The Riddle of Ancient Sparta: Unwrapping an Enigma - Professor Paul Cartledge

This man is, as he says, a modern western wimpy liberal intellectual who studies Sparta at a far intellectual remove. His politics constantly overshadows a historical lecture. 😊He thinks the world and humanity and reality is somehow different now. He would not defend himself, his neighbors, his culture, or his nation. How far the UK has fallen….

Following a reexcavation of the mound of Vix it is now dated to the La Tène period, slightly after the Hallstatt.

Obviously a very knowledgeable man, but too cocky and up-his-own-backside for my taste.

Why everyone laughed when he told the Spartan joke about “if” when they must know it. I am not a student of any of this by any means but even I knew it.

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

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

“Sensitive, wimpish, western, intellectual“. He said it. I like him but he is studying the most militaristic culture in the ancient world at least have some identification with the subject. .

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.

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Excellent Lecture, thank you very much indeed!

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.

The soviet intro is kinda off. Calling anti communists "extreme capitalists" belies his sympathies and potentially undermines the presentation. Someone with that kind of black and white thinking may be more opinionated than factual.

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

SO
why did the SPARTANS worship the RED HAIR .
what is the connection to ARRATTA or the proto-slavs or the PROTO-CELTS. Alexander the Great from MACENDON and maybe from above TRIBES.

The Map
From LEVI......... what a sham.

SO
WHO has been SKEWING our archeological perception ?
Internally inside these OH SO FAMOUS universities - controlling perception . How is this to be believable IF NO CONNECTION to the proto slav PRE CELTIC arayan A-R-A-T-T-A.

L ' what does this signify.
a false perception.

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! 😆🤪

Him criticizing the 2nd amendment is a lot like a neutered dog saying he wouldn't know what to do with balls anyway

Such a wonderful presentation! Thank you.

translating helots with slavesis very poor and.... agglosaxonic.

Great lecture. Thank you.

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.

Ugh, his speech pattern is unbearable.

Bethany Hughes is much better on the extraordinary nature of Sparta. Cartledge has a blind spot. It is women of Sparta & their unique the shed the brightest light. This gap is glaring in his book too. Literally dedicates a handful of pages.

MEN with this 'Sparta' attitude have ruled over the 'civilized' world my whole life & lives of countless generations before me. men who solve social problems with violence are the nitemare not the dream of MOTHERS

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the real spartans were small in build with broad shoulders and slim what sets them apart is they had almost incredible powers of endurance

he is talking rubbish

They weren’t quasi slaves. They were slaves. Sparta was a bad place.

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

Oreos o Professor-os

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

Are you talkin about Sparta
Or Imperial Russia.
What did the English colonist do,that they never teach in schools and colleges!Shame Mr Churchill,!

Spare your time--No enigma is unwrapped in this lecture. Should be called 'Sparta for dummies'. The most basic facts are given, like the geographical description of Sparta, or the Greek custom of mixing wine with water, or Athena being born from Zeus' head... An hour's lecture from a professor... Jeez.

This is an interesting subject to me but I cannot stand the smarminess in the presenters voice. After about a minute I was done. Unfortunately.
The way he said Sir Winston Churchill pretty well did it in for me

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

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

This was an absolute joy.

Very gifted speaker and I look forward to reading some of his work.

Thank you for this upload☺

Lot of the Hellenes were obsessed with correcting the common flaws of youth,this is the birth of mentor,the origin of pederasty

After listening to this guy I wanna shoot myself what a pompous fool

You are wrong, if you blatantly murdered an Afghani as a Soldier in the US military you would be tried and sent to jail, I assure you. However if you are a president and drone strike Afghanis, you’re apparently exempt to the law.

For an intellectual there’s twice in this lecture you have not known what you were speaking about.

"I'm a wimpish liberal western intellectual" Exactly. You exist on the back of real men. You are correct in your assertion "what do I know". The answer is that you know very little about the real world.

lol

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

1.25x speed is actually better.

Astounding how a highly informed historian, steeped in endless saga of human depredation on the weak, still feels the need ignorantly to disparage American's adherence to the 2nd amendment. Yes...this guy is a wimpy intellectual, (his words) and moreover a fool.

Trusting what any white liberal professors say about ancient populations is rather silly. They don't understand societies not based on equality lies.