The Third Samnite War is an underrated conflict of Roman history. Rome fought on three separate fronts, against almost every other major polity in Italy, and was able to outmaneuver and outfight the entire peninsula. If there was any doubt of Rome's destiny before the start of that war, none of that doubt remained by 290bce. For the next 150 years they fought across the Mediterranean and by the end had established themselves as the first and only hegemons of Mare Nostrum, a premier status which held for over 500 years. And something super important that many seem to forget: the Romans conquered Italy, but the Italians as a whole conquered the rest of the empire. Rome's ability to successfully incorporate the Italians into their military infrastructure gave them the foundation they needed to eventually transition to the frontier recruited legions.
....when your choice is to be incorporated or... After a few examples, incorporation was the obvious choice. Much preferential to slavery, genocide, forced relocation, [ which still sometimes happened], so yeah, incorporated.
This is a masterpiece. I hope a lot of people on youtube get a chance to see this. Unique animation, smart use of humor, great voice and excellent narration. I feel so privileged discovering you so early!
@MagistraVitae About Julius Ceaser, he only commented one it was after they masscure a whole legion that he loved. I think it was the 15th, and I need to check again. But the garlic people also didn't want to be under rule. If you count the armies that assemble, that would be roughly the same amount of deaths during his war. Plus we also have Crassius son before her left to Persia that he stopped a revoult of 15,000 and Athoney leading small cavalry attacks on Gallic hold outs
@@MagistraVitae About Carthage you wrong again 50,000 were left to Roman farms and many others left to their other colonies and some cane to the tribes that raided their land with the waste was under Roman rule pls learn your Punic, Gallic, and Ilyriam wars. If you think I'm wrong I be happy to listen and here you out where you got your sources
The Samnite's fate after the Social War though is very bleak. After the Social War in 91-87 BC they fought in the Civil War between Sulla's forces and Marius' and Carbo's forces in 83-82 BC, where they sided with Marius and Carbo, but Sulla won. Sulla ordered them crushed as a people. They were practically wiped out. I quote Strabo: ""Some of their cities have now dwindled into villages, some indeed being entirely deserted." Sulla ordered 40.000 Roman troops to march through Samnite territories and butcher and enslave them and sack their cities and towns. Many were simply slain regardless of age, and many of the enslaved used for the harsher slave labors. Those Samnites that remained after this were simply assimilated by Roman culture and Samnite culture more or less disappears from Roman sources after 82-81 BC; so complete was their destruction that it only took a year for them to disappear as a people.
@@torbk The Social War to me is the real death of the Senate. They let all that slaughter happen just to give the Italians what they wanted. All it did was give popular generals more recruits for future wars.
I thought this video was made by a guy with over 200k subs because this level of detail and effort you put into these videos is truly worthy of that number
@@vincenzopiras9765your teacher would be German if not for Americans, so we get to define your language. That was the deal, we lend you our American muscles, lease you our American weapons, and in exchange we are now owners of English. Stop putting random U’s in words. Color. This agreement was signed by FDR the Queen and Churchill. You actually dishonor your queen when you correct an American’s English.
I can see the makings of a phenomenal roman history channel here! Especially on a topic of roman history i feel isnt covered that often. Keep it going bro! You have a new sub with me :)
The Devotio is one of the most inspiring acts I've ever read of in history. The Romans really were built different. It's a rare civilization that lives in stone houses, has a written language, but still values honorable death in battle.
baffled by you only having almost 2k subs, was expecting you to be a channel with a few hundred thousand or even a million subs when I went to subscribe based on the quality of the video after I finished it
Never had too much of an interest in roman history but this has been keepin me engaged the whole way through somehow I hope you make more of this stuff!
Incredible work! This is history told right, with a lovely script and informative, entertaining illustrations. This instantly became one of my favourite history channels thanks to this masterpiece. Thank you for sharing your work, please keep making more videos like this one. It's a privilege to have found your channel so early in its growth, I'm sure you'll have hundreds of thousands of subscribers in no time, especially if you make some RUclips Shorts clips of the key points in the story, showing off the attractive animation and excellent narration. Best wishes and good luck. ❤
commenting for algorithmus maximus this is some brilliant work and your unserious format was not something i knew i needed in history videos. i can tell you put a lot of love and sweat into this - looking forward to your future videos!
My man, keep doing what you're doing. I was actually wondering about this topic recently but was struggling to find good videos about it and then this got recommended to me. Actually amazing content, from the visuals to the storytelling.
Finally someone who's NOT making us wait for a year for a video which is more than half an hour and not making us pay for the most detailed wanted history, every historical channel making the same videos about the boring Roman empire era, true history buffs loves the early republican era, this is a true history channel, for true Romans. Subscribe directly love it❤
Well I'm glad to see this blowing up, I absolutely love your style of pop history which, by the way, isn't afraid of deep dives that make most tv documentaries blush and stutter. And is a pleasure to watch and listen to. You've got a great voice. The map is stellar, even though we would probably all wish for a tour of various Italian states and peoples at the time of this story's beginning..... maybe another time ? 😏 Just a tiny bit of constructive criticism, in my opinion the music repeats a bit too much (even though, stellar choice of background music). Also you should definitely invest in better recording gear as your channel is going to blow up, I'm pretty hopeful. All in all fantastic and what we were all waiting for
Thank you for your kind words, and especially on your suggestions, they are always welcome. The music is repetitive because this a compilation video of 5 previous episodes that all use the same tracks 😅
Really enjoyed this and all of your other videos. I like the animation and naration styles. Keep up the great work I subscribed to see all of your upcoming work. I really enjoyed seeing the Roman ruins in Pula when I went there a few years ago and would love a video about Roman history in Croatia and Istria.
Just discovered your channel. Fantastic content. Must admit I was a bit put off by the art style at first but I've slowly gotten used to it. It certainly makes your content stand out. I hope you will continue to focus on the early republic as there is so little content on this topic available on RUclips. I myself usually focus my studies on the mid to late republic (First Punic War to the end of the Republic), yet your videos have ignited an interest for me in the earlier wars and development of Rome. It's certainly fascinating to see how many of the later aspects of Rome (their approach to war, how they saw themselves) developed from earlier events. Also, I just did a reread of Robert Ogilvie's introduction of Livy books 1-5. It's a fantastic piece to read and really helps with understanding early Roman history. Yes, a lot of events, particularly those before the Gaulish sack of 387, are highly mythologized and borrow a lot from Greek history and later Roman history, but Ogilvie makes a convincing argument that we can accept the bare bones of early Roman history to be true. Might be interesting to do a video on Roman historiography and how people should approach understanding these events.
I love how around the same time as Alexander made his big conquests, Rome made small number of gradual conquest, and that relative slowness in aditude is likely what allowed the Roman Empire to survive this long while Alexander’s big conquest broke up quickly after his death
How the hell do you have just 4k subs i mean look at the animation and the passion in the video amazing and entertaining watched the entire 56 minutes.
33:34 Dear Sir I know you may not read this but that brought a smile to my face listening to that. I love your Church Latin pronunciation instead of the Hard K sound like classical. It reminded me of the story of my Irish Catholic grandmother Francis. She came from a family of 11 and she was the youngest or the mistake. Well growing up her siblings went to Catechism and the Priest told them some of you have Latin names, a lot have various meanings. Like Cornelius means horn but at the same time the Romans could be funny or cruel with nicknames. He went down the list and her four siblings were Curtis=Shorty, Claudia=Lame, Calvin=Baldy, and Cecilia=Blind. Naturally all the kids were shocked these names were so blunt. When they got home, they of course asked their parents if this was just a coincidence and truly they didn't know the meanings of these names!? Well my great grandparents just shrugged them off and said 'We know what those names meant, we speak Latin(Church Latin) just like you learning it now, those names weren't an accident. Be blessed knowing we love you enough to give you proud Catholic Latin names!' I'll never forget that story and to this day again I'm happy I too was blessed with a Latin name.
Thank you for sharing that, not only is it beautiful how you remember your grandmother's childhood stories into detail, it's also amazing how even "blunt" words in latin sound so magnificent.
@MagistraVitae Yeah it's pleasant knowing her even recalling this. It was one of those stories they told her because by the time she was borne her oldest sibling was already 24/ married with children. Ironically she asked a story about their childhood and they told her this. To me it makes me cry sometimes because of the fact before Vatican 2, all of us Catholics spoke Church Latin. I recall.how my grandfather her future husband went to both Asia and Hungary. He didn't speak any of the native language but could attend the Latin Mass with them. I pray the Latin language never dies.
I love how the Romans managed to win such a series of spectacular military campaigns, proving them the best war-makers in all of Italy only for Hannibal to waltz in and effortlessly whoop their asses over and over.
And then the Romans burned Carthage to the ground after. No small credit for Hannibal though he is one of the best generals I know among the greats like Napoleon and Alexander
The grass crown was called a "laurel", and may have been made of laurel leaves. Probably related to the word "laud", as in the word "applaud". I suspect it meant "approval or honor". So applaud could be seen as meaning "applying or giving honor". A sentence using it would be, " I give you laud and praise for your feat of bravery".
'Laud' is still used in the phrase 'cum laude', used in higher education to acknowledge those who passed their exams with a high average mark. Perhaps the most accurate translation, aside from the ones mentioned, would be 'praise'. It is also used in religious chants to evoke divine adoration, e.g. Laude Deum, 'Praise God'.
Very cool video. I hope your next videos follow the same format, specially video lenght. I'm not a fan of watching a dozen short videos when I can watch one long
13:50 I believe the order was more specifically not to interact with the enemy, seeing how a lot of them knew each other and lot of them were friends and even family. It was a real problem for both sides.
This is a really well done video, this is a tiny thing but I would also just mention that instead of saying "perspired" which in english is generally in reference to condensation forming on a cool object or when a person is sweating the technical term is "perspiration" obviously I understand English is your second language and you are extremely capable but you should use the word "transpired" it has a much better flow. Thanks for the video dude, a great topic that alot of people seem to just forget happened.
@@MagistraVitae I re-read my comment and I was quite tired when I wrote this, I'm really sorry for sounding almost sarcastic even though its hard to convey feeling over text, sorry for trying to correct you I just figured "Transpire" is likely easier to say as well. Have a great day bro, sorry again
Your style of presentation is very good verbally, and while I think the references and memes might be a bit densely packed, I do like them and think that they are fine if they are just a bit toned down. Do note that a lot of our information on this period is based on sources whose original sources are lost. Stories like of Publicus Corvus are likely to be either blown out of proportion or even entirely mythical, because Livy's goal wasn't in the first place to document Roman history with total accuracy, but to show why Rome was destined to become an empire. This becomes crucial for when you deal with sources like Caesar's *Gallic Wars*, where despite the useful information one should realize that Caesar wrote this book as an advertisement of his fame, and therefore makes him look even more of a genius than he already was. And one minor pet peeve of mine is your mention of 'genocide' in the context of the ruthless wipeouts of enemies of Rome. While these actions certainly are of a gruesome nature, it doesnt quite fit the definition of genocide, because a genocide requires an actual intent to wipe out a culture or people. Genocidal acts are done not because the perpetrator got attacked or wishes to conquer their lands, but out of a direct wish to rid yourself of the entire culture and/or people. Rome never seemed interested in this, however, even integrating parts of hostile or conquered cultures into their own, particularly when it came to religion, and also making alliances with friendly states regardless of culture, which eventually would become incorporated into the Roman Empire by simply drifting into it. If the Romans truly were genocidal, these alliances and cultural blending would have been much less interesting to the Romans, because why bother making alliances when you're their sworn enemies and will kill then anyway? But keep things up! This looked very nice! Signed, a Bachelor graduate on Ancient History
How the Romans destroyed the Samnites is heavily underrated. I'm a descendant of the Hirpini (one of the tribes of the Samnites) and the Hirpinian general Gaius Pontius destroyed Rome at the Caudine Valley. Then, well.... Rome destroyed them and made them adopt latin (they spoke an ancient Oscan Language) and, under Sulla, the Romans literally brought the Damnatio Memoriae, that's why we have small traces of their Civilization. But i can say that, in my dialect we have a trace of the Samnites the transformation nd->nn (quando->quanno) The rhotacism of d (denti->rienti) Many words (Mafaro etc...)
Just going to put a clarification here: In the Roman Republic, a "dictator" didn't quite mean the same thing it does now, it was a legitimate office that men were occasionally appointed to for a short period (usually around six months) to deal with some sort of crisis and only the last (Caeser) refused to ever give it up (although Sulla did hold the office for three years). It was fairly common during the early centuries but got rarer during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC
Yes, thats right. These videos are a part of a larger series and we do explain the office of dictator in the 3rd episode, when we talk about the first dictator of Rome :)
When claiming the romans could maybe field forces consisting out of 500 000 men does the source refers to the amount of military age men under roman rule?
Basically yes. They didn’t field that many men at the same time, but it is believed that (if we count Rome and all its allies) they could call upon around 500 000 men of fighting age.
@@MagistraVitae wouldn’t rallying that many men have caused a collapse on the home front, without any men to man fields and forges to feed or equip them?
@@tadhgconroy8631That's why they only levied a portion of their forces and left the rest as reserves or garrisons, able to tend to the land. That is part of the reason, for example, why Pyrrhus failed at decisively beating the Romans despite having 3 victories in battle over them. Rome would be hurt when they lost 3 full legions, for sure, but their manpower reserves were too big to be beaten, as Hannibal too found out. And also, in general ancient wars followed a season. Soldiers were called up once they had sowed their lands and would campaign for the entire summer, and when harvest came around the soldiers often went home even if the war wasn't undecided. Because all nations needed to harvest their lands, nobody dared taking advantage of that until factions could make sure their lands would continue to be worked by slave labour, their soldiers were paid mercenaries rather than their own farmers, or there was another way to ensure food for the winter, like import. Even after that moment, the hostile climate of winter often encouraged soldiers to stay in camp anyway. So with winter being an unfavourable time to campaign, soldiers could go home and prepare their land for the next season of crops. In that way, the burden of the military on society was lessened.
The Third Samnite War is an underrated conflict of Roman history. Rome fought on three separate fronts, against almost every other major polity in Italy, and was able to outmaneuver and outfight the entire peninsula. If there was any doubt of Rome's destiny before the start of that war, none of that doubt remained by 290bce. For the next 150 years they fought across the Mediterranean and by the end had established themselves as the first and only hegemons of Mare Nostrum, a premier status which held for over 500 years. And something super important that many seem to forget: the Romans conquered Italy, but the Italians as a whole conquered the rest of the empire. Rome's ability to successfully incorporate the Italians into their military infrastructure gave them the foundation they needed to eventually transition to the frontier recruited legions.
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🤌And thus hand gesture of italian became more important and imbedded into their dna.
....when your choice is to be incorporated or...
After a few examples, incorporation was the obvious choice. Much preferential to slavery, genocide, forced relocation, [ which still sometimes happened], so yeah, incorporated.
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Not "Italian", but Italic in this context which racially Romans were that too
This is a masterpiece. I hope a lot of people on youtube get a chance to see this. Unique animation, smart use of humor, great voice and excellent narration. I feel so privileged discovering you so early!
Thank you! You are always too kind :)
Agreed.
@MagistraVitae About Julius Ceaser, he only commented one it was after they masscure a whole legion that he loved. I think it was the 15th, and I need to check again. But the garlic people also didn't want to be under rule. If you count the armies that assemble, that would be roughly the same amount of deaths during his war. Plus we also have Crassius son before her left to Persia that he stopped a revoult of 15,000 and Athoney leading small cavalry attacks on Gallic hold outs
@@MagistraVitae About Carthage you wrong again 50,000 were left to Roman farms and many others left to their other colonies and some cane to the tribes that raided their land with the waste was under Roman rule pls learn your Punic, Gallic, and Ilyriam wars. If you think I'm wrong I be happy to listen and here you out where you got your sources
Downvoted for "BCE"
The Samnite's fate after the Social War though is very bleak. After the Social War in 91-87 BC they fought in the Civil War between Sulla's forces and Marius' and Carbo's forces in 83-82 BC, where they sided with Marius and Carbo, but Sulla won. Sulla ordered them crushed as a people. They were practically wiped out. I quote Strabo: ""Some of their cities have now dwindled into villages, some indeed being entirely deserted." Sulla ordered 40.000 Roman troops to march through Samnite territories and butcher and enslave them and sack their cities and towns. Many were simply slain regardless of age, and many of the enslaved used for the harsher slave labors. Those Samnites that remained after this were simply assimilated by Roman culture and Samnite culture more or less disappears from Roman sources after 82-81 BC; so complete was their destruction that it only took a year for them to disappear as a people.
@@torbk The Social War to me is the real death of the Senate. They let all that slaughter happen just to give the Italians what they wanted. All it did was give popular generals more recruits for future wars.
I thought this video was made by a guy with over 200k subs because this level of detail and effort you put into these videos is truly worthy of that number
The fact you use the symbol of the football squad of Lazio to rapresent the Latin League it's fantastic😂😂😂
I was waiting for this comment 😂
Soccer
@@splitman1129 depends. My teacher (that is english) says football. Americans say soccer.
@@vincenzopiras9765your teacher would be German if not for Americans, so we get to define your language. That was the deal, we lend you our American muscles, lease you our American weapons, and in exchange we are now owners of English. Stop putting random U’s in words. Color. This agreement was signed by FDR the Queen and Churchill. You actually dishonor your queen when you correct an American’s English.
@@boogitywoogity248 Hopefully this is just a joke because otherwise americans truly are some of the most brainwashed and uneducated people on earth.
I can see the makings of a phenomenal roman history channel here! Especially on a topic of roman history i feel isnt covered that often. Keep it going bro! You have a new sub with me :)
truly a work of art all Latin students deserve
Wow. The beautiful backgrounds, the lovely designs of the characters, the careful editing + scripting..
Actual masterwork. Fantastic.
Me: How DID Rome conquer Italy? ... "Do want the short version or the long version?" Me: YES!
Can we interest you in the long looong version 🤫
Oh Gigguk 😂
@@MagistraVitae just one long version. last one i swear! i just need one long version to get me through the week..
The Devotio is one of the most inspiring acts I've ever read of in history. The Romans really were built different. It's a rare civilization that lives in stone houses, has a written language, but still values honorable death in battle.
One of the greatest videos on early rime.
Such an underrated part of Roman History, great job man!
baffled by you only having almost 2k subs, was expecting you to be a channel with a few hundred thousand or even a million subs when I went to subscribe based on the quality of the video after I finished it
Much appreciated 🥹
It's already 11k just 4 months after your comment. The algorithm is agreeing with your opnion, and so is my subscription.
Rare to see videos with this level of detail and quality, such an underrated channel
An hour long??? keep going bro gonna love it
This is a very interesting art style, almost like watching a video game. I hope this channel grows and its animation style improves.
I hope it never changes
It is good
This is it. The breakthrough video for the channel. Thanks for this!
Never had too much of an interest in roman history but this has been keepin me engaged the whole way through somehow
I hope you make more of this stuff!
Incredible work! This is history told right, with a lovely script and informative, entertaining illustrations. This instantly became one of my favourite history channels thanks to this masterpiece. Thank you for sharing your work, please keep making more videos like this one.
It's a privilege to have found your channel so early in its growth, I'm sure you'll have hundreds of thousands of subscribers in no time, especially if you make some RUclips Shorts clips of the key points in the story, showing off the attractive animation and excellent narration.
Best wishes and good luck. ❤
Dude i usually dont comment on videos but this is so underrated. The art style and the narration are so good. Anyways algotiythm go!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
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this is some brilliant work and your unserious format was not something i knew i needed in history videos. i can tell you put a lot of love and sweat into this - looking forward to your future videos!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Impressive video, very entertaining and informative. Keep it up, this channel will surely grow!
My man, keep doing what you're doing. I was actually wondering about this topic recently but was struggling to find good videos about it and then this got recommended to me. Actually amazing content, from
the visuals to the storytelling.
Love this series! Amazing explanation of Roman history, Livy would be jealous!
Finally someone who's NOT making us wait for a year for a video which is more than half an hour and not making us pay for the most detailed wanted history, every historical channel making the same videos about the boring Roman empire era, true history buffs loves the early republican era, this is a true history channel, for true Romans. Subscribe directly love it❤
13:43
*"Naugthius Maximus! He was a roman senator, formed the first triumvirate alongside Biggus Dickus and Pilum Gargantum"*
Most underrated history channel ever on you
The amount of effort put into this video made me an immediate subscriber. Thank you for your work.
Well I'm glad to see this blowing up, I absolutely love your style of pop history which, by the way, isn't afraid of deep dives that make most tv documentaries blush and stutter. And is a pleasure to watch and listen to. You've got a great voice.
The map is stellar, even though we would probably all wish for a tour of various Italian states and peoples at the time of this story's beginning..... maybe another time ? 😏
Just a tiny bit of constructive criticism, in my opinion the music repeats a bit too much (even though, stellar choice of background music). Also you should definitely invest in better recording gear as your channel is going to blow up, I'm pretty hopeful.
All in all fantastic and what we were all waiting for
Thank you for your kind words, and especially on your suggestions, they are always welcome. The music is repetitive because this a compilation video of 5 previous episodes that all use the same tracks 😅
This is AMAZING! An hour of ultra-dense Roman history, with cute animations!? I'm sold. I...I want more! MOOORE!!!.
This is such an unique but great way to present , you earnest a sub
Wow this is actually a decent documentary please don’t stop 🙏
Really enjoyed this and all of your other videos. I like the animation and naration styles. Keep up the great work I subscribed to see all of your upcoming work. I really enjoyed seeing the Roman ruins in Pula when I went there a few years ago and would love a video about Roman history in Croatia and Istria.
Oh my god, this is excellent video quality! Also unique
Seeing the views on this video skyrocket makes me so happy for y'all! Please keep doing this combining of your videos for longer form videos!
I wanna see 1,000,000 views on this video by next week.
10/10 video underrated channel hope more people watch him
Very very impressive, I presume you made this all by yourself. The quality is incredible.
Amazing video, keep going you'll definitely be popular soon!
Love the star wars and lord of the rings references haha
"The power of one (dictator), the power of two (consuls), the power of maaaany (senatus populusque romanus)"
I did not expect such a great video!
Masterpiece. Utter masterpiece.
Just discovered your channel. Fantastic content. Must admit I was a bit put off by the art style at first but I've slowly gotten used to it. It certainly makes your content stand out. I hope you will continue to focus on the early republic as there is so little content on this topic available on RUclips. I myself usually focus my studies on the mid to late republic (First Punic War to the end of the Republic), yet your videos have ignited an interest for me in the earlier wars and development of Rome. It's certainly fascinating to see how many of the later aspects of Rome (their approach to war, how they saw themselves) developed from earlier events. Also, I just did a reread of Robert Ogilvie's introduction of Livy books 1-5. It's a fantastic piece to read and really helps with understanding early Roman history. Yes, a lot of events, particularly those before the Gaulish sack of 387, are highly mythologized and borrow a lot from Greek history and later Roman history, but Ogilvie makes a convincing argument that we can accept the bare bones of early Roman history to be true. Might be interesting to do a video on Roman historiography and how people should approach understanding these events.
Can you do a long version of the other videos, too?
Phenomenal work, brother. Your ancestors living in Dalmatia would be so proud! 😊☺️😁👍🏻
Thank you man, we are thinking about making more videos like this in the future
Very interesting! Thanks for uploading! I like the art style!
I love how around the same time as Alexander made his big conquests, Rome made small number of gradual conquest, and that relative slowness in aditude is likely what allowed the Roman Empire to survive this long while Alexander’s big conquest broke up quickly after his death
Underrated video, love the Star Wars memes and lil chibi figures
Nice this is awesome work, keep it up bro.
Very nice video. Great job!
YO I was just looking for a video like this. Good shit brudder keep it up
Great stuff looking forward to more 👍🏻👍🏻
Lavish equipment.
Lavish equipment taken from the Linen Legion was truly a sight to behold.
Absolute respect to Publius Decius. I salute you sir. You should be more well known, a true legend.
It happens. A lot of people I’ve argued with have slipped and hit their head on a hard rock.
I hate it when that happens
Beautiful work you got a new subscriber
This was pretty great. Thanks so much
How does this only have 15k views
Magnificent Video
Great videos bro
a hidden gem omg
Great video 👍 keep it up my man, got my sub
How the hell do you have just 4k subs i mean look at the animation and the passion in the video amazing and entertaining watched the entire 56 minutes.
Keep up the great production 💣💣💣💥
Great work
Why is this video so good?
33:34 Dear Sir I know you may not read this but that brought a smile to my face listening to that. I love your Church Latin pronunciation instead of the Hard K sound like classical.
It reminded me of the story of my Irish Catholic grandmother Francis. She came from a family of 11 and she was the youngest or the mistake.
Well growing up her siblings went to Catechism and the Priest told them some of you have Latin names, a lot have various meanings. Like Cornelius means horn but at the same time the Romans could be funny or cruel with nicknames.
He went down the list and her four siblings were Curtis=Shorty, Claudia=Lame, Calvin=Baldy, and Cecilia=Blind. Naturally all the kids were shocked these names were so blunt. When they got home, they of course asked their parents if this was just a coincidence and truly they didn't know the meanings of these names!?
Well my great grandparents just shrugged them off and said 'We know what those names meant, we speak Latin(Church Latin) just like you learning it now, those names weren't an accident. Be blessed knowing we love you enough to give you proud Catholic Latin names!'
I'll never forget that story and to this day again I'm happy I too was blessed with a Latin name.
Thank you for sharing that, not only is it beautiful how you remember your grandmother's childhood stories into detail, it's also amazing how even "blunt" words in latin sound so magnificent.
@MagistraVitae Yeah it's pleasant knowing her even recalling this. It was one of those stories they told her because by the time she was borne her oldest sibling was already 24/ married with children.
Ironically she asked a story about their childhood and they told her this. To me it makes me cry sometimes because of the fact before Vatican 2, all of us Catholics spoke Church Latin. I recall.how my grandfather her future husband went to both Asia and Hungary. He didn't speak any of the native language but could attend the Latin Mass with them.
I pray the Latin language never dies.
I love how the Romans managed to win such a series of spectacular military campaigns, proving them the best war-makers in all of Italy only for Hannibal to waltz in and effortlessly whoop their asses over and over.
And what eventually happened to him?😂 he won the battles but lost the war
And then the Romans burned Carthage to the ground after. No small credit for Hannibal though he is one of the best generals I know among the greats like Napoleon and Alexander
Great video keep up the content
o it nice to see a smaller channle like you get going
The grass crown was called a "laurel", and may have been made of laurel leaves. Probably related to the word "laud", as in the word "applaud". I suspect it meant "approval or honor". So applaud could be seen as meaning "applying or giving honor". A sentence using it would be, " I give you laud and praise for your feat of bravery".
'Laud' is still used in the phrase 'cum laude', used in higher education to acknowledge those who passed their exams with a high average mark. Perhaps the most accurate translation, aside from the ones mentioned, would be 'praise'. It is also used in religious chants to evoke divine adoration, e.g. Laude Deum, 'Praise God'.
Putting a commemt here as a sacrifice for the algorithm
Yeah same
Great videos, please add a clearer marking for what time frame things happen in
(IMHO)
I'm afraid to ask how long this took to make...
I recognize this voice from another great channel, I wish you the best of success on this new channel.
I have to dissapoint you, this is our first and only channel
@@MagistraVitae I thought you were sand roman history! but I also wish you a lot of success, I have already subscribed
Amazing video youve earned a subscriber
nice wc3 sounds!
The game of my childhood! work work
Very cool video. I hope your next videos follow the same format, specially video lenght. I'm not a fan of watching a dozen short videos when I can watch one long
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How much time it took to create this hour long video 😮
Around 5-6 months, if you add up time for each of the 5 parts that make this video
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13:50 I believe the order was more specifically not to interact with the enemy, seeing how a lot of them knew each other and lot of them were friends and even family. It was a real problem for both sides.
This is a really well done video, this is a tiny thing but I would also just mention that instead of saying "perspired" which in english is generally in reference to condensation forming on a cool object or when a person is sweating the technical term is "perspiration" obviously I understand English is your second language and you are extremely capable but you should use the word "transpired" it has a much better flow. Thanks for the video dude, a great topic that alot of people seem to just forget happened.
Thank you for the tip, I won't mix those two up again :)
@@MagistraVitae I re-read my comment and I was quite tired when I wrote this, I'm really sorry for sounding almost sarcastic even though its hard to convey feeling over text, sorry for trying to correct you I just figured "Transpire" is likely easier to say as well. Have a great day bro, sorry again
Very nice animations! Used to romans being red squares.
Modern Historian: So what's your sources
Livy: It came to me through a dream
Just like Mike Duncan's podcast, love it 😂
Time for a recap episode
Your style of presentation is very good verbally, and while I think the references and memes might be a bit densely packed, I do like them and think that they are fine if they are just a bit toned down.
Do note that a lot of our information on this period is based on sources whose original sources are lost. Stories like of Publicus Corvus are likely to be either blown out of proportion or even entirely mythical, because Livy's goal wasn't in the first place to document Roman history with total accuracy, but to show why Rome was destined to become an empire. This becomes crucial for when you deal with sources like Caesar's *Gallic Wars*, where despite the useful information one should realize that Caesar wrote this book as an advertisement of his fame, and therefore makes him look even more of a genius than he already was.
And one minor pet peeve of mine is your mention of 'genocide' in the context of the ruthless wipeouts of enemies of Rome. While these actions certainly are of a gruesome nature, it doesnt quite fit the definition of genocide, because a genocide requires an actual intent to wipe out a culture or people. Genocidal acts are done not because the perpetrator got attacked or wishes to conquer their lands, but out of a direct wish to rid yourself of the entire culture and/or people. Rome never seemed interested in this, however, even integrating parts of hostile or conquered cultures into their own, particularly when it came to religion, and also making alliances with friendly states regardless of culture, which eventually would become incorporated into the Roman Empire by simply drifting into it.
If the Romans truly were genocidal, these alliances and cultural blending would have been much less interesting to the Romans, because why bother making alliances when you're their sworn enemies and will kill then anyway?
But keep things up! This looked very nice!
Signed, a Bachelor graduate on Ancient History
How the Romans destroyed the Samnites is heavily underrated. I'm a descendant of the Hirpini (one of the tribes of the Samnites) and the Hirpinian general Gaius Pontius destroyed Rome at the Caudine Valley. Then, well.... Rome destroyed them and made them adopt latin (they spoke an ancient Oscan Language) and, under Sulla, the Romans literally brought the Damnatio Memoriae, that's why we have small traces of their Civilization. But i can say that, in my dialect we have a trace of the Samnites
the transformation nd->nn (quando->quanno)
The rhotacism of d (denti->rienti)
Many words (Mafaro etc...)
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Just going to put a clarification here: In the Roman Republic, a "dictator" didn't quite mean the same thing it does now, it was a legitimate office that men were occasionally appointed to for a short period (usually around six months) to deal with some sort of crisis and only the last (Caeser) refused to ever give it up (although Sulla did hold the office for three years). It was fairly common during the early centuries but got rarer during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC
Yes, thats right. These videos are a part of a larger series and we do explain the office of dictator in the 3rd episode, when we talk about the first dictator of Rome :)
@@MagistraVitae ah, I just found this one and didn't know that, I'll be sure to check out the rest of the series later
Bro this period and the 1400-1500 hundreds is my favorite period of time
Very watchable!
This is really good I just subscribed 37:06
I am just thinking an eu4 style game with those graphics whould be fire
Magistra Vitae Eu4 mod coming soon?!
@IllyrianTiger99 Personally, I would much rather prefer a CK3 mod 🤔
@@MagistraVitae I agree Ck3 would be nicer
this is really good
Beautiful
I subscribed i love the maps
In life things do repeat themselves. and sometimes people get ideas from the past and repeat them.
When claiming the romans could maybe field forces consisting out of 500 000 men does the source refers to the amount of military age men under roman rule?
Basically yes. They didn’t field that many men at the same time, but it is believed that (if we count Rome and all its allies) they could call upon around 500 000 men of fighting age.
@@MagistraVitae wouldn’t rallying that many men have caused a collapse on the home front, without any men to man fields and forges to feed or equip them?
@@tadhgconroy8631That's why they only levied a portion of their forces and left the rest as reserves or garrisons, able to tend to the land. That is part of the reason, for example, why Pyrrhus failed at decisively beating the Romans despite having 3 victories in battle over them. Rome would be hurt when they lost 3 full legions, for sure, but their manpower reserves were too big to be beaten, as Hannibal too found out.
And also, in general ancient wars followed a season. Soldiers were called up once they had sowed their lands and would campaign for the entire summer, and when harvest came around the soldiers often went home even if the war wasn't undecided. Because all nations needed to harvest their lands, nobody dared taking advantage of that until factions could make sure their lands would continue to be worked by slave labour, their soldiers were paid mercenaries rather than their own farmers, or there was another way to ensure food for the winter, like import. Even after that moment, the hostile climate of winter often encouraged soldiers to stay in camp anyway. So with winter being an unfavourable time to campaign, soldiers could go home and prepare their land for the next season of crops. In that way, the burden of the military on society was lessened.
The etruscans carefully picking the worst possible moments to attack the Romans: