Ancient Greece

Because I taught Alexander the Great, I'm the great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, I'm the great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, I'm the great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, I'm so great, great, great, great, great

If you're a polytheist, you should be thanking Zeus

For all the Greek achievements that they've passed down to you

'Cause you got democracy from the folks in Athens

Our alphabet is from the Phoenicians

Minoans and Mycenaeans (uh-huh), worked at their sailing trade (uh-huh)

'Round an acropolis, they'd build a city state

Wasn't much farming soil (uh-huh), barely enough

On the peninsulas of Attica and Peloponnesus

So in Athens they'd given their citizens voting rights (rule by the people)

But in Sparta they were doing their duty

And trained to fight (their duty, duty, for their oligarchy)

Though the Spartans had helots

They were jealous of Athens' power (jury and assembly)

With their allies they all fought the Peloponnesian War

It was a battle between city-states, city-states

A battle between two city-states, city-states

A battle that ends the golden age, golden age

A battle where Pericles was slain by a plague, ugh

The Macedonians

Invaded from the north in a phalanx

Philip the second fought on horses' backs

The Greeks got warning from Demosthenes the Orator

But Philips's cavalries won

His son Alexander spread Greek culture

Through his empire (mixing the traditions)

With a library in Alexandria on the Nile

(They built a Pharos, it's a giant lighthouse)

Hellenism spread eastward till he died in Babylon (generals split his empire)

Should have prayed to Athena inside the Parthenon (woohoo)

It's like a tragedy for Sophocles, Sophocles, Greek drama

Or by Euripides, Euripides, Greek drama

Or Aristophanes, Aristophanes, Greek drama

It's like a tragedy, tragedy

It's like the Iliad and the Odyssey, Odyssey by Homer

It's like the Iliad and the Odyssey, by Homer

It's like the Iliad and the Odyssey, by Homer

It's like the Iliad and the Odyssey

That's right, I taught Alexander the Great, I'm the great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, I'm the great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, I'm the great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, I'm so great

I learned philosophy from Socrates, Socrates, I'm Plato

I learned philosophy from Socrates, I'm Plato

I learned philosophy from Socrates, I'm-

Hey!

Plato?

Ha ha ha