Professor Answers Ancient Greece Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

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Professor of Ancient Greek History Paul Christesen joins WIRED to answer your questions from Twitter. What do we know about the original Olympics? How did Ancient Greece elect leaders? Is the film ‘300’ accurate? Was there a huge outdoor statue of Athena in Acropolis as in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey? What exactly did we lose when the Library of Alexandria burned? Why did ancient Greeks place a coin in the mouth of the recently decesased? These questions and plenty more are answered today on Ancient Greece Support.

0:00 Ancient Greek Support
0:12 Did Ancient Greeks wear clothes?
0:54 Accuracy of ‘300’
2:06 Death of Alexander The Great
2:57 Athena Statue from Assassin’s Creed
3:54 Ancient Freeks
5:02 Not That Homer
6:16 The Burning of the Library of Alexandria
7:10 Coin in the mouth?
7:35 Best philosopher
8:16 How Ancient Greece elected leaders
10:09 The original Olympics
11:35 Ancient Greek inventions
12:32 Ancient Greek entertainment
13:28 Did anyone check on the gods or….?
14:51 Origins of Ancient Greece
16:37 Did Greece have an empire?
17:27 When was the ‘Golden Age’ of Ancient Greece?
18:28 Ancient Greek diet
18:53 Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
19:27 Origins of Ostracism
20:18 What do Greek columns represent?


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All Comments (21)
  • @LifeStartsNow33
    wired please NEVER stop making these - specifically the ones about ancient civilizations and scientific experts. i'm OBSESSED and have learned so much
  • @KafshakTashtak
    Gyms with strict clothing policy are disrespecting their Greek ancestors.
  • @terfalicious
    Too short! We need like several hours of this guy!
  • @KimberlyGreen
    The constant camera zoom in / pull out is distracting. The content was, as usual for 'Tech Support', excellent.
  • As someone who writes a story including ancient Greek mythology and philosophy, this video is incredible.
  • @DioneN
    “Don’t pay the Ferryman Until he gets you to the other side!”
  • @BurttheBard
    Love this!! More Ancient Greek questions please!
  • @winklenator
    I’m always entertained by the sheer amount of YouTube commenters that are apparently also professors of history. Not that every professor is right, but throw up a source if you’re going to vehemently disagree.
  • @Sharrrian
    Diogenes is definitely the most goated Greek philosopher
  • @nannerz1994
    The best part of the series is you can tell everyone is so passionate about what their experts in
  • Not enough! I need more historical facts. Egypt, Greece, Rome, Asia... All of it
  • @u4ia_fubar_75
    I know what I'm doing next time I go to the gymnasion 😆
  • @jaydoggy9043
    20:17 The page has five pillars but he only points out three. The other two specifically are Roman: The Tuscan is made plainer than the Doric (but incidentally more stable), and the Composite which is a mix of Ionic and Corinthian. But the Greeks should definitely get credit for the main three. Shout out to any fellow travelers who have to learn that to the right of the east.