“Surely he won’t build a giant wall blocking our migration. Next week, Caesar will build a giant wall blocking the migration of the Helvetii.” Amazing delivery on that one.
I retired to the country to plow my fields and fuck my slaves. You on the other hand were played and ditched on the floor of the Senate house like a used tampon.
Gaius Julius Caesar Few know the true story because of Cicero and Shakespeare manipulating the truth to make Cesar Magnus look like a tyrannical despot. "Woe to the vanquished."
I watched this whole series 2 years ago and coming back fills me with a sense of calm and nostalgia. These podcasts were incredibly well done, thank you for uploading them to youtube!
28:47 So... basically Caesar could literally use "I fucked ur mom" as an insult to Cato the Younger... But unlike those random kids on xbox live, it was actually true...
Mocking the starving people of Rome for wanting free food is disgusting. They had no farms or jobs, what the hell were they supposed to do? Everyone who despises 'the mob' for enjoying 'bread and circuses' needs to reflect on themselves and ponder what happened to their soul.
Pompey was the evil sith lord. He played it all off like he just wanted to be left alone, but was clearly the mastermind behind most of the unrest in Rome.
I think the guitar solo is from a group called Festivus Maximus and the Gladiators. I believe they used to play to sold out crowds at the Circus Maximus on weekends until Cato & others from the stodgy old Senators crowd cracked down on modern music as being subversive to Republican values. Then they fled to Gaul and became the first troubadours.
@@goyindi Yah most the world had those things outside the America's an yah Aussie land .. regardless the other lack of tech is obvious like no wheel..lol
Caesar's options? Egypt was basically a vassal state and you forgot about Dacia.... Also not true that Gauls and Germans didn't know any other way to fight except charging mindlessly.
Why do Historians always revise population numbers. As if a general could not in a glance of an eye perfectly assess the number of men he faced off against? That is life or death assessment right there. Also boasting larger numbers made your slave haul look puny. So the incentive would be to reduce the estimate to make the slave haul look reasonable if not awesome.
Did he *really* confuse the car company Subaru and the Suburra, a district of Rome? Could anyone who's dedicated themselves to a long project on the history of Rome make an error *that* moronic without realizing it? Apparently so.
For a long time he kept saying pleebs rather than plebs, he's obviously not concerned with the details, it's big picture stuff and given that this is part 8 of what? 36 parts? going all the way up to 476 I think he can be excused. If you want more detail maybe listen to this? ruclips.net/video/aCQbYjTXDAc/видео.html
A lot of these problems could be prevented if the optimates/republicans would have been more compassionate towards the poor and non-romans. They were so obsessed with tradition, they failed to use common sense. The use of slavery is just devastating toward not only the slaves, but also the working poor. There are so many parallels to American history, it's incredible.
Actually, the super rich in America, are Democrats. They pretend to like you, own all the means of communication, and care about you so much, they use the middle class' money to buy off the poor and take credit for it.
Pls do another podcast about a different empire, Maybe ancient Persia or Alexandra the great I’ve watch this so many times and would to hear a detailed one about another, Thanks
When this film originally came out, it was implied that this wasnt the same universe as the other x men films. This film was lived as a sort of "what if" storyline set in a terribly depressing future. Unfortunately in deadpool 3 they ruin all of that by making it clear that this universe is meant to be the same universe as the other fox x men films thereby completely ruining the mythos of this film.
Hey there, I really dig this series and was wondering if you knew when you may be uploading the next segment? Also, a link to your donation page would be helpful here as well! Thanks, and keep up the good work.
I love this podcast. I listen to it whenever I don't know what to do. Great work so far, keep it up! P.S. Do you think you can have a long video of the intro music looping? It's a catchy beat.
Cool man, glad you like it. I don't remember if he ever said anything about the tune. He might have said what it was early on. It's a nice tune as an intro but I think it might get old after a few minutes. But I do know some good Roman themed music. Here's a playlist a some good tracks from a Roman game I used to play. :) ruclips.net/video/IThJZbuTB_A/видео.html
It was my understanding that, when Bibilus used the stall tactic of declaring all of the remaining days for the rest of the year to be holy days, Caesar was able to use his authority as Pontifex Maximus to declare that the Gods wouldn't actually mind if he were to carry out his proceedings on their holy days. Any truth to that?
It seems like something Caesar would do given the martial nature of his character. The roman calendar wasn't quite as fixed as ours is today and they were known to have lengthened and shortened the year and the like to have a desired political effect. Like declaring every day of November this year a holy day to Jupiter to delay the elections for example. Juilius would have the kind of man that said, "To hell with that", and would have went ahead with it anyway.
Right right, and as head pontiff, not only could he get away with disregarding such petty obstruction, his actions could not be questioned. On religious matters that is.
The Helvetii were interested in planting a nice flower-garden? Were they also interested in a planting a shrubbery with a white picket fenced path down the middle?
so, this "subaru" Ceasar lived in, could it be the Subura region of Rome? Cause humble as his family position initially was, I find it unlikely they huddled in a car
I haven't listened to any HoR in at least six months. Hearing that intro music made me feel a wave of calm that felt a lot like coming home after being away for a while.
These narrations are so good I feel like I am listening to the lectures in a private elite academy of my parent's generation: something from over 80 or 90 years ago. But I don't have the stomach for the bloodbaths and genocide. But it is amazing to hear the heavy lifting required to build the ancient world and the foundations of modern Europe. .We never learned much about tactics or warfare during my entire education in public schools but I did look on my own almost like it was forbidden knowledge. I think that is because we lived in the world with nuclear weapons and the schools did not want to encourage this kind of thinking. But at 70, I can hear this now and am not as inclined to be motivated by it.. I learned something years ago from an online conversation. The commenter claimed that the Romans liked to age their wines in lead lined copper pots to smooth them. I guess it took the acrid taste from some of the vintages. It wasn't the lead plumbing , where the water is in constant motion, but the leaded wine that would have given them brain damage. I suppose it affected the wealthy more than the poor. The Roman aristocracy doesn't sound too smart most of the time and they seem to lack emotional self control.
@@simonfrederiksen104 - Thanks for the link - a whole new way to spend hours at this study. I have the whole set of the Civilization series. Is there a particular place to note first? About 40 years ago that whole set was a Book of the Month club freebe with membership. I've never read it all the way through but use it more for quick reference. Now that I'm so much older I can appreciate how well written it really is. Gibbon now seems hard to read because of his 18th century habit of using flowery double negatives. I tried reading a random paragraph a few nights back and could barely get the meaning. BTW - As you follow Duncan's series you may notice my comments - I'm retired and couldn't resist adding my two cents. I really enjoyed his presentation and stuck it out to the bitter end. The very bitter end.
@@paulrosa6173 Gibbon frankly hasn't aged well, Durant will be much more relevant a couple of centuries from now than Gibbon ever was. As for Caesar and Christ, copies of the recording of book three in the Civ series tend to be of fluctuating quality. The age of faith (4) is in even worse shape, however I tend to jump back and forth depending on what I'm in the mood for, so I don't really mind if a section has bad sound quality. If so inclined, I'll even find a PDF copy on the internet archive and read passages. archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.15168/page/3/mode/2up They've got a great deal of older books there you'll have a hard time finding in your local library, these for instance; archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Heinrich+Schnee%22
1:48:11 How could Carrhae have been the worst disaster for Rome since Cannae? Granted, they lost the legionary eagles and all, but at Arausio they lost 4-6 times more men, and much closer to home.
Possible because the battle of Arausio did not have major lasting effects on rome. At least not that historian can pin down. Crassus and the death of the first triumvirate led to civil wars and arguably the legit fall of the Republic. Just a guess
Because an entire roman army was lost to a scouting force that was ONLY supposed to harrass them? That may have something to do with that no @landochadbod7?
6:14 I am sure you've been told before, but... Mytilene isn't actually on what is today Turkey's Aegean coast, it is actually the capital town of the Greek island of Lesbos opposite said coast. Lovely podcast otherwise, have relistened to it quite a few times.
No, this these are taken from a podcast that had no visuals. The link is in the description. He had a few maps and things that he made himself as an appendix to some of the episodes but I found all of the ones I use by just googling "Roman Empire" adding the emperor of the time frame I'm looking for. You can do that all the way down to the fall Constantinople. :) Here is a link to some good maps that show all of the worlds empires at 100 year intervals. www.worldhistorymaps.info/maps.html
Le Icedragon haha... I already spent 2 years on Egypt and the same on English monarchical history... Greece is next I think. I skipped Greece for some reason.
Byzantium was colonized by the Greeks from Megara in 657 BC, and remained primarily Greek-speaking until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in AD 1453. Also look up the ancient Anatolian Kingdom of Pontus, Greeks from the Black sea. A blend of Greek and Persian influences. Yes, Greek identity can challenge any Ukrainian Ethnic groups and prove Greeks were in the Black sea far before any Slavic ethnic group existed. What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over 200 years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties founded before a successor of Alexander the Great. It also posed one of the greatest challenges to Roman imperial expansion in the East. Not until 63 BC, after many violent clashes, was Rome able to subjugate the kingdom and its last charismatic ruler Mithridates VI, who proved to be as formidable a foe to Rome as Hannibal. He has been called the greatest ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus. He cultivated an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses; this practice, now called mithridatism, is named after him. After his death, he became known as Mithridates the Great. And after the full of Rome by the Germanic tribes and mercenaries from the far East of Asia that murdered most of the Romans and destroyed and looted Rome. Some Romans managed to flee to Byzantium and were saved by the Greek Royal Guards of Byzantium. The same Greek Royal Guards of Byzantium who trained the Anglo-Saxons from England, after they fled England from the Normans. The popes are not even Roman, that's why popes don't have last names. Poverty-stricken like one of many barbarians that invaded Europe was Odoacer, the Germanic king of the Torcilingi, and he self-proclaimed himself as the new Roman emperor and he embraced everything Roman and Greek. So the Roman state continued and some of its traditions were maintained, modern historians distinguish Byzantium from ancient Rome insofar as it was centred on Constantinople, oriented towards Greek rather than Latin culture and characterised by Orthodox Christianity. And Greek history records show that the Germanic tribe's were given the Netherlands and not Europe. Germanic peoples are nomadic like the Turks and British. There's an intelligent documentary in English to be made about Byzantium culture, and this isn't it. History is way more clear with a Hellenic classical education, and someone who speaks like a native Greek and not as an outsider/foreigner who learned Greek. Dionysius Pyrrhus requests the exclusive use of Hellene in his Cheiragogy: "Never desire to call yourselves Romans, but Hellenes, for the Romans from ancient Rome enslaved and destroyed Hellas." And George Gemistus Plethon pointed out to Constantine Palaeologus that the people he leads are "Hellenes, as their race and language and education testifies". Ducas Vatatzes, wrote in a letter to Pope Gregory IX about the wisdom that "rains upon the Hellenic nation". He maintained that the transfer of the imperial authority from Rome to Constantinople was national and not geographic, and therefore did not belong to the Latins occupying Constantinople: Constantine's heritage was passed on to the Hellenes, so he argued, and they alone were its inheritors and successors. His son, Theodore II Lascaris, was eager to project the name of the Greeks with true nationalistic zeal. He made it a point that "the Hellenic race looms over all other languages" and that "every kind of philosophy and form of knowledge is a discovery of Hellenes […]. What do you, O Rome, have to display?" No other small country can compare with Greece in terms of impact on human benefit. In the beginning... God created the Earth, and in the light blue waters, put a small ship to travel forever, in order not only to give birth but also to transfer great ideas all over the world ... He called that ship...HELLAS! The Greeks created it, the Germans copy it, and the English exploit it. The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus
I remember having to read Cicero in third year Latin without any historical sense . This is excellently done. I am really liking the banter and use of idioms, it gives a human slant to it all/
Marius defeated the Germans not Gaul, it was three German tribes that invaded Rome totaling about 300 000 ,about 113 BC in which Rome lost 85 000 at the battle of arezio ( sorry i don't remember the spelling of that battle) the Germans then went to Spain later returning 101 BC that led to their demise all but 10k Germans were killed making Marius the savior of Rome
Glad you like the series! :) I tried to use different maps as time progressed through the narrative. After the empire reached its greatest extent I started using images of the emperors themselves. Now I wonder if I should have done that from the beginning. I used this one several times since it is a good map of the empire focusing on the areas that were spoken of in the video.
“Surely he won’t build a giant wall blocking our migration. Next week, Caesar will build a giant wall blocking the migration of the Helvetii.” Amazing delivery on that one.
caesar with pepé face
To bad that those helvetii didn't have cutters, planes or the ability to dig some tunnels...
"noooo you can't just build a wall blocking our migration!"
"ha ha legionaries go chop chop"
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Joren van der Ark 5 gmm
I do not know who this man is, but I give him permission to continue singing my praises despite his obvious criticism.
Haha, too bad for you Sulla!
I retired to the country to plow my fields and fuck my slaves. You on the other hand were played and ditched on the floor of the Senate house like a used tampon.
Bona dia. How the he'll are u still alive old man?
Gaius Julius Caesar Few know the true story because of Cicero and Shakespeare manipulating the truth to make Cesar Magnus look like a tyrannical despot. "Woe to the vanquished."
Caesar! !! Caesar! ! Caesar Caesar Caesar Caesar Caesar Caesar
A man who runs from his creditors? Truly, a man of the people.
Sleazy, scum people you mean, right? What kind of slime ball swears that he will pay someone and then doesn't?!
The word Oceanus kinda got cut off in an awkward spot on the map lol
1:41:30
@james forward holy shit man
That's the best part of these videos
Well done
Crap I just noticed that
Caesar is endlessly fascinating to me. Say what you will. The Man got things done.
Easy to get things done when you're a dictator or have an army of 50k if anyone stands in your way and force things through congress
This series is so insanely well narrated and historically accurate its stupidly great. Ive listened to it at least 20 times. Fantastic job
You must be an encyclopedia on Roman history then : ) and yeah I totally agree
I watched this whole series 2 years ago and coming back fills me with a sense of calm and nostalgia. These podcasts were incredibly well done, thank you for uploading them to youtube!
Same here, been coming back to it since '13 when I first finished it. Duncan has such a calming voice and wholesome narrative style
28:47 So... basically Caesar could literally use "I fucked ur mom" as an insult to Cato the Younger... But unlike those random kids on xbox live, it was actually true...
“Was the allied tribe asking for HIS legions to match into THEIR territory?!”
“Yes! Yes! The mission replied. The Roman invasion of Gaul had begun”
😂
This is the most fun I have had studying history for a long time, and I really like studying history.
Glad you like it :)
Yeah, it's Great, isn't it? As Robinson Jeffers said it, in His poem: "Be angry at the Sun:" "That public Men utter falsehoods is nothing new..."
Amazing podcast! You kept me awake during a 5 hour drive in the middle of the night! It was so intriguing and fascinating, i loved it !
I second that!
Mocking the starving people of Rome for wanting free food is disgusting. They had no farms or jobs, what the hell were they supposed to do? Everyone who despises 'the mob' for enjoying 'bread and circuses' needs to reflect on themselves and ponder what happened to their soul.
I come back to this series every couple of years. I'm back.
Its been a couple years where are you
yeppp
Pompey was the evil sith lord. He played it all off like he just wanted to be left alone, but was clearly the mastermind behind most of the unrest in Rome.
Everyone thought he was pretty dumb too.
Pompey didn't stick a knife in Caesar's back. Pompey was a pawn of the senate.
Are you seriously trying to say that the Pompeii who made a fool and liar out of Sulla and crasus was a pawn?
I've listened to this series several time over
keep going man, we need you
Thanks for your support of the channel, glad you like the podcast :)
So are you Mike Duncan? If you are not in which case you should acknowledge you don't own the rights.
12from121 He does. It says it in the description
12from121 use your eyes
Surely he won't build a giant wall, blocking our migration.
Haha.
:)
A giant bed of flowers and Caesar would've still poked them in the eye with a stick lol
we're gonna build a wall and we're gonna make the Helvetii pay for it
@Val's Whitewolf Media They didn't pay money but they sure paid for it
haha, building legionaries go brrrr
Caesar murdered a 1/3 of the population of Gual, 1/3 he enslaved and 1/3 he made pay tribute to Rome.... And he (Caesar) was the "good" guy.
TBF, most of that was in response to the Gauls who fought them.
Replace Pompey with US military, replace Crassos with "Lobbying" and replace Caeser with US senate and you have the Triumvirate of the modern age!
more like caesar and the garlic wars, amirite?
oh ya, he's right!
This is Great! Thank You, Professor Duncan!
rome has been a lifetime interest.thamk you for such a accurate program.i find i did no as much as i thought.thanks many times over.
I think the guitar solo is from a group called Festivus Maximus and the Gladiators. I believe they used to play to sold out crowds at the Circus Maximus on weekends until Cato & others from the stodgy old Senators crowd cracked down on modern music as being subversive to Republican values. Then they fled to Gaul and became the first troubadours.
This is also around the time where Historia Civilis and History of Rome can intertwine...
Historia civilis is both too shallow and too politicized to be at all compatible with this podcast
Mike absolutely dunks on HS
@@a-nus Huh... you make a lot of friends with that statement?
@@nightspawnson-of-luna4936 go back to reddit
Gaul's had the wheel, iron working, domesticated animals... American Indians did not ..lol huh? sophisticated?
europe had a plethora of domesticable animals. The americas did not. Its that simple. Greets from Australia where we also had no domesticable animals
@@goyindi Yah most the world had those things outside the America's an yah Aussie land .. regardless the other lack of tech is obvious like no wheel..lol
Caesar's options? Egypt was basically a vassal state and you forgot about Dacia.... Also not true that Gauls and Germans didn't know any other way to fight except charging mindlessly.
66% wage garnishment rate!!!? I believe that 25% is the limit today.
..."... democracy not interfere with the election..."
Hahahahahaha
Why do Historians always revise population numbers. As if a general could not in a glance of an eye perfectly assess the number of men he faced off against? That is life or death assessment right there.
Also boasting larger numbers made your slave haul look puny. So the incentive would be to reduce the estimate to make the slave haul look reasonable if not awesome.
Second year Latin II was Caesar's Commentaries of the wars in Gaul. Latin III was Cicero's oration against Cataline
Well narrated young man! You made learning history fun.
Props!
That joke about the wall only got better over time. Impressive.
Did he *really* confuse the car company Subaru and the Suburra, a district of Rome? Could anyone who's dedicated themselves to a long project on the history of Rome make an error *that* moronic without realizing it? Apparently so.
For a long time he kept saying pleebs rather than plebs, he's obviously not concerned with the details, it's big picture stuff and given that this is part 8 of what? 36 parts? going all the way up to 476 I think he can be excused. If you want more detail maybe listen to this?
ruclips.net/video/aCQbYjTXDAc/видео.html
@@simonfrederiksen104 "He's obviously not concerned with the details"
Yes, I think that sums it up.
A lot of these problems could be prevented if the optimates/republicans would have been more compassionate towards the poor and non-romans. They were so obsessed with tradition, they failed to use common sense. The use of slavery is just devastating toward not only the slaves, but also the working poor. There are so many parallels to American history, it's incredible.
Yes, I agree. Many have considered America to be a type of "New Rome".
Michael Cline "All roads lead to Rome " It's a French proverb that just happens to be true.
Alexander Hernandez And all roads in Rome lead to Greece xD
Actually, the super rich in America, are Democrats. They pretend to like you, own all the means of communication, and care about you so much, they use the middle class' money to buy off the poor and take credit for it.
Someone needs to make a proper movie about this guy's life, comic book hero stuff
Did Caesar kill Spartacus? So some say 🤔
monarchy --> republic --> democracy --> dictator.... that's evolution....
Thankyou for producing this Timaeus! Awesome to see the podcast develop over the course of the series.
Pls do another podcast about a different empire,
Maybe ancient Persia or Alexandra the great
I’ve watch this so many times and would to hear a detailed one about another,
Thanks
OMG Kato sounds like Ted Cruz before the passing of obamacare!! Except we couldn't haul him off to jail!
Resurrected Starships cato
When this film originally came out, it was implied that this wasnt the same universe as the other x men films. This film was lived as a sort of "what if" storyline set in a terribly depressing future. Unfortunately in deadpool 3 they ruin all of that by making it clear that this universe is meant to be the same universe as the other fox x men films thereby completely ruining the mythos of this film.
Hey there, I really dig this series and was wondering if you knew when you may be uploading the next segment? Also, a link to your donation page would be helpful here as well! Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Hehehe
We NEED a Timaeus University!
:)
I love this podcast. I listen to it whenever I don't know what to do. Great work so far, keep it up!
P.S. Do you think you can have a long video of the intro music looping? It's a catchy beat.
Cool man, glad you like it. I don't remember if he ever said anything about the tune. He might have said what it was early on. It's a nice tune as an intro but I think it might get old after a few minutes. But I do know some good Roman themed music. Here's a playlist a some good tracks from a Roman game I used to play. :) ruclips.net/video/IThJZbuTB_A/видео.html
Daniel Carlstedt Ringius name one thing other than this,, the answer is nothing. Only mike duncan
It was my understanding that, when Bibilus used the stall tactic of declaring all of the remaining days for the rest of the year to be holy days, Caesar was able to use his authority as Pontifex Maximus to declare that the Gods wouldn't actually mind if he were to carry out his proceedings on their holy days. Any truth to that?
It seems like something Caesar would do given the martial nature of his character. The roman calendar wasn't quite as fixed as ours is today and they were known to have lengthened and shortened the year and the like to have a desired political effect. Like declaring every day of November this year a holy day to Jupiter to delay the elections for example. Juilius would have the kind of man that said, "To hell with that", and would have went ahead with it anyway.
Right right, and as head pontiff, not only could he get away with disregarding such petty obstruction, his actions could not be questioned. On religious matters that is.
The Roman Senate needs to vote Mike Duncan an arch, or at least a colossus resembling Apollo!
Pompey and crassus hated each other only through Caesar did they work together despite the animosity
I misread the title as caesar and the garlic wars.. now I'm hungry..
Wait does the German word Kaiser actually come from a mispronunciation of Caesar?
No, actually Kaiser is the correct pronunciation. :) The letter C was used for the K sound in Latin .
The Helvetii were interested in planting a nice flower-garden? Were they also interested in a planting a shrubbery with a white picket fenced path down the middle?
Roger...The Shrubber
hi, can you tell me where did you find so detailed map of Europe?
Wow, what great visuals. Sorry. Visual.
Thanks Timaeus. It is great to see a program about Rome that is Hysterically correct.
Liked and subbed.
Glad you liked it :)
It wasn't that funny
Roma caput mundi!
the Pontifex Maximus is pre-Christian Rome's answer to the pope. course it's said that the Pope is also called the mentioned title.
so, this "subaru" Ceasar lived in, could it be the Subura region of Rome? Cause humble as his family position initially was, I find it unlikely they huddled in a car
Cars were bigger back then
I haven't listened to any HoR in at least six months. Hearing that intro music made me feel a wave of calm that felt a lot like coming home after being away for a while.
Love the thought process on Publius Crassus dying too early. He defiantly would of been a possible factor in the later days of the period.
These narrations are so good I feel like I am listening to the lectures in a private elite academy of my parent's generation: something from over 80 or 90 years ago. But I don't have the stomach for the bloodbaths and genocide. But it is amazing to hear the heavy lifting required to build the ancient world and the foundations of modern Europe. .We never learned much about tactics or warfare during my entire education in public schools but I did look on my own almost like it was forbidden knowledge. I think that is because we lived in the world with nuclear weapons and the schools did not want to encourage this kind of thinking. But at 70, I can hear this now and am not as inclined to be motivated by it..
I learned something years ago from an online conversation. The commenter claimed that the Romans liked to age their wines in lead lined copper pots to smooth them. I guess it took the acrid taste from some of the vintages. It wasn't the lead plumbing , where the water is in constant motion, but the leaded wine that would have given them brain damage. I suppose it affected the wealthy more than the poor. The Roman aristocracy doesn't sound too smart most of the time and they seem to lack emotional self control.
ruclips.net/video/aCQbYjTXDAc/видео.html
@@simonfrederiksen104 - Thanks for the link - a whole new way to spend hours at this study. I have the whole set of the Civilization series. Is there a particular place to note first? About 40 years ago that whole set was a Book of the Month club freebe with membership. I've never read it all the way through but use it more for quick reference.
Now that I'm so much older I can appreciate how well written it really is. Gibbon now seems hard to read because of his 18th century habit of using flowery double negatives. I tried reading a random paragraph a few nights back and could barely get the meaning.
BTW - As you follow Duncan's series you may notice my comments - I'm retired and couldn't resist adding my two cents. I really enjoyed his presentation and stuck it out to the bitter end. The very bitter end.
@@paulrosa6173 Gibbon frankly hasn't aged well, Durant will be much more relevant a couple of centuries from now than Gibbon ever was. As for Caesar and Christ, copies of the recording of book three in the Civ series tend to be of fluctuating quality. The age of faith (4) is in even worse shape, however I tend to jump back and forth depending on what I'm in the mood for, so I don't really mind if a section has bad sound quality. If so inclined, I'll even find a PDF copy on the internet archive and read passages.
archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.15168/page/3/mode/2up
They've got a great deal of older books there you'll have a hard time finding in your local library, these for instance;
archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Heinrich+Schnee%22
1:48:11 How could Carrhae have been the worst disaster for Rome since Cannae? Granted, they lost the legionary eagles and all, but at Arausio they lost 4-6 times more men, and much closer to home.
Possible because the battle of Arausio did not have major lasting effects on rome. At least not that historian can pin down.
Crassus and the death of the first triumvirate led to civil wars and arguably the legit fall of the Republic.
Just a guess
@@Alamyst2011 By that logic, Cannae didn't have major lasting effects, either: the Romans turned the war around in fewer than 10 years, I'd say.
Because an entire roman army was lost to a scouting force that was ONLY supposed to harrass them? That may have something to do with that no @landochadbod7?
6:14 I am sure you've been told before, but... Mytilene isn't actually on what is today Turkey's Aegean coast, it is actually the capital town of the Greek island of Lesbos opposite said coast. Lovely podcast otherwise, have relistened to it quite a few times.
music has twice the gain of 07
Do people actually believe stories such as Julius and the Pirate's? Or does everyone agree it to be fiction?
Do you have a website where I can find all the maps?
No, this these are taken from a podcast that had no visuals. The link is in the description. He had a few maps and things that he made himself as an appendix to some of the episodes but I found all of the ones I use by just googling "Roman Empire" adding the emperor of the time frame I'm looking for. You can do that all the way down to the fall Constantinople. :)
Here is a link to some good maps that show all of the worlds empires at 100 year intervals.
www.worldhistorymaps.info/maps.html
At first glance I thought it said garlic wars lol. Very interesting video!!
I find this series pairs well with playing as Rome in the game Civilization 6
Did you steal this content?
I hate that I’ve gone through all of these so thoroughly... NOW WHAT?... lol.
Go back to ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia or go forward to the Medieval or Renaissance times
Le Icedragon haha... I already spent 2 years on Egypt and the same on English monarchical history... Greece is next I think. I skipped Greece for some reason.
@@icedragon23472 does this same podcaster do the same for those times?
@@CE-vd2px not that I'm aware of
He's covered the English, American and French Revolutions though
Byzantium was colonized by the Greeks from Megara in 657 BC, and remained primarily Greek-speaking until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in AD 1453. Also look up the ancient Anatolian Kingdom of Pontus, Greeks from the Black sea. A blend of Greek and Persian influences. Yes, Greek identity can challenge any Ukrainian Ethnic groups and prove Greeks were in the Black sea far before any Slavic ethnic group existed. What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over 200 years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties founded before a successor of Alexander the Great.
It also posed one of the greatest challenges to Roman imperial expansion in the East. Not until 63 BC, after many violent clashes, was Rome able to subjugate the kingdom and its last charismatic ruler Mithridates VI, who proved to be as formidable a foe to Rome as Hannibal. He has been called the greatest ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus. He cultivated an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses; this practice, now called mithridatism, is named after him. After his death, he became known as Mithridates the Great.
And after the full of Rome by the Germanic tribes and mercenaries from the far East of Asia that murdered most of the Romans and destroyed and looted Rome. Some Romans managed to flee to Byzantium and were saved by the Greek Royal Guards of Byzantium. The same Greek Royal Guards of Byzantium who trained the Anglo-Saxons from England, after they fled England from the Normans.
The popes are not even Roman, that's why popes don't have last names. Poverty-stricken like one of many barbarians that invaded Europe was Odoacer, the Germanic king of the Torcilingi, and he self-proclaimed himself as the new Roman emperor and he embraced everything Roman and Greek. So the Roman state continued and some of its traditions were maintained, modern historians distinguish Byzantium from ancient Rome insofar as it was centred on Constantinople, oriented towards Greek rather than Latin culture and characterised by Orthodox Christianity. And Greek history records show that the Germanic tribe's were given the Netherlands and not Europe. Germanic peoples are nomadic like the Turks and British.
There's an intelligent documentary in English to be made about Byzantium culture, and this isn't it. History is way more clear with a Hellenic classical education, and someone who speaks like a native Greek and not as an outsider/foreigner who learned Greek. Dionysius Pyrrhus requests the exclusive use of Hellene in his Cheiragogy: "Never desire to call yourselves Romans, but Hellenes, for the Romans from ancient Rome enslaved and destroyed Hellas." And George Gemistus Plethon pointed out to Constantine Palaeologus that the people he leads are "Hellenes, as their race and language and education testifies". Ducas Vatatzes, wrote in a letter to Pope Gregory IX about the wisdom that "rains upon the Hellenic nation". He maintained that the transfer of the imperial authority from Rome to Constantinople was national and not geographic, and therefore did not belong to the Latins occupying Constantinople: Constantine's heritage was passed on to the Hellenes, so he argued, and they alone were its inheritors and successors. His son, Theodore II Lascaris, was eager to project the name of the Greeks with true nationalistic zeal. He made it a point that "the Hellenic race looms over all other languages" and that "every kind of philosophy and form of knowledge is a discovery of Hellenes […]. What do you, O Rome, have to display?"
No other small country can compare with Greece in terms of impact on human benefit.
In the beginning... God created the Earth, and in the light blue waters, put a small ship to travel forever, in order not only to give birth but also to transfer great ideas all over the world ...
He called that ship...HELLAS!
The Greeks created it, the Germans copy it, and the English exploit it.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus
I remember having to read Cicero in third year Latin without any historical sense . This is excellently done. I am really liking the banter and use of idioms, it gives a human slant to it all/
Did you read it in Latin after only three years?
Franciscan educated in the 50’s
Where'd you find that map?
Ya ya I'm sure that pirate story is super duper not made up....
Marius defeated the Germans not Gaul, it was three German tribes that invaded Rome totaling about 300 000 ,about 113 BC in which Rome lost 85 000 at the battle of arezio ( sorry i don't remember the spelling of that battle) the Germans then went to Spain later returning 101 BC that led to their demise all but 10k Germans were killed making Marius the savior of Rome
You should listen to his book “the storm before the storm” more detailed version of those invasions
,,, mean-=+while,, back in rome ...
16:42 hilarious :D
where can i find the map in this video?
p.im9.eu/mapporn-map-of-the-roman-empire-under-the-rule-of-hadrian-117-138-2186x1817.jpg
thx
Glad you like the series! :) I tried to use different maps as time progressed through the narrative. After the empire reached its greatest extent I started using images of the emperors themselves. Now I wonder if I should have done that from the beginning. I used this one several times since it is a good map of the empire focusing on the areas that were spoken of in the video.
Sam Quintiens live it in totalwar atilla
,,, ... ' ...Ceasars answer was ... " ... ... ...
Keep comming back. Love ot!
Thanks for posting your perspective, thoroughly enjoy the narrative !
Sup Mike. I listened to your podcast on TuneIn now I'm on it again on RUclips...keep up the good work.
I'm not Mike I have just uploaded these compilations of his podcasts onto RUclips. The link to his podcast page is in the description.
Roddy McDowall was a great man.
Mike Duncan your my hero
awesome
Hey, its the podcast guy! Good content
The names on the old world map look like something out of middle earth now.
Epoch Eon it’s almost like the fake hollow history that later lesser men would concoct was a blatant ripoff of better men and historical realities.
Takes me back to 2011
Mind food, thank you.
,,, and ' YES! " ... ... ...
Gibts die Videos auch in Deutsch
Battle of Alesia
1:24:10
Ave, true to Caesar ✊
45:06 LMAO
9:33, so wait a minute....does that mean that Caesar was also raped by Crassus's son?
nodinitiative not a tv show
Lolz Caesar
Veni, vidi, vici!
thx
Great ...!!
Great Podcast.
Wrong. there was a small tribe in Armorica that was never conquered
Caesar survived a single mother household and became who he did?
Ray Swarnau I believe he was born via a C section too. Cesarean section..
Chaz Hegstrom I believe that was his son with Cleopatra, Cesarean, but I could be wrong