Babylon the Great (23 of 40) - Greece

libermundus.org Music by Cantoma and Maria Padadopoulou In case anyone is wondering why Athens is the only city included in the video, and what all the references to Dan are about, I want to make sure that no one else gets the credit for the Danaans' destruction of Troy in antiquity, and implicitly point out the reason for it, which is that Danaans were on the "good" side of this conflict, contrary to the very long and well-established Roman tradition which portrays them as vile and belligerent. This notion only has its origin in Homer who, unlike contemporary students and scholars, properly distinguished between the Achaeans or Argives who were the heroes of the Greek side, and the Mycenaeans who were much more closely related to the Phoenicians and Minoans than the Achaeans. The reason mainstream opinion sides with the Trojans against the Greeks (evidenced by every generation of Hollywood portrayals) is that the Greeks were led by the Mycenaean king Agamemnon, but even after his brother Menelaus came to rule Sparta (at this time an Argive settlement) the Spartans were still regarded as noble and virtuous. Most of the significant cities of Greece (including Sparta) have nothing to do with the globalization agenda because they were originally built by the Danaans or the Dorians who took their place. The exceptions are the Athenian states and those which ultimately came under the jurisdiction of Athens prior to the Peloponnesian War--what may be called the Delian League ...