Ooooohh nice video!

No matter what this channel does, it never fails to enthrall!

Hey Epic History Tv, what’s next?

@@emmanuelfernandez04 Belisarius!

@@EpichistoryTv OH Belisarius ? That pleases me a LOT !! cant wait

Έξοχος!

“Allons, enfants de la patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrive! Contre nous de la tyrannie L’etendard sanglant est leve...” This rallying cry for Liberty is still sounding today in the streets of Europe. We must fight again!

The decorative Victorian verse translation is generally accurate but rather cumbersome; it does not have the spare poignancy of the original. Note the thirty-nine words of the English compared to the twenty-one of the Greek. The original is much more direct and austere in its tone: “Forward ye sons of the Hellenes! Free your Fatherland, children, wives, the sanctuaries of your paternal gods free, the graves of your ancestors; Now, above all, The Struggle!”

God Bless my Greek brother

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Hmmmm

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Great comment!!

No wonder the Greek myths and epic fit so well with its geography, it is truly a fantasy land.

Great to hear, thank you!

what was the importance of the Persian wars?

@@user-ru6si4de5v Is there any importance of wars generally?

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Great parenting. ❤🫡

I don't know why you feel that where you're from has any relevance at all, but I doubt anyone else does

@@dave8323 What are you TRYING to SAY???

No problem with the spelling, writing Greek in Latin alphabet can be tricky but there are some rules : the word "Ι thank you" is ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ / ευχαριστώ. In ancient Greek the Y would be pronounced kind of like a French-U but through the centuries this verged towards the French-"I" sound (pronounced as "ee" in english, english which has the tricky sound changes all the time, LOL! Greek is quite standard in that sense). However when Y is preceded by an A, E or O it is becoming a special diphthong : with O, it becomes OY pronounced as a monopthong pronounced like English-"OO" as in "shoot", "poor" etc. With A and E it becomes AY and EY and is pronunced like English "AV"and "EV" or "AF" and "EF" depending on the letter that follows - it is automatic, no need to now. Here for example we have the letter X. The X is pronouced like english "H" as in "here" or "hair" according to the vowel following. As such the EY will be pronounced as "EF" not as "EV" - the latter would be nearly impossible to pronounce naturally! Thus you have EFHARISTO. Note the accent symbol over omega which means the emphasis is placed there, so it is efharistO (the verb "I thank you") not efhAristo (which happens to be the neutral for the adjective"pleasant").

Sa reis

Glad you were here ... I now already how already Good this video gonna be !!

Grammar........???? Lol

@@zacharyharris438 Do you realize English may not be the first, second, or third language for most people? LOL.......?????

@@KvltKrist I don't think he does... folks who correct grammar mistakes of others in YT comment section hardly ever have the capacity to realize those things

Interesting detail, thank you!

My family is from Crete. My last name is big there. And an ancestor was in the first olympics

@@xancypillosi9497 awsome! i wish my name had that relevance, although my great great grandfather (i think), thought in the 2nd schleswig war (im danish)

@@jonasmejerpedersen4847 eh. There’s a huge winery there with my last name. It’s in the US. Pretty expensive also. It’s nuts. Wish I could give u name but can’t out myself - but there’s a dude In parliament with my last name and also a famous composer

@@xancypillosi9497 And the US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.

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Την περισσότερη ώρα κοίταζα που θα ήταν τότε το σπίτι μ 💀💀

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Even better for those that know I worked for the History Channel for 13 years, but left after they kinda gave up on history..

@@EpichistoryTv Yes I remember that about you! You did not kneel!

@@EpichistoryTv hold on, are you trying to tell me Ancient Aliens and Pawn Stars are not actual history?!

@@EpichistoryTv no wonder the history channel went down hill.. You guys at Epic History are killing it! Keep up the good work and thank you for giving us "Amateur historians" something to look forward too. This is by far, my favorite subject to watch/study. I'm not in school btw, I watch because I truly love it. 🤓😁

@@aris.a2912 Yes!! Lol..

Vive L’Empereur !!! France needs you Sire!! More than ever !

Tolkien knew his History very well...

*Aragorn, the Grey company, and Gondorian marines* the undead only killed the corsairs.

fake hellenic?

No

@@TheColombiano89 Yes.

that’s the biggest crock of horse manure that i ever heard of, i think the persians would strongly disagree with your assessment, quite honestly what you are saying is basically a form of racial discrimination. it’s more likely we are all sons and daughters of africans, we are all sons and daughters of egyptians, we are all sons and daughters of everyone if you believe in god and the bible.

@@scottedelman2379 You have absolutely no understanding of what Ameus wrote...get an education and then come back and write something.

Especially since modern historians don't consider Herodotus to be 100% reliable.

@@jeffbenton6183 only some. an insightful historian recognizes herodotus as by far one of the most important resources of ancient greece, as within his writing the myths and superstitions that pervaded their culture are laid bare. these myths and superstitions are a part of greek culture and greek history. this is how people of the time viewed the world around them, this was their experience. it is also absurd to presume that because something is written without being inundated by blatant myth that you are reading accurate information. I've witnessed historical revisionism in action many times through the 21st century, let alone the past. hell, inaccurate information pertaining to the middle east is recorded in the western canon on a daily basis.

@@levitatingoctahedron922 do you beleve in preserving history through myth instead of history would be good

Oh hey! Makes sense that a foxhole KZfaqr would like history too.

@@samurguy9906 darn right!

what about euriviadis?they kill him.

@@user-bh1ci9xq4n One step at a time

Only moments after pronouncing Hoplites "Hop-lights" tho

AFAIK the accent should be on third last syllable though, so stress on the "o", may be wrong though.

That is because you are used to the Byzantine pronunciation, rather than modern pronunciation of Ancient Greek.

well the historians from that time all say the ships from greece were bigger... they won cause the persians could not manuvre cause they were to many, and the greeks had the wind in the back also and fresh

This episode is wonderful, and it would be much better if it included detail descriptions of other major battles, such as the Battle of Marathon, the Battle of Thermopylae, the Battle of Plataea, the Battle of Mycale, and others.

@@hideanazawa2155 cant argue with that. The Greco-Persian war is what got me into history. Small Greek city-states banding together to defeat the massive might of Persia blew me away

Hardly one of the most important battles in History. You forget that the Persian ranks also included Greeks. Remember the Greek city states are not unified and fought each other more then the Persians. The Persians are the super power of the day responding to a terrorist attack from the Greeks. Remember the Greeks are a slave owning society while the Persians did not. Over all the Persian mission of destroying Athens was accomplished.

@@TheColombiano89 It was not a terrorist attack, it was a rebellion to free the Ionian and Aeolian Greeks from the Persian rule.

@@TheColombiano89 shut up my guy. you all over the comments spreading your hate

As a human, I'm sick of "proud" Greeks starting all their comments on youtube with the sentence "As a Greek". Aren't you tired of it? I'm sure if you saw the average Turk, American or Iranian or whatever nationality do the same you would get sick of it very soon.

@@gmeachim3270 Feel free to skip any Greek related historic video. Although it's kind of difficult since we participate in too many events and even most importantly we have the Father of History and the most comprehensive one since it all started in Western World. In this extremely interesting epoch, the others hadn't had even writing yet. The British care and love too much Greece. According to them, they always saw themselves as Greece and US as the Roman Empire. Moreover, for instance, indisputably even USA started with Athenian ideals, but ended up with a mix of Athenian ( Democratic ) and Spartan ( Militaristic ) ones ( ideals ). USA, as Greece did, built their army in order to secure the Nation and then Sciences flourished. Exactly what happened to Greece. We repelled Persians while they attacked us even before these events, then we conquered them in order to eliminate the danger and our society flourished in never-before-seen levels. Anglo-Saxons now cautiosly started saying Greece even was in the first steps of Industrial Revolution even back then. The Antikythera Mechanism is a brilliant and prime suspect to support such claims.

@@gmeachim3270 you're propably doing the same thing for your nationality So if you're sick of this You can stop watching the Greek history Greetings from proud Greek Macedonian

It is really good to hear from the Greek Folks about this ... I had never heard of this Battle ... But now I'm glad I did !!!

@@gmeachim3270

Alexander: Destroys homosexual Thebes. He really was GREAT!

Greeks were absolutely notorious for their grudges.

@The Imperishable Star Arrian [3.18.11-12] clearly states that Alexander burned Persepolis in retaliation to the burning of Athens during the Greco-Persian wars, despite being urged by his general Parmenion not to.

@The Imperishable Star he didn't enslave Athens even if Athenians were against him not just once but at least two times and according to Plutarch and Aryan he did destroy Persepolis... Retribution for Athens, but on the other hand what did Plutarch and Aryan knew vardaskians know better 😂😂

Persians a few centuries later: Destroy Antioch Debt repaid.

Which game is it from? It reminds me of the sea battles in Rome II: Total War, but the time period is different.

@@jeffbenton6183 It might be Rome II, along with some mods, cant really tell, not big fan of sea battles :D

@@jeffbenton6183 total war: Rome 2

I think it’s interesting that Greeks and Persians (Iranians) were enemies for most of history but now are neutral to each other. Because Greece hates Turkey now, and Iran hates Saudi Arabia 😅😂

@@jacklaurentius6130 despite a millenium of fighting (6th century BC - 7th century AD), through our historical clashes Greeks and Persians learnt to deeply respect each other as enemies and nowadays even as friends.

ArsNova - Yes, very true!

@@arsnova69 Mutual respect was a fact even during the ancient times. Few years after the Greek victory in the battle of Salamis, the great Greek tragedian Aeschylus in his tragedy "The Persians" is sympathetic towards the Persians showing respect to the defeated. And this comes from Aeschylus who lost his brother, Cynegirus(*), during the battles of Marathon. (*): Accroding to all recorded versions of the incident, Cynegirus during the battle of Marathon attempted with his bare hands to prevent a Persian ship from fleeing with a Persian soldier cutting off his right hand. When Cynaegyrus lost his right hand, he grasped the enemy's vessel with his left, but Persians cut off this hand too, losing his life. In one version of this story having lost both hands, before dying he used his teeth to stop the Persian ship.

@@papertoyss Τί σοὶ δοκεῖ, ὦ ξήν, τὰ ἐμά πατρώα διδάγματα οὐ γιγνώσκω;

Phoenicians/Carthaginians have a terrible win-loss ratio before Hannibal came around

Geesh, can you imagine your lies being exposed like that?

Ionians were Greeks that's why they fought bravely. Unfortunately on the wrong side, facing their brothers.

Perfect timing…. The Phoenician “D’Oh!” moment…

@@MarvinT0606 Hamilcar was quite good.

He'll never do it. Just a kid in Macedon who tries to fill his father's sandals. Persia is too big. IMPOSSIBLE.

@@scintillam_dei I mean yeah, exactly. He is going to get certainly crashed as soon as he lands in Asia Minor

Not a few years later, but around 150 years later. :P

@@scintillam_dei you should ask the bookers, they know better

You mean after almost two centuries right? Because Alexander didn't come just few years after this battle.. that's one hell of a loop.

Lmao.. Well played Sir Stuart!

Afterwards Herodotus argued for a pan-hellenic unity, but by his time, the greeks had started forgetting about the threat of persia and returned to their squabbling, the hour of greek unity had passed to this dismay of many.

Thank you for your words. My regards from Crete.

@@digenis5203 Be proud of your heritage.

Thats one of the Greek Paeans he mentioned in 21:00

Persia WAS the West. Or as Dr. Richard Frye of Harvard said, although the Persians were not Eastern Europeans, they were, “the Europeans of the East”. The West would have been a far more tolerant place free of slavery “Yearning for the brotherhood of mankind” (prophet Zoroaster) had the Persians won. The world would also would not have experienced the barbarism and bloodshed of Rome (Friedrich Nietzsche). Can you imagine if we never had slavery in history? Anyway, it was just a dream.

@@zmmz1238 the persians were a weak military power, and greece is where most of the roots of all modern technology comes from. The persians would fail to defend their borders

@@abhi5504 The Medieval European knight was an exact copy of the Persian armoured Savaran (to the Athenians, the cataphractos). That’s the Greek bias and language that you have grown up with, probably influenced by video games and movies. Western civilization is as Persian, if not more, than it is Greek and that includes warfare technology (see Tom Holland, University of Oxford, and the recent discussion at London University). I’m not sure how someone can say that with a straight face. The Persia during the time of Xerxes didn’t employ the armoured protection invented by their wild Iranian nomadic cousins in Southern Russia (the Scythians). But after Alexander died they learned their lesson and succumbed to reality. Medieval Europe was Iranian almost in totality. Not only they looked Persian in the way of long hairs and beards, and dress with long bejeweled “wide-opened” sleeve garments worn by women, trousers and the multi-coloured tops, but of most importance was the adoption of Persian heavy armoured warriors and customs (the knight or the chevalier) and consequently jousting and the concept of the duel (see rock carvings of Khosrow II). But that’s not all, they also adopted the Parthian feudal system, the arched gates and entrances, the tradition of royal hunting and numerous court etiquettes, the windmill, the adoption of horse as a means of transportation, Coloured-glass art, in literature a particular Persian tale being the inspiration for Romeo & Juliet, and most importantly the belief in one God, heaven and hell, Angeles and demons, and judgement day, from Zoroastrianism passed on to Christianity. To top it off, the Canon of Medicine, the world’s first medical encyclopedia, by Avicenna and Khawrizmi’s “Algebra” served as the sole educational books in Medieval Europe for 500 years during the Dark Ages. There was no trace of Greek geometry, nor Zeus or Nike. Nor Greek or Roman costumes, the chiton or the toga, or the open sandal. Medieval Europe utilized gorilla, as well as open plain warfare where the horse warrior had the advantage. Also the broad sword, the mail-chain, the iron-mask or the bucket helmet, the axe and the mace were the most common weapons used back then. They were all of Iranian origin or used by the Persians. The Greek way of warfare was the sturdy shield, the long pikes and the hoplite formation. They were almost exactly copied by the Romans (minus the long pikes), but didn’t make it to Medieval Europe. There was Greek philosophy studies by the elite, and mythos to a lesser extent, but it was overshadowed by Celtic and Scandinavian lore. Both latter groups were closer culturally to the Iranians (themselves Indo-Europeans) than to the Mediterranean basin (compare the Persian Yalda to Yule). Tell me again how Greece started the Western civilization? I’m puzzled. Let’s lay off our general ignorance and these old racist tropes and wishful fantasies and realize how complex history is/was.

@@zmmz1238 or, and hear me out, both completely individually found out that pointy stick and heavy armor was good on a horse

@@abhi5504So they looked identical right down to the bucket helmet, the swinging mace, the kneeling on one knee, but it could have been a coincidence? Nothing in history is a coincidence, rather continuations. There are way too many things that all of a sudden appeared in Medieval Europe that were unique to the Iranian world for it to be a coincidence. And we now know why - there is an archeological link. The armoured knights first appeared in Europe right after Rome hired the nomadic Iranian knights, the Izagyans and stationed them in Britain. Anybody who reads this should google, the rock carvings of Khosrow II. Democracy for example was also unique to ancient Greece, and it was not formed independently by later Europeans. The link is that aristocrats of Europe received classical Greek education and were consequently influenced by the idea of democracy. The knights of Persia and their rituals influencing Europe is the same exact concept - keyword: influence. First you said the root of most modern warfare comes from ancient Greece now you are stating the Iranian armour technology was independently developed by the Europeans, despite a historical link. Do you realize how deep in denial people like you are? Instead of actually researching and studying a subject you automatically assume. Even when it turns out to be wrong, you try to further disconnect and assume. Can you see the level of your bias?

I'm broke every week, but I suggest someone with influence suggest the following: - Hernán Cortés taking Tenochtitlán while allied with many Native Americans who were immune to smallpox without any vaccination since vaccination is unnecessary poison.

@@scintillam_dei Wow! You had to bring that garbage here!

@@scintillam_dei 90π

@@scintillam_dei No wonder, you're broke.

@@oliverludwig6148 I'm broke because I think for myself? All of the rich will be broke when God kills themand burns the greedy shits forever! :-)

He did not commit suicide... he was assassinated by rivals of his in the Persian court...

Nice thanks for insight, yeah to much propaganda from our side, I never read about this, only thing I learnt was Persia bad Greece good. I know US has beef with Iran, but that the anglos are hijacking our history and making big lies, to minimize Iran/Persia makes us look like fools.

You mean they were mad for revenge...

i suppose they were very furious for the destruction of their city in time to scary. it is necessary use that feeling for the leader before before it goes out,

Yeah i think the Athenians were more pissed than anything. The Athenian leader even devised a plan to trap the other greeks there to prevent them from escaping

@@brettvogel8418 Yeah a plan to force them to battle. But it wasn't just for revenge but also because the Greeks cities were backstabbing each other all the time so he needed to made sure they had no choice.

As the video says, the Athenians plan b was to go and settle to southern Italy. With most of the Athens population evacuated and onboard the merchant fleet and with 200 warships they claimed to the rest of the Greeks that they can built a new Athens anywhere they wanted and leave all the rest of the Greeks to deal with the Persians alone unless the rest agreed to fight all together at Salamis.

Someday? I believe its happened

Shouldn't be too hard to overcome a channel that has long ago committed suicide.

Certainly without salamis at least you would not have seen the Peloponnese Wars, the rise of Macedon, the wars of the Diadochi, and a radically different history for the Roman Empire and the near East.

@@matthewbadley5063 Absolutely Agree with you.

The biggest irony is, that it was democratic Athens that started the beef with Persia. Actually it was the creator of Athenian Democracy, Cleisthenes, who started it all. Cleisthenes was living in exile in Sparta, while Hippias was Tyrant of Athens. Cleisthenes bribed the Oracle of Delphi to give the Spartan King, Cleomenes, a fabricated oracle after failing to convince the Spartans to invade Athens and remove Hippias...to make Cleisthenes the new Tyrant. The Spartans, being very religious, obeyed the oracle, invaded Athens and removed Hippias and made Cleisthenes one of two tyrants as he wished. Hippias escaped to Persia, where he tried for years to convince the Persians to give him an army to take back Athens (this is an important detail never mentioned by anyone).😅 Anyway, after some events Cleisthenes ended up in exile. Also, the Spartans were furious when they eventually found out about Cleisthenes' sacrilidge. The Spartans were now hell bent on righting their wrong. By putting Hippias back...where they found him. At this time, Athens was still a pipsqueak and they were terrified of the Spartans. Cleisthenes was begged to come back to rule Athens as tyrant. The same Athens who Sparta was busy preparing to invade, again. Nobody wanted to accept leadership in Athens, with Spartans on the war path. So Cleisthenes, too afraid to rule himself, created a system where everyone ruled.😅 A system called Democracy. But, the Spartans were still on their way and the Athenians knew they were screwed. So they sent ambassadors to Persia for military aid against the Spartans. The Persians, had conditions, of course. The Persians would only promise aid, if the Athenians offered Earth and water...and put Hippias back as tyrant of Athens. After long deliberation amongst themselves, the Athenian Diplomats accepted the terms of the Persians and offered Earth and Water (knowing perfectly well what this symbol meant). Meanwhile, the Spartans who had already mobilized and had an army marching halfway towards Athens, heard of these events (that the Athenians agreed to reinstate Hippias). So their job there was done...the wrong was made right. Plus, the Spartans had a more pressing concerns to deal with, so they turned back the army. The Athenians, no longer threatened by an approaching Spartan army, suddenly developed a case of amnesia. Pretending that they had no idea what the Persians were talking about when referring to their commitment of Earth and Water. The Persians didn't make any effort to press their claim, since Athens was a nobody not worth the time and effort. But, a while later, the Athenians got involved in the Ionian Revolt. This was the point when Hippias (by now a very old man, and still living with the Persians), was finally given an army to take back Athens. Hippias, for the first time since leaving, landed with his Persian army (commanded by a Persian General), near Marathon. After that victory, it went straight to the heads of the Athenians. And then they started pestering the Persian Empire constantly. Until the Persians launched a full scale invasion. 😅 The rest is history everyone knows. But not everyone knows how it started. According to Herodotus, the Persians almost randomly invaded innocent little Athens. Anyway, after the battle of Salamis, the Athenians created the "Delian League". It's purpose was to "protect" against another Persian invasion. But this "protection" was more like the "protection" you get from the Italian Mob...league members had to pay for it and they couldn't really refuse this "protection". And the "Delian League" was more of an Athenian Empire. Plus, the Athenians failed to mention an important little detail to their "Allies". The fact that the Athenians already negotiated a peace treaty with the Persians and there was no real threat at that time. They were paying for "protection" they didn't even need.😅 The Athenians ofcourse used the money for their own purposes. Eventually they moved the money from Delios to Athens, where it's easier to embezzle. (claiming it would be "safer"... In true mob style). The Spartans would eventually take down the Athenians and deliberately dismantle their ponzy scheme... The Athenians would later try again to recreate their "Alliance"...but Philip of Macedon would desmantle it, and create his own new and improved version of this ponzy scheme. Called the Corinthian League.

@@tylerdurden3722 You are absolutely right. When a Democracy transforms into empire, disaster will fall. Ironically it would be Macedon with Philip and Alexander who would preserve greek civilization. Greece was on the verge of collapse upon Macedon's rise, and there is little doubt that Persia would have assimilated greece into it's sphere, either by corruption or slow conquest. If it wasn't for the Military Genius and Ruthlessness of Alexander, the Persian empire would have flourished for centuries more. That would have changed history as we know it.

I don’t know much Greek history compared to Roman, but I thought that the battle of marathon was the #1 most important battle that the ancient Greeks ever fought?

Thank you for that excerpt! Very interesting!

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What the Greeks had was much more valuable than gold trinkets. They had freedom and dignity. Every country that has fought for its own freedom against an overpowering empire and won knows this.

@@georgechristoforou991 Bull Shit! Most people in Grece were slaves. After war the Athenians subjected the Greeks of Anatolia to a tyranny even worse than the Persian... Those who tried to resist the Athenians were decimated.

@@carlospinto5402 All Greeks had voting rights. The others such as servants were not Greeks. But after many years they could gain the right to become an Athenian citizen.

Except way more impressive considering the Greeks actually won Salamis.

This was shown in 300 2 lol

well, problem is Thermopylae wasn't really much of a battle, contrary to popular myth, 300 Spartans did not halt an assault of 100K Persians. the way to outflank the position was well known to Greeks in Persian camp, it's not clear how much fighting there was before Leonidas gave the order for the Greek army to abandon the Hot Gates, and stayed behind with the famous 300, who all died in one day. not clear why he acted in this way, but Persians must have thought it was a major coup for them, killing the enemy king.

@@nitzky8936 my cursory and amateur research suggests there were several thousand non-Spartans there and they fought for at least 3 days

@@nitzky8936 spartan laws dictate that you can not surrender or retreat you have to die he also was at his 60s so he gave a symbol to unite the greeks leonidas did more than you can imagine.And he also died alongside with 700 thespieis.

Persians had their King overwatch them but Greeks had their wives.

what book was it? i would like to read it

@@popyblack5957 The Battle of Salamis by Barry Strauss

@@l00d3r thank you!

@@popyblack5957 You're welcome!