Plato To Pythagoras: How The Ancient Greeks Created Our World | The First World | Odyssey
Published 2023-10-11
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All Comments (21)
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My favourite is the shadow of the red trousers of the dude that describes the balet..
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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
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Excellent video. The Greeks were fascinating and advanced for their age
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Shaptai/Sabetai Unguru @ 6:10, died this last January(06/12/2024). May he rest in peace. Thank you for your work sir.
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guys... remember that this is a documentary from 1990. of course it's not going to be 100% up to date.
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in accordance with the theme, don't watch the video just listen.... The editors weren't as good as the message. It's distracting.
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Pythagoras came before Plato. The title should be Pythagoras to Plato
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Thanks
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Egyptians đź’ˇ
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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).
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Does anyone have a reference for the assertion made in the video that Plato advocates the burning of heretics?
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Dont forget about the Persians. They made the worlds first sewage system.
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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.
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Judging by the sound I think this documentary was made inside a submarine.
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Speak truth to Plato
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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.
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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.
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Trigonometry has been found on some of the Babylonian tablets well before Greece. Just saying, you may want to redo this vid!
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So before the “ancient Greeks” there was no math?!🤔🤣
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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.
