Where are you from? From Kalamata?

Greeks never overeat?! Dunno what type of greek u are then you have never been to a souvla 🤣🤣

Most overweight poulation in Europe… I understand it though, as I love greek food!

Greek food is so fresh and delicious. But I’ll disagree with the size of Greeks, I saw some overweight Greeks on my trips to Greece.

@@pfranks75 too many of em actually!

Macedonia are ONLY greek the others is vardarska

That's the childhood I wish I had. Cheers mate.

Why did you hunt snakes? Were they for food or did people want to rid them out of danger?

@@user-gf3bw1gf2b you actually typify why macedonians are less greek (and look up vardaska you dont know what you are talking about)whilst you go on about domination the universally admired greeks gave the world the basis of modern civilsation unlike the macedonians and spartans who were merely warlike

Do you guys still do the buggery thing? Eating ass?

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Italy is similar.

In mainland the last 80 years it is not,

Heaven..

As an Albanian i can tell that ours is the same

@@denissaliaj9459 naturally.the climate is almost the same,colder in the northern regions,neigborous for a long time.so the basic ingredients of 5he food is the same

@@tassiek2450 exactly. Also food is the easiest aspect of a culture to be shared also with neighbours. While i studies greek mythology i found many similiarities with the "diet of the village" that our grandpas ate.

@@denissaliaj9459 if you read the ancients historianswork,you will see that the historian Thukidides writes that a thousand years before Greeks and Thracians had the roughly the same traditions.food stuffs I reckon were similar and cooking dependent on region and availability

@@tassiek2450 of course. Also we share a lot of cultural aspects as historical neighbours

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Are you a CEO or something? Who can afford the time and money to make all that in the morning?? I can't even spare 30mins for tea

@@BichaelStevens That does sound a huge, time consuming breakfast, but it sure made me hungry reading about it.

olive oil, rice, and beans are not native to europe

@@krono5el olive oil is not native to Europe? What are u talking about ?( The others yes)

Very good!

Very interesting!

Trees were also used to build ships and houses.

your idea is definitely correct. it's massively easier to make charcoal than to mine anything.

That’s a cool tidbit of knowledge!

A lot of trees where clear cut to make way for agriculture anyway, so it’s probably best they at least recycled them to smelt.

Thank you for your kind words and I am sorry about the late reply. I am glad you enjoyed the video!

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Thank you kindly!

Peanuts of course, but they went to Europe later.

​@@fenrirgg True that. I admit to enjoying nuts and seeds on a daily basis because I bake them into my bread, and what would a sandwich made from that bread be without a spread of peanut butter? Lacking says I.

Beans in Ancient Greek?

​@@aa-vk6hd Yes, beans. You know. Those things accountants count? *"Ancient Greek cuisine,"* Wikipedia (not my ordinary go to source for information but beans and pulses haven't been politicized yet, have they?): Black beans, Broad beans, Chickpeas, Lupine beans, Lentils, Garden peas, etc.

@@aa-vk6hd Beans are a gift of the Americas, as far as I know. But the ancient world knew Fava or broadbeans.

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yes very interesting .... with your "roman" agora ...what more ?

all the planet know the roman world ...... agora .... bastards

Alexander the Great and his soldiers were eating sea buckthorn (among other things).

I was eating crunchy chickpeas as I read your comment.

Baklava is Turkish and it's a dessert

Baklava is Greek and evolved from the placenta cake. There are clear predecessors to baklava in Greek cuisine, none of which is found in Turkish cuisine. Ottoman =/= Turkish, especially when the majority of Ottoman citizens were of Greek heritage.

@@HOPEfullBoi01 you shouldn't say such things to a greek patriot. lol.

@@user-lu5uh7zz5w That's simply incorrect. It doesn't even come from western Anatolia. It's from the south.

My partner is Macedonian. I only know small words like yes or no. Could. I prefer. Thank you.

peppers, potatoes, and olive oil, are not native to europe. those are other people traditional foods adopted by europe.

@@krono5el that's what I said potatoes is very recent add to the Greek cuisine after 1800 About peppers yes obviously came later as well maybe middle ages after to the region. About olive oil and olives is traditional to the Greeks idk if it's to other civilizations as well aroud the Mediterranean I guess they produced too that's not mean is not native to us the most ancient olive trees existing in Greece currently and still produce olive oil more than 2k/ 3k y.o And archeologically was the first product Greeks used to trade in Mediterranean sea and wine. Also considered as smth sacred For the Greeks connected to our paganistic religion.

@@christine5839 right on. yeah i know wine is def european.

We also added regular doses of gyros, burgers, pizza and everything fried in our diet.

Thank you. I'm glad to hear that!

Great idea! I actually already have a number of videos in the making so I can't do it in the near future but I definitely will eventually.

Ancient Rome also O think took and ate the fish sauce called Garos.

It was however part of diet. And we still do it in the Greek church.

Same in the tropics: a hot season, a very hot season and a sh*t hot season! 😂

@@TheSamuiman yes, ive been to the tropics multiple times. But only during the dry season and it is too hot, but to the people there its fine, its the humid season thats bad for them. I can't imagine how that feels when the dry season is too much for me 😰

Go to 20:50. He did mention spelt flour.

@@7A54G8 Ok, he did. I was thinking about bread. Thanks!

For a few decades now, in historiography, there are more and more studies made to put the average citizens back in the spotlight after so many decades of mostly political and largely focused on leaders.

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Looking for pics of bobs and vageen dude?

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Why do you think we never see any fat people in ancient Greek pottery and sculptures?

​@@rennor3498 because fat people weren't considered as beautiful? I mean, if you want to draw someone on your potteries, you would choose someone that you consider as beautiful, not an ugly person.

@@subliminalfalllenangel2108 First of all, societies back then where much more warlike and placed emphasis on the human's fitness and ability to look well, because a good body represented efficiency in combat or more physical beauty. The scenes in pottery functioned as form of ancient propaganda and as an inspirastion for how society would desire a man and a women to look like.

Everyone ate a better diet in those days

@@rennor3498 you spoke of it as if it was a bad thing.

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Thank you my friend!

Thank you. :)

Thank you very much, I'm glad you liked it! :)

Thank you kindly! You're the first one to comment about the quote. :)

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Thanks!

Thank you!

That's great to hear, I'm glad I could help! :)

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!

Hmm. I did not know that fact about beech nuts. No wonder you dont find them in stores

Homer wrote in the Iliad that the Iliad (8th century BCE) about beans and chickpeas

@@simonsays6557 Yes, but those were Fava Beans, also known as Broadbeans.

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Thank you very much for your kind words! I plan to cover the history of many ancient cultures from Western Europe to the Balkans and Anatolia, including the Thracians. I am afraid though that I will not make a video about the Thracians in the near future, as I have already plans for the next 6-8 videos. I think that I will cover this subject once we reach the classical period in the Ancient Greek series. Once we reach this point I do want to make a video both about the Thracians and their connection with the ancient Greeks. I appreciate your support!

What about Thracians. Are you one of them? I believe you are Slav. What is the connection you search?

Thrakians were also greeks

In Greek Mythology According, there was a ancestor named Thrace who was the son of the god of war Mars. The god Mars was said to have lived in Thrace. In another version and according to Euripides (in his work The Thracians the Golden Shields) he mentions that the name of Mars was Thrace, who was the protector of the Thracians and whose golden shield was kept in his temple in Vistonida of Thrace. In Greek mythology, Thrace was the daughter of Oceanus and the Parthenope, the sister of Europe. The Thracians appear in Homer's Iliad as allies of the Trojans led by Akamas and Piro or Pyrrhus. Later in the Iliad, another king appeared, Risos, who was killed after a night raid by Diomedes and Odysseus on the Trojan camp. Another mythological king of the Thracians was Kisseus, who lived in what was then western Thrace and later Macedonia, who was the father of the Trojan elder Antinor. It should be noted here that Homeric Thrace extended to the Axios River to the west, the Hellespont and the Black Sea to the east. It extended north to present-day Serbia and the whole of Bulgaria. Greek mythology is full of Thracian kings such as: Diomedes of Thrace, Tireas, Lycurgus, Phineas, Evmolpos, Polymnistor, Oiagros (father of Orpheus) and others. Also, the tribe that Homer called Thrace included many tribes, because ancient Thrace was a place of residence of tribes such as the Idonians who lived in the area between the rivers Strymon and Nestos, the Visalts who lived in the area between the rivers Axios and Strymon, the Kikones area of ​​today's Rodopi, the Vistones, the Doviers, the Mygdons, the Satrai, the Absinthe and many others.adjectives, theonyms, toponyms with very Greek names, so we do not need to say to which ethnicity they belong ...

Thank you very much! It is a painting of an ancient port by Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé.

@@historicaladventurevideos thank YOU for the great content! do keep it up

Thank you! I really appreciate it. I have thought about that, but when I did a poll on my Instagram, most of the people voted in favour of the music. Maybe I will do a KZfaq poll later on when I reach a greater number of subscribers.

The music enhances the video. Always include it it please

@@demetridongas2554 I will keep that in mind, thank you for the feedback. :)

The music is not that bad, it is a bit too loud as well as the lecturer's stressed syllabs that turn the remaining into barely intelligible. Otherwise, very interresting. I apologize for my harshness in criticism, it would take too much time to praise the good work so, I chose the shorter way :))))

@@robertnortan87 No worries, any feedback is appreciated! I always try to balance the music, but can't seem to get it right in most of my videos, many times it turns out to be too loud or too quiet. As for your comments about the lecturer, if the channel becomes more successful, than we will probably consider a more professional narration. Thank you for your kind words. :)

Thank you!

Thank you! I get various comments about the music, some are in favour of adding music in my videos while others are against. I've tried to lower the volume in my most recent videos, however I always add my own subtitles, in order for people to listen to what I'm saying, in case the music is too loud.

Thank you! Yes of course, it is a song called 'Taksim' by Feras Charestan. You can find it on the Epidemic music's channel.

Yes, sadly I can only post copyright-free images so this really restricts the choices I have for the visuals of my videos.

It does indeed require a lot of work. I don't really mind such comments, except when someone clearly misinterprets something I said and/or showed in the video or just plainly insults me for no reason :P . Otherwise some comments are on the side of constructive criticism, which is good. I always appreciate when someone really enjoys the video and finds it interesting. Thank you for your kind words! :)

I also love goat cheese, it's so versatile and flavorful. Can be used in dessert or snack or dinner. goes well with hummus is very important.