The biggest misconception of Rome is about a man named Bigus Dickus. Unfortunately too many folk don't know of his tale
@Michael_the_Drunkard
3 жыл бұрын
A tragedy
@feynstein1004
3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget his friend Silius Soddus.
@lewhitey2544
3 жыл бұрын
And his wife Incontinentia Buttocks
@V_D_M_C
3 жыл бұрын
A name not to be laughed at!
@julianrandall4630
3 жыл бұрын
Only a proud woOman would know
@joeblow9657
3 жыл бұрын
TBH if a horse was consul that might've meant the Republic would've lasted longer because it'd be more capable and willing to address major issues facing the Plebeian class than the Senatorial class was in reality
@kiwikiwi1779
3 жыл бұрын
He'd be an equestrian! :>
@jamj59
3 жыл бұрын
@@kiwikiwi1779 hehehe
@jamj59
3 жыл бұрын
Soycialists everywhere
@feynstein1004
3 жыл бұрын
By the time of Caligula's reign, the Republic was long dead. The horse wouldn't have made any difference.
@Tall-Hobbit
3 жыл бұрын
@@feynstein1004 not really that long as he was the third emperor after augustus and tiberius but still about 50 years after the republic fell and definitely too late to change anything
@jonathanvillanueva9206
3 жыл бұрын
You forgot the not all Romans wore red all the time. Edit* Not all Roman legions wore red, it's hypothesized that each legion had a different color based on it's region. We have two Roman shields in the archeological record both being red, that's why red is overstated in importance in media.
@jonathanvillanueva9206
3 жыл бұрын
Still a great video tho
@Armored_Ariete
3 жыл бұрын
lies, all romans wore red XDDDD
@JaM-R2TR4
3 жыл бұрын
red was cheapest color.. they would not wear it commonly... soldiers sometimes wear it, because it was also color of Mars, god of war... but ordinary romans would not dye their dress red..
@babyfaec
3 жыл бұрын
WHAAAAAAAAT???!!!
@Billy_Annizarry
3 жыл бұрын
There once was a dream... A dream... Called... Rome.
@rbvfeehfbudenrj
3 жыл бұрын
Plot twist: Montenegro defeats rome in battle and takes over the world, after this they defeat the trans galactic federation and unite the Universe
@arthurito6055
3 жыл бұрын
@@rbvfeehfbudenrj no
@mortjigger4586
3 жыл бұрын
thete once was a dream an American dream
@elihyland4781
3 жыл бұрын
Rome wasn’t built in a day, Rome was a dream and it was built in one night.
@HiHi-lh3ps
3 жыл бұрын
@@rbvfeehfbudenrj they failed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Macedonian_War
@Skeloperch
3 жыл бұрын
Common misconception: The Praetorian Guardsmen weren't the most horrific monsters in all of human history.
@eaglecohort5259
3 жыл бұрын
The Praetorian Guard get it far too good in the mainstream eye, even their classification of “elite” is highly doubtful.
@lukasvoorhis6964
3 жыл бұрын
There is even a vpn called Praetorian. I wonder if it holds up to its name
@notani3533
3 жыл бұрын
They're just a garrison stasioned in rome.
@nillynush4899
3 жыл бұрын
What they did to Pertinax still pretty cunty.
@thejackman687
3 жыл бұрын
@@lukasvoorhis6964 sells your data to ONLY the highest bidder, then sells their data to Only the highest bidder, then...
@ExAnimoPortugal
3 жыл бұрын
When I talk to people about Julius Cesar everyone assumes he was an emperor, because all emperors were essentially called Cesar.
@laughsatchungus1461
3 жыл бұрын
He was an emperor, he just isnt considered one for some reason
@rinzlr3554
3 жыл бұрын
@@laughsatchungus1461 because he wasn’t an emperor, he was a dictator. Augustus is the one who helped formed the empire
@Frendlu
2 жыл бұрын
Well, the truth is that that it's not wrong when you hear at the first time. From Cesar, comes Kaiser, and Kaiser, was a german title meaning Emperor. So, yes, only the word, it's true. But I'm agree that Julius Cesar wasn't an emperor in all means (maybe part of this misdconception was the "12 caesars" from Suetonius, that he added Julius Cesar as the 1rst chapter). He concentrated a lot of power (like Sila and Mario did 50 years ago than him), but from that to being an authocratic men with all the power that a king have.....
@liviuganea4108
2 жыл бұрын
@@Frendlu Marius lost the civil war.
@infinitepasta
3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad i found this channel, i needed a biased introduction to roman history after dovahhatty's clearly unbiased history
@laughsatchungus1461
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, dovahhattys channel is fun but not great if you actually want to learn the nitty-gritty factual details
@lakedaemon
3 жыл бұрын
Historia Civilis is another good channel for learning about Rome especially the late republic!
@atzuras
3 жыл бұрын
@@lakedaemon that one is great.. but he's like not doing much this year
@lakedaemon
3 жыл бұрын
@@atzuras i mean mostly for the fact of historical roman stuff but yeah not much :(
@mabimabi212
3 жыл бұрын
@@lakedaemon I think he has something brewing up
@evilestbadger9417
3 жыл бұрын
If I'm not mistaken, I've read some articles saying that Nero might not have been as absolutely horrendously God awful as he is often portrayed as. It's debated but still interesting I think
@therealinkling5107
3 жыл бұрын
He wasn’t as bad as most people think! He was, distinctly unpopular, especially among Christians. I’m not saying he was good or even mediocre, he just wasn’t completely terrible.
@notani3533
3 жыл бұрын
And his wife death might've been due to birth complication.
@nothisispatrick4644
3 жыл бұрын
He was an OK administrator, he was LOVED by the lower classes and hated by the patricians because he didnt want to play ball with them.
@Gstrangeman96
3 жыл бұрын
Mike Duncan on the History of Rome podcast put it in terms of him being an influenceable inexperienced teenager who did fairly well as long as he was influenced by good, competent men, but when they were gone he was doomed.
@historymyths
3 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure it is even "debated" in modern times. Almost any modern historian sees Nero as a victim of character assassination. The case of Nero is very complicated. He was a problematic emperor. But, it seems, very popular among the general population.
@colt-ms5ju
3 жыл бұрын
I wonder how torturous an all consuls video would be.
@williambarker8790
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine doing a list ranking every one piece chapter
@Yourmomma568
3 жыл бұрын
@@williambarker8790 lol, that would be rough af. especially when it became an honorific and they were appointing them dozens of times a year.
@hanspetrich6520
2 жыл бұрын
Aren't there periods when we don't know who was consul, though? I'm pretty sure there are several periods in which the actual consuls of the year are not documented.
@Yourmomma568
2 жыл бұрын
@@hanspetrich6520 yeah, probably.
@nicmagtaan1132
2 жыл бұрын
@@hanspetrich6520 oddly enough u use the consuls to know what year it was
@restitvtororbis
3 жыл бұрын
About the fall of Roman Empire there is a particular reason to believe that it fell only in 1453, that is the delivery of imperial insigna by Odoacer to Zeno when Romulus Augustus was deposed. So, after the fall of Western Roman Empire, Zeno was recognized as the sole roman emperor, while Odoacer became a patrician and king of the Kingdom of Italy.
@wfr1108
3 жыл бұрын
1:22 caesar was an emperor (he was dictator, but never actually became emperor) 3:25 caligula made his horse a consul (he only planned to) 4:52 nero burned down rome (he didn't) 7:09 one specific thing destroyed rome (it was a gradual culmination of multiple things) 8:52 romans always wore togas (they wore other stuff) 9:52 statues were white (they were often painted)
@dane1382
2 жыл бұрын
the only consistent part of ancient roman clothing habits is that they hated pants (until the late imperial period maybe)
@wfr1108
2 жыл бұрын
@@dane1382 anti-gaulish sentiment 😂
@DIEGhostfish
2 жыл бұрын
I mean Caesar was every emperor for a while there. You gotta be more specific.
@wfr1108
2 жыл бұрын
@@DIEGhostfish this is just a list for the video
@dyingearth
3 жыл бұрын
Remember, Rome wasn't destroyed in one day.
@badwolf7367
2 жыл бұрын
You left out a misconception about Rome (the city) and it is that it is always depicted as clean when in fact the streets were litter with horse manure and and human waste because it was common for people who live in multi-story buildings to empty their chamber pots by dumping the content out the window. This was such a problem that the Senate actually passed a law to forbid it. Also, because the only means of cooking is by fire, Rome was more often than not covered by smoke like L.A. was once known for its smog.
@septimiusseverus343
3 жыл бұрын
Common misconception: Gallienus was a lazy, ineffectual emperor. The truth: He was a militarily active, hard working reformer who sowed the seeds for Rome's recovery from the 3rd Century Crisis (for which his successors would take all the credit).
@causantinthescot
2 жыл бұрын
The Historia Augusta thing caused Gallienus recarinated to Majorian 153 years later to save the empire once again, hoping somebody would recognize him, and changed their minds towards Gallienus, now in the form of Majorian......
@BritishRepublicsn
2 жыл бұрын
Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant
@barissaaydinn
Жыл бұрын
I think Gallienus isn’t probably known enough to make anything about him to be considered a misconception
@davidgonzalez-herrera2980
3 жыл бұрын
I disagree. Some historians argue that Caligula wasn’t always being crazy, but rather had a crazy sense of humor. That he and Nero loved to prank the senate by showing their power by being able to do ridiculous feats like naming a horse consul.
@freddierenoiz
3 жыл бұрын
The thing is, as the video explains, the main source of that fact is literature, specifically literature with high tones of satire, which you can't take letter by letter. You have to interpret it in the context of its own conventions.
@robertspeedwagon982
2 жыл бұрын
All they did was a little trolling
@adolfhipsteryolocaust3443
2 жыл бұрын
Caligula despised the senate and use to humiliate them in order to humble them, he wasn't crazy at all he was actually an enlightened person, his enemys sladered him
@freddierenoiz
2 жыл бұрын
@@adolfhipsteryolocaust3443 do you have the classic source of that? Please? Would be useful!
@Pfisiar22
Жыл бұрын
@@adolfhipsteryolocaust3443 Caligula wasn't necessarily crazy in the sense of being delusional. He was, however, unusually cruel and blasphemous. THere was something clearly 'not right' about Caligula
@TheJosep70
3 жыл бұрын
Lol your video just made me realise that the name for the old software suite "Nero Burning ROM" was not randomly chosen.
@HittokiriBatosai
3 жыл бұрын
Yooooo lmao someone had a sense of humour back in the 90s
@Aspectt1991
3 жыл бұрын
I refuse to accept you anti consul horse propaganda, that horse was a good boy and he was consul in my heart.
@chuckles5689
3 жыл бұрын
I am not sure how interested you are, but it would be amazing if you could do some videos about medieval Portugal, if you want to branch out into different subjects. Virtually nothing is known about medieval Portugal by Anglophones, especially how their society worked.
@danielsch.5324
3 жыл бұрын
Love the Mike Duncan, Thominus Maximus and K&G recommendations
@FueledByFleece
3 жыл бұрын
Last time I was this early Aeneas was just showing up from Troy.
@MegaUMU
3 жыл бұрын
10:25 "this makes the city seem tacky to me". This is due to first impression Bias, as we initially think and see roman sculptures and cities as clear white and makes us feel thats the right way. Similar to how u see your face in a mirror to what your face actually looks like (left and right inverted)
@amirkhonyusupov7718
3 жыл бұрын
Great channel, hope it blows up even more
3 жыл бұрын
These were terrible channel suggestions.. since I watch them all anyways. Great video as always!
@legatetheanime9827
3 жыл бұрын
Personally, when I’m talking about Caesar, I tend to call him “the first” emperor. I do this because most people know of the Empire not the republic. I do still make sure people know he was not a real emperor, but still call him the first. He might as well be considered one after the civil war. I also tend to talk about Sulla in a similar matter.
@legatetheanime9827
3 жыл бұрын
Still as good as always. Love this channel and can’t wait for more.
@cgavin1
3 жыл бұрын
Yup. Also what got him killed was not that he made himself dictator .. its that he made himself dictator for life. King. He signed his own death warrant with that move.
@Borderose
3 жыл бұрын
@@cgavin1 I think what really did JC in was trying to make himself a literal king. Which spooked the shit out of the senators. He was already dictator for life. They allowed him to bring in that giant-ass golden chair into the senate floor. But when rumors flew that he wanted to be called "Rex"? The senators brought out the knives and played their cards. Augustus was definitely smarter about the whole thing. Until he came, "Emperor/Imperator" just meant "Victorious Commander" or "Dear Leader". In theory, it was supposed to be a comparatively humbler title, and in the context of the principate should come across to most Romans as basically calling yourself "Super President". But, Augustus was awesome. He was king and undisputed master of Rome without ever needing to call himself that. So moving forward, as more and more of his successors adopted his names and styles, instead of being a low-kew title, Emperor came to mean the rank above a lowly king. A more "august" title.
@mayankbisht7691
3 жыл бұрын
I think Emperor 0 would be a better term because he had all the powers of an Emperor but no the name. If I am not mistaken others took his name and Kaiser became synonymous with Emperor
@cgavin1
2 жыл бұрын
@@Borderose kzitem.info/news/bejne/yG6Jx3ZtiGR7hYI How things change.. how they stay the same hehe.
@thedemonhater7748
3 жыл бұрын
Liking the new editing! If the quality of your videos keep improving like this, you’ll grow even bigger in no time.
@12jswilson
3 жыл бұрын
If you're curious specifically about the fall of the western Roman empire, I recommend Patrick Wyman's "Fall of Rome" podcast. It was the subject of his PhD dissertation and he goes past 476 to the point where the West was probably incapable of rising again
@iLikePineTrees
2 жыл бұрын
Mike Duncan's Storm before the storm is a great read too!
@lewhitey2544
3 жыл бұрын
“It makes the city look kind of tacky to me” I’m sure if you could have seen it first hand you wouldn’t feel that way
@nickthielemier3501
2 жыл бұрын
What a great video bro! You had your sources in order without being boring. Killed it
@cosminblk8359
3 жыл бұрын
Another misconceptions -the byzantines thought that they are different from the romans - Constantine christianised Rome -everyone in the empire spoke latin and the same kind of latin / classical latin and the latin of the catholic church are the same thing
@Michael_the_Drunkard
3 жыл бұрын
About the first point: Yes, they considered themselves Romans but they are different kind of Roman (Eastern Roman). The Empire was initially quite diverse (Armenians, Syrians, Judeans, Thraco-Romans,Copts and Greeks). These were the main eastern Roman populations with Greek as the lingua franca (Greek East). But after the Arabic invasions in the 600's, only the Greek-speaking parts remained (Greece and Asia Minor), by that point they were the remaining population under Roman control, so they identified as Romans. It is possible that this identification goes back at least to 380 when Theodosius I made xtianity the state religion. If you referred to yourself as a Hellene or a Greek in East Rome, they would have considered you a pagan.
@25MCkeown
2 жыл бұрын
Do you have any plans to do a ranking of the British monarchs? Would love to see a video on that!
@will_it_work
3 жыл бұрын
Christianity had nothing to do with the fall of the Western Roman Empire. As the Eastern side showed, Romans were able to carry the cross and the sword quite effectively.
@tylere.8436
2 жыл бұрын
I think it was harder on the West, because paganism was much more common there than in the East, given how Rome was rooted with pagan themes, especially when Constantinople became the capital.
@johndemuth6735
3 жыл бұрын
The history of Rome is the best podcast to ever exist.
@marvelfannumber1
3 жыл бұрын
You forgot probably the biggest and most common one (so big you even partially committed it in this video): That the Roman Empire fell in 476 A.D/That anything noteworthy happened in 476, which makes it an important date (it wasn't).
@legateelizabeth
3 жыл бұрын
I think Odoacer coming to power makes it an important date, even if you don't think HE was anything special and that the Empire continued and evolved that's still pretty major. Unless this is a joke about the Empire never falling because it's alive in our hearts, in which case I'm sorry for being an "ackshually" tier buzzkill.
@marvelfannumber1
3 жыл бұрын
@@legateelizabeth But Odoacer coming to power really wasn't a big deal at all. Because he did the exact same thing Ricimer, Gundobad and Orestes had been doing in the west for decades at this point. Odoacer also only ruled for a little over a decade, so he didn't leave much of an impact. The only thing Odoacer did that was different was that he got rid of the Western Emperor and just directly made himself subservient to the Eastern Empire. All the Western Emperors since the 460's had been puppets anyway, and they had even gone a few years without a Western Emperor already, so this wasn't a first. But this didn't happen until 480. Literally all that happened in 476 was that Odoacer deposed one puppet Emperor that nobody recognized and made himself subservient to another powerless Emperor (Julius Nepos) that was largely recognized.
@imperiumbrasiliae
3 жыл бұрын
The greatest misconception is that all emperors were assassinated
@septimiusseverus343
3 жыл бұрын
_Dies of gout on some shithole island sounds_
@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person
3 жыл бұрын
The greatest misconception is that D. Pedro II isn't the best emperor in human history.
@imperiumbrasiliae
3 жыл бұрын
@@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person we are in agreement
@jimmyandersson9938
3 жыл бұрын
I thought for a long time during my younger years Caesar was an emperor and i think i got that from reading Asterix & Obelix
@goncalo1410
3 жыл бұрын
I started watching your channel a few days ago, and only now I can see your Portuguese accent, bom vídeo :)
@republicradio431
3 жыл бұрын
That every soldier used lorica segmentatas
@rolfeb
3 жыл бұрын
Really enjoying these videos, both the content and the presentation style. Always been a bit of a fan of the Roman Empire, 5 years of Latin at school probably helped there. Keep up the excellent work!
@lobobjr
3 жыл бұрын
dude ur freaking blowing up!! keep going w ur relaxing informative voice Ɛ>
@ThatSaintsRowFan
3 жыл бұрын
Glad I came across this channel. Nice video.
@causantinthescot
3 жыл бұрын
Caligula: Trolololololololololo Senate kids: REEEEEEEE HE IS A MONSTER
@jacobogonzalez6383
Жыл бұрын
I'm impressed with the content here.
@lfMzz
3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes Mice Duncan has given me many hours of great content.
@brittneydesormeau9936
Жыл бұрын
thank you for your help with my essays.
@notani3533
3 жыл бұрын
Another misconception about Caligula would be his alleged lust to his sister. The only record that slightly indicate it is that he shows a huge grief when her sister passed away.
@monsieur1936
3 жыл бұрын
*his sister passed away.
@optimusminimus
3 жыл бұрын
Not just "a sister", but THREE SISTERS. He slept with his THREE sisters. And that's why he put them on his coins. This is the reason why his mother named him "Caligula" (which means "mad and licentious" in Latin). If you open his passport it says "Caligula Biggus Dickus Incitatus". That's how bad he was.
@monsieur1936
3 жыл бұрын
@@optimusminimus your claims are baseless, Caligula meant little (soldier) boots. Also, it was common for royal family members to appear on coins. There is no credible source stating that Caligula was in S£xual relationship with his sisters.
@optimusminimus
3 жыл бұрын
@@monsieur1936 No, I saw it on Netflix, he clearly slept with them since they were visually attractive. Netflix is a credible source. And you don't simply put random people on coins: only the people you slept with. Especially if you're evil and licentious. So licentious that people even start calling you "Caligula". Imagine someone will start calling you a "Caligula". Trust me, they will do it not because of your shoes, but because of licentiousness.
@monsieur1936
3 жыл бұрын
@@optimusminimus oh yeah, seems like you are a descendant of Caligula and his sister's child.
@randomnessrules4971
3 жыл бұрын
"The vast majority of emperors were gay or bisexual!"
@septimiusseverus343
3 жыл бұрын
_Can confirm. My Julia was the only one who I had eyes for._
@MaxwellAerialPhotography
3 жыл бұрын
I think a good way to view the toga is to think of them in the late republican and early imperial period, as being something like modern business suits.
@alexmuller6752
3 жыл бұрын
big up for recommending mike duncan and his great podcast
@romano-britishmedli7407
2 жыл бұрын
7:58: The Roman Empire truly fell in 1461 when the Ottomans conquered (the Empire of) Trebizond. Change my mind!
@BritishRepublicsn
2 жыл бұрын
Let’s go David Megas Komnenos
@riccardoalcaro8483
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed that Christianity was a minor factor and barbarians were a major factor in the fall of the western Roman Empire, but the most important one by far were civil wars. It’s really as easy as that
@Champion_14
Жыл бұрын
As someone who has studdied rome, i still consider GJC as an emperor, as well as those others you mentioned.
@georgegabriel7766
2 жыл бұрын
Actually in the book I Claudius, Caligula made his horse a senator, not a consul. The horse's name was Incitatus
@classiclife7204
3 жыл бұрын
Great little video! Yeah, people who think "Julius might as well have been first emperor" probably are a little uninformed about dictatorship in Rome (and how Julius abused that provision), and Augustus' Constitutional Settlements, which were the building blocks for the Principate and Empire. As for the Fall of Rome: historians quite properly renamed the Eastern part of the formerly great Mediterranean polity to the rather Romantic name of Byzantium. From one standpoint, does it matter, anyway? Civilizations, like the people who make them, eventually die.
@SzaposJogdan2733
3 жыл бұрын
Hey dude, great video. Hope you do one on the idea of "rome never falling"
@joelkavanagh1464
3 жыл бұрын
,,, cool,, instructive video! ...
@JSCRocketScientist
2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful and spot on!
@AverageGrades
3 жыл бұрын
This might be weird, but is this a re-upload? I'm getting massive deja-vu.
@tjdasdada3786
3 жыл бұрын
Love you referencing dominus maxiumus, love romaboo youtube
@crimsonsky5728
3 жыл бұрын
Roman legionaries didn't just wear red. And everything wasn't uniform with most cohorts. They were often really different from each other.
@appmeurtre
2 жыл бұрын
Rank every Cosul from Lucius Junius Brutus to Augustus
@bkohatl
3 жыл бұрын
English Danish Viking King Canute had sycophant courtiers take him to the seaside where he ordered the tide to go back, which didn't. He, like Caligula, was mocking his sycophant's.
@C1914
3 жыл бұрын
Only 3 digit views? Hope it increases.
@beefmadeoutofpork6789
2 жыл бұрын
Great Video! Could you do a ranking of all the Mongol Khans, or famous enemies of Rome like Hannibal, and Attila?
@tj-co9go
Жыл бұрын
One thing we can be certain of: the horse consul would have been of the equestrial class (equites)
@rayhamilton4775
3 жыл бұрын
Ive never commented on a KZitem video, but I want to now to also recommend The History Of Rome by Mike Duncan. Ive been sleeping to it for 5 years now.
@stormeaglegaming5395
3 жыл бұрын
Would you be interested in talking about the Taiping Rebellion , not enough people talk about one of the most deadliest wars in history , love your content 👍 .
@makitvvicentijevic7405
3 жыл бұрын
Can I ask why you took down/privated the video where you rank European countries?
@spectrum1140
3 жыл бұрын
Wasn't happy with it. Ended up needlessly provoking at certain countries, so I privated it after some retrospection on it.
@makitvvicentijevic7405
3 жыл бұрын
@@spectrum1140 Fair enough
@michaelarsaadyatma
2 жыл бұрын
Well caesar could be read as kaiser or kaisar which literaly means emperor in some langguage
@BetaScorpion
3 жыл бұрын
@Spectrum where is the EU Countries Ranking video? You can't hide it forever
@aquitainedugascon4726
3 жыл бұрын
About your last misconception - Its not entirely true that we were left with white statues because the colours faded. People have been cleaning off the paint for a long time now. The Temple of Hephaestus in Athens had its paint removed less then a century ago, for example. The Elgin Marbles were "cleaned" in the 1930s, and various people have cleaned off remnants of Persepolis throughout the last century. While a lot of paint will have faded, a lot was also removed by people.
@catalyst772
3 жыл бұрын
If you'd know nothing about rome and started reading it's history from start to finish, you'd think the "fall of rome" would just be another setback rome would bounce back from, stronger..
@Justis_321
3 жыл бұрын
bro please do more byzantine history like heraclius
@adelbertbellgika9890
2 жыл бұрын
Augustus claimed he was the "princeps" but after his death the title changed to "augustus"
@pulsar2049
Жыл бұрын
I think Nero playing the violin whilst rome was burning was a good piece of misinformation to spread. After all the crazy stuff he did (killing wives) it's a good way to make him look bad.
@DavidBrocekArt
2 жыл бұрын
Ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, Medieval England, Ancient Chinese, Victorian England.... All of these and many more have been victims of popculture romantization. Im not mad though, I love them all!
@thelordnaevis4946
3 жыл бұрын
Idk why it seems so weird that Ancient Rome was 2000 years ago, like, there could be an ancient building somewhere camouflaging with the ground because grass and plants have already covered the entirity of the building, since it was that long ago
@mortadelusmaximus
3 жыл бұрын
The romans didnt dress with red as a military uniform, they did wore blue for the navy, but for the rest of the army we simply dont know, on surviving paintings they seem to wore random colors, sometimes you see soldiers with white, red, yellow, green, borwn... and in written sources its the same, they dont mention a specific color for the army. We think and we tend to imagine and represent the romans with red because of hollywood and the generations of artists who depicted them like that because we asociate the color red with power.
@compatriot852
Жыл бұрын
Nero didn't directly burn Rome, but he really didn't do much to help the situation especially using Christians as a scapegoat.
@rogozov
3 жыл бұрын
Bump for support
@modulo3664
3 жыл бұрын
"Julius Caesar was an emperor" He wasn't even a king.
@atzuras
3 жыл бұрын
so that's why many emperors called themselves "Kaiser" or "Tsar"
@christopherwood9009
3 жыл бұрын
@@atzuras "Kaiser" comes from the Latin "Caesar", the title called after (Julius?), meaning "emperor". "Tsar" is an eastern bastardisation of the title.
@christopherwood9009
2 жыл бұрын
@@atzuras Also, Kaiser is the Germanization of Caeser
@g21hawk
3 жыл бұрын
Spectrum, perhaps you could do a video about the topic of the fall of the empire, after studying and reading late rome historians, especially peter brown and his book the world of late antiquity, I found curious about the idea that the empire didnt fell, rather it transformed in the society of the middle ages. So idk what you think about this topic
@joaquinmanurung6668
3 жыл бұрын
Good quote in the beginning
@keepitsteel1993
3 жыл бұрын
Ancient roman politics would have made our political spin look like a slow turn, so you need to take things with a pinch of salt in many cases
@kilianxxxx8543
2 жыл бұрын
Technically, the last, Byzantine Emperor's nephew gave the Roman Emperor Title to the kings of Spain
@MrJasen22
2 жыл бұрын
any westerner should be interested in roman history
@valmarsiglia
3 жыл бұрын
They could make a musical of Nero burning down Rome. The Christians could sing Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."
@potatowaffle6648
3 жыл бұрын
I always imagined a pristine white marble Rome but it makes more sense the Romans used extensive colours
@namenotneeded5128
3 жыл бұрын
I think the fall of Rome should be changed to 565 AD When Justinian died because from then on even if there were Competent Emperors like Maurice and Heraclius, the infighting, Persians and previous plague ruined all chances of a true revival of a Rome that spanned over Mare Noustrum
@Myuseu
3 жыл бұрын
I think that can be pushed to AD 636, when the Arab conquests permanently took the levant, and a couple of years later, Egypt, since the loss of Egypt and their naval supremacy in the Mediterranean really changed how Rome was forced to interact with the outside world.
@Michael_the_Drunkard
3 жыл бұрын
@@Myuseu @Name not needed too arbitrary, losing territory does not change your empire's identification. If that was true, the WRE became the "Latin Empire", as soon as it lost Britain or Carthage. The capital has to fall for that to happen, so the real date is 1453.
@namenotneeded5128
3 жыл бұрын
@UCuYUYOhle0j8elroimZsxFA I dont necessary mean Romes death because that'd be 1204 or 1453 no what I meant is the Death of the Larger ancient Rome the one that would never atleast partially be revived after Justinian, yes Rome would fight on and would hold many land after Justinian but it wasn't as strong as it used to be.
@seabrain1212
3 жыл бұрын
Kings and Generals is amazing for ancient history in general.
@jonathansoko5368
3 жыл бұрын
Meh
@johnguillett1059
3 жыл бұрын
Wearing a toga sounds a lot like wearing a suit today.
@tylere.8436
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, now most wear t-shirts these days, though honestly suits need a comeback.
@erlendhedegart7510
3 жыл бұрын
If you want to read about fires of Rome Anthony Barrests «Rome is Burning» is an excelent read on the topic
@Champion_14
Жыл бұрын
The planning of his horse becoming a consul was meant as an insult to the senate. The senate and caligula hating each other is why our history of caligula is very negative, historiographically speaking.
@feynstein1004
3 жыл бұрын
Me in the middle of my 4th listening of The History of Rome: You know, I'm somewhat of a historian myself.
@takuno7483
2 жыл бұрын
Another common misconception about ancient rome is basically everything we say about Gladiators. First and most often misunderstood: they rarely killed each other. Those guys were trained athletes which needed extremely much education to fight what costed on the other hand a tone of money. So imagine you had a Gladiator, invested your whole savings in him and he dies in his first battle. They can be at best be compared to WWE fighters. They also just put on an act. Second: Gladiators weren't those loved and famous sportsmen. They were slaves. Somebody owned them and if they were lucky they got there freedom (but they were still at the lower end of roman society as freed slaves). There still are some more but I'm already getting bored of typing.
@5Penkets
3 жыл бұрын
I’m new to this channel and after watching some videos it kinda looks like this guy has a “little” bit more interest in Roman Empire than other Empires
@fastermaster5555
3 жыл бұрын
I always figured that the whole caligula making his horse a consul thing was more caligula was calling the senate so dumb that his horse could do their jobs better or smth along those lines, as that would make more sense and be more in line with how Romans would act
@3takhan
3 жыл бұрын
Although there were in did a lot of minor reasons why the Roman Empire fell, There is one major reason that eventually led to its demise and all other minor problems, upon further inspection, can be found stemming from it. So I don't think I agree with that one.
@edrickhuge4637
3 жыл бұрын
@@Thelaretus diocltions Tetracky or however it's written had littel to do With it. If it wasen't for his micromanagment the empire qould have fallen earlier than it did. Rome Fell because the Romans stopped fighting for themself and deviated from their old Traditions
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