I've read a lot about candle making, oddly enough. Apparently tallow candles and tapers (reeds dipped in fat then lit) were never popular and banned from wealthier homes because of the smell. And they smoked. They were mainly made of sheep fat and could reek. Fats from birds such as geese or chickens didn't burn very well and, they would 'spit', which in a thatched stone hut is the last thing you want and, in the past, fowl was not a common item on the menu for most. Beef fat was not available in great quantities and that smelled worse than sheep fat.There's a lot of different opinions about the advent of beeswax candles but it seems that it didn't occur until the early Middle Ages and that it was invented in monasteries, where the maintenance of many beehives was feasible. I think it's next to impossible for modern people to imagine the absolute darkness of night in the ancient world. You see movies with these torches blazing like mad but that's more for the benefit of the camera. For many ancient cultures you went to bed when it got dark. Or sat around a fire that often smoked. But we also have forgotten all the light-ampliflying techniques they had back then. Polished metal reflectors, glass globes filled with water that turn an olive oil lamp into a 25-watt light source. Take a candle and put a tall wine glass filled with water in front of it and see!
@@toldinstonefootnotes All the whitewashing of walls you read about inside simple homes and huts was the result of burning tapers made of animal fats. Then along came whale oil. The Vikings who settled Iceland and who made a lot of money from walrus ivory tried walrus oil lamps but decided it was too foul smelling. Whereas the Inuit used seal oil in their soapstone lamps and I've never heard that they found it offensive.The meso-American pre-Columbian civilizations had no sources of combustible oils or animal fats and according to the records after the Conquest, the Aztecs in particular fell in love with beeswax candles. Years ago I found this odd iron thing in an antiques store in Scotland - a sort of slim metal pole on three legs with this clamp at the top. The store owner told me it was for clamping a tallow soaked reed in and then lighting it. He said an average household would go through a dozen or so 'tapers' of an evening. What makes me laugh are all these 'historical' movies and shows set in the Middle Ages or the Tudor period with everyone having masses of these big fat white candles (paraffin of course because smoke on the set isn't always desirable). Henry VIII paid a small fortune to a monastery to create an enormous tall votive candle out of beeswax to burn for years as a thanks for the birth of his son. Kid died before even a foot of the thing melted off.
Tallow candles have the worst rep on the internet, but they are not bad. They are not as bright as sterain or beeswax but they are perfectly fine candles even by today's standard. The problem starts when you don't process the tallow properly and don't produce a clean water free tallow. The problem is that the best candles are made from the best and most expensive fat (suet) so poor people probably just used the fat that was inedible and they couldn't use for anything else. You can find many videos on youTube how to make them and see how they burn. For example ruclips.net/video/5KODPmSd72Y/видео.html
Love the Q&As! Perhaps this may have been covered in a previous video, but would love to learn more about humor/comedy in the Roman empire. Did they have anything close to modern day stand-up comedy? Comedy through theatre? What did the Romans like to joke about?
Hi Ryan. I’ve always wondered why were Roman/Greek paintings/artwork so rudimentary (lacking detail and perspective etc) compared to to their statues which look almost life like. It’s seems counterintuitive that the Greeks and Romans would be expert sculptures and builders first. It wasn’t until the early renaissance period that photorealistic painting developed. People have been painting hands on caves since the human species began so you would think 2-3 thousand years ago artists would be on the same level as their sculpture counterparts. Their statues show they understand human anatomy and proportions etc.
Personally think it is not due to some form of advancement (similar to technical advancement) but possibly more about the artistic preferences and trends of the time? Perhaps you could find someone in a common fair to do a photorealistic portrait of yours in under an hour, but to the elites this would be some sort of circus act instead of "true art." Since elite possessions are more likely to be valued and preserved, these "circus acts" might have been lost to time. Idk, speaking out of my ass here.
There’s a ton of frescos that didn’t survive, the surviving ones at Pompeii aren’t great quality in the state they’re in but are still impressive. There are also stylistic elements that might be less ‘realistic’ but reflex the standards and signalling of the time. They were distinct & creative enough for forgeries to be a whole thing
This is the first thing I thought of when I woke up this morning. I jumped out of bed and I asked myself "Ronnie, did the ancient Romans make omelets?" In seriousness though. While I have not seen this video yet as I type this, I don't knw why the Romans would not have made omelets.
I do have an administrative question: How was the administration "synchronised" through the empire? For example to keep track of citizenship, they did not make copies of gigantic lists did they?
He already talked about proof of identity in a recent video. It has a picture of the romanized identity card of some woman named Joanna in the thumbnail.
@@adrien5568 If I remember correctly, the point of the video was that they didn't "synchronize" records. The burden of proving ones identify lay with the person. You could get a written statement from an official or another person of authority in your neighborhood and you relied on people at your destination to accept that statement for truth. Gareth went on to say that multiple impersonators of Emperors were able to gather some regional power even after that Emperor died, exactly because there were no records of identity. Going by memory here, so I might be mistaken.
I’m sorry I have missed these. One day I would like to hear about questions you have wondered about and have either found the answer to or not. You make any topic seem interesting.
Hi Ryan! I’ve enjoyed every minute of your posts. I would like to ask you about the writings of Publius Rutilius Rufus, the famous gossip who corresponded with EVERYONE, enemies and friends alike, in the late republic. I’ve read some of the translations of what is left of his work. Colleen McCullough writes hilariously about him in her Masters of Rome series, and from what little I was able to glean from translations, her portrayal was accurate. But I would like your opinion!!
The Greeks have had a venerable omelette tradition from antiquity to the present. You can dine on an omelette like Plato himself enjoyed at Greek owned diners all over the USA: Gyro meat, feta cheese, and spinach! 😁 Pretty sure they didn't have hash browns though.
How did the Roman navy work? It seems a little more ad hoc than the army with fleets raised as needed much of the time. Did a sailor have the same terms of service as a soldier, complete with the reward of land upon discharge?
Hello! I love your channels and books, man. I was a history major in college and you make me want to go back for my MA/PhD. My question is this: What amount of ancient Greek artwork, be it bronze statues recovered from shipwrecks or smaller pieces hidden away in great museums, or pottery, exists to this day? 5%? 1%? Less? And do the Roman sources we have (such as Pompeii) shed an (to our knowledge) accurate light on the greatness of those ancient artisans and works? Thanks!!
In modern Greek the native equivalent to omelette used to be called σφογγάτο which means sponge-like and was often made with milk or some similar liquid added to the eggs. Unfortunately nowdays called "ομελέτα" due to French and Italian influence.
If you wonder how he knows all this, consider the fact that he looks like a Roman bust come to life. This man is clearly a time-travelling Roman who came to educate us with the wisdoms of the past, but he masks his knowledge as to not be suspicious, by referring to modern sources. It is very clear, that he has a great deal of personal experience, which he fondly reminisces on while speaking. In his memory-delirium he lets some parts slip out and thus reveal his rouse to the most keen of viewers.
I always just assumed that Romans used oil lamps because Roman candles shoot out those fireballs.
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Once the western empire fail Slavic, Germanic, .. tribes moved into previously occupied roman regions in a process that took 50-100 years Probably all possible variations of following + more happened once roman army moved away: - roman citizens pulled back to areas/cities in their province that were majority roman - roman citizens migrated to eastern empire - roman citizens stayed put and lived with/alongside new-commers - roman citizens stay put and were killed / enslaved Is there any data on what people who selected one of the above options did later in their life? - Romans who migrated inside western empire were they able to establish life in the new city/province? - Did romans have families scattered trough empire 1000km apart in other provinces so they could fall back on them to help them survive? and integrate - There were no central bank computers did Romans fleeing lost all their money, possessions - Did romans accepted folks from other cites, provinces, west-east empire when movements happened? - Romans who stay put in their old city/area once the army moved out, did the new tribes occupying the area generally permitted them to co-exist with them or did they strip them of everything and enslaved them? - People who initially decided to stay put but changed their mind after 10 or 20 years to move to Roman controlled area where they able to do so? If 2nd generation (kids of people who stayed put) decided to move did they had enough general knowledge to know where to go, would they be accepted into the roman controlled area after 20 years?
Garrett, the audio is low for some reason in these videos where you film in this room/with this equipment. I'm on full blast and still need to stay tuned in carefully. You either need to speak up or dust off the mic
(1) what influence did Greek and other oracles have during the Roman imperial period? (2) what was lead used for and why was it used? (3) what is alum, how did it work, and what was it used for?
I'm against the idea that Roman decorators used pattern books, simply because they'd be unwieldy high status objects to be carrying from job to job. It's more likely that they memorized a range of recognized types and sometimes small portable sources like coins for poses
Did owners cook for their slaves? It's more likely that they cooked for themselves. Like other early Americans, George Washington was concerned about the cost to him of feeding his slaves, so he allowed them (from what they had themselves produced) less then they needed, so that they had to trap vermin to cook and eat during their sleep time.
I have a few questions: Did ancient Rome have weapons laws like we'd recognize today (ie, who could or couldn't own or posses certain types of weapons - like daggers, swords, spears, bow/arrow etc)? Also, did they distinguish between military style weapons & things that might be available to common folk? Like, for example, could a private citizen own a scorpio ballista or something large like that & if so, would it be regulated? I for whatever reason, have this idea of an ancient Roman equivalent of the 2A community in my mind. What's the Latin for "Don't tread on me"? lol
(a) Some idea of the attitude of Roman authorities to private citizens arming themselves might be gained from the published letters of Pliny the Younger. As a provincial governor, he wrote to the emperor asking whether he should permit the citizens of one town to set up a volunteer fire brigade. The emperor wrote back to advise against it, since it could be dangerous to allow men to meet together. In that era, Rome already had organised night watchmen performing that function. (b) Nemo me impune lacessit.
Bear with me here..What modern day institution is closest or even still part of the ancient Roman legal system? What made me think this? There's a Roman mile marker still in situ near me in the UK, what if I was to injure myself on it somehow? Who would I sue? I know, probably the council who will tell me to go away. I have too much spare time on my hands.
The Roman Catholic Church. One of the Christian emperors (Gratian?) was persuaded to hand over the title of Pontifex Maximus to the Pope. That was the third highest priestly office of Rome, and is the Pope's most ancient title. It's also the source of his authority to regulate the calendar.
6:40 They performed the most important job among every communities of the human primate, that is; birthing, raising, protecting, and feeding the youngs. A full time job that if not performed adequately will lead to the community's collapse and subsequent replacement by more adept and fit communities. I love nature selection.
Oh barf! Egg sponge with milk? A properly cooked egg is cracked directly into the pan and fried until it's brown, so to properly cook an omelette you have to fry it on both sides and THEN add the contents. Otherwise it will be runny in the middle.
I thought it sounded like a hybrid souffle omelet but without separating the whites to fold in later. If the milk had a lot of cream, I wonder if beating would result in such an airy omelet/sponge. Either way, it sounds a lot more appetitzing to me than most of the foods one hears about.
Regarding the question about jobs that women could have it is important to understand that in the classical world the social standing of the person in question mattered as much if not more than their gender. It also varied by time period and even region, especially in the Greek world. A respectable Athenian woman could not be a merchant but a foreign born woman or former slave could be without shame. For respectable Athenian women marrying an Athenian citizen was seen as her duty, in order for them to produce children who were also citizens and thus have a stake in the wellbeing of the city. This is why in my opinion, the main reason the culture was rather misogynistic because they valued males to provide soldiers to protect the city.
An economy based on muscle power and high risk ventures will inevitably depend much more on male involvement than women's involvement and therefore interpreted by today's standards as "misogynistic".
@@johnw574 I'm not trying to denigrate them for it, it just is what it is. Any differences in culture are going to be interpreted by how they compare to our standards regardless.
@@shock_n_Aweful Comparing to today's standards is thanks to an ideological lense, it is not inevitable. It is possible to interpret a culture within its own context and not make such judgements.
@@johnw574 if it came off as a judgement, that wasn't my intention. I was speaking to a general audience rather than an academic only. I know a lot of people have a critical view on the issue and I wanted to explain to those who don't understand the reason for it.
mmm as long as they had butter i guess i could please myself with a modern omelet. (though a quick google search and only looking at the results and not the articles themselves, i did see something saying they had butter but used it medicinally..sounds like it might be expensive then for breakfast use.. 😞unless it's my modern assumption that all medicines are expensive...)
Do historians think Jesus of Nazareth actually existed? How typical was Jesus of Jewish men in Judea at that time? How likely would the roman authorities have been to execute someone of Jesus’s status and profession? Was Jesus one of many revolutionaries in Judea at the time that just happened to get famous? Or was Jesus a unique figure for his time? Outside of the gospels, what sources are there for Jesus?
@peterhatchell7025 The Christ was a Galilean Israelite, not Ioudaios / ieudomite. Emperor Tiberius had His face engraved into an emerald for a keepsake. It is the first among many ancient artistic representations of Him from very young to full adulthood. What is in the Holy Bible is written in a sacerdotal coded language. It conceals the actual location of that particular "jerusalem" / fortified sacerdotal city of peace. It certainly was not where the present location is claimed. In the 4th century AD, a ruined "roman" fort was established as a "jerusalem" and constructed as a Christian city. Likewise, all the other Biblical places are not in the ME. Biblical Egypt was not at Aeria. Aeria was renamed "Egypt" by Alexander the Great. The accursed Biblical "Jerusalem", Biblical Galilee, Biblical Persia, Biblical Babylon, Biblical Armenia, etc. are in the West. One little clue: long afterward, Britain was still being addressed in correspondence as "the Isle of Syria." Reference to Biblical folk was carried eastward, and they learned of the Christ up to a century afterward.
@@westrim Americans mangling French words and assuming that's correct. Westrim, je ne suis pas britannique donc votre observation m'a fait rire. Imbécile.
@@cerberus6654 Condescension is even more classically French. What will be your next stereotype to embody? By the way, I was referring to the spelling, which is considered British, not your nationality, which as far as I know is Youtubian. RUclipsse? Youtubish.
@@westrim Who came out with a snarky sneer at the British? And now a nasty, sweeping generalisation about the French? You're obviously a very culturally and intellectually insecure person. Sad. So sad, and such a cross to bear in life I would imagine.
@@wafflesaurus_supreme We're not writing French; how they spell is immaterial, even for words adopted from their language. All varieties of English have thousands of French loanwords that have been changed to better suit English conventions, (though the British had a retrograde fashion in the 1800s that reversed a couple hundred). But we aren't arguing over the spelling of toilet (the fixture) even though all forms of English have transformed it from the French toilette. We all dropped the unnecessary letters... the same ones American English drops from omelette.
The Romans liked to have busts of their ancestors, but did they go in for portrait painting? Is there a "Mona Lisa" from the Roman Era, i.e. a painting of a real person.
If they didn't have omelets I'd be shocked. Its prep is nothing compared to the processes of making garum, cheese, wine, bread or even butchering animal. Break, beat, pour, wait, eat.
Question, did Romans educated all Dacians (latinized them) after conquering 33% of Dacia or they just stole Dacia's resources until they were thrown out of the Dacia in 272 AD by the free Dacians?
I've read a lot about candle making, oddly enough. Apparently tallow candles and tapers (reeds dipped in fat then lit) were never popular and banned from wealthier homes because of the smell. And they smoked. They were mainly made of sheep fat and could reek. Fats from birds such as geese or chickens didn't burn very well and, they would 'spit', which in a thatched stone hut is the last thing you want and, in the past, fowl was not a common item on the menu for most. Beef fat was not available in great quantities and that smelled worse than sheep fat.There's a lot of different opinions about the advent of beeswax candles but it seems that it didn't occur until the early Middle Ages and that it was invented in monasteries, where the maintenance of many beehives was feasible. I think it's next to impossible for modern people to imagine the absolute darkness of night in the ancient world. You see movies with these torches blazing like mad but that's more for the benefit of the camera. For many ancient cultures you went to bed when it got dark. Or sat around a fire that often smoked. But we also have forgotten all the light-ampliflying techniques they had back then. Polished metal reflectors, glass globes filled with water that turn an olive oil lamp into a 25-watt light source. Take a candle and put a tall wine glass filled with water in front of it and see!
That's very interesting! I was vaguely aware that different types of fat were used, but never realized how different their properties were.
@@toldinstonefootnotes All the whitewashing of walls you read about inside simple homes and huts was the result of burning tapers made of animal fats. Then along came whale oil. The Vikings who settled Iceland and who made a lot of money from walrus ivory tried walrus oil lamps but decided it was too foul smelling. Whereas the Inuit used seal oil in their soapstone lamps and I've never heard that they found it offensive.The meso-American pre-Columbian civilizations had no sources of combustible oils or animal fats and according to the records after the Conquest, the Aztecs in particular fell in love with beeswax candles. Years ago I found this odd iron thing in an antiques store in Scotland - a sort of slim metal pole on three legs with this clamp at the top. The store owner told me it was for clamping a tallow soaked reed in and then lighting it. He said an average household would go through a dozen or so 'tapers' of an evening. What makes me laugh are all these 'historical' movies and shows set in the Middle Ages or the Tudor period with everyone having masses of these big fat white candles (paraffin of course because smoke on the set isn't always desirable). Henry VIII paid a small fortune to a monastery to create an enormous tall votive candle out of beeswax to burn for years as a thanks for the birth of his son. Kid died before even a foot of the thing melted off.
Tallow candles have the worst rep on the internet, but they are not bad. They are not as bright as sterain or beeswax but they are perfectly fine candles even by today's standard. The problem starts when you don't process the tallow properly and don't produce a clean water free tallow. The problem is that the best candles are made from the best and most expensive fat (suet) so poor people probably just used the fat that was inedible and they couldn't use for anything else.
You can find many videos on youTube how to make them and see how they burn. For example ruclips.net/video/5KODPmSd72Y/видео.html
Love the Q&As! Perhaps this may have been covered in a previous video, but would love to learn more about humor/comedy in the Roman empire. Did they have anything close to modern day stand-up comedy? Comedy through theatre? What did the Romans like to joke about?
Weep, you maidens. My penis has give you up. It now penetrates men’s behinds. Farewell, wondrous femininity!
Just check out Apuleius' "The Golden Ass", but watch out, it's pretty NSFW
Hi Ryan. I’ve always wondered why were Roman/Greek paintings/artwork so rudimentary (lacking detail and perspective etc) compared to to their statues which look almost life like. It’s seems counterintuitive that the Greeks and Romans would be expert sculptures and builders first. It wasn’t until the early renaissance period that photorealistic painting developed. People have been painting hands on caves since the human species began so you would think 2-3 thousand years ago artists would be on the same level as their sculpture counterparts. Their statues show they understand human anatomy and proportions etc.
Personally think it is not due to some form of advancement (similar to technical advancement) but possibly more about the artistic preferences and trends of the time? Perhaps you could find someone in a common fair to do a photorealistic portrait of yours in under an hour, but to the elites this would be some sort of circus act instead of "true art." Since elite possessions are more likely to be valued and preserved, these "circus acts" might have been lost to time. Idk, speaking out of my ass here.
Read Spengler, bro.
There’s a ton of frescos that didn’t survive, the surviving ones at Pompeii aren’t great quality in the state they’re in but are still impressive. There are also stylistic elements that might be less ‘realistic’ but reflex the standards and signalling of the time. They were distinct & creative enough for forgeries to be a whole thing
I find that ancient paintings have better perspective than those of the Middle Ages, if falling short of the Renaissance
I find manipulating a three-dimensional sculpture much easier than applying paint to a canvas...
This is the first thing I thought of when I woke up this morning. I jumped out of bed and I asked myself "Ronnie, did the ancient Romans make omelets?"
In seriousness though. While I have not seen this video yet as I type this, I don't knw why the Romans would not have made omelets.
bless you Dr. Ryan
I received your book for Christmas, it was such a great read. Do you do any book signings?
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm hoping to do a few signings this fall, after the release of my next book. Stay tuned...
Dr. Ryan, I just finished Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants. I cannot wait for your next release.
I'm very glad to hear it! The sequel (which I am currently in the process of finishing) will be published in September.
@@toldinstonefootnotes That is exciting to hear! Not only is your book very informative, you are an excellent and very entertaining writer.
Asking the real questions here, Garrett.
Keep up the great work 🙂👏
THANK YOU. This question has been keeping me awake at night for years.
These are among my favourite videos you make. Please, keep them up.
I do have an administrative question: How was the administration "synchronised" through the empire? For example to keep track of citizenship, they did not make copies of gigantic lists did they?
He already talked about proof of identity in a recent video.
It has a picture of the romanized identity card of some woman named Joanna in the thumbnail.
But it does not answer my question.
@@adrien5568 If I remember correctly, the point of the video was that they didn't "synchronize" records.
The burden of proving ones identify lay with the person.
You could get a written statement from an official or another person of authority in your neighborhood and you relied on people at your destination to accept that statement for truth.
Gareth went on to say that multiple impersonators of Emperors were able to gather some regional power even after that Emperor died, exactly because there were no records of identity.
Going by memory here, so I might be mistaken.
@@Thomas_Name Yes, but I am asking for all administrative matters or similar.
@@adrien5568 Let me guess. You invented a time machine and are looking for a job in ancient Rome as a copiest 😁
Great questions to all the "askers" and thanks for the answers, Dr Ryan!
I love that you used verasimilitude
nice presentation
Was going to the beach on a hot day a thing in the classical world like it is today?
When going through Eusebius' Church History... I was fascinated that he mentions how he has access to The Library/Archives in Aelia (Jerusalem).
6:19 ye olde... love it
I’m sorry I have missed these. One day I would like to hear about questions you have wondered about and have either found the answer to or not. You make any topic seem interesting.
Hi Ryan! I’ve enjoyed every minute of your posts. I would like to ask you about the writings of Publius Rutilius Rufus, the famous gossip who corresponded with EVERYONE, enemies and friends alike, in the late republic. I’ve read some of the translations of what is left of his work. Colleen McCullough writes hilariously about him in her Masters of Rome series, and from what little I was able to glean from translations, her portrayal was accurate. But I would like your opinion!!
The painting of the Harbor scene in Pompeii is incredible. (correction.. it is from Stabiae)
The Greeks have had a venerable omelette tradition from antiquity to the present. You can dine on an omelette like Plato himself enjoyed at Greek owned diners all over the USA: Gyro meat, feta cheese, and spinach! 😁
Pretty sure they didn't have hash browns though.
Very nice
Thanks to you I'm aware of some wonderful ancient drinking games; but aside from those what games did the Greeks and Romans engage in?
Thank you and Much Love from the Philippines.
This made my day haha
Thanks to Jacob for asking the real question!
Pops Leo wore an omelet on his head when he spoke to Atilla the Hun
How did the Roman navy work? It seems a little more ad hoc than the army with fleets raised as needed much of the time. Did a sailor have the same terms of service as a soldier, complete with the reward of land upon discharge?
That omelet sounds good.
Hello! I love your channels and books, man. I was a history major in college and you make me want to go back for my MA/PhD. My question is this: What amount of ancient Greek artwork, be it bronze statues recovered from shipwrecks or smaller pieces hidden away in great museums, or pottery, exists to this day? 5%? 1%? Less? And do the Roman sources we have (such as Pompeii) shed an (to our knowledge) accurate light on the greatness of those ancient artisans and works? Thanks!!
Hello Garrett! Love your videos. I have a question about Roman religion in antiquity: how does one become a priest/priestess in a temple or cult?
Honey & pepper. Don’t think I’ll try it but interesting idea.
In modern Greek the native equivalent to omelette used to be called σφογγάτο which means sponge-like and was often made with milk or some similar liquid added to the eggs. Unfortunately nowdays called "ομελέτα" due to French and Italian influence.
If you wonder how he knows all this, consider the fact that he looks like a Roman bust come to life. This man is clearly a time-travelling Roman who came to educate us with the wisdoms of the past, but he masks his knowledge as to not be suspicious, by referring to modern sources. It is very clear, that he has a great deal of personal experience, which he fondly reminisces on while speaking. In his memory-delirium he lets some parts slip out and thus reveal his rouse to the most keen of viewers.
Yes they did! But first, they had to break a few eggs.
I always just assumed that Romans used oil lamps because Roman candles shoot out those fireballs.
Once the western empire fail Slavic, Germanic, .. tribes moved into previously occupied roman regions in a process that took 50-100 years
Probably all possible variations of following + more happened once roman army moved away:
- roman citizens pulled back to areas/cities in their province that were majority roman
- roman citizens migrated to eastern empire
- roman citizens stayed put and lived with/alongside new-commers
- roman citizens stay put and were killed / enslaved
Is there any data on what people who selected one of the above options did later in their life?
- Romans who migrated inside western empire were they able to establish life in the new city/province?
- Did romans have families scattered trough empire 1000km apart in other provinces so they could fall back on them to help them survive? and integrate
- There were no central bank computers did Romans fleeing lost all their money, possessions
- Did romans accepted folks from other cites, provinces, west-east empire when movements happened?
- Romans who stay put in their old city/area once the army moved out, did the new tribes occupying the area generally permitted them to co-exist with them or did they strip them of everything and enslaved them?
- People who initially decided to stay put but changed their mind after 10 or 20 years to move to Roman controlled area where they able to do so? If 2nd generation (kids of people who stayed put) decided to move did they had enough general knowledge to know where to go, would they be accepted into the roman controlled area after 20 years?
i think i read once from Marcus Tullius Tiro how he went to the public records on behalf of Cicero, so i had Ciceros seal or something
Garrett, the audio is low for some reason in these videos where you film in this room/with this equipment. I'm on full blast and still need to stay tuned in carefully. You either need to speak up or dust off the mic
So it's not just me. I was taking a walk and could not hear over the traffic.
(1) what influence did Greek and other oracles have during the Roman imperial period? (2) what was lead used for and why was it used? (3) what is alum, how did it work, and what was it used for?
Did the Romans make any predictions about the future, or ponder about it and what it might be like?
You might want to check out my toldinstone video "What did the Romans think the future would be like?"
Did the Greeks or Romans have a concept of "the end of the world" (religious or otherwise)? Think Ragnarok, the Rapture, or a meteor destroying Earth.
I'm against the idea that Roman decorators used pattern books, simply because they'd be unwieldy high status objects to be carrying from job to job. It's more likely that they memorized a range of recognized types and sometimes small portable sources like coins for poses
How were slaves in antiquity fed? Did they have to cook for themselves, or were their meal supplied by their owners?
Did owners cook for their slaves? It's more likely that they cooked for themselves. Like other early Americans, George Washington was concerned about the cost to him of feeding his slaves, so he allowed them (from what they had themselves produced) less then they needed, so that they had to trap vermin to cook and eat during their sleep time.
How did the different classes of people in the ancient world scent themselves (alcoholic perfumes not having been invented yet)?
What did Roman’s think about assimilated Jews?
that Roman omelet sounds much like cheesecake. yes, please.
How did the Romans raise an obelisk after they had transferred it from Egypt to Rome or Constantinople?
I have a few questions:
Did ancient Rome have weapons laws like we'd recognize today (ie, who could or couldn't own or posses certain types of weapons - like daggers, swords, spears, bow/arrow etc)?
Also, did they distinguish between military style weapons & things that might be available to common folk? Like, for example, could a private citizen own a scorpio ballista or something large like that & if so, would it be regulated?
I for whatever reason, have this idea of an ancient Roman equivalent of the 2A community in my mind. What's the Latin for "Don't tread on me"? lol
Trednotoni
(a) Some idea of the attitude of Roman authorities to private citizens arming themselves might be gained from the published letters of Pliny the Younger. As a provincial governor, he wrote to the emperor asking whether he should permit the citizens of one town to set up a volunteer fire brigade. The emperor wrote back to advise against it, since it could be dangerous to allow men to meet together. In that era, Rome already had organised night watchmen performing that function.
(b) Nemo me impune lacessit.
Bear with me here..What modern day institution is closest or even still part of the ancient Roman legal system? What made me think this? There's a Roman mile marker still in situ near me in the UK, what if I was to injure myself on it somehow? Who would I sue? I know, probably the council who will tell me to go away. I have too much spare time on my hands.
I like that question's style. I'll add it to the list...
The Roman Catholic Church. One of the Christian emperors (Gratian?) was persuaded to hand over the title of Pontifex Maximus to the Pope. That was the third highest priestly office of Rome, and is the Pope's most ancient title. It's also the source of his authority to regulate the calendar.
Were there any slurpee or milkshakes during roman period?
No, because tomatoes only came to Europe after Colombus invented the Americas. Same reason they didn't have the combustion engine.
6:40 They performed the most important job among every communities of the human primate, that is; birthing, raising, protecting, and feeding the youngs. A full time job that if not performed adequately will lead to the community's collapse and subsequent replacement by more adept and fit communities. I love nature selection.
Oh barf! Egg sponge with milk? A properly cooked egg is cracked directly into the pan and fried until it's brown, so to properly cook an omelette you have to fry it on both sides and THEN add the contents. Otherwise it will be runny in the middle.
I thought it sounded like a hybrid souffle omelet but without separating the whites to fold in later. If the milk had a lot of cream, I wonder if beating would result in such an airy omelet/sponge. Either way, it sounds a lot more appetitzing to me than most of the foods one hears about.
They sure broke a lot of eggs.
If you break an egg you are making an omelet
cool
Concerning women's jobs in Ancient Rome. What about weaving/textile production?
Regarding the question about jobs that women could have it is important to understand that in the classical world the social standing of the person in question mattered as much if not more than their gender. It also varied by time period and even region, especially in the Greek world. A respectable Athenian woman could not be a merchant but a foreign born woman or former slave could be without shame. For respectable Athenian women marrying an Athenian citizen was seen as her duty, in order for them to produce children who were also citizens and thus have a stake in the wellbeing of the city. This is why in my opinion, the main reason the culture was rather misogynistic because they valued males to provide soldiers to protect the city.
An economy based on muscle power and high risk ventures will inevitably depend much more on male involvement than women's involvement and therefore interpreted by today's standards as "misogynistic".
@@johnw574 I'm not trying to denigrate them for it, it just is what it is. Any differences in culture are going to be interpreted by how they compare to our standards regardless.
@@shock_n_Aweful Comparing to today's standards is thanks to an ideological lense, it is not inevitable. It is possible to interpret a culture within its own context and not make such judgements.
@@johnw574 if it came off as a judgement, that wasn't my intention. I was speaking to a general audience rather than an academic only. I know a lot of people have a critical view on the issue and I wanted to explain to those who don't understand the reason for it.
mmm as long as they had butter i guess i could please myself with a modern omelet. (though a quick google search and only looking at the results and not the articles themselves, i did see something saying they had butter but used it medicinally..sounds like it might be expensive then for breakfast use.. 😞unless it's my modern assumption that all medicines are expensive...)
How much ancient Roman food cooking style influence Italian cooking ?
Do historians think Jesus of Nazareth actually existed?
How typical was Jesus of Jewish men in Judea at that time?
How likely would the roman authorities have been to execute someone of Jesus’s status and profession?
Was Jesus one of many revolutionaries in Judea at the time that just happened to get famous? Or was Jesus a unique figure for his time?
Outside of the gospels, what sources are there for Jesus?
@peterhatchell7025
The Christ was a Galilean Israelite, not Ioudaios / ieudomite. Emperor Tiberius had His face engraved into an emerald for a keepsake. It is the first among many ancient artistic representations of Him from very young to full adulthood.
What is in the Holy Bible is written in a sacerdotal coded language. It conceals the actual location of that particular "jerusalem" / fortified sacerdotal city of peace. It certainly was not where the present location is claimed. In the 4th century AD, a ruined "roman" fort was established as a "jerusalem" and constructed as a Christian city. Likewise, all the other Biblical places are not in the ME. Biblical Egypt was not at Aeria. Aeria was renamed "Egypt" by Alexander the Great.
The accursed Biblical "Jerusalem", Biblical Galilee, Biblical Persia, Biblical Babylon, Biblical Armenia, etc. are in the West. One little clue: long afterward, Britain was still being addressed in correspondence as "the Isle of Syria." Reference to Biblical folk was carried eastward, and they learned of the Christ up to a century afterward.
PS Dr. G - it's an 'omelette'.
British adding letters they don't pronounce and declaring themselves correct edition #5712.
@@westrim Americans mangling French words and assuming that's correct. Westrim, je ne suis pas britannique donc votre observation m'a fait rire. Imbécile.
@@cerberus6654 Condescension is even more classically French. What will be your next stereotype to embody?
By the way, I was referring to the spelling, which is considered British, not your nationality, which as far as I know is Youtubian. RUclipsse? Youtubish.
@@westrim Who came out with a snarky sneer at the British? And now a nasty, sweeping generalisation about the French? You're obviously a very culturally and intellectually insecure person. Sad. So sad, and such a cross to bear in life I would imagine.
@@wafflesaurus_supreme We're not writing French; how they spell is immaterial, even for words adopted from their language. All varieties of English have thousands of French loanwords that have been changed to better suit English conventions, (though the British had a retrograde fashion in the 1800s that reversed a couple hundred). But we aren't arguing over the spelling of toilet (the fixture) even though all forms of English have transformed it from the French toilette. We all dropped the unnecessary letters... the same ones American English drops from omelette.
were any romans haunted by ghosts ?
the Romans had chickens?
The Romans liked to have busts of their ancestors, but did they go in for portrait painting? Is there a "Mona Lisa" from the Roman Era, i.e. a painting of a real person.
If they didn't have omelets I'd be shocked. Its prep is nothing compared to the processes of making garum, cheese, wine, bread or even butchering animal. Break, beat, pour, wait, eat.
Question, did Romans educated all Dacians (latinized them) after conquering 33% of Dacia or they just stole Dacia's resources until they were thrown out of the Dacia in 272 AD by the free Dacians?
honey omelet?🤢
Now I want to go to Waffle House 🤣