Western Civilization's Glorious Past; Guest: Breitbart Second Amendment Correspondent AWR Hawkins with American Firearms Updates

But the Greeks of antiquity, they seem to have an almost mystical hold on our memory.

They call us back to them again and again.

480 years before Christ, the armies of Xerxes arrived in this city.

Let's just stop.

I'm

not going to stop a lot.

I'm going to let some of this sit.

480 years before Christ? That's what BC means.

How many times have you ever heard anyone even use that? They changed it.

Academics have changed it.

It's now, instead of BC, before Christ, It's now, they changed it to BCE, before the common era.

You see the secularization, they couldn't, the historians, they couldn't live with having BC, Christ, as the marker of time.

So they changed to BC.

Here's Marco Rubio coming here.

480 years before Christ.

Before Christ.

The armies of Xerxes arrived in this city and they put its sanctuaries to the torch.

Most Athenians had by then evacuated by ship to a nearby island, but there was a handful of them that refused to leave their home.

So instead, they barricaded themselves in the rocky fortress of the Acropolis to fight an extraordinary last stand, heaving massive stones down the cliffs onto the Persian invaders and holding the greatest empire of that age at bay for days.

They were eventually overwhelmed.

The Persians plundered the temples, they burned the shrines, they raised the Acropolis to the ground.

But when the Athenians returned, they gathered the broken remains of the old Acropolis and buried them in the hill where it had stood.

And decades later under Pericles, they raised the Parthenon.

For 25 centuries since, the Parthenon has stood.

Empires have risen and fallen beneath its shadow, and the progeny of the men who built it, the sons of Athens and Rome, have carried their civilization with them to the ends of the earth.