Keep in mind that this isn't meant as a definitive list of the best preserved ancient Greek buildings, but just a selection of ones I found interesting. The Temple of Concordia in Agrigento for example is another very well preserved building, but I didn't want too many similar looking Doric temples 😄

ancient greek buildings are so soothing to look at. even in ruin, they still give off chill vibe.

Went to Athens about a month or two ago. And saw most of what you showed in the video. And believe me, it’s wayyyyy more impressive when seeing it in person.

Sucks that the Parthenon made it all the way to 1687 basically intact, and that it was the Ottomans believing that they could store gunpowder there since the Venetians surely wouldn't aim at the historic building and the Venetians actually not caring about that and aiming their cannons at it anyway that wrecked it...

I enjoyed this: beautiful architecture. The Greeks gave us so much.

In south Italy or Magna Grecia you can find fine ancient Greek temples

I was most impressed by Hephaestion in Athens, which I had the honor to film recently. Unfortunately, so few ancient monuments of Greece are in good condition. great video, very cool channel! 😮❤️

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How lucky we are that these great buildings still stand so many Greek architectural masterpieces In Greece and Anatolia have been reduced into rubble.

It's amazing thinking how much crowded these places used to be. Then, day by day, people just stopped using them, and by time they even forgot what those structures were. It's crazy to think about it.

Great video, as an Athenian I have been in all these places and l highly recommend to anyone to pay a visit to them when its possible. Athens has so much to offer to a visitor when it comes to sightseeing.

The Doric order is highly underrated in favour of the more decorative ones, but there's something about Doric and especially Greek Doric that draws me to it.

Very uplifting to see that the Theatre of Epidaurus is being used for its original purpose once again! I have wondered previously why ancient tempels and buildings have just been left untouched to decay with time, how come no one ever cared for them? I find it remarkable that, while acknowledging the buildings are over 2000 years old, there is almost nothing left of anything.

Your videos are so well put together and relaxing to watch. A true pleasure. Thank you

Excellent presentation! Greetings from Delphi, Greece.

Glorious buildings. Why do they look so much more impressive than skyscrapers an other modern buildings that are so much bigger? Can't explain it

Wow that was a nice surprise suddenly hearing my song in this, thank you for choosing it.^^ I watch your channel since quite a while actually, so I also want to use this comment to thank you for your amazing content.

My dads from sicily, near agrigento...there youll find the concorde valley of the temples...magnificent!

It'd be WILD to see what the Ancient Greeks would think about their distant progeny still using the amphitheatre.

Just imagine if Greece still use the same architecture for every building until today...

They sure did know how to make things look impressive.

Many of best preserved, and most beautiful, greek buildings are in Italy. Paestum ( Poseidonia ) . Valley of temples at Agrigento, Siracusa, Taormina.

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Love this type of architecture content, thank you for your work!

KZfaq was hiding your channel from me for years?? Ofcourse I found it finally.

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I love the class and the sophistication of your videos. This one was fascinating! Thank you.

There is also the complete temple of Epicurian Apollo in south eastern Peloponnese. With all it's columns and located at a breathtaking mountain top.

These historic buildings been standing for over 2000 yrs, the longevity

Just discovered your channel! So glad I found it!

I played AC Odyssey and I loved it because of the world it made. Traversing an ancient world that was perfectly handcrafted is amazing.

This is an incredible video. Thank you.

I love your videos! Keep up the awesome work!

these videos are so interesting, keep up the great work!

Exellent job, very nice video.

great video, these are quite rare indeed

Amazing! thanks for sharing.

Just started watching your videos and wanted to say keep up with good work. I appreciate your videos highly because we have similar interests. Especially your videos of old architecture and paintings

I'm an Italian from Sicily (🇮🇹💛❤️). I would recommend to admire the Temples' Valley of Agrigento, where you can find two well preserved temples (The Orion's Temple and, surely better than the first one, the Concord Temple) and some columns. I would also recommend a visit to the Greek Theater of Syracuse and the Greek Temples of Selinunte and Segesta (which was built by Hellenized Elymians, a local prehistorical population of Western Sicily)

Very interesting. Thank you.

A worthy video of great praise...much appreciated. Bravo good friend.

I moved back to our homeland in Greece with my family when I was 18..I once asked my husband "How come the rest of Europe has standing coliseum, fountain, statue's, temples,huge marble churches..etc." He said " Well the wars have ravaged this country and all we had" I just really wish I could of seen it in the olden days💖😍💖 just like Egypt !! I bet they were marvelous.. Take Care All 🌈🌺💙💕💜🌈💜🌈🌺💜💙💕

Great video, Thank you

I had the liberty of visiting Athens in May and I saw most of the buildings you mentioned in this video. Most of these buildings don't look very impressive in images, but In person they are something else, and really take on a new status for me. The Hephaisteion, the best preserved one, really was great as well.

The Temple of Hephaestus is nice because it isn't overrun with daytrippers.

These structures must have looked absolutely stunning in there prime

Thank you for this video! Beautiful structures all!

If a building is worth keeping, it's worth fixing. There should be no ruins.

And how many buildings from our time will last over 2,000 years?

Thanks for a great and concise video on the subject. It connects us to a singular apex of civilization! My only complaint would be the lack of inflection in the narrating voice.

Never understood why this wasn't rebuilt or repaired it's crazy.

I’ve been to Athens … I almost couldn’t believe seeing The Parthenon before me ❤️

Great video, thanks! Would love to see a similar one for the best preserved Byzantine buildings.

Very nice architecture , When we see this, we are amazed , Very Beautiful Country.

The map shown at 1.28 et seq is weird, it shows important Greek islands, like Lesbos, Chios, Rhodos - and many more - inside Turkish waters. What is the idea?

Keep in mind that the Parthenon remained largely intact well into the 1700s until the occupying Turks who were using it as a munitions storage destroyed a lot of the interior in an explosion. They were also demolishing it in order to burn the marble to produce lime.

I dont know if Garni Temple counts because it's in Armenia, but it looks very greek-like and is extremely well preserved

I had the luck of visiting some of these buildings when I visited Greece, I cannot tell you how amazing it felt to visit some of these monuments. The Greeks were ahead of their time.

Επίδαυρος”. A moment in my life that I will never, ever forget. On our honeymoon, we traveled from Athens to Tripoli to my cousin’s home, meeting them, for the first time...my newly found family, who I never met before , displaying that “Big, Fat Greek Hospitality” that I knew quite well growing up back in Chicago on the South Side. After a wonderful late lunch, we left and, on our way back to Athens, I saw it!.... the Sign! ... “Επίδαυρος“ ( Epidaurus)..."ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑΛΟ ΙΕΡΟ ΘΕΑΤΡΟ...THE GREAT HOLY THEATRE" ! "The Gods Were Good To Me, for My childhood dream had come true”. I made a quick, illegal turn to access the road that led to the Theatre.....(”Δεν υπάρχει αστυνομία ....No Police!”...Ha HA!)....driving endlessly on a forever Winding Road which seemed forever, indeed . The midday Sun was waning then when we arrived around 5 pm, and, to our shock, we saw there were no buses, no cars, no taxis, no tourist guides. NOTHING!......EMPTY ! It Was Closed !! Heartbreak!!! No !!....No Way !!. “I did not travel to this Mythical Wonder, winding around those treacherous cliffs, only to be turned back” ( try doing that to a Hellene, BTW ). But!...Wait a minute...Ok......I had an idea, though...a schemingly, clever Odyssean plan ...that of the use of Our timeless, secret weapon ... “ The Hellenic Art of BS !” Would it work, though, I wondered ? The gracious, old gentleman, with the keys to the entrance to the Theatre, at the bottom of that hill, listened quietly, intently and respectfully to my hopefully persuasive, sobbing narrative (after a minute of laborious persuasion...telling him that I was a “Hollywood Director and that my wife was the Leading Lady…. the Staring Actress” in a blockbuster movie that was being produced there shortly). Yes... my Hellenic Language failed me throughout, BUT! ..even so, the great Aristophanes ( He!.. who capitalized on the Art of BS in our ageless Comedic Culture of Theatre) stood by me in spirit, proud of my speech at that very moment...why... I could hear his applause over the joyed roar of his ancient audience intently! “ΚΑΛΟ ΝΙΚΟΣ”……Aristophanes said in his ancient, Attic Hellenic Language.... I know!.... I heard him say it”…... “αυτό είναι” Well now... chuckling with his twinkling eyes and with ageless Wisdom, the old caretaker caught my sincerity or, shall we say………..”My BS”, and immediately smiled ...then allowed us both to run up to see this world marvel without escort. "Έχετε μόνο 15 λεπτά! Θα έρθω να σε πάρω μετά από αυτό ..... Πήγαινε!" ( “you have 15 minutes ..after that I’ll come get you myself !!...GO! GO NOW... ON YOUR WAY!”) This man must be from Crete, I thought ! “ΙΣΧΥΡΟΣ”... STRONG & “ΣΚΛΗΡΟΣ”... TOUGH ! “Ένας Έλληνας γνωρίζει έναν Έλληνα, προφανώς!”....”A Hellene knows a Hellene.....profound!”..... apparently!. Well, we ran like Olympian Athletes up the hill ...to my “Dream Come True” since I was a child ! I was finally there... stunned ...crying endless tears. We were all alone.... no one else.....just the flowered, Northern Winds whistling softly. Yes.. I was allowed by the Gods now...standing over the weathered, bronze coin that Euripides once stood on in the center orchestra.... “Στεκόμουν μπροστά σε ένα μυθικό ελληνικό αυτί”…( I was standing in front of an Ancient Mythical Ear ). Respectively, rubbing my hands with the fertile soil of my father’s land, I waived to my wife as she climbed to the very top. I shouted “MOLON !”…. “LABE !” ( “COME!”....”TAKE!” ) and she responded like a timeless "Kouroi" maiden with that smile......her quintessential Hellenic "Contrapposto Pose"....PERFECT ! I knew then My Dream had come to fruition. I was on Olympus itself. As my wife and I traded places, she standing on the center bronze coin down in the orchestra and me now standing at the top of the theatre, I was profoundly stunned by her voice..so clear...so robust...thus realizing what “Genius My Ancestors Gave To Humanity”. Epidauvros is marvel of acoustics ! The stone steps filter the background noise and create a phenomenon called ‘virtual pitch,’ which enhances the clarity and quality of sound. Additionally, the distance between the rows of seats diffuses the sound everywhere with the same intensity. Other factors include the sound bouncing back from the hard, compact surface of the orchestra and the theater stands, the good quality marble used, the quiet scenery and the constant breeze blowing from the orchestra to the viewers. Now...Let me tell you all what the sound is really like ...exactly. Take both hands and place them behind both ears, as the elderly do when listening. Then.... speak your thoughts.... clearly abound ! Hence....all will flavor the exact magical sound quality expounded over two and a half thousand years of “Hellenic Brilliance” ...... “The Immortality that is ...

The Temple of Apollo Epicirus in Bassae is also very well preserved and trully impressive, although it it relatively unknown. It is located on a mountain, some 65km from Olympia and is not easily accessible

At 4:56, what is this stonehange structure in the back? It's not present now.

Man what i would give just to go back in time to see ancient rome, the egyptians, even mesopotamia

Ancient buildings that were converted into churches were among the few that survived from ancient times-some examples being the Greek temple in Syracuse,Sicily whose columns are incorporated into the Catholic cathedral in the city -otherwise they were just left to endure the ravages of earthquakes(very common in these areas)and of the elements.There are many more Roman examples of this than Greek ones the supreme examples being the Pantheon in Rome -not to be confused with the Parthenon in Athens.This latter temple was also converted into a church and is probably why it survived.In the future we will probably have the same problem with the cathedrals and churches -what to do with them when congregations dwindle and can we put them to dignified uses.

The Greeks and Romans were years ahead of their time in many areas of social, political, and archaeological feats. Studying classics is amazing and I hope to visit these places later down the road.

Greek temples have something special that roman one don't have. Greek temples are almost magical, like some old enigma nobody was able to solve yet.

I have read that the Turks used the Parthenon for target practice.

Paestum is really amazing, i saw the temple twice, it s a fantastic area.

You should make a Patreon or due KZfaq membership, I would love to support theses videos further

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Excellent documentary!! We just returned from Greece where we visited Delphi, but over the years and our many visits we have seen most of the buildings mentioned. I am currently reading the The Darkening Age, by Catherine Nixey. and am abhorred by the role that early Christians played in the destruction of such monuments and works of art. If interested it is an excellent read on the subject .

Just amazing you can take in a show in an amphitheatre that someone sat in over 2000 years ago.

surprised Ephesus wasnt put in this list considering its a collect of buildings preserved

Didn't expect to see a building 30 minutes away from my house on here!

The Parthenon still has it's roof in the 1680s, but the Turks fortified the Acropolis, using the Parthenon to store their gunpowder. The Venetians found this far too convenient and targeted it. Thanks Turkey! Thanks Venice! You're why we can't have nice things... There is a good chance it would still have it's roof today... assuming it would not all have been moved to The British Museum. :(

Do videos on chola dynasty and Rajendra Chola and his southeast Asia campaign

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9:13 plz tell me the name of this painting, it's such an amazing example of Mediterranean fauna. :) btw an amazing video, my number 2 spot would have gone to..... temple of Concordia

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A lot of these buildings have been reconstructed, like the buildings in the Roman Forum... The arch of Titus being a prime example. Same thing with Greek ones.

Something you should check out is the Temple at Memphis Tennessee they have a Temple complete copy of the one in Athens with the statue of Athen in it, all built to scale.

6:26 do you mean to imply that they were used in an interior before this monument? If so what building?

Laughter is the best medicine. 😶👍

I suggest you when you make a video containing Greek names or words, make a Google search for these words written in Greek. Copy - paste them one by one in Google Translate (choose Greek) and hit the speaker button to listen the correct pronunciation. Χορηγοί to karagi is a terrible pronunciation. It sounds Japanese :D :P

The productions at the out door theatre would have helped those who conditions, were made worse by distress, keep calm and happy, so although it could cure diseases like arthritis and heart disease, it would have helped the sufferers to cope better.

Places to visit ... in AC: Odyssey.

There a 1:1 model of the Parthenon in Nashville TN.

I see, I click.

How were the ancients able to pull off such grand feats

The stadium at 1:18 is the one at Epidaurus, the one at Olympia is this one : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium_at_Olympia Otherwise nice video.

"in the 1600s"!!! Not bad, barely THREE centuries away!...

More than 20 years ago I went stealthy (forbidden entry) inside the Theater of Perge and I was struck by its level of preservation: every canonic element was still there waiting to get a good restoration ( it was dangerous indeed to walk on its terraces): what a vision! I couldn't find much information about it, and I had no camera with me,but I m almost sure it was a Roman construction, not Greek. Anyway, if anybody knows something about it, which is much more interesting than the neighboring Aspendos one, still in use ( dreadful concrete fixings: that's what I remember of it...) please tell me whatever you know because it was a worthy building for sure.

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I was shocked when I found out parthenon used be a mosque !!

4:35 actually there is just one ancient greek there on the island of Euboea in Eretria that still has it's original ancient stage

I would say that the Temple of Bacchus in the Heliopolis in Lebanon is well preserved.

Herodion theatre in Athens also - very much like Epidaurus. Show a performance there some years ago (the seven upon Thebes). But what about the Panathinaikon stadium ? This one is ancient too. Is n't it ?

it’s weird to think what those building went through

the tower of the winds not ancient enough?

I guess these were the buildings that weren't looted by the British.

Is there something wrong with the sound? Or is it just me. I seems muffled.