History of the city of Syracuse - Part 1
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- Sicily has been a melting pot of civilisations for pretty much all of its histories, due to its strategic spot in the centre of the Mediterranean, being a vital stepping stone between Africa and Italy. This was the case during the early years of civilisation in the region, with the island essentially being split into two zones of influences. The portion to the west of the island was dominated by the naval power of Carthage. Whilst to the East the area was under the direct influence of Greek colonies, with the principle Greek colony being located on the tip of this area. This is the history of the great city-state of Syracuse.
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Athens had a larger population over 300.000
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Need to manage sound better to loud at points and a clearer mic would help great video though man! hope to see more like them new subscriber
I am still waiting for part 2
It's good to see Sicily get some love. It doesn't get nearly enough of the attention it deserves, considering the amazingly rich history it has.
They would have to unveil the Moorish cannanite moabite roots of the entire are and we all know the want to keep area as Caucasian as possible
@@dayquonalielbey3986 that is full on bullshit.
Go back to your version of history, us sicilians have no space for you here.
@@thecrazydestructoniz u must be a pale skin Sicilian i bet your great gramma kno the truth, so take your version of history since it benefits ur family line which u got from a Moor. U have every idea and u know the truth. Ur mixed with the servants of the Gad or Got Moher of Germany and the Moors who build and re build italy and Sicily and civilied the are. Is it coincidence the renosance the modernized eroupe happend when moors reconquered 🇪🇸 from the Visigoths.
@@thecrazydestructoniz u also must have forgotten how the Phoenician Etruscians Mongol Abasenian empire extentions of Cananite Moabite Empires that ruled all of Asia and Asia minor was ur so called are where pale people like u served Asiatic's in the houses of nobility and and royality if they made to withering old age.
@@thecrazydestructoniz futher moor if its all bullshit tell me why Moorsish coat of arms exist all through Europe which is a "African Queen" Eroupa from which the name derives. Another thing ," if" and im saying "if" ur descendants of Greeks and Romans are u not Etrurian or Etruscian cuz thoses are Moors realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Etruria_the_Etruscans_2.htm
Such an interesting and important city in history yet so often overlooked. Keep up the great work!
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@@Rocinante2300 discord.gg/5ghb3rnDH2
Hello, can you made a video for the Greek colony of Μασσαλία, Massalía? ( modern day Marseille/Marseilles)
(Only the pre-roman era of course...) Also, you have an Interesting channel here, keep up the good work.
I hope he does, Massalia is one of my favourite Greek colonies.
Sebastian Massalia was a Greek Colony? Who says that it was Phoenician?? Nice in France was also a Greek City known as Nikaia from what I can remember!
Sebastian Ok, so Phoenicians may have settled there? Def the “known” Massalia tho of Antiquity was Greek, its well documented in History Literature as well :)
Looked it up, Syracuse was an ancient Norwegian colony founded by Toyotomi Hideoshi on a holiday trip from Babylon.
Flynn Tom Haha, that sounds more correct :) 🤓
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My hometown Syracuse. I was born right on the island of Ortigia
Vivi ancore qua ?
Pure io sono nata a Siracusa
No vivo negli USA 🇺🇸
Great, visited Origia in Summer 2017 :) Lovely place.
Scipio africanus lived there for some time!
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Glad to see you back man! Great music, great animation and great voice over - did you hire someone to do it for you? It feels so professional.
Hey Barris! And Alex is an old friend of the channel, he narrated quite a few of the old videos, we started talking again about a bigger project for Ancient History Guy, and it sort of morphed into him doing the voiceovers again :)
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I love your vids although your channel seems to always have beef with dialogue. It's not too quiet anymore but the distortion and sibilance is quite an ear sore. Get a bit the old dynamic compression, gain fiddling and putting the mic off axis will help. Keep up the good work!
Great video, looking forward to the next!
I need part 2!! Is not the first history channel I find, but I really like your style, I'm glad I found your channel. God bless, you will have more subs 😇😎
Many thanks for all of your outstanding documentation on many topics of the Ancient.
Your style is unique and the details provided is astonishing.
Whoever disliked dosen't have historical taste
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Major crime that you dont have more subs!
italian - greek blood
Highly unknown and under rated city state. Yet one of the most powerful
I go there tommorow on a tour. I'm from Australia, interesting that you mention name Tasmania in your video.
I just discovered this channel, keep up the good work!
Lots of potential here!
I actually thought you had like 100k subs at least your quality is amazing !
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Great video! Can't wait for part 2.
Could you cover the history of Cyprus some time too?
Hey! Hope you are doing well - been a while since the last video: I understand that you must have other things than just the channel, but please make more videos when you have time. Congratulations for getting over 10,000 subscribers : )
I didn't even know about the existence of Syracuse. Awesome video. Learnt a lot.
Love your content awesome vid!
Thank you!
Who lives in Syracuse NY?
I do
I do
i live in Syracuse, sicily :)
Me
For my whole 23 years of life up until a week ago when finally moved out of its trash hole place, it was home but gotta admit only part of the city that dosent look like a dump is the university hill area lol
I love these videos, i hope you keep making them ancient history guy
Thank you for the explanation.
Kindly also note that the nearby Maltese islands were Phoenician and eventually Carthaginian :)
(Thus the Maltese archipelago also needs to be indicated as Carthaginian territory on the shown map)
Thanks again,
Ryan Grech
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Man you have a surprisingly low amount of subs considering the quality of your vids, keep it up and you'll get there!
Hello to Italians cousines from Greece.
Happy to see that your back! 😊
Hey, Quill good to be back! :D
Glad your back, look forward to more.
I love Syracuse! Make another video!!!
Great video man, could you do ephesus ?
Lovely animations on a fascinating subject!
Thankyou! I tried to push my animating a little bit in this video :)
@@AncientHistoryGuy Successfull, on land as on sea!
Can you please do the Greek Colony of Massalia in southern Gaul. How did their military operate, what Wars did they participate it. Did they trade with the Gauls, Carthage, Rome, and other Greek city states?
Amazing
Who does your animations?
Great work
y'all should cover crete and cretan archers
What's that symbol on the shields mean? The one on Syracuses hoplites shields.
Great video!~!~!
Hi, how's it going ? Would you be interested in doing a short video on the history of either pontus or armenia?
Syrakousai, jewel of Sicily! Can't wait to see you Archimedes and his... Nope, I'm not going to spoil it!
shhhhhh!!!! XD Now i've got to make part two lol, took long enough to release part one! :D
YES Syracuse can you do sardinia too
In 643 bc the syracise found the colony of kasmene ( Κασμέναι ) not tasmania.
Tasmania is in Australia.
do a video on Gela, the main rival of Syracuse in the domination of Sicily
Can you do a video about the structure of a Roman legion?
Little known fact Syracuse is the actual birth place of Democracy not Athens. Will there be a part 2 btw ?
Not really
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So good :)
Yas Syracuse, finally!
Great video part 2?
Oh yeah boiiii finally new episode :D
I eventually got it uploaded XD
@@AncientHistoryGuy XD
Nice video, however you read directly from Wikipedia, without changing the structure or the manner of the narrative.
Verdict:
- Good voice,
- well placed animation,
this could have been much better if the author committed more than 15 min to prepare the body of the text. No value added.
First, of thank you for the compliments, as regards to reading directly off of Wikipedia, that's just not the case, this script has over 800 words, whilst the Wikipedia page until Gelos death has a little over 400 words. Further, you cannot exactly change the structure of events in history, overwise, it wouldn't be historical, things have to be done linearly otherwise it just wouldn't make sense. The script also takes several days to write, with various sources, as shown in the description being regularly researched, not to mention the proofreading process which can sometimes take up to a week. Then on top of that further research needs to be done for the animations, in terms of armour, boats, city structure, maps, trade networks, moving of people, cities, sacking of cities and territories during this timeframe. Again thank you for the compliments and have a nice day! :)
Ancient History Guy, thank you for quick response!
I will provide exact time stamps of items taken directly from Wikipedia: (almost word for word)
- 0:55 to 1:15 - first paragraph of history of Syracuse: Greek Period
- 1:58 to 5:50 - second, third and fourth paragraphs + first sentence of the fifth paragraph history of Syracuse: Greek Period
To summarize, I think it’s a good video, especially the animation. It was wrong of me to say entire thing was from Wikipedia, but I found only 1:38 seconds of the video that didn’t correspond to the Wiki article directly. I would say you provided about a third and definitely not a half outside of wiki.
Also to clarify I don’t think it’s wrong to take from wiki, I just thought you could have made the text you took a bit more engaging, after all oral presentation has the flexibility that written lacks. I never read that article about Syracuse and I went to read it after seeing your video, and to me it just seemed as exact replica.
Furthermore, if you would like to improve the oral story telling, look up some books they are able to breakdown the difference in oral vs written presentation and what points to Accenture to achieve formidable difference in narrative styles.
Great video, just try to improve pronuncianciation of city and people's names. As a Greek I can say that my ears hurt.
Argyrus 47 are u 3000 year old
Erik Matsson are you not aware that Greece still exists, and that ethnic Greeks still exist?
250.000 people? That's so many for ancient standards, also today's Syracuse only have half the population of ancient Syracuse.
+1 sub
I hear a change in your voice?!
Syracuse NY: huh. neat.
Yay!
what about the romans tho. how can u leave that out
Finally
Are you okay man? You haven’t uploaded in months
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I wonder, did Alexander knew of Syracuse? I mean Persia was threat so he focused there but surely he would've liked to have this mediterranean jewel.
Syracuse was a greek colony Alexander would have cared to conquer carthage not Syracuse
@@wankawanka3053 he is an imaginary slav from skopje, he thinks he can discuss about ancient macedonia ....
i thought this was about syracuse ny aHH
Go Orange 🍊
Why does he butcher the name of Syracuse?
just here to learn to make memes.
The Indians owned syracuse, new york back in those days!!!
Those we're moors my friend
@@dayquonalielbey3986 moors or Indians what ever you want to call it! Moors mean black back tha??
Is not Tasmania but kasmenai THE second colonie of Syracuse 😂
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Greek meaning Etruscan
Greeks weren't Etruscans
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Tasmania? Oof
Casmenae* I'm a numpty :D
Athena is not the goddess of warfare...
Goddess of warfare and wisdom hence the depictions of her wearing a corinthians helmet there's a famous tale where she easily beats ares god of war in a duel :)
Amazing