AGR Book Reviews | The Gnostic Religion by Hans Joans
Two are the moments in world history where nihilism becomes a dominant culture: our own, and those of the strange mystics who have been known since the late Hellenistic Age as "Gnostics." Thousands of years later, their religion had remained largely unintelligible. Until a young German scholar, student of the great Heidegger, thought of using his teacher's radical methods to crack open its secrets. What he discovered surprised him. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZYkEB-9tdQ
Modern pagans are mostly frustrated Christians, and the proof lies in the fascinating book by W. F. Otto "The Homeric Gods". In this new series of Ancient Greece Revisited, we revisit this great work from the lens of pagan thought and its misunderstandings.
Book Reviewed:
The Homeric Gods by Walter F. Otto (URL: https://g.co/kgs/fGwCCS)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jc7D_-hKw
What was the connection between Ancient Greeks and color blindness?
Overlooking the sea under a bright Greek sky, it is impossible to think that Homer, the greatest poet of Ancient Greece, could have missed this ever-present color that bathes the scenery... blue. And yet, he did, together with everyone else in antiquity. How can we even begin to make sense of this? Could the Ancient Greeks have been color blind? One distinguished scholar and politician, William Gladstone, actually though so...
#colorblind #colourblind #homer #poet #colorblue #ancientgreecerevisited #AGR
Writer and Presenter - Michalis Michailidis
Director and Editor - Adam Petritsis
Cinematographer - Morris Gormezano
Original Music Score - Penny Biniari
Sound Engineer - Lolek
Stock footage has been used from Storyblocks.com, MotionArray.com, Shutterstock.com, MotionPlaces.com
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A fragment from our episode "Our Terrible Love For War" https://youtu.be/m6lrd2p_uUo
#ancientgreecerevisited #agr #myth #ares
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Aristarchus was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it. Almost 2000 years later, the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus made his "revolutionary" discovery, that displaced the earth as the center of our universe, without ever looking at the night sky. All that was needed was one single step of logic!
Writer and Presenter - Michalis Michailidis
Director and Editor - Adam Petritsis
Cinematographer - Konstantinos Kritikos
Original Music Score - Penny Biniari
SPECIAL THANKS TO
The National Observatory of Athens
http://www.noa.gr/
Content has been used from storyblocks.com, nasa.gov
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What if Plato had written a dialogue on the Coronavirus?
Would you ask your friends to "vote" on what's wrong with your body every time you felt sick? No? Then how could you ask them to vote for anything?! And if all our political problems were reducible to problems of health, would we even consider democracy at all? Well... Plato may not have predicted the outbreak of Covid-19, but through his work, a golden thread exists to show that somehow, he knew all about its implications...
Writer and Presenter - Michalis Michailidis
Director/Cinematographer/Editor - Adam Petritsis
Sound Mix - Lolek
Original Music Score - Penny Biniari
Miniatures and Ancient Palestra Ruins Diorama by Adam Petritsis
THANK YOU NOTES
George Velentzas
Koryvantes: https://www.youtube.com/user/Koryvantes
Stock footage has been used from Storyblocks.com, MotionArray.com, Shutterstock.com
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Let's discover the connection between lsd and the Eleusinian Mysteries:
There was a road in ancient Athens that led to Eleusis, where the famous and sacred Eleusinian mysteries of the Greek world took place. So begins our journey to rediscover Ancient Greece through this first episode of the Ancient Greece Revisited series.
For the centuries following their eventual end, the Mysteries of Eleusis managed to remain what they always were ... a mystery. Until, that is, a Swiss chemist experimenting with the medicinal properties of the "ergot" fungus, stumbled upon a compound destined to change the world ... LSD. After ingesting a minute quantity of his new substance by mistake, and experiencing its miraculous effects in the first recorded "trip", Albert Hofmann went on a quest to find his "child's" distant relatives, until, like the goddess Demetra who founded the Eleusinian mysteries ... he reached ... Eleusis.
#lsd #ergot #eleusinianmysteries #ancientgreecerevisited #AGR #hofmann
Writer and Presenter - Michalis Michailidis
Director and Editor - Adam Petritsis
Cinematographer - Morris Gormezano
Original Music Score - Penny Biniari
Sound Engineer - Lolek
THANK YOU NOTES
TAS Visuals https://www.ttaass.com/
Alexandros Kakavas
Stock footage has been used from Storyblocks.com, MotionArray.com, Shutterstock.com, MotionPlaces.com
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What was eros, romantic love, for the Ancient Greeks? If we analyze the poetry of Sappho, the famous Lesbian Ancient Greek poet of the 7th century BC we might find out.
So let's get scientific... and talk about love!
- Inspired and dedicated to Anne Carson.
#eros #love #romanticlove #ancientgreece #sappho #ancientgreecerevisited
CAST & CREW
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Sappho - Athina Kefalopoulou
Lover - Dimitra Derzekou
Writer and Presenter - Michalis Michailidis
Director and Editor - Adam Petritsis
Cinematographer - Morris Gormezano
Drone Operator - Anthony Venitis
Sound Recorder/Camera Assistant - Stephanos Papageorgiou
Sound Mix - Lolek
Original Music Score - Penny Biniari
Translation of Sappho - Anne Carson (https://g.co/kgs/AApwa5)
THANK YOU NOTES
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Anna Tsaousi
Giannis Anagnostatos
Mrs M. Petritsis
Stock footage has been used from Storyblocks.com, MotionArray.com
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A casual discussion under the temple of Poseidon in cape Sounio.
#ancientgreecerevisited #survivethejive
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Thanasis Kleopas plays on his lyre and sings a Traditional Greek Song.
Full interview: https://youtu.be/E9bQgzV6icM
#ancientgreecerevisited #ancientlyre #thanasiskleopas #greekmusic #lyre #agr
Thanasis Kleopas: https://athanaskleopas.wixsite.com/kleopas
Find your lyre at Luthieros (https://luthieros.com)
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