fascinating documentation!

Thank you for this

43:33 look, its the first frowny face emoji

Beautifully done. As I understand it, Minos' prayer to Poseidon was his entry in a praying contest with his 2 brothers, Rhadamanthes and Sarpedon, to decide the succession on the death of thier father, King Altheus.. As to the 'conversation' twixt Pasiphae and the little white bull, Robert Graves puts it thus; "... and Pasiphae had all her desire" 😜.. A very enjoyable and informative film, this. V glad I subscribed to this channel! 🌟👍

Love your work. Thank you.

I was tdy to Crete back in the fifties. I visited the Knosis, it was fascinating.

Very well done. Insightful and full of revealing intelligence.

I must agree. Her voice is soothing to my needs

"If there's a grain of Truth alongside of this Cock n Bull" @7:53😳 😅🤣😂🤣 I'm sure she was figuratively speaking 🤣😂🤣

It didn't matter that the sound was out of sync, I couldn't take my eyes off Bettany

I am going to Knossos in around 12 hours I cannot wait!

@IPlayWithFire135

2 жыл бұрын

How was it?

@phillawrence5148

2 жыл бұрын

How was it?

Enjoyed your presentation

The photography in this is breathtaking!

Interesting love history the stones shall speak and they do so well.

Bettany Hughes: Smart x Beautiful = Oh So Sexy. I never knew how much I needed to learn about Minoans before!

@38:07 : Listen carefully to the cicadas. We had the same sound in the South of France, 25 years ago. Now there's the SILENCE, even in the forest. Insects are disappearing from our eyes and ears. Edit: The documentary is from 2003.

@shandhaula

3 ай бұрын

@@alizaize As a biochemist, I know that the cicada cycle of life is 17 years as a buried larva. But there's always a roll, that's why we can hear cicadas every year. Our forests have slowly become silent as well as birds. *In the South of France the water is highly contaminated with pesticides* -contamination by land-spreading or spraying by helicopter : *Tap water is forbidden for babies, children and the elderly.* People are plagued with neurological, immunological, ophthalmic and bone diseases. Everywhere in the world, check your car's windshield & front bumper : no more crushed insects… We recently fought against an open-air industrial waste dump on the plateau of Valensole, place of its infamous lavender crops. So please, spare me your dark sense of humor.

It wasn't just the Minoan civilization that disappeared. Didn't almost all of the civilizations disappear during the Bronze Age Collapse. Egypt barely held on and the Assyrians kind of survived, but the Neo-Assyrians had become unusually violent and ruthless even for the ancient near east.

The presentation was great and I look forward to more insight into Crete.

The Island of the Minotaur is a wonderful adventure into ancient Crete and Society. . .

it’ll be such a game changer when we can finally read their writing

@charlesfenwick6554

2 жыл бұрын

If ever definitively.

@PaddyKraut

2 жыл бұрын

They know the alphabet. It's only the hiroglyphs that are unknown

@wiwlarue4097

2 жыл бұрын

It would definitely be a moment of marvel. There are other european sites as old as these or even older in the region of eastern europe though. In the lands of serbia, hungary, romania, ukraine there are the cucuteni-tripillian and the tordas-vinca civilizations stretching back to the 5th millenea BC. Some of their cities consisted of several thousand buildings, they had sophisticated pottery, bronze tools, irrigation, animal husbandry, agriculture and about 150 pictograms for writing.

@james-bertrand

2 жыл бұрын

we can read it for the most part, it's pretty similar to the deciphered linear B, just we don't really know what any of it means

@jimpalmer2981

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't hold my breath.

Beautiful presentation by a most beautiful presenter, Bettany you are awesome.❤ Excellent Production. 👍👍👍

Thank you for sharing darling.

I could watch these just to admire Bettany

Love a good ancient history documentary, i had such a crush on Bethany which made it twice the fun

Nice video...nature of lives is continues struggle among factors which created lives and besides living continues for that old civilisations disclosed struggles in their painting and framing through struggle between human and legend creatures but recently civilisations disclose lives struggle through accounts numbers.......behind most legends there were hiding historical stories..hardly discoverer...thanks for sending it was enjoyable video

🌹Beautifully narrated thank you🌹🌹🌹

Making history interesting...again!

Ahh! The stunningly beautiful Mrs Evans again - and in my favourite historical enigma.

Been there, wasn't really old enough to appreciate it.

I could watch Bettany all day.

@whataplonker82

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@nicolediamond93

2 жыл бұрын

Touo o Terr e I’m r w e birthday

@nicolediamond93

2 жыл бұрын

Touo o Terr e I’m r w e birthday

@nicolediamond93

2 жыл бұрын

Touo o Terr e I’m r w e birthday

@Taylor_in_Southern_Oregon

Жыл бұрын

@@whataplonker82 me too 😁

"Mais ce sont des parisiennes." That had me laughing! He was not wrong.

Bro the audio isn't synced how'd ya'll not catch this

@jonnylumberjack6223

3 жыл бұрын

it does synch up eventually.

@philchinamusical

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps because the video is displayed years ago. And since light travels faster than sound so it takes us more time to see the footage than to hear the voices…🤔

@rebusak47

3 жыл бұрын

@@philchinamusical That's cleared that up for me (TIL) Hahahahha.

It tells me everything I need to know about Minotaurs.

Amazing documentary. You guys really need more subs

I always find it amazing to see amazing buildings still being in such good shape. Amazingly beautiful and everything calculated and built by hand. I definitely know what place I will visit next :)

@douglaskingsman2565

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget, all the "buildings" are reconstructions, sometimes based the shapes already present but other times based on guesswork. For example, the inverted pillars, narrower at the bottom than the top, were Arthur Evans's idea.

Please do also make Documentries for Indian Vedic Period.🙏🙏🙏

@arftreasurydepartmentoffic4754

3 жыл бұрын

Wow 🥺 So Much Support ❤️❤️❤️

I've been waiting for this doc to resurface, it's been gone from youtube for a while.

Fascinating 🤟🏾😲🤯😁🔥🔥🔥🔥❤❤❤❤

just me or did anyone else have to watch this twice because they were just watching her

@morbidcorpse5954

Жыл бұрын

Just what I was going to say.

@elainebenez1995

2 ай бұрын

Literally me

I have been following your classes since the COVID lockdown and I began to practice every night Two years later I'm still practicing every night. Your min cue classes are my favourite and I have to be honest I find it difficult to follow classes where they talk now . Please, please can we have some more minimum cues

I've seen this documentary a few times (but watching it again because it's awesome). Bettany Hughes is amazing! She presents quite a few different documentaries about the Minoans and the Thera cataclysm :D

46:52 Why tho? Many great and sophisticated cultures practiced human sacrifice in their religious beliefs. The Michenean themselves did that too, as well as early post dark age greeks. The various cultures from the middle east as far as the fertile crescent also practiced these rituals. The various mesoamerican cultures were highly sophisticated and advanced, but they did that too as we all know. Thinking that the Minoans would not do It just because of their relatively advanced culture doesn't really mean anything. They probably also practiced ritual cannibalism of small children, probably to ensure the fertility of their crops or something like that. The idea of a nice nature goddess Is a very modern invention... The earth mother was way more chaotic and demanding in the minds of the many religions of the time. Asking for blood in exchange for the survival of the many seems like a very logical idea for the time if It would satisfy the gods for another year. The Minoans most likely worshipped a Sun God and a mother goddess as their primary deities. It's possible, according to some theories, that the minotaur and It's rituals are nothing more than a demonization of the old gods of Creete. An important creetan figure in greek mithology Is a bronze giant that the Creetans reveared as a sun God, that often appeared as a bronze bull, but Who Is killed by some greek gods or heroes.

Really ejoyed this insight 👍😊

Great video! The audio sync needs to be fixed, FYI.

The explosion of Santorini seems to have done a number on the Minoans as well, but doesn't seem to be touched upon here except for the mention of the earthquakes that were probably caused by it. It was an economic disaster for the entire Agean.

@somniumisdreaming

Жыл бұрын

It was part of a series and it tackled the subject in another episode

Definitely it was a death defying feat to leap over an enormous bovine with huge horns. It must have been a godly encounter to these ancient people!

Bettany is like a goddess herself...

To have such a vision fulfilled!!!! Imagine!!!!

Bettany Hughes, the goddess who came from over the sea.

But then, everything changed when the Mycenean Nation attacked.

@Lalakis

3 жыл бұрын

Attacked who ? The myceneans never attacked the minoans...The latter disappeared most likely as a result of the Thera volcano eruption .

@johannageisel5390

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lalakis No, the Minoans were around for (estimated) 150 more years after the Thera eruption. And after the Myceneans arrived, the Minoan culture still influenced the culture of the newcomers/conquerers.

@4I40TI

2 жыл бұрын

AhAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I’m crying ahahhahahahahah

@petrospetromixos6962

2 жыл бұрын

No, literally the fire nation attacked

@somethingunusual8456

Жыл бұрын

Omg! A JoJo reference!!

'Bettany Hughes' is the most recent pseudonym of the Goddess Circe. So she knows well of what she speaks!

Awesome history. Thanks. But please improve on the audio synching up with the lip movement. I've noticed it on a few Odessy films now. Great content but its really bad synching.

bethany welcome back --love your narration -- as well as your beauty

Oh Bethany you were always archeologies top tottie!!!

... I needed to give back the white bull ...! I my goodness ... now Bettany Hughes with her purple dress will be haunting me all my days ...

came to learn about the minotaur.....stayed for the seductive narrator

Great video except for the huge synchronisation issue between video and audio!

Any chance you could sync the picture and sound?

the historian babe! awsome

@sebastianlagstrom2117

3 жыл бұрын

Not so much babe anymore thou, this is 15 years old

@joshw9037

3 жыл бұрын

The whole thing is trash dude. Wrong information constantly, mispronunciation constantly, and the fact that not one bit of the audio and video match is absolutely ridiculous! Trash!

@JaneDoe-ij4ls

3 жыл бұрын

She tells a mean tale

@caradelsol1

3 жыл бұрын

@@sebastianlagstrom2117 This is a bullshit comment.

@markjohnson6194

3 жыл бұрын

@@sebastianlagstrom2117 still a banger as we are all 15 years older too

I see Bethany Hughes on the thumbnail, I click to see the video. Doesn't even matter that the audio is out of sync 😅

Excellent video. The presenter speaks clearly and definitely knows what she’s talking about. It doesn’t hurt that she’s easy on the eyes too. Here’s to you Bettany Harris.

it's a pity the sound doesn't catch up untill 13:45!....

"but; it's actually, . . not--that--megalo"

Spent 3 weeks on this beautiful island.

Is this a pt2?

For all of us... great respect to the oldest European civilization In parallel with the Egyptian Civilization

@rezamotori5709

Жыл бұрын

Greece and Crete are not european civilisations but extensions of the middle east.............even their myths of origin tell us this!

For this particular video the sound and video aren't in sync, in the first third of the video. Never seen that with other videos from this channel. BTW the cheap-sounding sound effects are unnecessary for an otherwise excellent video.

Fantastic!

The minotaur is a metaphor of the psyche, the labyrinth of the mind and the animalistic tendencies that torture the human (hue=spirit, manas=mind) soul

@VeraBousiou

11 ай бұрын

He seems closer to the shadow aspect of the psyche, those animalistic tendencies as you mention that we often forget to acknowledge afraid that they may be too revealing, too shocking for us to handle. When Theseus enters the labyrinth he's been aided by Ariadne (also Ariagne, the "purest one"), probably a former goddess that plays the role of his anima. As he confronts the Minotaur (his name was Asterion) Theseus possibly confronts his basic instincts so to become more complete, more human. Karl Kerenyi in one of his great books, sees the labyrinth as some sort of a ritual dance, a labyrinth can be signified in many ways in ancient artifacts, simpler ones, like a spiral or a meander.

Bettany Hughes, what a beautiful and clever woman.

Tincuy, the sacred ground lying between to rivers. Compare the Labyrinth of the Minotaur to Chavin de Huantar in Huaraz Peru or Mesopotamia at the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers.

If Bettany was my history teacher, I think I would have paid a whole lot more attention!

5:49 Bailing out because the audio is not synced with the video.

@michaelgallagher3640

3 жыл бұрын

It gets better & Bethaney gets more adorable.

is the video and audio synced for you? It seems like the video is about 2 seconds behind the audio.

Judging from their art, I just picture Crete as an island full of pretty women. The flower girls are gorgeous

@1idd0kun

3 жыл бұрын

It's not just that it was full of pretty women, but most archaeologists these days conclude women had equal or even higher social standing then men in Minoan society. This is an stark contrast to Mycenaean society which was deeply patriarchal. Just imagine what the Mycenaean must have done when they conquered the island. Not pretty to think about.

@BSIII

3 жыл бұрын

@@1idd0kun wow, yeah, you have a point that Ive never even considered. Might've been bloooody.

@moorishsociety7339

3 жыл бұрын

There were Africans

@Chrxstos

2 жыл бұрын

@@moorishsociety7339 *crap alert*

@lilymarie6754

2 жыл бұрын

@@moorishsociety7339 GFY.