I am a consumate youtube surfer, always on the lookout for educational improvement. Sometimes I get lucky and find something that is not just educational, but thoroughly entertaining, but sadly my searches are mostly fruitless. I'm happy to say that this was well worth sifting through the chaff to get to the wheat with the additional bonus of being highly entertaining.

Excellent presentation from someone who seems passionate about Ancient Greece and also knowledgeable on Modern Greece

He hardly referred to notes. This guy really knows his stuff. Such was his delivery that I could happily have listened to him all evening!

My favorite Spartan exclamation at Thermopylae is this. Upon hearing Xerxes's boast that his archers would make the sky dark with arrows, Leonidas responded: "We'll fight in the dark then."

What a brilliant man, excellent video. I thoroughly enjoyed this.

thank you to prof Paul Cartledge for a great presentation about Spartan history..

Great lecturer and an excellent lecture. Much obliged.

I was told I was Laconic once. I took it as a compliment. Teacher said it wasn't a compliment. It was.

Thank you so much. I've read a lot about the Peloponnesian War but I learned so much from this excellent presentation!

Can't remember the name of the historian but he wrote something which I have always found very interesting in regards to the Spartans (words to this effect) "....I can't SEE these people. I can read ancient Greek and I've read all the sources. But. I can't visualise, can't imagine these people. I envisage a cross between various people's....."

I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation interlaced with the rare dry humor.

I've seen the shield at 51:46 in the Agora museum in Athens. Rather than one of the captives, I like to imagine its the shield of Brasidas, a Spartan general, who according to Thucydides, dropped his shield when he fell, severely wounded during the battle. He was carried back to a ship, recovered and went on to have a ridiculously storied military career during the Peloponnesian War, roving around the place liberating cities that had been conquered by the Athenians. There's no actual evidence it's his shield, but it's not completely impossible, so it's a fun daydream.

An enjoyable lecture. More on the Helots will be interesting.

"I went to Oxford for my doctorate... We all make mistakes!" I died 😂😂😂😂

Great talk. Thank you!

I enjoy the academic value in the Gresham presentations ... and just as great to me is the very good strong volume, enough to overcome the most annoying weakness of this decade old laptop. :)

Churchill had taken that phrase from Lord Palmerston who used it in connection with the Schleswig Holstein, then part of Denmark.

Such a wonderful presentation! Thank you.

Nice presentation. A lot of basic info I'd heard before, but the bits on the geography of the southern Peloponnese, boar hunting excusing a Spartan from the mess, and on Menelaus' palace were new to me and very interesting.

I didn’t think 🤔 I would sit through the entire lecture... But I did, very interesting. Thanks.

Enjoyed your lecture

I was definitely listening. Thank you!

Thank you. I grew up in East Lansing Mi. Home of Michigan State University their mascot is the Spartans.

The Gift of Communication... great presentation..

A great lecture and talk.

Splendid talk. Nicely done.

Great lecture, lively and explained well. The Spartans inspired me to write a story ´Spartan School´of many episodes some years ago for a girls´comic ´Tammy´and it was very popular. The Spartans have always fascinated us.

Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏼

I went to the little Museum in Charillon Sur Sein. I was told that it was a copy. Wow. I didn't know it was greek.

Excellent Lecture, thank you very much indeed!

Great lecture. Thank you.

There are many examples in Iliad ,where the heroes fought on moving chariots , throwing spears and arrows and other ,where the chariots where used as taxis.Mainly to transport a character fast to a duel with a significant enemy

Was that all over the shop or it's only me?

This the most AI sounding title I have ever seen that is 100% not AI, well done, love the channel

Thank you.

Without any real knowledge, I’m fascinated by your talk, your voice makes whatever you say interesting and I thank you.

The demand and the answer will always be the same.

Who were the two who survived Thermopylae? Surely we have some idea, no? Thoroughly enjoying the Gresham channel and the rabbit-holes it sets me down! 😆🤪

Brilliant

8:05 rent free

Academic roundabout ultimately adding not much to our understanding of Sparta. ‘Then we’ll fight in the dark’ is the best quote he didn’t mention.

an interesting talk. also a masterclass in digressions.

Excellent lecture and presentation. Full of detailed information and yet easy for the audience to follow. Brilliant and I fully enjoyed it.

Ancient Greece is utterly NOT my thing..... ....but I sat through this from start to finish. Interesting!!

nice talk

Great presentation, thank you for sharing this. Chris

Second Amendment A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a FREE STATE, the right of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

11:20 looks like an Image of Orion the beard on the older man pharaonic

How did Greek Simonides poems Rhyme in English ie "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie."?

This was an absolute joy. Very gifted speaker and I look forward to reading some of his work. Thank you for this upload☺

Who is that Rasha he keeps talking about?

A movie needs to be made about all this.

I very much enjoyed Professor Cartledge's lecture on this always fascinating topic. And, indeed, very many of us in the United States feel that an armed citizenry as a counterweight to political tyranny has not lost its relevance.

I’m the benefit of your free educational lectures and how lucky I am. But no one benefits from watching the speaker when a slide is up, especially if the speaker is pointing to something. My eyes are no young and even on full screen I cannot read the names on a map if the screen shows half with speaker in it. I’m sure this speaker notably would. Ot care to have his image shown if his material cannot fully be appreciated because the slide image is so small. I beg all the academic institutions (and art galleries, etc) who offer these wonderful lectures to p,ease have the camera show the slide full screen, even if only when the lecturer is referring or pointing to it. Please! Thanks. 💕🐝

Εφιάλτης-Efialtis in Greek word have also other meaning... nightmare !

The tuna appearing on the funerary urn relates to the speed with which they are renowned this characteristic representing the hunters superior ability, the bird also depicting agility.Oversized male genitalia symbolises virility, that capability to Foster and propogate an enduring genetic line.

my neck hurt watching his neck sit like that for so long

TIL the leonidas statue is amish. the war on mustaches goes back 2500 years

Molon labe the most gangster responses in history 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 long live greece ✊🏼

Can’t help remembering the Merican hero Hoplite Cassidy.

Re the chalice painting...it could be a father and son. New evidence has been found of a Spartan father coaching his son in wrestling and accompanying his son to tournaments. This was at a lecture I attended. The lecturer also pointed out that what we know is largely from sparta's rivals. He also mentioned a spartan king born with a clubbed foot. Hmmm infanticide? They must have missed that one.

Excellent and entertaining lecture. Doesn’t really solve the riddle of Sparta, but the Professor probably did not write the thumbnail!

You don't need to be an extreme capitalist or libertarian to empirically note the deprivation of freedom and agency in Russia or be leery of global implications following the Soviet takeover.

Every time I see a English documentary I can't help but thinking of montypython

The type of Englishman who talks in a whiny voice about getting his doctorate at Oxford is absolutely my cup of tea

0:50 That is right It is also why the reasons for the Peleponaian War had been so much anayst by Historians to find ways to defuse the threat of an Antomic Bomb attack in the Cold War.

Very funny!❤

Enlightening presentation. I have a lot of respect for Professor Cartledge, but he doesn’t seem to understand that without the individual’s right to bear arms we wouldn’t have had the minutemen militias necessary to send the British back across the pond

Well, I should try to say something erudite, but guess I shall reveal my true female/helot nature: "Awesome, Dude!"

Anecdotically interesting, doesn’t measure up to its title however. Looks like it was tailor-made for the american lecture circuit. Talking of dispersion (diaspora)… But it doesn’t detract from the speaker’s talent and competence.

What college is that?......any of the students there can find Sparta on a map?

Are you sure that isn't Trojan headgear ??? Some alleged "university" "U"SC seems convinced that is Trojan headgear.

As a historian it might interest you to know that at the time of the writing of the US constitution, all men were considered members of the militia. The idea of a militia being a specific group was not codified in the US until 1903. Thus at the time of writing, the distinction of being an official member of a militia was irrelevant, making the right to private ownership of arms universal among all American households. US laws are not allowed to curtail rights granted by the constitution without formal amendment, thus the militia act of 1903 has no effect in the universality of the right, even if congress formally changed the definition of militia.

Chain of command

Would be interesting to hear a lecture on the class system in present day England. From what I read on the matter, elite universities in UK, are deliberately built in poor regions; so that the upcoming elite class feel like it as well as they react to their surroundings. And the surroundings are usually poor underclass working people who have zero chance to enter those elite schools.

my counselor: where do you see yourself in ten years’ time? me: a wimpy, liberal intellectual

Bismarck Richelieu Yamato

A little correction just to clarify those mirages. They are not unreal but quite vary basic facts of optics. The stick in the water appears to be bent at a certain point and that point is on the surface of the water in the glass. That happens because of the refraction of the light beams through which we see the portion imersed in water. Those light beams have to cross a few boundaries of materials with different densities: water, glass and air as oppose to the light beams coming from the unimersed portion of the stick which travel to our eyes only through air. The second mirage is a phenomenon of interference. A light beam can be seen as a line of photons vibrating in random directions in a plane normal to the light beam. At certain angles of incidence, the reflected beams contain only some of the photons, the rest being absorbed by the reflection suface because they vibrated in directions not parallel to the reflection surface. So, there are no mirages here, just optics.

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The word nightmare in modern Greek is "efialtis" (ΕΦΙΑΛΤΗΣ) which is the name of the man who betrayed Leonidas and his 300 men in Thermopylae. His treason was never forgotten

I got through 30 minutes of this posh windbaggery and didn't learn anything I didn't know from my grade 12 history class 25 years ago. This "chap" could learn a bit from laconic speech

what a tortured analogy between the soviet experiment and ancient Sparta

High velocity rifles....LOL...not sure if that is a boar either, but anyway

Socrates an Athenian hated democracy as it was so perfidious.

Scottish roads have produced lakes of imaginary water. You prove it by listening to the engine note. Slightly off load going into it and on load again coming up but no water sound.

I might be chattin nonsense but this guy speaks like an English Werner Herzog

Most entertaining.

Oreos o Professor-os

Another example of a professor/well educated person talking nonsense due to lack of actual experience. Wild boars are hunted Europe wide, and traditionally in various ways, often to provide 'sport' with associated risk, but for meat hunting it is (was) mainly with traps, or with a bow. One clean shot to the heart and the animal will be down in seconds and not pose a danger, and this is done with the hunter's skill in getting close to the animal in order to get a short range (and thus more definite) shot in, usually, and sometimes with dogs to distract the animal, strategically or tactically.

I wouldn’t put too much stock in what Cartledge says. In another lecture he makes the disastrous error of claiming Athens lost the battles of Pylos/Sphacteria to the Spartans. At the risk of sounding ageist, at some point these old scholars need to exit the lecture circuit while they still have the mental capacity to get the basic facts correct. It’s saddening to see scholars beclown themselves at the twilight of their careers.

Women in Sparta had more freedoms then the women in Anthens. This is a fact. Women were treated terribly in Anthens.

You can see in youtube: (the exterminator of ancient Sparta).

For Churchill, the russian events were of course neither a riddle nor enigma. He spelled it out in a newspaper article 1917.

1.25x speed is actually better.

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Can't bear arms if convicted of a felony or certain domestic violence misdemeanors, or under court order for certain mental illnesses. Must pass a background check, have a waiting period, obtain a gun license, usually must pass a safety course, and many other restrictions exist for firearm possession in the USA. I don't like guns either, but please research the US system before commenting about it.

Winston Churchill was not hesitant to ally with the Soviets in World War II out of mere prejudice. Prior to Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Soviets and Nazis were bedfellows. The Soviets cooperated and celebrated the invasion of Poland. They invaded Finland, Lithuania and Estonia. They stood by and watched France, Belgium and Holland fall to the Nazis while Britain fought for its life. They do not lift a finger, yet when they themselves were invaded they begged for that front to be reopened. So Churchill’s position on the Soviets was based on sound geo-strategic concerns, their duplicity and militant expansionism, not just his own political views. It is a bit ingenuous to not mention the geo-strategic issues.

Rambling and chaotic.

Sparta made a decision over time but executed in one day enslaving a part of their own race, HELOTS, by the warrior class; it was a deliberate decision by council; if you have the strength, prowess, members, organization you can enforce by dispersion of the helots the domination of the the Spartan ELite Warrior class.

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