Why the Greeks?

The Greeks have been vanquished

Greeks often eat fish, too.

The Greeks used to worship several gods.

The Greeks used to worship several gods.

The Greeks made theoretical models of geometry.

Greeks also eat a lot of fish.

The ancient Greeks had a great idea

There were Greeks in the International Brigade.

The Greeks, too, eat a lot of fish.

It's not easy to one up the Greeks.

The Greeks used to hold a big athletic meet.

Two millennia ago, those Greeks had some powerful insights.

But 2,000 years ago the Greeks didn't have Google.

The Greeks say we suffer our way to wisdom.

He's part of this ethnic minority called the Pontic Greeks.

Pi was first discovered in ancient times by the Greeks.

I mean, these are the great tales of the Greeks.

The maxim, Know thyself has been around since the ancient Greeks.

The Greeks believed that weeping together created a bond between people.

Why else do Greeks demand the return of the Elgin Marbles?

The Greeks famously called these divine attendant spirits of creativity daemons.

I think we have the opportunity to one up the Greeks.

I think we can one up the Greeks and achieve something.

Those profligate, idle, ouzo swilling, Zorba dancing Greeks, they are the problem.

The ancient Greeks knew as much about the solar system as we do.

The Greeks had a much broader conception of love than we do today.

The Greeks went from the theater of Dionysus to the Parthenon in their sandals.

Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove?

But the Greeks were great scientists of the mind and in the 5th century B.C.,

Only 18 percent of Italians and 15 percent of Greeks believe that their vote matters.

I was with two Greeks last night and we drank ouzo. A lot of ouzo.

Third, the Greeks knew that the moon and the sun appeared as disks in the sky.

Finally, the Greeks also knew that the sun appears lower in the sky as you travel north.

Now, this only applies for someone living in the Northern Hemisphere, but that's where the Greeks lived.

First, the Greeks knew that the earth casts a circular shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse.

The Greeks have actually managed to produce something called Retsina, which even tastes shite when you're in Greece.

All right, so let's take four subjects that obviously go together big data, tattoos, immortality and the Greeks.

Well, the Greeks thought about what happens when gods and humans and immortality mix for a long time.

In Unit 1, we're going to begin with a question that fascinated the Greeks how big is our planet?

Again, the Ancient Greeks, with all their shortcomings, believed in the wisdom of the crowd at their best moments.

The ancient Greeks knew the earth was spherical, or at least they had good reason to believe it was.

The ancient Greeks were the first to think more or less scientifically about what light is and how vision works.

If the ancient Greeks had found out about seasons in Australia, they could have easily varied their myth to predict that.

Because, you see, the Greeks believed you live only once, and when you die, you have to cross the River Styx.