Values of Hellenism: Pericles' Funeral Oration

I think this perfect song of Pantelis Thalassinos Glykoparamythenia (ΓΛΥΚΟΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΕΝΙΑ) is perfect to accompany the deep reverence and profound patriotic love that are found in Pericles's funeral oration. I recommend to all to read the section for youserlves, found in History of Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides.

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[Aegialeus]

ANOTHER EXCELLENT VIDEO AS ALWAYS YANITSAROS, WELL DONE!!!

HERE IS A LECTURE THAT I AM CERTAIN YOU WILL APPRECIATE...CHEERS!:

Why Greece Matters- Victor Davis Hanson

watch?v=r-pOwv6ZIbM

[Aegialeus]

@AndreaKola

"PERI KLIU" WHAT AN INTERESTING FIRST AND LAST NAME. CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME IT'S ILLYRIAN MEANING?

[AgApE010]

@s5b678

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Christians didn't give us the Dark Ages; the fall of Rome did. Christians, like Thomas Aquinas, preserved Greek thought.

[s5b678]

@AgApE010 Actually it was the Byzantines and the Muslims that preserved the Greek Knowledge. Christians gave us the Dark Ages, only when people began to rediscover Greek and Roman philosophy did we start to pull out of a christian dominated world and we have been climbing ever since. All monotheistic religions oppose progress because all progress does is mitigate and eliminate the need for a god.

[s5b678]

@AreRepublicansInbred Learn a little history you retard. You are an embarassment to western civilization and not deserving of the gifts we recieved from ancient Greece.

[ameroffsky]

@banda106

True.

Christianity was the undoing of Hellenism, because it taught that many aspects of Hellenism were sinful. For example, the philosophy schools of Athens survived well into Byzantine times but were eventually shut down. The Olympic games were also abolished because they were a pagan ritual, and so on.

All religions have had a negative influence on their surroundings, especially Abrahamic ones.

[AgApE010]

@Yanitsaros

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Actually, it was the Christians who revived the writings and teachings of Aristotle. The Dark Ages, or the Medieval Times (same thing) were actually a time of great intellectual growth because of Christians. That's when you had people like William of Ockham, Thomas Aquinas, Anselm of Canterbury, and John Wycliff, to name a few.

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As for war, that was never the Christians' specialty or what they were/are known for.

[benjaminjean1984]

This christianity taught us passiveness is rubbish, total bollocks. Pericles was around before christ & Athens was democratic before rome was even though of. Did it not occur to u that maybe everyone else copied the athenian model?

[benjaminjean1984]

@Yanitsaros rubbish

[banda106]

I recommend that people read The Passion of the Greeks: Christianity and the

Rape of the Hellenes by Evaggelos G. Vallianatos who chronicles how Christians genocided the Hellenes and plunged Europe into the dark ages.

By the way the only reason the Byzantine empire had any vestiges of civilization was because of the survival of ancient Hellenic influence which kept the destructive nature of Christianity in check somewhat.