Professor of Ancient Greek History Paul Christesen joins WIRED to answer your questions from Twitter. What do we know about the original Olympics? How did Ancient Greece elect leaders? Is the film ‘300’ accurate? Was there a huge outdoor statue of Athena in Acropolis as in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey? What exactly did we lose when the Library of Alexandria burned? Why did ancient Greeks place a coin in the mouth of the recently decesased? These questions and plenty more are answered today on Ancient Greece Support.
0:00 Ancient Greek Support
0:12 Did Ancient Greeks wear clothes?
0:54 Accuracy of ‘300’
2:06 Death of Alexander The Great
2:57 Athena Statue from Assassin’s Creed
3:54 Ancient Freeks
5:02 Not That Homer
6:16 The Burning of the Library of Alexandria
7:10 Coin in the mouth?
7:35 Best philosopher
8:16 How Ancient Greece elected leaders
10:09 The original Olympics
11:35 Ancient Greek inventions
12:32 Ancient Greek entertainment
13:28 Did anyone check on the gods or….?
14:51 Origins of Ancient Greece
16:37 Did Greece have an empire?
17:27 When was the ‘Golden Age’ of Ancient Greece?
18:28 Ancient Greek diet
18:53 Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
19:27 Origins of Ostracism
20:18 What do Greek columns represent?
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