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- ▶ 16:33 Shane Parrish He finishes his trip around the world, and at the Acropolis in Athens, he stops in front of the temple of Athena Nike.
Aristotle Koskinas on Greek History
- ▶ 4:59 Aristotle Koskinas It's not that interesting for me to do that, because you can find a place to take yourself, there are plenty of opportunities in the city to take yourself as, now you cannot see it, the audience cannot see that, but wherever you have, you…
- ▶ 8:00 Aristotle Koskinas Well, we have to go back to the fourth, uh, millennium, about 3400, uh, BC, when the, we have the first inhabitants, uh, who settled on the Acropolis and in the surrounding plain, and from, since that time, the city has a continuous… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:34 Aristotle Koskinas Although Athens suffered a lot during the War of Independence, especially between 1826 and 18 27, uh, the Greeks, uh, were in possession of the Acropolis, which was a castle, always the Acropolis. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:12 Aristotle Koskinas And when later Alexander, he had his first victory against the Persians, he dedicated the 300 suits of armor, which were made of gold, that were dedicated on the Acropolis here in Athens,
- ▶ 52:16 Aristotle Koskinas They know the, uh, of the Acropolis, maybe Mycenaean, which is the late Bronze Age citadel, because it's related to Troy, but, uh, the modern history of Greece, it's, what happened here in the Second World War, what happened after the…
- ▶ 54:05 Aristotle Koskinas I had a tour on the Acropolis, and then we come, the Agora, and then we had lunch in the Plaka, which is not very far from Syntagma Square, where the demonstrations take place.
- ▶ 1:01:27 Aristotle Koskinas In the area around the, the Acropolis, they may go to Syndagma Square, maybe at the hill of Lycabertus. 2 times in the scene