Professor Fact Checks Ancient Greece Slop

A Greek architect would've literally had a stroke

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if they had built a building this way.

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I'm a professor of Ancient Greek history.

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Okay, people are looking at me weird again.

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Yeah, people would look at you quite weird.

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The Olympic games are held in Olympia,

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in kind of in the middle of nowhere in ancient Greece.

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40 or 50,000 men came from all over the Greek world,

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camped out in the countryside for about a week,

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Ancient sources tell us that married women

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wanna bring your unmarried daughter to the scene.

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Ancient Greek women were expected to dress

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and women in Olympia wearing modern athletic gear,

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But they would've been covered in oil.

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The gymnasium is literally the nude place.

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that people were clothed for was horse racing,

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and the chariot drivers were clothed.

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So showing Greek athletes exercising,

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Okay, let's take a look at the next video.

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Okay, so we're doing pretty well here.

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This is actually a very nice reconstruction

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The Parthenon, that big building in the back right corner

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was finished in the outside in 438,

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The gateway, that wasn't started until the 437,

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so it would've been a construction site,

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There was a big statue…

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