Ancient Greek Traditions That Will Creep You Out

Number 10 dianis man dionis was like never a dull moment he literally exploded into existence after his mother semile burst into pieces when Zeus showed her his true form because he was tricked by Hera as a whole thing then Zeus continued the gestation period by carrying him in his thigh ever since

Then he took on the responsibility of being God of fertility wine wine making and Madness so essentially the party God the frat boy of Olympus however some say that dianis was a result of a union between Zeus and panie which is like even more confusing but hey it’s what

It’s a myth so let’s go but the most famous story about him revolves around the backy and the story interpreted by Ides pantheus the King of Thieves banished the worship of dianis and forbade the women of the Kingdom from participating in the pacas you can bet frat boy wasn’t happy about this he

Doesn’t like being banned he cast a spell of Madness on all the women of the Kingdom to attend the festival so pantheus caught him somehow and imprisoned prisoned him but you can’t chain a God dianis decided on his revenge he transformed into an irresistibly beautiful woman and lured

Pentheus to spy on the B rituals when the mads spotted him they thought he was a wild dog peeping Tom or like so they tore him limb from limb one of the attackers was his mother Agave who didn’t know the animal was actually her son in the madness that she was wrapped

Up in so yeah there are plenty more stories regarding this rascal but this will have to wait for part three number nine Li sergus we talked about merera in part one you know the woman who slept with her father and then turned into a tree from which she gave birth if you

Don’t know what I’m talking about go watch part one right now yeah weird times well here is another plant story that’s equally as confusing I know branches can sometimes look like arms but how do you confuse your son for one well Dian Isis has to be involved lysurus attacked and injured the

Aforementioned party God diis and needless to say the gods were not happy about it diis was basically doing a pub crawl with wine in the Mortal realm and lerus wasn’t jazzed about it because he was a messy dude as punishment dionis descended upon him with Madness in this

Violent State lysurus saw a pile of weeds that he just had to get out of his garden so he took an axe and chopped them away little did he know that it was actually his very own son that he was chopping to Pieces he also took the life

Of the rest of his family and he even took off his own legs in his Madness after he finally passed away he was inomed in a rock as a sign of disrespect for offending the gods so moral of the story don’t whine about the man of the

Vine who likes to party all the time don’t do it number eight Hera the Virgin the most confusing thing in All Greek mythology was Hera and Zeus’s marriage sometimes you just got to know when it’s time to call it quits between them being siblings Zeus cheating on on

Her all the time Hara killing people over jealousy and spite things were just messy but did you know that Hara actually grew back her virginity annually not at all possible to rebuild that in real life but if you’re a God then anything is possible Hera was the goddess of virginity and was worshiped

As the goddess of matrimony virginity and marriage though she was married albeit unhappily she was revered as a virgin which clearly she wasn’t so in order to maintain this she renewed her virginity and every year by bathing in the spring of kathas the rights performed in order to do this were kept

A secret and never spoken of but she did it this meant that people could still rever her for it and she could pretend for a moment that Zeus and her never got jiggy with it because obviously she she’d want to forget that after all being a faithful wife to an Unfaithful

Husband doesn’t sound like a grand old time if you ask me but before infidelity first comes love then comes marriage then comes creati which will make you need a baby carriage why because when directly translated creati literally means the bed and if you don’t already know about this tradition you may want

To consider adding it to your wedding festivities Grecian background or otherwise it’s a Greek Wedding tradition where friends and family of the bride and Grom take time to decorate the marital bed the tradition going back to ancient Greece dictates that single women should be doing this but these

Days anyone’s welcome to participate the first stage is making the bed in ancient times they quite literally built them a bed then they set up the bed with Linens bed spreads pillowcases and some simple set decorations such as throw pillows and flowers at this stage the husband to

Be is called in to approve the bed once he does more elaborate decorations are added these ones are symbolic and intimate tokens chosen to bless the marriage with luck Prosperity love and fertility races thrown on the bed to symbolize the process of putting down roots and after people decorate the bed

With any other festive elements like rose petals jewels and glitter and since this cultural practice also felt a little ritually let’s expand on those with Godly sacrifices sacrifices were an ancient Greek custom that signified the solidarity and the communion between humanity and Divinity as the gods had

Once sacrificed for us we now bestow that back onto them however the act of sacrificing demonstrates the difference between the natural world and the Divine world the sacrifice or offering was the heart of the ritual the center of the whole process by ancient Greek Customs sacrifices would be offered individually

Or by a group or community and they were made in different places or sacred temples to sacrifice as an individual is not so different from going to a church professional it’s usually done as a plea for Aid comfort and understanding and this is simply how you were able to grab

Your gods’s attention obviously a lot harder than just closing the door and sitting down on a kneeler so cut them some slack Community sacrifice was usually done in sanctuaries with priests doing the sacrificing alongside a prayer and a hymn the animals that were sacrificed could be goats Lambs pigs

Chickens and the latter being more of a modest offering or it could be an ox which was the most prestigious let’s get dreamy again and disassociate while staring at some of Greece’s most beautiful sculpture and stonework ah beautiful I can’t believe statues like these used to be painted to look like

Ronald McDonald wish I was kidding look at that met exhibit brings back color to ancient statues will take it back off it looks terrible anyways as I’m sure you can tell from that sculpture you just saw Greece from 800 to 300 BCE took heavy inspiration from Egyptian and Eastern Monumental art and over

Centuries evolved it into the uniquely Greek Vision Greek artists reach a peak of Excellence which captured the human form in a way that had never been seen particularly concerned with proportion Poise detail and the idealized Perfection of the human body their figures in stone and bronze have become

Some of the most recognizable pieces of art ever produced Greek Architects provided some of the most distinctive buildings in the ancient world some of which would become staple features in their towns and cities surviving through conquer ships battles and Dark Ages all the way to Modern Times where they

Remain protected by organizations such as UNESCO their architecture would go on to greatly influence the Roman world and the foundation for classical architecture which would dominate The Western World from Renaissance to present day here’s a cute little cultural nugget the martiz spring has come the name of March derives from this

Ancient tradition which dates back to the cult of demer and panie as a form of initiation to the cult the yilian the faithful wore a bracelet called a croaky on both their right hand and left ankle amazingly the tradition still lives on today in modern Greece to celebrate Springtime coming everyone regardless of

Age adorns themselves with the bracelet however there are certain rules that one must abide when creating and wearing the symbolic bracelet it must be woven on the last day of February worn from March 1st until the last day of the month March 31st and it must be made of white

And red thread the white symbolizing Purity the red symbolizing life and passion in ancient times people believe that the bracelet helped protect the person who is wearing it from diseases as well as the strong rays of the spring Sun during the month of March part of the ancient Greek tradition calls for

The person wearing the red and white Martis bracelet to take it off and tie it to the first flowering tree they see in March in order to yield a healthy Harvest another lovely tradition that the Greeks practice is that when they see the first swallow of spring the

First person who sees the swallow upon the bird’s return from the winter migration ties their bracelet around the nearest rose bush to encourage the bird to make a nest there and I can’t bring up the ulic silans without diving into ancient Greece cult culture these ancient mysterious Cults were based on

Sacred stories that often involved ritual worshiping of a death rebirth myth of of a particular Divinity in addition to the promise of a better afterlife these small sect groups fostered social bonds among the participants hilariously like today initiation fees and other contributions were also expected to the cult I love it

Mystery Cults continue to Vex Scholars because the evidence is minimal comprising of a few written sources mostly later in date and often with questionable aims and biases Cults like the sabazio which originated with the Filan and the thrak were also known in Greece by the fifth century bcee but

They have no surviving stories only brief historical references saying that his initiatives practiced ritual serpent handling Dian isis’s cult believed in primitive power accessible through Wine’s ability to lower inhibitions we know his cult rituals were usually drunken group romps The playing of bull roarers and the sacrifice of animals

Using a double-headed axe followed by the drinking of their blood mixed with wine the dians eventually evolved into the orix which were established around the fifth century BCE and what do Cults gods and the everyday citizen have in common they love a good raging Festival the ancient Greeks had hundreds of

Festivals that were celebrated in various regions throughout Greece and during different periods of their history festivals were thrown at any given opportunity seeing as they had many exuberant Emperors and a Pantheon of demanding gods they were pretty frequent but not not all were made equal the Adonia was a festival that took

Place in the middle of summer exclusively by women they would climb up on ladders on the roof of their houses plant fast growing plants like lettuce or fennel and then leave these Gardens in the hot sun so plants would Sprout and wither immediately symbolizing the life of Adonis cut short then they would

Make a spectacular display of morning by screaming beating their chest tearing their clothes off while hurling an effigy of Adonis and all the dead plants into the sea the aoria was an ancient Greek festival that was celebrated in Athens during the fifth century BC two young Athenian girls are selected to

Carry special object filed baskets on their head down a natural underground passage leading from the Temple of Athena poas to the shrine of Aphrodite they would leave the baskets there without looking at them receive another set of mysterious objects in baskets carry those bad boys back and give the

Mystery baskets to the Priestess of Athena according to pinius no one was allowed to know what was in the basket no one ever looked even the Priestess had no idea obviously ancient Greece has shown itself to be a culture of wonkiness Ingenuity creativity and our last Point intellectual Risk Takers

Ancient Greek technology developed during the fifth century BC continuing up and including the Roman period and Beyond inventions that were credited to the ancient Greeks include the gear screw rotary milk bronze casting techniques and the use of steam to operate some experiment expent Al machines and toys oh and a chart to

Finded prime numbers many of these inventions occurred in the later Greek period often inspired by the need to improve weapons and tactics in Warfare geometry is without a doubt one of the oldest branches of mathematics however the Greeks were the first to insist that geometric facts must be established by

Deductive reasoning fails of mtus regarded as the father of geometry set up a number of aums and rules in the 6th Century BCE their approach to philosophy was a way of understanding the world around them without resorting to religion myth or magic and it changed how we viewed their world early Greek

Philosophers were also scientists who observed and studied everything known it Seas the mountains as well as the solar system planetary motion and astral phenomena Aristotle gave us the idea that Earth was a globe he also classified animals and is referred to the father of zoology theopus was the

First known botanist we know of written in history and the theorien Not only made the earliest advancements in philosophy and geometry but they proposed the heliocentric hypothesis with Earth revolving around the Sun suffice to say the most fed culture of ancient Greece was that of the M number

10 Pandora’s Box I don’t understand why would you even have a box like this in the first place according to Greek mythology the beginning of the Earth was free of pain and suffering the land was perfect kind of like exactly like Eden Prometheus had created van by making

Them out of clay and he will okay well we might get to that later another list but you know he did a whole bunch of good things for man the gods got mad anyways hephestus made the first woman Pandora they gave her beauty cleverness charm and curiosity curiosity killed the

Cat her name translates to all gifted but then Zeus was like you know what would be a great gift I’m going to give this girl a box and tell her not to open it that’s like putting a bday present in a 4-year-old’s lap and being like ooh

Enjoy the rapping no well guess what happened happened because they gave her curiosity it got the best of her and she released All the Troubles into the world disease violence Madness greed old age death plague slow Walkers and people who eat really loud at the movies okay the

Last thing to leave was hope so at least that’s a good thing but but you got to wonder who in the heck let Zeus be the leader of everything if he made a crap decision like that with no foresight at all why why put that stuff in a box I

Don’t stop it you’re fine number nine Echo and narcissist look there’s nothing wrong with doing a fit check before you leave for work give yourself like a ooh damn you know do that love yourself but if you’re stuck there for the whole day there’s a thing called being a

Narcissist which is derived from a character in Greek mythology named narcissist The Love Story between Ekko and narcissist is a curious one which makes very little sense Ekko was a beautiful nymph who was cursed by Hera when she tried to protect Zeus from getting caught because he was swing she

Was now only allowed to say the last word anyone said hence Echo Ekko was just one of many pursued narcissists but her love was deep and true one day as she waited for him to say the last word she finally went to him when he called her immediately he spurned her off

Saying like no no one’s better than me so get out of here you nymph you called her dude the goddess Nemesis wasn’t pleased with his behavior so she decided to punish him Nemesis lured him to a steady pool of water where he spotted the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen

Himself and he fell passionately in love stung by the pangs of unrequited love at last narcissist took his own life rather than live without being able to touch himself moving on number eight King Midas whoever used the term Midas Touch and thought it was a good thing needs to

Read the story story again the Midas touch is an illusion to King Midas who thought having the power to turn everything into gold was going to be a good thing but he didn’t specify and there’s always a catch there’s always a catch after Midas welcomed with open arms Dion isis’s marest reveler dionis

Said he would give him one wish he wished to turn everything he touched into gold cuz he needed money he was delighted at first turning twigs and plants to Gold but then when he got hungry he found he couldn’t eat or drink anything without it turning into gold

Panicking his daughter ran towards him to comfort him out of instinct he hugged her back cuz he was a hugger she soon turned into gold dianis heard his curses and prayers and told him he must wash himself in the river patrias now whether everything turned back to normal is

Debatable some stories say they did others didn’t so there is some confusion there but either way Midas learn to appreciate all the things around him as opposed to wanting more morals number seven skyron I don’t know about you but if someone washed my feet for me the first thing I would do would

Say thank you full stop like that’s it the last thing I would do is blast them off a cliff with said clean toies already there are a few things I never thought I would say to thousands of people but what a great intro to the story of skyron skyron was a bandit who

Was obsessed with killing people after and while they washed his feet everybody’s got their thing I guess he would call Travelers on the road to help him wash his feet which a surprising amount of people agreed to do right imagine someone asking you to do that today you just hear a voice

Pleading from a dark alley to like please wash my feet wash my feet I need someone to wash my feet would you go serious question anyways when these extremely kind people would offer help he would kick them in the face and push them over a cliff yeah to add insult to

Injury at the base of the cliff was a man eating tortoise who would eat the remains of the either dead or still alive people talk about kicking a man while they’re down he got away with this too many times imagine the parents having to warn their kids not to wash

Random people’s feet thankfully Theus Poseidon’s son buted in and threw him off the very Cliff he so enjoyed in his pastime I like how the crime fits the punishment here you know it’s satisfying I like it it’s good good storytelling number six tyus prne and filel okay this

One is probably the most messed up out of all the Greek Tales at least in my book trigger warnings Galore here folks I’ll try to be delicate terius was the son of Aries and the king of thce he married prne who was the eldest daughter of pandan the king of Athens the two

Fell fast in love but the furies prepared their marriage bed and howled all night over their Union a very very bad Omen soon prne longed for her little sister filel to join her so terius went to fetch her from Athens but as soon as he saw her he was consumed by lust

Despite promising her father he’d protect her he stole filel away and ravaged her she promised she’d tell everyone what he did so in order to stop that from happening he cut out her tongue he hid her away and told proy that she’d been lost at sea and perished

For a year filel snuck cloth from the maid that would care for her and wo a tapestry that told her story the maid secretly brought the cloth to prne and she immediately sought out her sister fueled by rage she took her revenge she stole the life of their own son itis and

Fed him to terius for dinner when he called for him proy revealed her sister and pointed to the stew that the king had finished terius flew into a rage and gave Chase but the two women changed into Birds to evade him Birds okay prne turned into a swallow filel a

Nightingale and teras soon followed suit by the ravenous hoo poo bird would have thought it would be like a raven or like a hawk but nope he got the hoop hoop Bird Okay number five Cersei and the pigs Cersei wasn’t so much considered as much a goddess though she was one more

Like a witch or an enchantress she was the daughter of Helios and depending on your sources she was also the daughter of HEC this story is confusing because no one can really define whether she was the villain of the story or just like sad and lonely The Story Goes as follows

The great hero adicus and his crew after months at Sea happen upon her Island he sends his men assure to investigate and find a cottage surrounded by magnificent yet docile beasts Cersei is heard singing and when the men greet her she invites them in for a hearty meal and

After months at see that’s that’s amazing unbeknownst to them though the food is Enchanted and the men all turn into pigs adius discovers this and after Hermes places a protective charm on him he confronts her her charms were powerless on him because of Hermes so she invited him into bed instead yeah

Sure why not this is also out of character forsus because he was super in love with his wife back home but I guess he couldn’t say no because she was a goddess and hey sexy times Cersei realizes who he was and having been foretold that odsis would be the only

Man to resist her she lifted the curse on the men she also made them hotter in the process as a like I’m really sorry and then they all stayed for a year because I guess why not they just stayed for a year I don’t know why when they

Decided to finally leave Cersei ended up giving him a bunch of to protect him so I guess like she turned into a friend after all and I yeah it’s just weird why would you stay on an island that turned you into pigs I don’t know I don’t know

Do you number four Hercules holds a giant off the ground the taller you stand the farther you have to fall a lesson the tall people of the world will understand as a requirement for the 12 Trials of Hercules our great hero had to defeat a massive giant this ginormous

Form was named antus an undefeatable immortal so long as his feet remained on the ground his mother was Gia the goddess of the earth so like all the powers came from her duh antas was a big fan of wrestling he loved it and Hercules was a big strong guy so they

Went at it but in order to defeat him all Hercules had to do was lift him off the ground and wait until his power drained for him and that was that because if he threw him on the ground he would just like regenerate so that sounds more like a prolonged piggyback

Than wrestling but you know whatever gets the job done good for you buddy and coming up to our top three we have number three procrustes thesis dealt with a lot of interesting characters and prusses was exactly how his name sounds crusty if you ever find yourself wrapped up in a

Scheme designed to enforce uniformity by violent methods then you may use the term procrustean bed to adequately describe It procrustes Was a Serial taker of Lives who had a very special bed he would like skyron soothe very weary Travelers into a false sense of of security by offering them a bed to stay

For in the night however if you didn’t fit on the bed which no one did he would either violently stretch you or trim you to put it delicately so that you would fit the bed obviously All The Travelers ended up dead the notorious criminal lived between Athens and Ulisses so

Coming across Travelers was pretty easy it was just a matter of time before thesis would encounter him and set the record straight having heard of his crimes thesias decided to turn the tables and make procrustes fit his own bed so what’s even more confusing about the story is that procrustes was a son

Of Poseidon and so technically was thesis’s brother so in a way thesis kind of committed fratricide but procrustes wasn’t really behaving with Godlike intention so I’m not sure where you can draw the line there number two Tantalus and pelops this one considering Tantalus was in such good rapport with the gods I’m

Not sure why he did this as We Know being on the God’s bad side even slightly leads to some pretty harsh punishment so imagine really being on their bad side Tantalus was the king of the land that is now turkey today and the gods thought he was just swell so

Great they’d even visit him from time to time for dinner that sounds pretty good man maybe they were awful dinner guests or something but eventually Tantalus wanted to see how far he could push his luck he devised a test that would determine whether the gods were all

Knowing he could have been like how many fingers do I have behind my back he could have been like uh how many apples are in my dungeon he he could have done something random like that but instead he did the last thing you would think of Tantus killed his son pelops cooked him

Up and served him for dinner of course the gods were wise to it as soon as they sat down and considering a father eating his children was a pretty sensitive topic Kronos they were not pleased the only God who ate some of pups was deer who

Was blinded by grief over the loss of her daughter pran because she was downstairs with Hades needless to say they were pissed Zeus threw Tantalus into the abyss of Tartarus to endure an eternity of Torment his punishment was to spend the rest of time waste Deep in

Water with a fruit tree hanging above him each time he went to take a drink the water receded and every time he went to take a bite of the fruit the wind would blow it off course however as soon as he stopped lunging for it everything would return back to normal and tempt

Him even further happy ending for though since deer ate part of him they brought him back to life and he was turned into Ivory pretty good pretty good for him number one endan this story isn’t exactly linear so it remains one of the most confusing Tales because it was

Likely pieced together the issue for historians is that no complete story exists of it today but we know it’s about the love between the goddess of the moon Seline and a human man in some versions he was the son of Theus others say he was raised by him but was

Actually the son of son of Zeus some say he was a Shepherd others a king but either way this guy spent a lot of time outside at night beneath the moon sometimes he would even stay up all night charting the path of the Moon ignoring the desire to sleep soon Seline

Felt deeply in love with endian a strikingly handsome mortal man Seline could no longer ignore her desire and decided to visit her love abandoning the sky altogether softly gently she crept up upon him to avoid frightening him but the two were Swept Away by the throws of love but her adoration distracted her

From her duties in addition to that endian was Mortal meaning their love would be shortlived in his mortal life so Zeus either for punishment or pity of Seline put her lover into a deep Frozen sleep so that she may always see her love as a young man but little more is

Known actually if that was punishment or pity but hey it’s kind of beautiful number 10 the bird to flip somebody the bird or to flip somebody off in general of course this means to give them the middle finger but do we even know why we do this it’s automatic right you lose in

Mario Kart you throw it up why why do we do it I don’t recommend it first of all because obviously you’re going to get in a heap of trouble afterwards whoever’s on the receiving end of that bird said bird is going to sail and it’s going to

Be upset whoever gets it but giving somebody the middle finger comes from 4th Century BC Athens yes thank you so much I love this invention if you want to call it that the philosopher dioes expressed how he felt to visitors about deoa now he described his distaste by

Putting up a middle finger now the idea here was that it was a phallic gesture yeah the middle finger is supposed to be you know you’re huh and the surrounding curled fingers are meant to represent the the you know who’s right we’re talking about yeah I can’t say what I

Want to say but we’re starting this list off on a great note aren’t we number nine thermop our next stop is the coastal passage of thermop in Greece also known as the hot Gates back in 480 BC now this was a beautiful stage for a battle that became a symbol of Courage

Against overwhelming odds and also became a Zack Snyder movie which is pretty cool I guess under the rule of King cers the Persian Empire sought to conquer Greece outnumbered a small Alliance of Greek city states led by King leonitis of Sparta they resisted they said nope not on my watch so about

7,000 Greeks faced an estimate 100,000 to 150,000 Persians now the Greeks used the narrow terrain to their advantage right they knew this they funnel the Persian forces and then they held them there for 3 days straight but on the third day something happened on the third day a local resident betrayed the

Greeks how dare thee showing the Persians a mountain path that led behind Greek lines now Leonidas was aware of his doomed fate he dismissed the bulk of his army and remained with you guessed it 300 Spartans and a few hundred others to fight to the death now although the

Persians ultimately won the Greek’s heroic stand at theropo allowed the city states time to prepare for the Persian Onslaught that followed it has since been an enduring symbol of bravery and sacrifice in the face of overwhelming odds and again Zack Snyder saw this he’s like chaing let’s do it lot of ABS paint

Those abs on number eight colum Wars so while the Greeks were going head-to-head with the Turks they were fighting over their independence now the Greeks had the upper hand at the Acropolis one day they were surrounding their enemy everything was going great they had this stronghold in their grasp and the Turks

At the same time were running out of ammo and of course options they then began to break apart the marble columns around them yeah just smashing them to bits like it’s Minecraft just to try and get lead from inside now as the Greeks witnessed the destruction of their

Parthenon they panicked they were like ah please stop they said here take our ammo instead but don’t break our columns and they did they took their ammo continued the war the 1821 Greek war of independence yeah here you go Ottoman Empire take this lead now we can fight

Let’s do it officially I’d be like take the columns we’re getting out of here peace number seven datus and Icarus we all wanted to jump off the roof when we were kids with wings made from paper to see if we could fly I mean why not

Massive metal planes are able to do it why can’t we literally planes are insane side not because science that’s why but with stories like datalis and Icarus a part ofy still thinks it could work as long as you don’t fly too close to the Sun datalist was a master inventor who

Designed the maze for King minos’s Palace he along with his son built it together but the king tricked them and trapped them inside datalist was said to have earned his skills from Athena herself and soon he fashioned a pair of wings with wax and quills soon Father

And Son were able to flee but Icarus ignored his father’s warnings of flying too close to the Sun otherwise the wax and the wings would melt soon this happened and Icarus crashed into the sea and died it’s a Marvel that the wings worked in the first place but it’s even

More of a miracle that they evaded the minur who was like by the way inside the maze that they built for it also no one explained how they broke out of the maze in order to get into the air into the first place so I’m not sure how all this

Worked if my parents said I couldn’t jump off the roof with fake paper Wings then it only makes sense that this would fail I guess number six Apollo and Daphne ever had someone like not at the hint and continue to slide into your DMs so in order to avoid them you like have

To turn into a tree so they leave you alone anyways yeah me too it’s a tough place to be especially in the case of AP and dney Apollo made the massive mistake of making fun of the god AOS who you know the guy with the arrows that make

People fall in love Cupid well in order to mess with him he shot a Golden Arrow at Apollo causing him to fall desperately in love with the nymph Daphne and at the same time AA struck Daphne with a lead Arrow causing her to detest the god Apollo pursued her with

Such fervor that Daphne eventually got exhausted running away from him so she prayed to the river god penus to rid him from her so she sacrificed her physical form and transformed into the laurel tree Desperate Measures folks Apollo was so distraught he made her his sacred plant and always wore stems of the

Laurel tree on himself which means he would have had to break them off the branches which if you’re thinking about that did Daphne feel that as a tree you know did he just keep causing her more and more pain number five Chiron I think the last

Video video or the video before I don’t know my brain is pretty scrambled but I mentioned the story of how ixian made love to a cloud and gave birth to half horse half men people yeah well as confusing as that is like where did those genes come from Chiron was an

Exception to the rule he was the son of the bond between Titan cronis and a nymph and became a kind of honorary God unlike his other horny relatives Kyon was a trusted artistic and intelligent being he was still part horse but his front legs were still human so I guess

Imagine a man wearing half of those like two men horse costumes yeah he didn’t play the field really but was married to a nymph named chicolo and had three daughters and a son he trained fantastic Heroes such as Achilles Jason perus Ajax and Heracles or Hercules but his most

Noble Act was giving up his mortality in order to free Prometheus as a reward for his sacrifice he became a fantastic constellation in the sky number four deline the most confusing thing about deline is actually what she was supposed to be a python a dragon and some ancient

Accounts equate her with a kidna the mother of all monsters a half woman half snake being she has also been confused for a male serpent but according to the earliest homic him she was a girl Dragon anyone get that reference no okay moving on there are quite a few

Different accounts of the godess and descriptions of her aren’t really consistent but we do know that she was a dragon type thing born from Gaia the Greek goddess of Earth her name means Womb and only us ladies really understand why a womb would be depicted as a

Dragon the time of the month I know deline was given the charge of guarding the Oracle of Deli for some reason Apollo really wanted to control it so deline and him went head-to-head on several occasions he eventually slew her with his bow allowing him to take control so unfortunately that happens but

Hey he’s a god number three Medusa the the origin of her story has a few versions but no matter what way of getting there she ends up as a gorgon her hair full of snakes and armed with a petrifying gaze Medusa is one of the most prominent figures in Greek

Mythology the story of Medusa has come under some confusion recently some say that the god of Poseidon took her without consent violating her oath to Athena and therefore the goddess punished her uh some say it was consensual some say that she just insulted Athena somehow but this is the most popular story

Medusa as a moral woman was said to be the most beautiful woman in the world but remained an enchanting and steadfast Priestess for Athena though at first Athena was proud of her subject she became irritated that the people were only at the temple to see her cuz she

Was fire Poseidon didn’t like Athena because she won Athens so he tried to seduce the young Maiden to get her angry she refused because she’s awesome and ran into the temple and prayed to Athena for protection which the goddess gave her none so Poseidon took her anyways

Athena punished her saying it was her fault though like obviously it wasn’t where the heck were you Athena bad move you’d think Athena would be half decent in the situation but guess not so she turned her into This ferocious gorgon and then on the way out of the temple

She ran into her best friend and turned him into stone and a whole bunch of other people it’s a really sad story she wasn’t a monster I don’t think so anyways number two pigmon and galatia we talked about narcissist and this story is kind of in the same vein like you

Know you fall in love with your own work of art the world is wide and strange and people marrying cars and objects is actually far from myth it’s actually happened but like why and how no clue which brings us to the strange tale of pigmon and galatia pigmon was a sculptor

And carved incredible lifelike Ivory Creations his dedication to his craft left him no time for love and even swore to a life without wedlock but this longing one day manifested in in a statue he carved of a woman of unparalleled Beauty he could not take his eyes off his creation and named her

Galatia he clothed her decorated her kissed her the guy was obsessed the Festival of Aphrodite was approaching and he prayed and prayed she would come to life so he could marry her Aphrodite upon seeing the sculptor was a struck by her beauty and agreed as you can guess

Though unlike most Greek love stories they lived happily ever after which is unfamiliar for the Greeks honestly so many tragic stories Greek tragedy is a thing number one last but not least IO and Zeus yet another reason to be weary of clouds I honestly don’t know how the

Gods made Love by a vapor but some things we will just never know IO was a follower of Hera and Zeus upon seeing her one day fell hard in love or in lust depends she constantly avoided his lustful attempts until one day Zeus decided to take what he wanted by

Surrounding her as a cloud and making love to to her without consent which is for some reason a word I can’t say on YouTube but you get the point Hera figured that out turned her into a white cow because she was mad tied her to an

Olive tree and had her guarded by a hundred-eyed dog Zeus then sent Hermes to get rid of him which he did but then Hara released the cow IO and played her with Madness as she wandered around while wandering she met the poor Titan Prometheus who was cursed to have his

Liver torn out every day and he comforted her by saying that she would one day return to her human form and bear a child by Zeus that would someday release him Zeus caught up with her in Egypt turned her back to human form then her descendant like 11 Generations later

Hercules released Prometheus from his chains but wait I thought that was Chiron what number 10 the classic Alexander the Great is probably the most infamous person on this list shout out again to my late ’90s PC gamers but because of Age of Empires and Civilization games you are probably

Familiar with old Alexander one of the great conquerers of ancient times so what does that mean exactly well the man wasn’t asking for land with please and thank you he was asking with a spear and a shield sort of style and by asking I mean just taking however for the brutal

Handsome young king of Many Lands his time to bask in his Empire was shortlived as he died soon after Persia was conquered his achievements cannot be understated however conquering so much at such a young age was very impressive comparative the mythological Achilles and Grandeur number nine a man in his

Barrel this is going to be very difficult to talk about simply because I find the premise of this to be comedy gold okay close your eyes imagine ancient Greece a city like Athens is populated with the wealthy in gowns and robes and maybe even a stereotypical toga build buildings of White Stone and

Marble a market bustling with people haggling for fresh produce and cloth perhaps even a fountain with some flowers beautiful isn’t it however just around the corner not too far from the Town Square there’s a barrel a barrel that’s shaking vigorously and what is causing this Barrel to shake well that

Would be the man who lives in it diogenes yes a philosopher who was self-gratifying himself in a barrel in public public Diagon defended his behavior by saying how he wished it was as easy to relieve hunger by rubbing an empty stomach yeah I was sitting in my

Study earlier when a courier handed me a letter I opened the letter in a warm candle likee glow it was from the chief and he said that’s not it number eight Trend Setter as if doing what Dianes did in public wasn’t bad enough and I mean come on that’s that’s pretty scandalous

He also would commonly defecate in public theaters and urinate on those he found annoying sure maybe major cities need people like this I mean come on would New York City really be New York City if crazy people don’t yell at you on the streets all the time huh Diagon

Just may have been the first to do such crazy things also I’d like to argue his philosophy if you just give me a moment if he pees on people who are annoying him could the people that are being peed on not deem that annoying and then do

The same in return I’m not a smart guy like the Greek leaders but at least I know how to use a washroom just saying number seven zombies question mark yeah it doesn’t matter the context zombies are always scary wherever you drop them in history or culture whenever we talk

About ancient Egyptians we break down the process of mummification and that I miss just keep everything in jars keep everything separate safe in the middle of a tomb no zombies coming back to life here no way Jose well ancient Greeks they actually believed in zombies in

Some way shape or form they had steps that they would take to prevent the dead from ever walking again which is H okay terrifying to say out loud archaeologists found Graves where bodies were actually weighed down with rocks or they’d be pinned down to their tombs again to prevent them from leaving after

Death what why is that why are you doing that they weren’t called zombies at the time obviously but rather they were called revenants reanimated corpses that return to terrorize the living nice sounds a lot like a zombie doesn’t it yeah I agree Dr soski Weaver explains

That bodies found at a cemetery near the ancient town of camarina in the Southeast Sicily they were feared to come back to life so the town was once a Greek colony of course now modern day Italy but it’s home to a 3r century Cemetery with around 3,000 bodies and

More than half of them were buried with coins so yeah I wouldn’t recommend digging up anything but just know there’s some treasure and zombies possibly lying around you at every waking moment cheers number six Stone Cold when the pandemic first began one of the hardest things to get a hold of

Was toilet paper I don’t know everyone decided to their pants or something all of a sudden it was chaos for no reason it’s pretty important I guess when you run out of toilet paper you often remember remember that moment for a little while regardless of where you are you’ll remember that forever start

Looking around for towels and props you’re like all right how am I going to get out of the sticky situation leaves of three let them be that’s all I’m saying but ancient Greeks they did things a a rougher way ancient Greeks would use these small ceramic pieces to

Wipe their bottom yeah ceramic to wipe ha ow French Anthropologist Felipe charlier expands on this toilet hygiene history in the British medical Journey these flat terracotta discs found in these ancient sit had residue on them residue like yeah also what a lousy find you’re like go I found a I found an ass

Wipe I found an ancient ass wipe nice I’m going to put that in my pocket they also discovered a Greek Cup which said on it three stones are enough to wipe one’s AR which is pretty funny three really I’m like guy I’m like eight eight or nine minimum number five naked

Exercise this next one look I’m not saying it’s unusual but maybe I’m on board with this one I don’t know it looks kind of fun you ever forget a towel when you shower you got to do that naked silly run through the hallway you feel like a goblin feel like Bigfoot

Just nude in your hallway that’s my favorite run I feel like the alien from signs just walking around it’s very lanky you know what I mean ancient Greeks used to work out like that they used to walk around sweaty and naked and then lift some weight the word gymnasium

Translates to the Greek term gymnasion which meant at the time school for naked exercise fun fact right there Xavier school for gifted youngsters or Ezekiel school for naked exercise how do you pick right 50/50 just don’t set up shop behind the guy doing squats that’s going

To be a bad a bad time in the ancient Gym number four wine time when we think of ancient Greeks we think of wine and parties and I guess now naked exercise sorry about that but was it really a drunken Festival of love all the time not really at all ancient Greeks

Actually rarely drank wine without diluting the hell out of it first the water to wine ratio was 4 to1 so yeah you’ll be hydrated that’s for sure regular Joe’s would drink at taverns and the rich would throw these big lavish house parties and some things stayed the

Same over all these years but ancient Greeks believe that drinking undiluted wine could cause blindness or Insanity yeah I think that’s just called blacking out my friend but who knows number three Human Sacrifice all right these last three we’re going to get pretty weird we found the remains of a 3,000-year-old

Skeleton in Greece and they found the Skeleton on the side of Mount leion which historians know is the site of animal sacrifice for Zeus that’s a fun place to be we’ll set up a picnic not there ancient writers has mentioned this site and how human sacrifice was also at

Play and thanks to technology we can confirm that this is indeed the case the upper part of the skull was missing and the body was laid on two lines of stones with stone slabs laid on the pelvis so yeah doesn’t look really natural if you

Ask me we look at Greece of course as the birthplace of philosophy democracy and 100 meter hurdles all that good stuff but they also did some sacrifice stuff apparently yeah you don’t really learn that in school don’t you science has allowed us to look all over the

World as well not just Greece ancient Egyptians Aztecs the Maya the Mayans oh my God this one was huge after Mayan ball games the losing team would be sacrificed that would suck those are some high stakes right there I would kind of love to watch that game that’s

Pretty crazy number two Greek statues we’ve all done it at one point we got to admit you’re at a museum you see a big statue it’s massive this Warrior represented has like 16 ABS he’s made of bronze he’s 8 ft tall the amount of detail got into their body is

Jaw-dropping it’s impressive and then you see what what they got here and you’re like why is that so small why did they make this part so small and your ab are so big did you know ancient Greeks would make their you know what small on statues on purpose yeah men who were

Well endowed if I can say that they were more often than not foolish in history they only ruled for lust so if you had a big brain instead of a big huh you were the Talk of the Town ladies would whisper about you as you pass them

Whenever an actor would play a Fool On Stage they would be given a comedically large you know setup that’s how you knew that he was the villain or the fool back then cuz he had a a big I guess the way we see these statues today meant that they had self-control and intelligence

And it wasn’t always about this right so whenever you see a big dude with a little H statue that’s how you know he was very Noble very Noble lad there number one the Battle of Marathon every New Year’s there’s always that one guy on Facebook who just becomes a runner he

Has the squirt water belt the whole [ __ ] they train for a marathon they do it they tell you about it they remind you every single day in the office what is a marathon was it a person is it did a name for 42 km well it was actually a

Battle back in 490 BC it was a battle between ancient Greeks and Persian Invaders sent by King Darius now the Persians arrived to Marathon about 20,000 of them and they arrived to punish the Greeks for supporting the lonians who revolted against the Persians now the Greeks were outnumbered

But they attacked hard and fast they took out 6,000 Persians and eventually they just fled entirely which would have been my plan from the start see you the number of Greek Fighters lost was around 200 so far less casualties the story of fitt aedes came to be at this time he

Ran the first ever Marathon he ran all the way from well the place Marathon to Athens to deliver messages and that distance was you guessed it 42 km he was one of the Greek military men known as day long Runners he did six marathons back to back every day yeah my niece

Hurt just reading we got to get out of here this is they’re going to buckle below me as I’m reading this list number 10 Stone toilet paper it’s been said that only two things in life are certain not living and and taxes however I think a third Point needs to be added and

That’s everybody goes number two it’s a part of life you eat your body takes in its nutrients and then it gets rid of the waste that’s the cycle of life it’s kind of beautiful actually then we all have to use an invention that I know we’re all thankful for toilet paper but

Have you ever wondered what people of ancient times did I know I do after all there was no walm Martius to purchase Greco Papyrus rolus or the Greek staple that is all of oil trust me that’ll come into play later well the answer my friend is very simple even simpler than

The 3 seash shells and everybody knows how to use them cleansing Stones yes that’s right smooth rounded Stones just for the occasion my mom always joked around about using newspapers like some folks did in the old days but Stones they actually use stones to do that part

A little too rough for my uh my Gerber baby bottom if you will no thank you no Mom I was a Gerber baby baby number nine painted statues when you close your eyes and think of ancient Greece what do you imagine oh yes I’m just imagine it right now beautiful Coastline cities with

Harbors bustling full of ships carrying fresh fish and cargo men and women flocking the brick streets and markets White marble monuments surround the city like clouds of opulence and the statues of pure white marble depicting Greek gods and myths of Yonder sounds great right well what if I told you that not

All these beautiful white statues that you could see museums were Pure White marble as we know them today yes that’s right Greek marble statues had color they were painted with the best and brightest colors they had at the time it’s only with time that the color has

Faded some people want to repaint only after a few short years dry a couple thousand number eight beef up got to get the gains got to get swo so your Discord Crush will send you the heart emojis and oooos that you so desire I’m s that’s so

Cringe I’m so sorry at least that’s how I’m told romance works these days romance might have changed but working out has not the ancient Greeks worked out to maintain a peak athletic performance that’s right brother however it wasn’t exactly treadmills and pumping iron one Greek Athletes Training involve

Carrying a cow calf around all day until the calf reached adulthood pretty cool this is all done naked by the way though and slathered in olive oil not so cool athletes also ate their fair share to keep up with all the working out they

Did some cases up to 10 lbs of meat and bread a day talk about beefy boys it’s right brother number seven High fashion I say if you got it flaunt it humbly of course maybe a nice pair of shoes your favorite pants or for me a brand new

Suit that makes me feel gorgeous baby yeah but for the most part I shop at Walmart let’s be honest I don’t have that kind of money for the Gucci flipflops down to the socks however for the great Greek philosophers like Socrates they were wealthy enough to

Enjoy a literal finer cut of cloth yes they could but Socrates said no I want the peasant look please apparently the wise Greek man often didn’t wear shoes and always wore the same ratty coat it’s also said that Socrates wasn’t exactly a good looker put on some shoes though

That’d be rough you’re walking around all day with no shoes on oh those would be rough looking feet buddy number six smart Streaker anyone that’s ever spent time with a physics Professor has probably heard the story a hundred times and that Professor probably genuinely thinks this is a funny story Archimedes

The fame Greek philosopher made a strange Discovery strangely one night after a long day of hard thinking he went to take a bath pondering the questions of life he noticed something was happening in the tub no not his rubber ducky going missing but rather a simple yet interesting concept of

Displacement when he was submerged in the water the water Rose he deducted that if he measures the difference that would equal his weight of volume and if it works with an old man then it would work with other things as well he was so excited by this that

He shot up and ran outside screaming Eureka Eureka well that part may not have happened but if it did I’d hate to be his neighbor no one wants to see that man number five I have The High Ground Anakin according to a disputable legend however given my semi Palatine

Impression I had to include this on the list B basically MDES was a smart dude and had just earned himself a decent track record he helped save people dude was credible he gained somewhat of a following afterwards almost to the point of worship this may have gone to his

Head as he started to believe his own divineness and jumped into an active volcano where strangely enough he does not come out of it now I wonder what would have caused that to happen perhaps maybe he didn’t have a certain Galactic friend who is the Senate the whole

Senate and nothing but the sen it and could shoot lightning out of his fingertips and help out of someone of the burning lava yes number four manure burial heraclitus had edema which is basically some bloating in the hands and feet due to excess water and fluids in

The body not a big deal although sometimes in ancient times all diseases were serious because well in ancient times frankly a Papyrus cut could be the difference between you attending the next celebration of town or taking a cruise down the river sticks herac quitus had a solution for this as a

Learned man he was never wrong so what was his scientific medical solution to his ailment that might have gone away on its own well he basically buried himself in manure so it would get rid of the excess water in his body yeah I I don’t know how that works either unfortunately

He was attacked and eaten by wild dogs in his mud bath he did not make it out number three boys club hpao was a female philosopher at the Library of Alexandria something that any archaeologist or historian would give their right kidney to witness in its Glory What’s So

Scandalous about her besides being a woman with knowledge that would scare a lot of men at the time things were all right until a Christian mob discovered she was a pagan well this certainly could not stand and in probably the weirdest assassination attempt ever she was unived by being sliced with clam

Shells or roof tiles the translation gets a little lost regardless we’re not playing clue here so it doesn’t matter if the Christian mob uses the shells in the library or not the fact is an intelligent woman who taught others was removed for no good reason number two

Countrymen let me your ears Zeno of ela was a learned man and in a rebellion against his leader nus he was captured and received the beating only a stepson would know however in Zeno’s final Act of Defense he asked nus to come close so that he could whisper in his ear and

Channeling his inner mik Tyson reeled back his head and came in to take a bite out of his ear like Scruff McGruff the dog takes a bite out of crime sure he was Victorious but history tends to remember things like that you got a page in a textbook somewhere you know number

One Zeus does this man deserve an introduction here’s another topic that could honestly be its own video Zeus the god of gods the man with all the power and the affinity for tossing lightning bolts the same way Gordon Ramsay tosses salads but I’ll just R them off for you

Turned his first wife into a fly and AER constantly unfaithful to his other wives tied Prometheus to a rock and had his liver eaten by a bird wiped out Humanity cursed a man to push a boulder up a steep hill for eternity and made Atlas put the world on his shoulders shout out

To my people in the audience who get anxiety trying to order a pizza over the phone now imagine you have to literally hold the whole world on your shoulders oh too much pressure yes I know Zeus is mythological but a lot of others on this

Could be as well this was a long time ago some documents just didn’t live that long number 10 displaced although the idea of Exile doesn’t seem like an unsettling outcome but if you lived in ancient Greece it is for sure something that you might want to be a little

Nervous about just like in Survivor or in any other modern game show in Athens every year they had a vote if they wanted to kick someone out and if they voted yes then in ostr Sim which is a little pot they would actually be held 2 months later and the citizens would give

The name of those that they wish to ostracize to a scribe as many of them were illiterate and then they would scratch the name on the pottery shards and the shards were piled up facing down so the votes would remain anonymous the person whose pile contained the most

Ostria or basically the most votes would be banished and would have to sachche away the person newly ostracized would have 10 days to leave the city and if he attempted to return the penalty was death the property of the man banished was not confiscated and there was no

Loss of his status on some plus side after 10 years he was actually allowed to return without stigma number nine slavery in this time they really were pro- slaves if by any means of punishment you would mean of ending up as a slave to the ancient Greeks slaves

Are after all the expected to be loyal to their masters a slave who ratted out on their masters would then be subsequently convicted and would be put to death for disloyalty that’s why they had to be tormented before a testimony could be taken enslaved people who lived and largely worked independently of

Their masters were those least likely to feel the iron Rod of discipline Athens slaves too could be physically punished or even tormented and enslaved people elsewhere were also subjected to beatings Athens alone was home to an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 slaves during the fifth and the 4th Century BC with

Each household having an average of three or four enslaved people attached to it slaves in ancient Greece did not have any human or civil rights and they were tormented for different reasons their owner could beat them whenever he wanted cuz he was a jerk or their testimony was needed for a lawsuit they

Were tormented into confessing to their own guilt or incriminate someone else number eight flogging yeah you might be familiar with this one flogging or known as whipping was also used in ancient Greece offenders could be subjected to beatings or implements like a whip or a rod which were meant to cause pain and

Severe as a deterrent for these times ritual floggings were actually practiced and Heretics were whipped with a thong of oxtail leather or parchment strips when the cane strikes or objects like these are used the blood is forced from the tissue beneath damages of the small blood vessels and individual cells would

Cause leakage of Blood and Tissue fluid into the skin and underlying tissue increasing the tension in these areas in ancient Athens bodily punishments like fogging and whipping are deemed inappropriate for a free aean men but were actually more reserved for slaves and foreigners number seven one night

Sneeze we’ve all been there it was a hot summer night you went out with a couple of friends for girls night tonight is all about the ladies no guys you say to each other and now you’re in the club and drinks are flowing and that’s when

You see him he’s tall handsome and blue eyes you’re submitting hours later you find yourself under the sheets up to the neck like it’s a prime time sitcom the sun peers its way through curtains that haven’t been cleaned since he bought them and yes yes that’s right that’s a

One night stand they happen and sometimes people just want to have a little fun can you blame them I can’t what I’m getting at is sometimes nights like those can have an 18-year investment after a 9mon down payment if you catch my drift the ancient Greeks had a simple solution for ladies who

Weren’t interested in that kind of bargain sneeze yes sneeze you sneeze sneeze away the night of Cinco Deo tequila shots at a bar called o grades the Greeks believed if you sneezed a whole bunch you couldn’t get pagers simple just simple I could do a sneeze dude simple number six tasteful doctor

As humans today we have a lot of knowledge in the medical field and we’re only getting smarter who knows what we’ll be capable of in 100 years it’s kind of amazing to think about well despite the technology that the Greeks did not possess any college professor

Today would tell you that they were not stupid they weren’t we owe a lot to them and part of that is in the medical field for example urine tests a lot can be told about a person from their urine the Greeks knew this but they didn’t have

All that fancy smancy machines to tell them what was in their urine instead they did the next best thing and tasted The Forbidden lemonade in order to determine what was wrong with the patient sure you can tell a lot by that way too but if the person was sick well

Well you know how that goes let’s keep the lemonade in the cups please yes I believe yes you have something wrong with your liver number five athlete juice speaking of gross this one is straight out of Johnny Knoxville’s Playbook shout out to those guys I hope one day I’m cool enough and

Famous enough to meet them maybe do a bit ched Knuck and fut so I’m down anyway back to the Greeks remember when I said the Greek bodybuilders like to oil up well so did the athletes here’s where it gets gross after days of events and running around in the dirt naked

With olive oil these athletes wouldn’t always bathe but why well the answer is marketing just like Gatorade commercials of the early 2000s these athletes were covered in Juice this sludge was scraped off in what I’m sure was a very humanizing experience and Jarred up to be sold like a superhero serum for the

Average Joe Schmo to drink or rub on themselves this mixture was called glow no thank you I will pass number four noctor and toen it was 2008 I was alone in the dark One Summer Night there Illuminating my poor innocent face was Call of Duty World at War the latest

Action-packed Hollywood Blockbuster FPS from Activision now I always finished campaigns first before moving on to multiplayer just when I thought it was over a new cut scene started playing except this one was different it was dark and the camera was shaky and that’s when I saw the twisted and screeching

Undead sprinting at me I have never turned off a console so fast in all my life well it seems the ancient Greeks shared this fear as well to prevent zombies eating their very smart brains the Greeks often times buried folks with heavy stuff on top of them just to prev

Them from climbing out of their graves that’s the smartest people on Earth and they think the zombies are going to come get them that’s crazy that’s guys come on number three diluted wine the Greeks were well known for their Artisan goods and Foods their wine is no different some good stuff out

There however did you know that Greeks would dilute their wine with a little H2O drinking wine pure was sometimes considered to be an Unholy act as it was said it could make a man unruly well they’re not too far off from the truth on that one actually drinking too much

Wine can make you go a little silly so yeah diluting it kind of makes sense sometimes during hot weather if it was available snow was added for a cool and refreshing drink on the hot Greek Island days sounds kind of nice kind of like a an ice spritzer an a Greek ice wine

Spritzer how nice wow number two the finger the ultimate hand gesture I know you’re going to have to blur it out or not even put it in but here we go that’s that’s what I’m talking about the ultimate hand gesture it starts with the hey I’m walking here and ends with a

Simple finger in the air it’s been used for centuries and will probably be used for many more ever wondered where the origins of the most powerful hand gesture besides Darth Vader’s Force choke come from well the almighty gesture has its origins in ancient Greece who would have thought while no

One is 100% sure the exact origins of it we know it was used back then and it was around the very interesting diones was known to use it against those passing by he was distasteful of he didn’t like a lot of people maybe it was because it

Was simple phallic or just kind of strange but at the end of the day we all know what it means you number one mud bath I know steo has literally done something like like this before and and and if there’s rules you should write down write this

One very down this second right now write it down be kind to another sorry be kind to one another and work hard in life and never do anything ever that steo has ever done those are really good rules trust me it’s good words to live by so what exactly am I talking about

Well in ancient Greece for those who could afford it and had the time that well they needed to relax I need to relax they needed the spa treatment heck I’ve never even been to a spa someone take me the ancient Greeks love mud baths and from what I hear it’s actually

Got quite a lot of benefits to it however the Greeks added one secret ingredient one piece of the Krabby Patty formula I know most of us would say no to even Plankton crocodile dung oh God yes that’s right they bathe in hot crocodile refu it’s great for the skin

Apparently so much so it was thought it had beautifying and restorative properties go ahead then Jump Right In guys water’s fine come on in number 10 Clash of the Titans an Avengers level threat baby the Titans were the big bad Giants ruled over the earth and the gods

Naturally they all got along and there were never any problems ever yeah right they fought like cats and dogs though I never understood that because all the dogs and cats I know always got along great but the Titans fought and and they fought some more until your favorite boy

Zeus had enough and kind of took control over everything it’s Zeus it’s what he does it’s too bad Aaron Jer wasn’t there to help out number nine Prometheus poor Prometheus this is my favorite tale from Greek mythology I think it’s rather sad for Prometheus all he wanted to do was

Give us the knowledge of fire and and look at all the things that we did with it forged Iron and Steel heated our homes so no one would ever go cold again and we cooked which gave Gordon Ramsay 23 hit shows and a reason to curse when

Asking for the lamb sauce where’s the lime sauce Prometheus went directly against Zeus’s orders and if you didn’t know that’s kind of a bad thing it can wind you up in a rather unfortunate position a position like being chained up and having a large bird come Feast on

Your intestines like I eat mom’s spaghetti she makes a good spaghetti thanks Mom you make a good spaghetti number eight Icarus I think we can all relate to this one or at least have been told a version of this when we were flush things were going good for us in a

Nutshell Icarus got some wax wings and gained the ability to flight mind you that was probably the dream of many ancient peoples after acarus got his wings he got a little arrogant he wanted to push his wings to the Limit kind of like Iron Man in the first Iron Man

Movie but instead of falling in a multi-million dollar sup suit and looking handsome while doing it Icarus sniffed one too many of his own farts and flew too close to the Sun where he burned up in it so what’s the lesson learned here folks keep yourself grounded and don’t sniff your own

Farts number seven barbecue 2 yes I know the whole uh stick thing but that’s what they did like all other forms of punishment the pike or impalement was the next course of the deal the victim was inserted halfway up their back privates while held above the spike for

Longitudinal and the spike would run them through as a gravity took hold avoiding vital organs and muring through the skin on the shoulder or neck for several days a person might endure this inste the Torso was penetrated by the Stak during transversal either from the front to the back or other way around

Impalement was a very common practice across the fonic Egypt Europe Mesopotamia and the ancient near East the Neo Assyrian Empire and of course ancient Greece number six I believe I can fly in ancient Greece another method of execution was the act of throwing a criminal over a precipice this practice

Was not limited to Athens but it was actually very prevalent in other regions like Sparta Delphia corneth Etc the execution would involve pushing the convict over a high steep Cliff where they would fall into a deep trench known as Veron in Athens this particular form of execution was typically reserved for

Individuals who were convicted of religious or political crimes the denial of burial rights further added the humiliation and disgrace brought upon the criminal as it would be left unburied there remains exposed and vulnerable to the elements as well as the animals referen to this method of execution are not found after 40bc and

The Athens appear to have dug a new trench in the 4th Century but this was probably designed to receive convicts who were executed by other means number five rats they really do love using rats back in the day but to be honest you’d be surprised that they use rats even as

Recent as 1970s in Chile and Argentina during the Dirty War using the same methods the method if some might know involved trapping rats in a bottomless cage to top of victim’s abdomen burning coals were then placed on a small tray at top the cage heating the metal from

Above desperation to escape the heat the rats would begin to burrow only through the soft surface that they could find which is the victim’s flesh with sharp claws and teeth the rats would quickly gnaw their way into the victim’s bowels causing excruciation pain and Terror the technique particularly came in handy

When as I mentioned before the Dutch leaders were trying to distract information from Spanish enemies as soon as the cage rats were placed on the prisoner stomach the terrified men would often give up and they would actually just expose everything else that they knew number four stone stoning or

Lapidation is a form of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from a blunt trauma it has been tested as a form of punishment from grave misdeeds since ancient times stoning is attested in the near East since ancient times as

A form of capital punishment for grave sins however stoning as a practice was not geographically limited to only near the east as it is also a significant historical record of stoning being employed in the west as well ancient geographers describe both the Elder and younger ascities being stoned to death

In ancient Greece around the 7th Century BCE stoning is condemned by human rights groups as a form of cruel and unusual punishment and torment as a serious violation of human rights as of now human rights organizations argue that many acts targeting of stoning should not be legal in the first place by

Allowing them interferes with people’s rights to private life number three Brazen bull throughout history humans in general have created an enclave of many extraordinary things one of the cruelest punishments invented in ancient Greece this particular type of Torment was just as pleasant as everything else on this

List or rather unpleasant the Bren bull was just that of a sculpture of a bull with a fire buil underneath it the victim was placed inside and slowly roasted to death as the fire burned and the metal grew hotter and hotter I’m pretty sure you can imagine the pain of

The victims that they were in so that the creators of the Bren bull would just enjoy it the bull was casted Hollow and was used with a fire built below and it was designed so that it could be opened and a person would be forced inside as I mentioned the fire would start

Underneath and the person would be burnt as the smoke and steam would Escape through the nose incense was also placed inside to counteract the smell of burning flesh and it is said that the series of tubes inside the Statue was designed to distort the screams of the

Victims to make that sound like an animal once an individual had to come into their charred State apparently the people there would also use their bones and turn them into bracelets number two the rack the rack was a torment device consisting of a rectangular frame with a

Roller at each end the victim’s limbs were stretched and tired to the rollers by turning the rollers the body would be subjected to increasing tension causing extreme pain and potential dislocation or dismemberment of their joints the exact origin of the rack uh is pretty unclear but the earliest mentions of its

Used was in ancient Greece the rack was often used as a torment method to extract confession with the execution itself coming anyway from another method nevertheless victims would perish on the rack and for those who did not it was far more likely more painful for the persecutor to the method of actual

Execution the most infamous case of the rack is in used in ancient Greece was associated with herostratus an arsonist who was set on fire to the second temple of Artemis in Ephesus in 356 BC finally number one crucifixion this form of execution was mostly associated with the

Death of Jesus was rather practice in ancient Greece but there’s at least one mention in the historical text of the Greeks condemning someone to this slow low and excruciating death according to the Greek writer herodes in his histories there’s an account of the execution of a Persian General by the

Athenians around 479 BC the Persians had burned Athens just a year prior in 480 BC so the harsh punishment may have reflected the intense anger of the Greeks in any case herodes wrote that they nailed him to a plank and hung him and this as you know is the form of

Crucifixion number 10 Icarus we all probably know of Icarus and the phas is taken to sum up his story don’t fly too close to the son what happened to Icarus well he was made Wings by his father but they were made out of wax which oddly

Enough is a strange material to use in building Wings really his father though was dead Dallas who made the famed maze that the Minotaur of creit resided in and was known to be a great inventor and engineer yet for some reason he chose wax as his material for wings so kind of

Contradicts him being a great inventor I think but okay maybe he was just trying to prove how skilled he was he was like look at this I can make wings out of any material whatever ever I got feathers wax whatever deadalus was actually being kept in cre as a prisoner which is why

He made the wings for his son to basically Escape captivity dialis warns his son Icarus to not fly too close to the sun because clearly These Wings will melt since you know they are made out of wax and what does Icarus do he takes the wings he puts them on bids forwell to

His father saying don’t worry I got this and he immediately flies too close to the Sun the wings melt he falls he dies I mean what even is this story the real moral should be don’t make wings that wax it’s not a good building material for wings and friends before we move on

To our next spot on this list if you love what we do here at bumblebee be sure to let us know by clicking that subscribe button if you’re not subscribed already number nine mom where do human Souls come from well in the Modern Age this question has evolved

You’ve likely heard it before where do babies come from back in ancient Greek times people instead wanted an answer to this far more philosophical version of said question where do human Souls come from the answer also STS Maybe it was believed that human Souls traveled down

To earth as Birds STS included I imagine number eight L and the swan another mess that in retrospect is pretty terrible but is also quite ridiculous is the myth of Lea and the swan this is a story about Zeus having an affair and cheating on his wife Hera because that’s just how

He always be doing in myths Zeus thought L was very beautiful and he basically wanted to sleep with her Zeus wonders to himself what would be the best form to take to seduce Lea hm a handsome man make myself look like her own husband nah I know I’ll turn myself into a swan

And indeed he somehow seduces her as a swan now there are versions of the story where Zeus does not even actually seduce Lita instead forcing himself upon her but I prefer the version of the story where Zeus just seduced her as a swan because I mean what does that even look

Like that’s so ridiculous did he go out did he like wear a little swan bow tie did he go out as a swan and like get a nice bottle of wine and say sweet things to her and then she was just like yeah I’m down down with this this is one

Charming Swan so Zeus and L end up sleeping together and she bore him two children one of which ended up being Helen of Troy however I just love the idea that Lita maybe actually did fall in love with the swan without even ever maybe knowing that it was actually Zeus

I think that would be crazy she also has like two sets of twins I think at once that are two of them are her husbands and two of them are the swans cuz she slept with both of them the same day and I’m just like that doesn’t even make

Sense that’s not how babies work but I guess if it’s a God maybe it works different number seven Jason and the Argonauts Avenger level threat acquired for some reason in our lives you find stories of our favorite Heroes forming Almighty and Powerful groups The Avengers the Justice

League BTS that one that one might have too much power but yes Jason and the Argonauts were a band of Heroes on adventur slaying beasts taking names and greying the area sadly for Jason and the Argonauts every time they try and make a movie about it it just uh just never

Works for them I don’t know they had a visually impressive one in the’ 60s and everything after that it just been a complete misfire Hollywood if your casting calls come my way just just know I make a great Jason look at me I could be Jason got a sword a shield and here

We go that’s it number six Hercules Hercules Hercules the strong one or the one where Danny DeVito coaches him through the process of being a Greek legend if Danny DeVito is coaching you through anything that probably means you’re going to come out on top and yes before you start typing in the comment

Section technically speaking Hercules is the Roman copy of Heracles I know however it’s kind of one of those things that everyone just knows the one so anytime a Greek Dude shows up with muscles you blush and you think of Hercules as far as Greek mythology goes

It doesn’t get any more classic than a super strong guy with abs and biceps maybe a little bit of olive oil on them I don’t know number five sopus oh baby do I feel this one story of my life honestly day late and a dollar short

Some of you folks at home may also share the same face f as me and this chiseled Greek man doomed for eternity this one is also one of my favorites basically Copus was cheating the devil cheating death itself actually after sliming his way out of the underworld one too many

Times Big Daddy Zeus had to intervene also when I say I relate to him it’s not because I’m a trickster who cheats My Demise or cheats the the devil or or Hades I’ll explain so after sopus had done what he’ done Zeus sentenced him to roll a giant boulder up a hill for

Eternity when he gets to the top she rolls back down to the bottom and he has a start all over again every day for the rest of time not just life for time sometimes in life it feels like you’re on a grind and you work and work and

Work and sometimes you go right back to square one no matter how hard you work that sucks and that can be exhausting but never give up cuz cheddy ain’t and neither should you number four King Midas the less one in this one folks is to be careful what you wish for King

Midas was being granted a wish he wished for anything I touch be turned to gold now I’m not an economist because I already have too many jobs on the internet but you can imagine how at today’s rate of gold how wealthy you would be she yeah gold was valuable back then but

Now W so his wish was granted and everything he touched turned to gold which for a good couple hours must have been the most fun anyone has ever had ever dude was seeing drma signs however this wealthy gift he had been given quickly turned into a curse or a bird

Everything he touched turned to Gold that included his food because of this he starved to fix this burden he bathed in a river and it said that’s why gold can be found in that River I wouldn’t mind having that power myself but if I made food gold or even worse I made my

Beer gold the the heart number three narcissist this one’s in the name basically there was a guy named narcissist and he was gorgeous like George Clooney Brad Pit Ryan Reynolds gorgeous all just all put together oh and he knew it and he loved his image

Now as a guy who goes on camera every day naturally you hate yourself you hate yourself image that’s how it goes ask anyone here they would tell you the same thing but also as someone who’s on camera every day and funny from time to time you kind of like yourself on camera

And you kind of like yourself image it’s a very strange relationship we have however no one is as bad as it comes to as narcissist one day in the forest he came across a body of water where he saw his reflection cast and it was so handsome so gorgeous that he couldn’t

Look away ever hence the name narcissist or narcissist or what most girls in high school find out what their boyfriends have narcissism ladies let me know have you ever dated someone who has narcissism or looked in the mirror too long let me know I’m curious number two

Medusa I feel like a lot of people know this one Medusa the half beautiful lady half head of snakes in her head and and half monster thing with powers yes I realized that was three has and that doesn’t add up but you’re talking to a guy who was voted class clown in the

High school yearbook and not voted most likely to succeed in math cuz I just wouldn’t but she was the Gorgon monster who would turn men into stone I I I do know that if they looked into her eyes that wasn’t until your boy perc showed up like link with a mirror shield and

Gave her a taste of her own medicine what’s the lesson on this one I’m not sure maybe it’s don’t be so sure of your abilities maybe it’s seeing things through or maybe it’s having an extensive knowledge of tactics from a late ’90s Nintendo character that you

You never know when you’re going to need that you never know I I I know that stuff that can come in handy number one Pandora’s Box I know you guys know this one but this one is so simple at first glance it’s not about turning things into gold or weird Snakehead ladies or

Giants rising from beneath the Earth to fight each other it’s a box something ain’t good in that box but it’s just a box so don’t open it I’m going to say it again because there’s going to be people in the comments section that are going to say but cheddy because you said don’t

Open it that means I really want to open it imagine I’m Robert dairo telling you not to open it nope no way nope not going to happen nope n and void don’t do it don’t do it that’s how you know I’m serious cuz I did a bad impression oh

Great somebody open it yes that’s right Pandora’s Box was opened and it said that all the evils of the world were released from the box good tail good moral but who the heck thought putting all those evil things in the world in the Box was a great idea whatever

Happened to just have momento boxes you know you open up a thing this is the time I farted on camera this is the time I went to the cottage you know what I mean whatever happened to that number 10 dionisia okay this one’s pretty cool actually the best way I can describe it

Is like it’s a very old film festival or how my friends and I treated the MCU movies bunch of my friends Liv together and it was kind of like the house of nerds we were pretty cool I swear we all couldn’t wait to get out and see the

Movies with who it seemed like every other person on Earth was also going to see the movies The Avengers they were pretty cool that’s what diania in a nutshell is just let’s Captain America and uh no no spandex people would flock Athens to come watch plays in their huge

Amphitheaters and of course just like all parties on this list here there’s going to be lots of food and drink and wine can’t have a a showing without wine can can I have that number nine kodos well in case you’re wondering yes I have been to a few parties in my life high

School and college were times of great nights and even worse hangovers I what can I say I just enjoyed my time with friends and even strangers sometimes and of course I may or may not have had a few beer that depends on if my mom’s watching this

Video or not I’m sorry Mom I also may have partaken in a few drinking games like flip cup king’s cup and my favorite beer pong you’re looking at the basement Champion here folks the number one you’re looking at I’m number one brother well surprisingly enough even in ancient

Times the Greeks enjoy drinking games you wouldn’t think a game called kodos the OB je of the game was to swirl your cup around and throw it at Targets a lot of times inside the home to me it sounds like I’m going to need a towel for all

That spilled liquid I got to clean up before Mom gets home or else I’ll be in trouble number eight frat parties okay so given that they love to drink and party and as well as play games it seems to make sense that the comparison of a

Modern day frat house is that of to the Greeks and the whole fraternity thing that they Greek names what I’m getting at is sometimes the Frat houses aren’t the most well taken care of you ever seen Animal House yeah exactly you know what I mean well as it turns out the

Ancient Greeks might have had some frat Behavior themselves besides the drinking games and actually besides wearing togas that I’m not sure if that was true or not the gree would sometimes throw furniture around in their sters it’s so strange you just think of them being such educated wise men not toga partying

70s animals but here we are number seven the white crow were crows always black feathered according to ancient Greek myth no they were not initially they were apparently white which I don’t know if that’s actually true in science but in mythology that’s what we’re going with the crow or Raven was associated

With Apollo initially and he had his own symbolic bird spy on his lover coronis when the Bird returned and told Apollo that coronis was actually being unfaithful to the god in an anger he charred the feathers of his bird turning the famed white feather Crow into the black feathered version we have today

That’s not really how Charing works for feathers though pretty sure that bird should be featherless or deceased number six the origin of the Minotaur this is another tragic story but at the same time it’s also pretty weird especially by modern-day standards Poseidon gifted to minos the king of cre a bull which

Was to be sacrificed a beautiful snow white bull however Minos thought to himself wow that is a beautiful bull I know I’m supposed to sacrifice to the gods I know the gods are the whole reason that I have this like beautiful kingdom on Create and then I should pay

Tribute to them and that to mess with them based on other myths that I’ve heard is most definitely not a good idea however I’m just going to keep this bull and not sacrifice it because YOLO so what happened to Minos well oddly even though this was ultimately his call in

The myth nothing happens to him he was fine but his wife however ends up being punished as a result which I guess could be seen as a punishment to Minos since she is after all you know his wife but still I don’t think she deserved any of

What comes her way based on what I’ve heard of her paa minos’s wife ends up being cursed to fall in love with the bull so now Minos is saying wow this is a really beautiful bull Isn’t it isn’t it my wife and PF is thinking oh yeah I

Mean wait a minute oh yeah this is a really beautiful bull kind of sexy too and she falls in love with the bull together they have a child and that child ends up being the Minotaur of creit who they keep in their Labyrinth which was constructed for them by DEA

Dallas an amazing engineer and inventor which also was pretty terrible because you know this minitar didn’t really do anything to deserve this punishment either as far as I know other than being born I guess he is described as being a monster in mythology but really he was

Just The Offspring in the story of paa and her bull boou so he shouldn’t inherently be evil or anything I just imagine the poor Minotaur in the May is just being bored as heck and thinking what did I do to deserve this pretty terrible really and also poor pacify I

Wonder if she ever dreamt of having a life with the bull and their like little minitar child cuz honestly Minos really sounds like he sucks most of the time in myths number five IO and the Gat IO was another woman Zeus wanted to be with but

She was much more wary of him she had heard the stories and she wasn’t planning on falling for the swan trick or any of Zeus’s tricks for that matter Zeus tried many different forms to get with IO even apparently transforming himself into a Mist at one point however

Despite never being with Zeus iio gets punished anyways her father throws her out and Hara becomes jealous of IO and the attention she is attracting from Zeus even though it is actually unwanted attention she turns IO into a cow condemning her to walk the earth forever

Plagued by a giant gnat which nips at her rump I guess the moral of the story is whether you get with Zeus or not if he has his eye on you you’re basically just in trouble there’s no way out of it number four the arrival of odyusa Les people that could actually

Read bird patterns for the arrival of Odysseus and Homer’s Odyssey the movement of the birds across the sky was used to actually predict his arrival apparently an eagle flies three times overhead and then three times to the right and that translates to odyusa cre this is probably one of my

Favorite myths to recount from all of Greek mythology it is the story of Theus and a ship that he sailed on in order to rescue the people that were to be sacrificed from his home Athens so Theus finds out that his dad is a Gus the king

Of Athens however there is also at this time an understanding standing between cre and Athens where Athens is basically made to deliver 14 of their best to sacrifice to C’s Minotaur thesias however has a plan and he decides he’s actually going to find a way to save all

Of the tributes and then return them home including himself cuz he’s also being sent as one and his dad who he just reconnected with basically says well it’s going to be really hard for me to see you go especially if you don’t make it back I’m just going to trust

That you can save our people but I need you to promise me that upon your return you change the sale to let me know that you actually survive so when I look out at the Horizon I’m not worrying the whole time that the ship on its way back

Doesn’t have you on it or any of these awesome people Theus goes and actually succeeds in his mission he gets some help from Mary Adney the daughter of Minos who is Enchanted by Theus and basically decides to help him by giving him a ball of in some versions of the

Story magical thread which he can then use to retrace his steps after defeating the minitar to get back out of the maze in the rush of his Escape however it makes thesias forget his promise to his dad and he forgets to change the sail in

His haste so AAS looks for the ship and sees it returning but the sail is the same one that he sent them out with it as the exact same color and everything it has not been changed to signify thesis’s Victory heartbroken he flings himself off of a cliff and into what we

Now referred to as the aan sea although this is tragic the weird good news for Theus when he returns is that while he has lost his father which is really sad this actually now makes him King so he becomes king Theus number two Cassandra bird Whisperer dividing people arrival

Times by watching birds fly is one thing understanding their own speech is on a whole other level though that is what famous Oracle Cassandra claimed she could do how did she learn how to speak to birds apparently a snake once licked her ear and that is

How number one pereus loves pany this is one of the weirdest Greek myths that I remember from my time in high school in ancient civilizations class which honestly happened to be one of my favorite classes ever in high school this is the story of what happened to

The best friend of Theus everyone always talks about thes IUS the champion the hero the king and all of his stories but did you know that his BFF actually has a pretty cool story all his own or rather not all his own because he does ask for

Theseus’s help and for Theus to join him on his Adventure but I digress the story is pius’s pursuit of pany so perthus gets it in his head that he should be with panie pereus goes so far as to claim that he can tell that panie wants

To be with him too so he tells Theus one night at a bar guess what panie she wants to be with me man and I need your help to get down to the underworld to save her from Hades Theus at first he doesn’t believe pereus wants to be with

You why why what makes you so special I mean she’s with freak in Hades man that would be crazy but perthus insists trust me she does I’m alive and Hades is all about death and the afterlife GH that’s what I have over him trust me pranie is over the whole underworld scene

Eventually preus does convince Theus to join him in his Adventure promising it as a final Triumph for his BFF King thesis who is getting on in his years at this point so the two of them end up going down to the underworld they sneak in through the back door but just as

They think they’re safe they’ve made it who should they run into but Hades himself and while they begin to panic Hades actually surprises them and he says Hey Oh you guys are here for pranie I imagine of course of course look I know all about it and in fact preus I

Ship you both too I’m totally cool with this just come with me step into my office we’ll file all the paperwork to have pany transferred back over the world of the living permanently and you can be on your way here have a seat Theus and perthus are stunned and they

Do take a seat Hades begins to laugh though when perthus asks what’s so funny he answers you fools are of course that bench is impossibly sticky once anyone sits on it they will never ever be able to get up again so now you’re both stuck to that office bench for eternity in

This underworld so GG nice try oh and it’s also super uncomfortable so like have a good life Hades leaves them there and for years they were indeed stuck on that bench with little imps apparently like nipping at their feet Theus does eventually get free though being rescued

By his cousin Hercules later on but not pereus as far as I know he just stays there forever he probably still there today number 10 Lita we know that Zeus transforms whatever he wants to get whatever he wants because he can and being the God of all gods he is known

For also being a bit of a rascal and by that I mean he sleeps with everyone and well anyone Gods demig Gods animals Mortals and sometimes with Mortals as animals in this story Zeus sees Lita and falls in love with her and so he’s like you know what I’mma transform into a

Swan and be with her and he did he turned into a swan and the night late Lita lays with her husband afterwards She lays with a swan somehow she sleeps with a swan and out comes two eggs or while two sets of twins the first set

Was Helen and clestra and the second set was caster and Pollock all myths seem to agree that poock was Immortal and Helen was Zeus’s daughter is there a point to this conception well aside the legends of pox and Helen who we know is the Helen of Troy I don’t know what’s more

Interesting is that he had to be a swan to do it or she laid Ed eggs or maybe she didn’t maybe she just had quad trets number nine exion in this Greek mythology we see a lot of conception going on as it is essential to know who

Your daddy is exion he wanted to be the father of many and so the story goes that exion was in exile for punishing his supposed father-in-law for stealing his horses he punished his father-in-law by burning coals on him and violating the guest coost rule as well as kin

Slaying so by his actions he was banished from the city and when Zeus took pity on him he invited him to come to Olympus as a guest of course this was probably not a smart move on Zeus’s part once there exion saw Hera and was completely obsessed with her so Zeus

Tested his loyalty by creating a cloud version of Hera which somehow exion impregnated and Zeus was pissed off he became angry and punished exion by informing Hermes to bind him to an every spinning gigantic flaming wheel for all eternity and the impregnated Cloud gave birth to half horses and Half Men known

As centur number eight lurus of th if you got more than one sibling sometimes your mom would call you by the wrong name and call you by your sibling’s name instead if that hasn’t happened to you it’s okay not everyone can live the same experiences especially the son of lcus

Of thce who attacked everyone’s favorite fabulous party God dinosis while he was traveling trying to teach everyone how to make wine the gods punished lrus with Madness and In the Heat of his Madness Rampage he saw his son and thought he was a plant so he said oh this Vine

Needs to be clipped and he wielded his axe and killed his own son as well as the rest of his family after that there were many myths saying that he used the same axe to cut off his own legs because why not in some way I guess this was a

Story warning more to not mess with the party God number seven catch the cross here’s a modern one for you that I think was pretty cool always learning here at bumblebee this is new for me catching the cross may sound like something you do at a wedding instead of a bouquet of

Flowers you catch a little Jesus there oh over here oh I want it all jokes aside this is one of the biggest celebrations of Orthodox Christians basically it works like little weights your mom bought for the pool so you can practice diving a priest throws a cross

And a holy blessed body of water and then Young men from around all the village come and dive to retrieve it diving for weights was one of my favorite things to do as a kid across sure we’ll go for it we’ll do it let’s let’s go I’ll dig up some Jesus let’s go

Number six ragara Halloween North American children’s favorite fall holiday when I went to college I made friends with a lot of international students and for a lot of them it was going to be their first Halloween that coming fall was pretty cool experience to have their first with me was pretty

Cool who doesn’t love Halloween personally I prefer the costumes that were funny over scary right I’ve done so many funny things well what if I told you that there’s a similar holiday in Greece just less Value Village costumes in January people in castoria City wear scary masks and exercise demons from the

City who you going to call once all these spooky demons have been scared off the mass people pass by where they sometimes receive coins for their ghostbusting services that’s kind of cool you wear a mask go scare someone and then and then you get a coin there’s

A coin for you I have a coin I’ll take I’ll take the drma do they still use drma no it’s euros right number five Virgin Mary snakes Okay this one is a little strange especially if you got an issue with snakes I pride myself living in Canada because we have so many few

Species of venomous snakes I believe it’s four to be exact that’s good four is a good number that’s not a shot at Australia I love you guys but you’ve got too many on the island of seonia there’s an event that happens every year that resembles our Groundhog Day except it’s

Not freezing cold out and we’re not waiting hours for a small town mayor to tell us if he saw a groundhog Shadow or not and to vote for him in the next election on the 15th of August is the celebration of the dorm mission of Virgin Mary during the service in the

Church of the Virgin Mary and Marco pulo harmless little snakes appear inside around this church and at the end of the day they disappear as Legend tells it it’s because pirate showed up to the island and thanks to prayer some snakes showed up as well to chase offset

Pirates kind of a weird story it’s kind of like drown Hog Day sort of kind of right there’s a connection there sure number four Christmas boat Christmas boat oh Christmas boat I’m full of turkey I hope you float isn’t that cute that was cute that was good I don’t know

About you guys but if you’ve been watching here for a while you know that I love Christmas it’s my favorite holiday I love the music I love the joy in the air I love spending it with the whole family Grandma and Grandpa the snow I love it all and especially the

Movies I love Christmas movies Christmas vacation is my favorite least favorite Polar Express it’s not as good as people think I don’t know why people keep telling me that it’s not that good it’s not Tom hanks’s best work well what’s always good is decorating the Christmas

Tree well as it turns out some places in Greece they decorate the cavari which is actually a boat with Christmas decorations instead of a tree I can go either way but with the boat there’s less pine needles to clean up and less for the family pet to eat and eventually

Vomit on the Christmas tree that happens every year I swear to God got a cat and just does a little hairball on the little thing around the Christmas tree the skirt that’s what’s called the skirt anyway number three apoc this is the big one baby it’s the one all Greeks wait

For or at least so I’m told she starts off with a big fat church meeting and then no eating meat no don’t don’t the whole thing last weeks with a surplus of dairy cheese and wine consumption which is just fine by me then the mask get

Busted out kind of similar to Marty and other Western Christian celebrations of the sort hey if there’s ever some lovely Greek fans out there Taylor Adam and I could go for some delicious Greek cooking we’re all hungry boys just saying there’s also an assortment of parades that look pretty fun too the

Biggest one being in ptra so in a nutshell it’s Greek marig just less SIN number two clean Monday this is where we clean ourselves up it’s the Monday that ends the festivities some of you may know it is Lent but this is huge in Greece this is where we give up all of

Our meat eating and we eat seafood because you know fish that’s not that’s not meat for some reason right right it’s weird but it’s 40 days of repenting letting go of your sin and all the Mischief of the festival that you may or may not have partaken in no need to

Bring up how much wine I drank but I guess every party has to come to an end right and coming in at the number one spot today we have plate smashing Opa now how can I mention any Greek party or celebration without a plate breaking

It’s been around for a long time and how can you make this list without talking about plate smashing and Greek weddings any regular Greek Wedding Beats any of these holidays any day of the week enough food to feed an army literally music dancing and enough wine to sing a

Ship all of this as soon as the bride and groom break the plate it’s beautiful I love it shout out to the damn forth you know what I’m saying number 10 tyrants this is where the name comes from folks we kind of wouldn’t have the label if it weren’t for ancient Greeks

There’s been a lot of tyrants in history but this is where it all starts a ement refers to an absolute leader who uses his or her power harshly and crudely exercising total control and oppressing those who stand against the strict rulings or are a desired Target of which

Ooh very fancy definition cheddy I like it wow the trick is seeing how history remembers you leaders like Paul pot and Joseph stallen are easily agreeable tyrants but for example the ancient Greek leader Alexander the Great can also be considered one history remembers him for his great triumphs and while

That’s interesting to look at because well he’s one of History’s Greatest generals he’s really amazing actually from the safety of our history class that’s fine but his actual Deeds well they were less than remarkable War looting trading YouTube’s least favorite s word and well many many more brutal

Things that the Conqueror from another land did not good plus if you were from another land and you saw him do what he was doing you probably wouldn’t think he was such a great guy it wouldn’t be Alexander the Great it be Alexander the big stinky Tyrant so there you go number

Nine diog this one’s my favorite maybe the least famous of all philosophers but one with a decent philosophy or at least so I think so that’s that’s how I feel and I think it fits in with the modern uh the modern world a man who was banished and exiled and had all his

Possessions Stripped Away in some depictions even his clothes I wouldn’t want that taken away I got to have my have my clothes thus the man was forced to live his life on the streets of Athens inside a barrel as you do this likely is what developed his philosophy

Of cynicism he argued that since he was living free of tax or payment in his Barrel that he was truly free thus he had less worries than the commoners and yeah that’s where his freedom came from well where does the crime part come in besides well the obvious tax fraud

There we going to pay your taxes Diagon might have been a few Gyros short of a picnic if you know what I’m saying as he would often Shout At passers by and uh well he would um he would do the devil’s bedroom dance Solo in public just in his Barrel there just

Doing yeah you know I can’t say it but you know what I’m talking about number eight Sith Revenge well I know a lot of people people would be behind this especially for really awful crimes revenge is not the Jedi way sometimes it was an option for the families of those

Who were wronged in ancient Greece to enact their revenge on the crook assuming of course the crook was caught you can just imagine the kind of crimes the really bad ones YouTube won’t let me say however the important Point here is that the families of the victim were

Given a chance to make their peace or well whatever the antithesis of that is usually involving the crook not breathing anymore kind of a kind of a a Blood for Blood kind of thing sounds great at first but I couldn’t recommend it I don’t think it I don’t think it

Would go well in people’s conscience I don’t know not a good idea number seven siron it wasn’t just the gods who were cruel at random but of course a lot of humans were just as susceptible as well as Psychopaths once there was a man named siron who loved to rob people and

His method would just call Travelers on the road and ask them to help wash his feet they would offer to help and then he would kick them off the face of a cliff 300 style and if it wasn’t any worse a giant turtle would be at the

Bottom of the cliff and eat the remains of the still living if the fall didn’t and kill them and he did this over and over and over again killing many many people the hero thus was really tired of his Shenanigans and so he confronted siron and by Karma he also threw him off

The cliff which many would say is a fitting end number six Athena punishes Arachne Arachne was a wonderful and very talented sea mistress and she would sometimes boast that she was better than other people and more importantly better than the goddess Athena eventually this got to Athena’s ear and cautioned her to

Be quiet of this false rumor and when she didn’t listen Athena then challenged her and gave her one chance to prove herself in a weaving contest which is great because it shows that she wants to give her a chance but when Athena saw how beautiful the tapestry Arachne made

She exploded in a fit of rage and jealousy and cursed the girl to feel guilty for what she had done Arachne felt so much guilt that she eventually did take her own life but atha wasn’t done with her yet she took Arachne and transformed her into a spider so she

Would weave for all eternity which we all know now in a scientific term for spiders is Arachne number five Apollo fin for once or at least once in a while we see Gods not behaving badly as much as we are told in stor stories they do Apollo grew up in adulthood within 4

Days of course cuz that’s normal on a small island and wasn’t able to leave and he decided out of all sea creatures to transform himself into a dolphin this somehow turned into a sea into raging storms because apparently turning into a dolphin makes the sea mad he spotted a

Ship in distress and he decided to save it and he leapt up on the deck still in Dolphin form and guided the ship to a safe place on the shore from there he set up to do what gods do and in honor of his method of Escape Apollo named the

City dely after his dolphin form number four the 12 laborers the laborers of Hercules also known as the 12 laborers are amongst the most famous stories in Greek mythology Hercules was given a series of tasks that seemed impossible to complete however through a combination of strength wit and

Assistance from the gods Hercules was able to overcome these challenges and Achieve Redemption the task range from slaying fearsome beasts like the Neiman Lion and the nine-headed Hydra to capturing mythical creatures like the Golden Hind of Artemis and the aranth and bore each of these tasks were fraught with danger and required not

Only immersed physical strength but also cleverness and brave bravery in each case Hercules was able to overcome the odds and complete his task by proving his heroism and earning his Redemption number three Prometheus Prometheus was a unique figure among the Titans he was known for his wisdom and foresight and

He had a particular fondness for Humanity which set him apart from most of the other gods and Titans this fondness led him to commit one of the most audacious acts in all of Mythology he stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity fire in this context was

More than just a practical tool it represented knowledge progress and civiliz ation by giving fire to humans Prometheus not only provided them with the means of survival but also set them a path towards progress and Enlightenment but this angered Zeus as he was enraged by prometheus’s audacity and the Potential Threat that

Enlightened Humanity could pose to the gods Prometheus was then chained to a rock in the Caucasus Mountains and every day an eagle would swop down and eat his liver each night his liver would regenerate and only be eaten again the next day the cycle of Torment was to be

Prometheus fate for eternity if you watch the movie Moana that’s actually kind of how Maui came to be is that he was an eagle and also he gave and stole the heart of teiti to the people and that’s basically where the story came from number two otopus some may may not

Know the story so let’s just get into it otopus was the son of lias the King of Thieves and his wife jasta and before his birth an oracle prophesies that otopus would kill his father and marry his mother horrified by this prophecy lice and jasta decided to kill their

Newborn son and they ordered a servant to leave their baby on a mountain side to die however the servant took pity on the Infant and gave him to a Shepherd from the neighboring City of corneth the Shepherd in turn gave the baby to the childless king and queen of corneth who

Raised them as their own unaware of who his real parents were otopus decided to visit an Oracle and heard the same prophecy his birth parents heard believing it was his adopted parents were his biological parents he left to avoid the prophecy but unfortunately when he left he encountered his real dad

And killed him unknowingly fulfilling the first half of the prophecy he then arrived in thieves where he was able to defeat a sphinx and as his reward he became king and married the Widow of that Kingdom in other words his mom fulfilling the rest of the prophecy

Number one pagalon he was just really into mannequins or in this case statues pagalon was a super talented sculpture from the island of Cypress and he saw how all the women around him had flaws so he felt he wanted to make the perfect woman so he made her from Ivory and with

Such skill he she almost seemed pretty much alive and he named her galatia and just like that he fell in love with his statue he gave her everything Jewels diamonds silks to wear but of course she was just a statue and could not give the love back to Pig mallan so during the

Festival of Aphrodite the Goddess of love he begged and pray to have his wife just like the statue he made moved by his Love and Desire she granted his wish and just like the blue fairy from Pinocchio she turned the statue into a real woman and galaa Mary pigmalion and

They lived happily ever after number 10 is a rocky time because toilet paper didn’t migrate its way over to Europe until the 16th century before it was all sponge sticks and rocks baby and Stones were actually a pretty common bathroom solution for the average Greek who used rounded pieces alongside Ceramics known

As pooy which translated to Pebbles they kept a pile of these pebbles in their Laboratories and some cute little Bed Bath and Beyond brand wicker baskets for whenever it was time to freshen up and similar to how we have the phrase toilet paper doesn’t grow on trees they also

Had the saying to encourage a little Frugal te in the bathroom three stones are enough to wipe but my favorite fun fact is some of these P sometimes originated as ustraa the pieces of broken ceramic on which the Greeks of old inscribe the names of enemies the

Ustraa were used to vote Big Brother style for some pain in the well you know what to be thrown out of town hence ostracized check out the Bumblebee video top 10 historical laws that defy logic to learn all about this strange law and phenomena and maybe subscribe to our

Highve while you’re ated to stay up to date on all our video releases this creative recycling of asraa as pooy allowed you to quite literally wipe your on the name and representation of someone you hate however the downside is that ancient Greek society had immensely High case of hemorrhoids so you win and

You lose number nine is red liit pale face and I’d say she was breathing in snowflakes too but there wasn’t any of that in ancient Greece at least I don’t think so while nowadays there’s a massive culture of skin tanning and darkening but in olden times it was the

Opposite it was pale pale pale people wanted to look like chalk lows of Wonderbread the closer your complexion was to that of HP printer paper the better even if it meant the Greeks would powder their entire bodies with lead to achieve it now that was around 200 BC

But thankfully by a th000 BC they’d wisened up and realized rubbing poison over their entire body maybe wasn’t the Vibe so instead they mixed it with chalk cuz you know diluted poison isn’t as bad as the full thing and then they smeared that everywhere at least it was less

Deadly after achieving the Visage of freshly prepared mayonnaise gree and gals would then mix up some red Iron deposit powder with fat or wax and rub that on her lips and now ice that cake with mascara don’t worry it’s only a mixture of egg whites resin and ammonia you’ve now achieved the supernatural

Glam that doesn’t make you look like the puppet from saw at all number eight is scrape it off the ancient Greeks looked at bathing as aesthetic purposes first actual hygiene second bathing wasn’t to clean away dirt per se rather to beautify the body the Greeks did invent

Soap down the line but prior to the Advent of public bats in 600 BC they started off using boxs of clay Sands pmus and Ash that they’d rub away with olive oil after applying the same oil that they’d then scrape off this was done with a stril but that’s okay after

600 BC you can always have a nice refreshing bath right think again cont to popular perception not every city or Village in ancient world had a public bath even if it did they weren’t always open to everyone even when they were in fashion if you were from a lower class

The best you could expect would be scrubbing yourself with old imp pure olive oil that multiple people have already applied scraped off and returned to the same barrel for all poor people public use jug if you were extra lucky there would be a wash full but then You’

Be expected to share it or even the water with someone else number seven exile a classic of the old world just like hel inic Society itself a common punishment for a severe enough crime was banishment sure today there’s lots of folks who like being alone I I swear

Most of the people I went to high school with were introverts I was friends with all of them I don’t know why though cuz I’m so extroverted for example heraclitus of Ephesus he was getting banished from ancient Greece and it’s a lot different than not being invited to Chad’s birthday party however getting

Banished back then could likely see you with nothing like previously mentioned before maybe not as bad or down bad as previously mentioned like diones but still still pretty rough there were lots wrong with ancient cities sure but you were much safer in Civilization than left outside of it back then as someone

Who’s seen a lot of be grills I wouldn’t recommend going out of the wild back then a trip fall a cut that’s it number six the Brazen bull this one is a punishment and a crime two in one baby the Brazen bull to many may just

Look like a statue and a worst case Ontario maybe the horns are sharp and could hurt you maybe but don’t be fooled friends this this is much more than a statue of bronze or brass colored bull it’s actually a perp cooker it’s a twisted awful rotten form of punishment

That could also be a crime itself one against humanity and those are the worst ones basically you open the hatch on the bull and throw your bad guy in then get a nice big fire going really big one the same ones your dad does in the summer

You know the ones the ones you can’t even get too close to because it’s too hot woo then wait once steam or whatever horrible smelling Vapors come through the Bull’s nose that’s when you know the pur is done and it’s time to throw in another one that’s that’s awful what an

Awful way to go oh number five Flay this is straight up a crime man I don’t care what you say this is just crime against humanity I’m not here debating on how governments get rid of their let’s say more interesting members of society but this is not it popular in the ancient

World for whatever reason and I can’t stress this enough I would faint from watching I was shivering writing this seriously it’s the worst this is the act where someone is skinned alive they’re held down and peeled back like a potato there’s multiple famous incidents like

In art and mythology I just I just don’t know who sits there in one day and goes ah you know what this guy we got to skin this guy let’s just skin him let’s just let’s cut him up let’s go number four the eagle dropping Turtle okay here we

Are top of the food chain we’re in charge I’d like to make the argument it’s not the things we eat that puts us there but it’s the things we don’t eat think of all the animals at your favorite local Chinese buffet well we as humans have adapted so much that we can

Survive and choose not to be carnivores or eat certain animals where am I going with this well despite us being number one sometimes the animal kingdom fights back it’s kind of how it works take escalus in 4555 BC for example a philosopher who found himself being struck by an eagle dropping a turtle

Onto his head unfortunately the injury was fatal since we’re talking about Greeks and philosophy let’s bring in a little law here this is good you’ll like this men’s Rea atis Rea while the eagle certainly didn’t know he was committing a crime he still did do it sounds like

Someone needs to go to animal Court H that’s something they would probably do back I mean they did Medieval Times They put animals on court so why not back then number three Draco no not Malfoy not Draco Malfoy I know you’re all thinking it that’s what I thought too

Draco the lawgiver of ancient Greece was a man with modern solutions for their modern problems he was asked to give a code of law to replace the very age tribal feuding laws that still existed at the time commoners were shocked to find out that even trivial crimes could

Wind you up in the Brazen bull or uh not breathing anymore uh-oh however the wealth of course loved these laws and applauded Draco classic villain story they really loved it so much so that it was draco’s undoing as the legend goes Draco was buried in a small mountain of

Clothes hats and garments he suffocated under the pile of compliments The Accidental fatality of the man who gave us strict laws that are fatal so what what do you charge you you you you you get in trouble for undoing the guy that’s supposed to undo that’s that’s

Weird I don’t know number two Prometheus oh my Mighty Prometheus what wise knowledge of fire do you bring us today the story of Prometheus is that of a very dark and tragic one he was the god who gave humans fire despite Zeus’s wishes not to well given Zeus’s temper

He wasn’t too pleased when he saw people grilling up their slovaki let me some slovaki man naturally Prometheus had to pay so Zeus did something so awful to him well we still talk about it today he had Prometheus chained to a rock where every day at the same time a large bird

Would come down and eat his inner just coming num nom on his on his insides gross since he was a God he had Wolverine like healing abilities but he wasn’t immune to pain it would still hurt he’d heal every day but it would hurt really really bad number one Copus

I think this one is relatable to everyone including myself unless of course a large bird does rip your guts out from time to time or you’ve been skinned alive then then that one’s more relatable I doubt that though Copus was the king of Corinth and had cheated his

Meeting with the Grim Reaper one too many times this made Zo mad so he sent in Copus to push a boulder up a mountain forever every time he gets to the top it just falls back down and if that’s not a metaphor for life I don’t know what is

Fresh out of the oven we are starting with literature and theater it wasn’t until around 670 BCE that Homer’s epics The Iliad and odyssey were finally written in text written literature wasn’t an option prior to the time of Plato So all story surviving was told verbally spoken literature and theater

Became naturally intertwined together they present Ed fictional stories real history melodramas whether on stage or from a grandparents mouth Greek Theater began in the 6th Century BCE in Athens with the performance of tragedy plays at religious festivals these in turn inspired the genre of Greek comedy plays

And the two both became hugely popular to attend and performances spread around the Mediterranean they influenced helenistic and Roman Theater as well the works of playwrights like SPOC and Ariston formed the foundation upon which modern theater is based mean while it may seem like dialogue was always a part

Of literature but it wasn’t before a dude named aalas introduced the groundbreaking revolutionary idea of characters maybe interacting with each other other theatrical devices like sarcasm were integrated in works of spakes as edus the king and speaking of stories and oral Traditions Lessons Learned teaching through story ancient

Greece used stories of gods goddesses and their demigod children and the first of mankind as ways to subtly or not so subtly teach behavior consequences and ideally self-preservation being a mythopoetic culture they transmitted most story through poetry as mentioned previously for a long time if the everyday Greek person was to learn about

Anything it would need to be through hearsay thus stories bearing the most important lessons on cowardice betrayal war and heresy were the most popular because they were the most memorable the gods and goddesses acted as examples paradigms and models for good behavior obviously this is super contradicting

Cuz 90% of their gods functioned off of bad behavior such as disgraceful killings theft lying harming others abduction but the playr aors and Poets were encouraging the audiences to reflect upon the tales and consider the values and morality within them the function of these myths as most cultures

Is to explain unify and Order existence and experience the myths dispel chaos when faced with a conflict the Greeks sought answers in these stories that they had heard and used as Guides Through Life they reveal a structure order and coherence and meaning not otherwise evident without forcing one to

Reflect bam break that rry it ain’t all poetic infidelity culture infidel it was a crime highly scandalized according to ancient Greek Customs so for both men and women who were accused and found guilty there were punishments that put folks through the ringer ancient Athenian law had a set of three laws the

Mochia the first of these prohibit a man from living with an adulterous wife and an adulterous wife from taking part in public religious ceremonies the second Exempted a man who had killed his wife or partner caught in the act and the third protected and accused male adulterer from illegal imprisonment or

Death but only if the woman he had slept with was a working girl ancient grease was super for the boys but yeah you could go to jail get stoned be exiled a classic was also having a peeled ginger root or radish shoved up your nether orifices causing an intolerable burning

Sensation and Agony if it was enforced as capital punishment the ginger ratus chosen would be dry rough and lumpy so as to cause death by internal hemorrhaging fun speaking of number seven is sweat sail so unlike the poor who scraped oil off into a container and reused it over and over until eventually

Became sludge or the rich who could use oil once and then just tie it out athletes of Greece would scrape their oils off into special little containers it’s the same with their actual sweat to be sold sweat could easily be collected with a stdel the same as oils and it

Would carry the dead skin cells and grime with it this was called [ __ ] loss and the servants or athletes themselves would be expected to harvest it for people of Grace to do all sorts of weird things with it these scrapings would then be sold as medicine beauty products

Perfume you name it people would rub the sweat of athletes on their skin believing it to calm aches and pains which it probably didn’t do particularly well if nothing else though the Greek people after rubbing some sweat and dirt on their skin got to smell like an

Olympian and enjoy some of the youthful vigor of the young man it came off of at the same time the gyms themselves would cash in on their users bodily fluids and would often scrape their walls and floors for extra good then invite companies to bid on the bottles of sweat

So the next time you’re at the gym and you get off that machine and you leave that fresh layer of youo where your back used to be wipe that crap off before someone harvests it and sells it like a free number six is Mystery creams I only

Call them that because it’s a mystery why they’d ever want to use these products as creams I want to know who woke up one day and slapped some crocodile crap on their face how did they figure out that this was a skincare thing someone had to be the first I like

To think that person fell in it woke up the next day looking radiant but whatever yeah so crocodile dunk was a big big part of Grecian life because so were the animals but it was far from being a nuisance vain folks saw this as an opportunity and the Croc dong became

Part of many recipes for Effective skincare treatment this is face mask contraceptive hair masks feet soaks hell one recommendation for treating scars or Crow’s eyes around the eyes was by applying a little crocodile dung as eyes Shadow to quote a Greek medical document levigate the dung of the land cocodile

With water and anoint if they have the means and the monies people might even also have a whole dung bath in order to feel rejuvenated I feel like that last one might have been a bit much and considering the story of the ancient Greek philosopher hercus I am not far

Off in that opinion afflicted by swollen skin he decided the best course of action would be some dung therapy he buried himself in warm Doug and mud in order to treat his condition however he stayed in the pile too long and ended up overheating and dying number five is

Some hair raising standards as you can probably guess from looking at the statues and other works of art they left behind the ancient Greeks weren’t a big fan of bodily hair for them the ideal body especially for women was smooth smooth like a dolphin all over naturally

In a time before Gillette razors and Shea of butter shave cream was not that simple since they didn’t have modern waxing Solutions or even razors despite making the stdel which if they sharpened even a little could have been made for the perfect razor SL hedge trimmer so

The simplest way of achieving the beauty ideal was to Simply pluck out individual hairs one by one a painful not to mention timec consuming process for your legs alone imagine trying to do that around back when mirrors haven’t been invented yet fancy a swifter solution will have about burning all your body

Hair off also the custom in ancient Greece best part of that a lot like today is if you don’t keep up with the societal expectation of Shaving you’d receive a lot of disapproval and discomfort from others but unlike today as stated it was a lot harder for them

To shave so the fact that expectation was there is insane this is all about the Power Balance of the Sexes however as respectable women’s ritualistic deletion of her natural state attests to the male Supremacy over his objectified wife while he has his manhood intact she must deplete her Womanhood and thus

Alter her innate form so as to uphold the classical ideal somehow that didn’t apply to eyebrows though no no no those had to be like full Freeda Calo experience the Greeks wanted their lady’s eyebrows to look like a push broom on their damn forehead in case you

Ain picking up when I’m putting down unibrows R All the Rage even if you couldn’t get to grow one you could always draw some in number four is the bush the favorite of the’ 70s and of ancient times historically ancient Greek men have had an absolutely fascinating relationship with their around their

Hair and how they cultivate it the styles of trimming and manscaping changing per centuries in the ures of cultural change in the classic period the trimming and even shaping yes shapes like a heart or a sparkle or loaf of bread I don’t know I’m just spitballing we done on amends down there naturally

This was easiest and most elaborately done by Aristocrats while the poor and common men did more basic triangles or squares or whatever you can do I don’t know anyways by modifying his Natural State down there a man can remove himself from the realm of ordinary man I

Mean think about it natural down there growth equalizes every man post PE but the Aristocrat elevates himself with this shaven distinction idealizing its subject as a man more sophisticated than one who possesses unruly and uncontrollable tough however during the tyrannicides Revolt Greek Artisans started repping the a natural in

Challenge to this in general the artistic representation of pubic haare became more naturalistic abandoning the archaic array of wildly shaven flourishes for simpler and subtler trim jobs the the Greek state began to show that it valued the average citizen with both its institution of democracy and by extension its more naturalized rendering

Of down there hair the increasingly liberated down there hair on the mid fifth century masculine sculptures exemplifies this development the ancient Greeks continue to fluctuate through down their hairstyles afterwards and their paper trail or perhaps hair Trail isn’t subtle either sculptures throughout centuries Mark these changes as do scholary works such as esteron

Latria number three is teeth cleaners got to get your chomer squeaky clean somehow and back in ancient Greece you had a few options first off powders would be made less toothpaste and these would be substances like Lum ashes clay peppermint propolis fennel seeds cardamon seeds and a magic substance

Called mastic mastic is also a resin that’s a strong antiseptic they also added abrasives like sand and crushed bones these powders would be applied to a thin dampened cloth string or Twigs all of which would be then used to rub buff and shine in between and on the

Teeth by the time of the Roman Empire the elite had actual servants whose job it was to clean others’ teeth and you could visit them and pay for a wash job now to address the whole year and mouthwash thing we’ve all heard about it at some point it’s true but it’s not

It’s not like the Greeks were gargling the early morning dark yellow they were adding derived properties from urine to their toothpaste so that brings us to number two which is the uses of urine similar to how you can Harvest salt from water you can collect important acidic properties from processing urine this is

Still awful and gross but only because in modern times were a lot more squeamish to Concepts like that in fact people back then weren’t even unaware that it was kind of crazy the poet Catalyst once mocked his clean tooth enemy egus who to quote him has shiny white teeth and grins forever everywhere

If he is in court when the council excites tears he grins if he be at a funeral P where One Mourns a son devouted where bereft mothers tears stream for her only son he grins whatever it may be wherever he is whatever may happen he Grins and he

Curses him out by saying to him that the higher the polish on your teeth the more it proclaims that you have drank your piss the Roman Emperor vaspian famously instated a urine tax by taxing the public bins where people dumped urine collected from toilets the tax was so

Lucrative that it was continued by his successor Titus the collected pee was then sold as an ingredient to businesses workshops and tanneries which subsequently were taxed for it these businesses used it for tanning leather producing soaps refining tooth products making medicine making Elixir and more ammonia urine’s key ingredients was used

By launderers to get stains out of clothes and even Farmers used it as fertilizer to grow the perfectly acidic fruits number one is onun flow it’s been determined that there’s a good possibility that women back then had fewer periods and lighter bleeding in ancient Greece than we do now in modern

Times just because of diet climate and biological changes over history but weirdly the expectation was that they would actually bleed very heavily and regularly and if they didn’t then remedies needed to be used to bring out the blood Aristotle mentions menstruation being like the flow of blood from a sacrificial animal that

Must be maintained as for stopping the flow once it started the ancient Greeks took after the Egyptians using a small wooden splint as the tampon base then wrapping wools and linens around it before cramming it on it reusable pads are also made of layering Cottons and wools that can be easily separated and

Washed later just remember not to wear any white in the hot Mediterranean sun while you’re quite literally on the rag He

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