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Adzugati69, so did ancient Greeks really just walk around naked all the time?

Or are the people who made those statues and paintings just super horny?

The Greeks did not walk around naked all the time.

But the one time that it was socially acceptable to be nude in public was when we're working out in a gym.

And in fact, that comes from a good Greek word, gymnasion, literally the nude place.

So they're not enthusiasts for public nudity by any stretch of the imagination.

Really fit bodies were a sign of being sound of character.

Like you were a good moral person if you were in really good physical condition.

And you wanted to see their body so you could tell that they were in great physical shape so they needed to be nude.

At BitesizeDancy1, how accurate is the movie 300?

The movie 300 is pretty accurate in a lot of ways.

A lot of it's embellishment, but there are some things which are pretty much right on the mark.

The film is based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller.

The single most famous scene, the Persian ambassador comes to Sparta and asks for earth and water.

The Spartans did throw the ambassador in a well.

There are Spartan boys being sent out into the wilderness on their own with very little equipment.

Spartans had conquered a big swath of territory around Sparta and enslaved the local inhabitants who were called Helots.

The Helots were understandably very upset about this and were a constant security threat to the Spartans.

The Spartans had something called the Krypteia.

It seems like the secret thing where boys were sent out into the countryside.

Their goal was to go terrorize the Helots.

The movie 300 tends to glorify the Spartans and tell the really positive side of the story about how brave and well-trained they were, what great soldiers they were.

It doesn't tell the story of the regular oppression and violence that the Spartans used to control the Helots.

Adgeo Honcho, if Alexander the Great was so great, why did he die at 32?

I'm not sure we can make fun of him for dying at age 32.

He didn't have a lot of choice in the matter.

Alexander started fighting in major battles very early around age 16.

By the time he was 32, he had been wounded at least a dozen times.

So he wasn't like he was in great shape physically.

He had been fairly beaten up over the course of his relatively short lifetime.

Alexander spent a lot of time doing a lot of heavy drinking.

Alexander had been drinking heavily for the previous three or four days.

And if you combine that with the malaria, you can see why he might've died young.

Ad by Brandon White wants to know, was there a huge outdoor statue of Athena in the ancient Greek Acropolis like in Assassin's Creed?

This clip is actually a really good reconstruction of the Acropolis around say like 440 BCE.

The Acropolis was a big rock in the middle of the city where the major religious sanctuaries were.

On top of that rock was a huge bronze statue that had been made by the sculptor Phidias showing Athena.

This statue was called the Athena Promachos, battle-ready Athena.

We can see on the left side, one of the temples called the Erechtheion and on the right side, the Parthenon.

We have this idea sometimes that Greek temples were all pure white, but we actually know that's not true.

They used a special wax-based paint, especially bright blue and bright red.

The reason why we might think these temples are white is that most of the paint has flaked off.

At existentialcoms asks, actually, according to the ancient Greeks who invented Western civilization, everyone should fuck each other all the time.

So Greeks were very big on being married.

So the assumption was that every adult, male or female, would be married.

That doesn't mean that you only had sex with the person to whom you were married.

So especially for men, also had an active sexual life in addition to that.

The Greeks were very open to same-sex relationships.

So for them, the best form of same-sex relationship among men involved an older man who was married and had a family with a teenage boy, which we would consider to be a felony, but the Greeks thought was a good idea because the older male would serve as a mentor for the younger male in the relationship.

It was perfectly acceptable, at least in some times and places in the Greek world, for a married woman to have a sexual relationship with a teenage girl.

And we have some poetry written by a woman named Sappho with two women expressing their sexual desire for each other.

At AndyDoodle56, so why am I being assigned to read some long-ass poem written by the dad from the Simpsons?

The dad from the Simpsons is Homer Simpson.

And so what we're thinking about here is Homer.

Homer was a very famous Greek poet around 700 BCE.

And he wrote two very long poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

The Iliad's a story about war, but really telling the story of Achilles, who's the big hero in the poem.

Achilles knows that he has very short time to live.

And he spends a lot of time thinking, like if you know you're going to die, what is worth living for?

That's a big question pretty much every human being has to face.

And Homer in the Iliad tries to give you some answers.

The Odyssey is about someone named Odysseus coming home from war.

And what is it like to come home from a war and try to reestablish your family life?

At one point, a goddess offers to make him immortal as long as he stays with her.

And Odysseus says, listen, I gotta go home.

I have to be home, even if it costs me my life.

The reason your teachers are gonna sign these things in part is because they're really important documents about how ancient Greeks thought and saw the world, but also because they're asking us important questions and encouraging us to think about things that you're going to have to think about at some point sooner or later.

At Golden Yofa asks, what's worse, the fact that my draft folder was deleted or the burning of the library of Alexandria?

What's in your draft folder would be a great question.

Maybe there's something really profound in there that the world is now gonna miss and can't be reproduced.

Alexander the Great conquered big stretches of territory, including Egypt, 200 or 300,000 Greeks emigrated.

They were worried about losing their Greek culture.

So they built a big Greek cultural center in Alexandria in Egypt.

And part of that cultural center was a big, very famous library, which eventually was destroyed.

There's a lot of stories that the library of Alexandria burned down at some point.

The modern scholarship now thinks that the library never really got burnt.

It just sort of fell apart over the course of time because it wasn't properly maintained.

The exact details are not very well known, but it collected a huge number of very valuable books.

So I'm gonna guess that the library of Alexandria collectively was probably more important than your draft folder.

At Wilster asks, why did the ancient Greeks place a coin in the mouth of those who died?

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