You gotta appreciate the honesty!

Jason Doe facts

LMAO

Wow, Herodotus was the Internet before the Internet.

Truth

"And that children is how the Egyptians built the Pyramids" "I thought we were talking about the expansion of the Persian empire." "Ah yes, which reminds about the their attempts to conquer the Scythians, who as you may know live far to the north...." "God damnit, not again."

@@merrittanimation7721 *Gods

“back in my day a bard was thrown out of a ship and was rescued by doplhins”

Like the time I caught the trireme over to Athenai, I needed a new heel for my sandal. To take the trireme cost a drachma, and in those days, drachme had pictures of gold-digging ants on them.

the important thing was, I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time

Watching this again. When Herodetus claims to only state what he hears and he draws conclusions, all I couldn think is :he is probably more of an anthropologist than historian

@@nitesy381 I came to the comments to say the exact same thing. Definitely a cultural anthropologist rather than a straight up historian.

He a bit befuddled, but he's got the gist.

😂😂😂😂

I also like that blue usses the ac:odyssey ost.

*tries to take control of the Adrestia and accidentally interacts with Herodotus* "There's much to do; and many unknowns on the horizon"

Ya

Hahahaha didn't think About that ^^ Sure, makes sense!

why is this so funny to me

Yo watup, it’s ya boi, Herodotus, coming at ya with another video. And... just heard about that shit with the Spartans, and thought I’d drop my two cents. Like, I don’t know how else to put this, but real talk, Leonidas was always kind of a bitch. Don’t even get me started on Marathon, like, Marathon is a whole other video. But yeah. Anyways. And, so I was in Sparta the other day, and, by the way, I don’t know if you saw it but they got this new kind of bread shit there that’s really good. Great guy I know is in the bread making business and let me tell you that shit is something else. If you’re ever in the area be sure to check it out.

Imagine a historian version of vsauce.

Or a shitposter.

@@Theringodair the difference?

Basically how my students see me in class.

That reminds me of CGP Gray's recent videos on Staten Island.

I created a D&D character that kind of did that. A rogue con artist who decided to do a con as a cleric to swindle rich people out of the spare cash, but ended up doing more research than strictly nessisary for believability, and in the process of over researching, became a real cleric. Dual class character.

@@Krahazik Reminds me of that metal band that was trying to shit on Catholicism and they researched Catholicism so much they converted

That is true statement

Alcibiades would like to know your location.

@@Lord_Of_Night yeah he can stay away. I don’t need to wake up hungover and sticky.

He was sent out to a colony, so he must have been an adult, he can't however have been to old for that, so he was probably younger than 60. That already places him at 40±20 years of age. Now add to that, that he was noteworthy enough to be mentionable and that more or less eliminates at least 10 years from his earlier years, probably more. This way you roughly get 40 years of age.

Interpretation is a skill that OSP has yet to learn about. The guesswork and conjecture just gets worse the more you see him do videos.

@@mysticnovelbro It is called Overly Sarcastic Productions after all. Interpretation is not a skill exactly relevant to the job this channel is meant to provide. That's the experts and your job.

@@mysticnovelbro Except interpretation is something he did later this very video with the anecdote about Solon. He recognizes that the conversation was impossible, then either interpreted himself or used other historians interpretations without complaint, meaning he likely had a genuine complaint with the logic of the 40 years old interpretation.

@@Great_Olaf5 just putting this out there - no he didn't, and i don't appreciate people hitting me up over a year after the fact to lie and make excuses for OSP when he's already been outed for this multiple times

"'Og' here meaning original which it is a shortened form of." - Lemony Snicket, probably

It clashes with their high regard to hysterophemia, (if I wrote that correctly in english) that is to say their after-fame/legacy. I am sure if you told Pericles that he would die and Athens would be defeated, but his works and speech would still stand and be known around the world 2500 years later and if you told Alexander that he would die at 32 and his empire would collapse soon enough but he would be one of the most influential personalities in world history they both would be like: "Worth it."

"rip to them but I'm different-" *dies*

Huey? Is that you?

How is being a ghost?Are you still bored?

Yeah, I'm sure he'll get to Ibn Khaldun. Also undoubtedly Sima Qian. I mean, dude gave up his balls for history. Literally.

Sima Qin perhaps or maybe even Ibn Battuta though technically he wasn't a historian.

The things I would do to hear a series on the Islamic Golden Age

In the Herodotus account, both the imposter and the real king are called Smerdis. Only Persian sources make the distinction between Bardiya and Gaumata, the imposter.

Well said

I just came from school

NERDS!

Good luck, dude

Yay new video.... but I should really be asleep right now

It is 4:09 PM why are you going to school now it started 8 hours ago.

Exaggerated magpies? so.... magpies in Australia in spring?

Oh shit you’re right!

@Lance Bermudez I was going to suggest this, and there it is.

@@davidlathrop9360 Golden Eagles maybe? They're quite large, very bold (even Honey Badgers are afraid of these things), and have top class flight speeds that rival the peregrine falcon.

Spear of Leonidas

And the one true demigod amongst the pretenders

Gaby Gibson dont do herodotus like that 😔😔

Herodotus describes them as winning against persia by just moving. Essential if your entire city is a wagon train you cant get conquered, hence the name for it being the Scythian Defense. (Run away waiting for a good counter attack) its better than i described

I was looking for this comment! I wouldn't say its a big mistake relative to the rest of the video (which is about Herodotus and not the politics of the Achaemenid empire) but it is a glaring one if you have learned a lot about that time period

@@Ben-ph4pe This is just one i caught the question is how many did i not catch and how much of this is incorrect information that's the problem it throws into question the entire validity of the video

@@shadymerchant1198 I mean he is just... summarizing a book. You can just read it if you want to find out how accurate this video is, and as someone who just read it for a history class I can say that Blue's slip up about Darius is the only error I see.

Egyptian historical accounts makes the entire story of the "mad" king Cambysis, which was written in giant text on a mountainside by darius, the guy who likely killed Cambysis and confesses to having killed Bardyia, excuse me, the shape shifting sorcerer Garmata in said giant inscription, rather suspect. One of Cambysis' supposed big oofs that got him the title of "mad king" was the killing of a sacred bull during an egyptian religious ceremony. The egyptian accounts, only readable since the translation of hieroglyphics, recounts him as having fulfilled his royal duties during the ceremony, not as having committed sacrilege by killing the bull. The Egyptians, taking both their religious ceremonies and the recording of anything important to them rather seriously, are unlikely to have failed in recording such a fuck up. Most likely either Cambysis died unexpectedly or Darius, Cambysis' cup bearer at the time of his death, murdered him and then went back home and led a group of nobles in a successful coup against Cambysis' brother. Then Darius made up the lie about Bardyia having been murdered in complete secrecy by Cambysis, more "proof" of his madness, and having been replaced by a shape shifting sorcerer, Garmata, while Cambysis was away with no one the wiser. A textbook example of a coup followed by the fabrication of circumstances that *obviously* means that it wasn't *really* a coup. Poor Darius was just doing the right thing. Honestly.

I was searching for this comment haha! Fellow Rick Steves fan! I've got his travel bag and it's held up over several years lol!

y tho

Hey did you use some kind of character creator to make that profile picture or is it drawn?

@@kazzajaxon7566 Honey I wish it was drawn, it's a doll-thing a friend of mine showed me a while ago.

Hey don't rush it will come soon

The "Atlantes" on the map is not referring to Atlantis, but rather the Atlas Mountains located in Morocco.

There's videos on youtube saying the Eye of Sahara in that area was the city of Atlantis, check them out and decide for yourself.

@@JakaVerdnik Highly unlikely, considering Atlantis was a made up framing device for a story about morals and Athenian superiority.

@@JakaVerdnik Plato made up Atlantis and Herodotus died while Plato was still a toddler, if not a fetus. There's no way Herodotus would have ever even heard about Atlantis.

I was about to write exactly the same thing as Porkadillo

BRIAN BLESSED!?!?!!

BRIAN BLESSED !!!!

What game. What game?

Total war Warhammer 2. The new dlc comin out

GOTREK'S ALIVE!!!

Ahh yes a man of asshole history

@Dimitrije6500 :D r/asshole

@Dimitrije6500 :D r/ihavereddit

Dimitrije6500 :D r/Smileyface:D

Ha. I was looking for this comment.

@Shirley Timple Go fuck yourself.

Go fondle your dongle

@Shirley Timple I don't understand what is happening

@@lolgamez9171 I dared to criticise, however meekly. Therefore I am now anathema. Because humanity. In less pompous terms, these people are butthurt.

Considering the measurement and travel technologies available at the time, I think it was pretty impressive. "Eastern Ethiopians" did make me chuckle though.

Dominick Desalvo Back then 'Ethiopians' was basically the term for black people in Greece, and they must have known that the inhabitants of southern India were pretty dark. I think even some old myths placed Ethiopia in the distant east, rather than in Africa. That was, after all, where the sun rose from, and it being so close to the ground would make the natives dark-skinned (I think that was the reasoning).

Red: For when you're in a hurry.