Rise of Classical Greece - Start of the Western Civilisation
This is a compilation video covering the history of Greece from the Neolithic times to the eve of the Ionian Revolt in 500 BCE.
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Sources:
Herodotus, "Histories"
Homer, "Iliad", "Odyssey"
Hesiod, "Theogony", "Works and Days"
Aristotle, "Politics"
Sarah B. Pomeroy, "A Brief History of Ancient Greece"
Thomas R. Martin, “Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times”
Robin Osborne, "Greece in the Making"
Louise Schofield, “The Mycenaeans”
Eric H. Cline, “The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean”
Roudney Castleden, “The Mycenaeans”
Jonathan M. Hall, "History of the Archaic Greek World"
Nigel M. Kennell, "Spartans: A New History"
Paul Cartledge, "Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History"
Paul Cartledge, "The Spartans"
Andrew J. Bayliss, "The Spartans"
Bruce Clark, "Athens: City of Wisdom"
Anthony Everitt, "The Rise of Athens"
Stephen Fry, "Heroes"
Jonathan M. Hall, "History of the Archaic Greek World"
Special thanks to:
tjcold, 柚子皮, Bloodeyaxe7
Chapters
0:00:00 - Intro
0:00:40 - Geography
(Mycenaean Greece)
0:02:23 - Dawn of the Bronze Age
0:03:29 - Minoan Civilisation
0:07:42 - Rise of the Mycenaeans
0:14:02 - Mycenaean Architecture
0:17:39 - Homer
0:18:55 - Trojan War
0:36:04 - Myth or Legend?
0:41:02 - Late Bronze Age Collapse
(The Greek Dark Ages)
0:44:06 - Dark Ages
0:46:28 - Early Iron Age
0:48:13 - Migrations
0:51:40 - Pottery
0:53:37 - Homeric Society
1:00:26 - Writing
1:02:30 - Homer
(Archaic Greece)
1:03:59 - Archaic Greece
1:05:48 - Rise of the Polis
1:11:33 - Colonization
1:17:31 - Panhellenism
1:24:46 - Hoplites
1:29:22 - Tyrants
1:31:18 - Arts
1:35:01 - Philosophy
(Rise of Sparta)
1:37:45 - Return of the Heracleidae
1:41:42 - Founding of Sparta
1:45:51 - Colonization
1:48:09 - Conquest of Messenia
1:52:46 - Great Rhetra
1:57:48 - Spartan Society
2:02:45 - Peloponnesian League
2:06:59 - The Spartan Mirage
(Rise of Athens)
2:10:05 - Mythical Founding of Athens
2:15:30 - Birth of the Athenian Polis
2:18:30 - Archons
2:21:24 - Conspiracy of Cylon
2:24:54 - Draco’s Laws
2:27:00 - Reforms of Solon
2:35:19 - Tyranny of Pisistratus
2:46:50 - Reforms of Cleisthenes
Magistra Vitae explores the geography and rise of Bronze Age cultures in Greece, detailing the development of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations.