Metatron | They Did WHAT!? Netflix Alexander the Great Episode 1: Historical Analysis @metatronyt | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
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Intro
1 – The Boy King
2 – The Greatest Military Mind
3 – The Greek
4 – Wrong Jewelry
5 – King Philip II
6 – Attalus' Treason
7– Was Alexander the Great Gay?
8 – Cavalry playing Polo?
9 – The Wedding with the warlord
10 – Helmets
11 – The armour of an Anchilosaurus
12 – Son of Zeus
13 - The Duel
Hello nobleones welcome back to my channel this is the Metatron speaking and as you know I've already reacted to the trailer of the Netflix production Alexander the making of a god, and today we are having a deep historical analysis of the first episode which I of course have watched.
Links to videos that usually annoy far left wingers
youtube.com/watch?v=ZfFvga-YneI
youtube.com/watch?v=2Gku05HqlJw
youtube.com/watch?v=v-fK55zA4iY
youtube.com/watch?v=KJ7ztcnSwJA&t=1s
youtube.com/watch?v=8Fd1xcwPHf8&t=202s
Links to videos that usually annoy far right wingers
youtube.com/watch?v=wx90MPXeagw&t=786s
youtube.com/watch?v=0IcS5xas08I
youtube.com/watch?v=609QpunHw90&t=2s
youtube.com/watch?v=VoE3oIXjLdQ
not sure where to place this one politically since it can piss off both sides
youtube.com/watch?v=lI3Ek8bO8uk&t=1s
I'll add more as I remember them.
As we always do we'll talk about the man himself, and the statements made surrounding him by the talking heads, the historicity of the period armour, jewelry, weapons, language, our usual empirical scrutiny entirely based on the sources which I will provide. We do this as a way to learn while having fun.
For the rest of you, namely those of you whom regardles of your own personal political preferences, left right or centre, just want to know what the evidence says without the political pandering, section 7 is for you and it will contain the most historically coherent and unbiased take on Alexander the great's sexuality on this platform. Let's go.
Point 1 The Boy King
I'd like to start with the fact that I already have a problem with the title of the pilot episode. ALEXANDER THE BOY KING. This title represents how king Darius refers to Alexander, twice on the show.
A 20 of age you were a fully grown man everywhere in that period… extremely improbable therefore that Darius would refer to Alessandro as a “boy king” that's a modernism right there.
Point 2 – The Greatest Military Mind
I don't feel like I can say that professor Llewellyn-Jones' consideration is demonstrably incorrect, however defining Alexander as “the greatest military mind of all time” is specious.
We know he perfected king Philip's military machiche, he was a fascinating man and incredible commander, he surely exploited the true battle potential of cavalry in conjuction with the phalanx, utilizes the“hammer and anvil” tactical structure beautifully.
So the great ok but the greatest? That would mean that not only you are comparing him to a Annibale, uno Scipione, un Cesare, un Gaio Mario, un Quinto Sertorio, consul Flavius Stilicho , and that's just int he Classical period, but to every military mind in all of human history. That sounds like a sensatiolaist claim, in other words a tv statement. Take it for what it is.
Defibniterly not an idiot, JT, and white supremacy is not the topic of this discussion Sara. One of the characteristics of Alexander's success was his charisma, unscrupulousness and contempt for danger. If there is one thing that the sources agree on is this.
Which is why I find it curious that Joe Rogan doens't believe that Alexander fought in the front lines, that was single handedly one of the main defining factors which set Alexander aside, he was a warrior king.
He lead cavalry charges in person, risked and won, his enemies died when they confronted him in combat, which is also one of the reasons why he was so inpiring to his men. I'll give you that that doesn't happen that often in the Classical period, usually commanders stay in the back. But it's not unheard of, we know it happened at least once to both Hannibal and Caesar. It was not the norm, but Alexander breaks the norm. We must make our judgments not based on what sounds reasonable to us, but based on the historical apparatus we have, to govern the opinions we form about our interpretation of the documented facts. I get that you woudln't do it, neither woudl I but we are not Alexander the Great.
#metatron #alexanderthegreat #netflix
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Check out my review of the trailer
youtube.com/watch?v=olRPz4DYLJA&t=523s
Check out my friend's video on Polymathy run by Luke Ranieri!
youtube.com/watch?v=E3K3kF58pLM
Intro
1 – The Boy King
2 – The Greatest Military Mind
3 – The Greek
4 – Wrong Jewelry
5 – King Philip II
6 – Attalus' Treason
7– Was Alexander the Great Gay?
8 – Cavalry playing Polo?
9 – The Wedding with the warlord
10 – Helmets
11 – The armour of an Anchilosaurus
12 – Son of Zeus
13 - The Duel
Hello nobleones welcome back to my channel this is the Metatron speaking and as you know I've already reacted to the trailer of the Netflix production Alexander the making of a god, and today we are having a deep historical analysis of the first episode which I of course have watched.
Links to videos that usually annoy far left wingers
youtube.com/watch?v=ZfFvga-YneI
youtube.com/watch?v=2Gku05HqlJw
youtube.com/watch?v=v-fK55zA4iY
youtube.com/watch?v=KJ7ztcnSwJA&t=1s
youtube.com/watch?v=8Fd1xcwPHf8&t=202s
Links to videos that usually annoy far right wingers
youtube.com/watch?v=wx90MPXeagw&t=786s
youtube.com/watch?v=0IcS5xas08I
youtube.com/watch?v=609QpunHw90&t=2s
youtube.com/watch?v=VoE3oIXjLdQ
not sure where to place this one politically since it can piss off both sides
youtube.com/watch?v=lI3Ek8bO8uk&t=1s
I'll add more as I remember them.
As we always do we'll talk about the man himself, and the statements made surrounding him by the talking heads, the historicity of the period armour, jewelry, weapons, language, our usual empirical scrutiny entirely based on the sources which I will provide. We do this as a way to learn while having fun.
For the rest of you, namely those of you whom regardles of your own personal political preferences, left right or centre, just want to know what the evidence says without the political pandering, section 7 is for you and it will contain the most historically coherent and unbiased take on Alexander the great's sexuality on this platform. Let's go.
Point 1 The Boy King
I'd like to start with the fact that I already have a problem with the title of the pilot episode. ALEXANDER THE BOY KING. This title represents how king Darius refers to Alexander, twice on the show.
A 20 of age you were a fully grown man everywhere in that period… extremely improbable therefore that Darius would refer to Alessandro as a “boy king” that's a modernism right there.
Point 2 – The Greatest Military Mind
I don't feel like I can say that professor Llewellyn-Jones' consideration is demonstrably incorrect, however defining Alexander as “the greatest military mind of all time” is specious.
We know he perfected king Philip's military machiche, he was a fascinating man and incredible commander, he surely exploited the true battle potential of cavalry in conjuction with the phalanx, utilizes the“hammer and anvil” tactical structure beautifully.
So the great ok but the greatest? That would mean that not only you are comparing him to a Annibale, uno Scipione, un Cesare, un Gaio Mario, un Quinto Sertorio, consul Flavius Stilicho , and that's just int he Classical period, but to every military mind in all of human history. That sounds like a sensatiolaist claim, in other words a tv statement. Take it for what it is.
Defibniterly not an idiot, JT, and white supremacy is not the topic of this discussion Sara. One of the characteristics of Alexander's success was his charisma, unscrupulousness and contempt for danger. If there is one thing that the sources agree on is this.
Which is why I find it curious that Joe Rogan doens't believe that Alexander fought in the front lines, that was single handedly one of the main defining factors which set Alexander aside, he was a warrior king.
He lead cavalry charges in person, risked and won, his enemies died when they confronted him in combat, which is also one of the reasons why he was so inpiring to his men. I'll give you that that doesn't happen that often in the Classical period, usually commanders stay in the back. But it's not unheard of, we know it happened at least once to both Hannibal and Caesar. It was not the norm, but Alexander breaks the norm. We must make our judgments not based on what sounds reasonable to us, but based on the historical apparatus we have, to govern the opinions we form about our interpretation of the documented facts. I get that you woudln't do it, neither woudl I but we are not Alexander the Great.
#metatron #alexanderthegreat #netflix
