Rome's Tyrant God... Named Bootsie | The Life & Times of Caligula
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That Caligula assasination scene was actually quite similar to Gaius julius Caesar 4's assasination.(The first part of Caesar's assasination at least)
hey, you should check the travels of ibn battuta, he is kinda interesting guy.
Hey your hilarious. Not everyone can make history funny. Glad that you can.
Can you do a video about Philippe II, Duc d’Orléans? Regent of Louis XV.
I just love your way with words Jack. so informative and witty ............so much so that my tea comes otta my nose and i piss myself Luaghing! Love your vids thank you.
"You freed us from Tiberius"
"Oh I wouldn't say 'freed,' more like under new management."
EhHHY My AL friend.
Based Megamind reference
"The previous owners have been removed from the picture, and now I am in charge."
My cat's name is Bootsie. I'm definitely calling him Caligula for now on.
@- Silver Fir - The funny thing is, my cat was on the table once, and I did say to someone "Aw, look at Caligula on the table being a good boy".
Wait, what the…? Edit: Added the question mark.
Catligua
nah Jupiter
I heard the horse thing was less Caligula going coo coo and more of a dis against the other guy i.e. 'Even my horse could be a better consul than you - look he even gets more votes than you!'
Also it meant the horse couldn't veto him.
@@morehero1 On the other hand, all of its votes would also go to "Nay".
@@O___P "Neigh"
Exactly, the "mad emperors" weren't mad, they just pissed off the only people writing the history books at the time: the patrician class, ie Senators.
Also about corruption, as "hey, look, you vote for whoever invites you on a banquet and bribes you, so if my horse do it he's just as worthy as any other candidate right ?
Caligula was the protagonist and we are all background characters
this prologue is really long and has been going to strange places
@@benjaminphelps561 I think you mean epilogue? Unless... oh my God is he gonna come back?!
@@ProjectEkerTest33 yes, by now its time for bootsie 2 electric boogaloo
When you realise its just a game and you can do anything.
"Divus" - shows Bob Ross face.
Instant like.
Every Divus in history
"bob ross"
"steve Irwin"
"Mr Rodgers"
I will always believe that Caligula was actually the world's first troll/real life shit-poster, rather than just thinking he was insane. Making a horse a senator was to show the Senate how utterly useless they were, the war against Poseidon was his way of shit posting about the fact that everything that happens on the Earth is by the will of all the gods, so he declared war on one of them.
Or he could've been both, who really knows what went on in that man's head.
Wow. Caligula was the first Sand Guardian. He did the meme years before Vine came into being.
I dunno man, Diogenes was also an ancient troll.
@@treetheenderhyena1880 Yeah his actions don't really imply he was necessarily trolling. Because even though he was afraid of being killed he also frequently did things that would enrage and piss off the people who could kill him.
wasn't he dissing the army which mutinied? he was basically saying "this is the only victory you're worthy of"
plottwist: caligula is the greatest emperor in roman history, but senatorial propaganda skewed his legacy.
I literally think I this,
Maybe not the best but I don’t think he was nearly as bad as history has told us.
Every example has a reasonable explanation.
Appointed his horse consul? Doesn’t that sound more like he said “my horse would make a better consul”
Took his army to collect sea shells? He was a young emperor who was riding on the coat tails of his family. Julius Caesar he was not. So sending a mutiny he probably had them do marching drills and then they went home.
Then the senate tried to poison him, so of course he got a little brutal.
@@dstinnettmusic the sea shells thing was more so because time had no enemies, there was no need for an army, it was a relatively peaceful period for Rome. Iirc he makes a comment about how they conquered the beach
@sgaaph it totally did, tiberus and claudius are great examples
Jack just wants his own cinematic universe, can respect
With every video my power grows, soon every video will be a crossover video! Unless y'know I start doing more history outside of Europe
@@JackRackam do history of indigenous americans
@@jk-gb4et Pretty sure Osceola and Tecumseh have been on my list for a while, I may have to look into them more
@@JackRackam maybe Hiawatha and the Iroquois confederacy? Though i'm not sure if it would fit with your style of video
But your videos are great thought!
@@JackRackam could do a.little more China and Incah history! But i love this shared universe!
This guy is making a netflix series.
Episode 1: Sejanus
Episode 2: Caligula
Episode 3: Nero
Claudius next then
@Ulises Leon too much work ig
445h
“He executed civilians without trial, depowered the aristocracy, but gave more power to himself… but also aquaducts! Win some and lose some.”
Roman Empire in a nutshell.
That nutshell lasted two thousand years.
Unfortunately, Caligula was not the last emperor the "Praetorian Guard" killed, as Pertinax, Gallienus, Aurelian, and Probus found out the hard way. Constantine was overdue in his abolition of the Praetorian Guard
Aurelian was the only good emperor that they killed though
@@joshleggett4551All of the emperors killed were good, but Aurelian was the only great one.
In hindsight, granting the personal guards of the Emperor a huge celebratory bonus whenever a new Emperor was confirmed was not a good idea.
@@mism847 Aurelian wasn't even killed *by* the Praetorian Guard as a coordinated group. It was literally one guy who thought he had pissed off Aurelian to the point where he was about to get executed, so he decided to kill Aurelian first. Ironically, Aurelian wasn't intending to kill him, but he *did* get executed for murdering the emperor. Oops!
That 15 years bit had me in stiches. Best history RUclipsr out there.
Honestly if you like funny history channels that still care about the historic details while making you laugh go to Drawn History.
Jack actually appears in one of the videos. There's not many videos there yet, it's a fairly new channel as the bloke who runs it changed his style a bit to go more adult but the ones there are well well worth watching.
Heck yeah! Love this channel!
*Laughs in Dovahhatty*
Not the best but certainly one of the funnier ones. The best is History Time imo
Thus is life for uncle Claudius.
Hail Bob Ross!
"I came, I saw, I painted happy little trees."
"I have existed from the morning of the world, and I shall exist until the last star falls from the heavens. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and so... I am a god."
Finally, a reason to quote that movie
Careful, people might actually watch it.
I'm not sure 2021 could handle 1979.
It could barely handle 2020.
What movie?
@@abitoftheuniverse2852 I've faith they could handle Caligula, I hope.
It's got good lines and good acting performances, I actually really like Caligula as a film. It's just that Penthouses's demands really bog the film down. Remember, all the sex scenes were added in post-production, both screenwriter Gore Vidal and director Tinto Brass were against Bob Guiccione's decision to turn it into an erotic film.
@@SeruraRenge11 true that. When you got actors like Peter O'Toole and Malcolm McDowell, this would've been a solid epic, but the erotic side diluted it some
No one:
Caligula: "Lookit my horse! My horse is amazing!"
I've heard that a lot of the stuff he did that was "crazy" was him either (in the case of the sea shells) insulting the soldiers for cowardice or (in the case of the horse) making fun of the Senators and the elites in Roman society and trying to knock them down a peg.
The whole horse thing was written by historians (actually Patricians who had a bone to pick) to make him look crazy, but it should be interpreted more as an insult. "Oh, you senators want a Consul? Fine! Here's my horse! He'll contribute just as many good ideas as the lot of you and I can even train him to stamp his hoof for 'Yea' or whinny for 'Nay' votes! And the noises he makes provide as much intellectual stimulation as any of you senators offer with one of your 'arguments'!"
@@empchampion40k Didn't he also have conversations with the moon?
@@CollinMcLean who doesn't?
@@CollinMcLean Just like Bruno Mars, so not a bad thing per se.
Caligula: A family man is someone who really loves his sisters.
Peculiar that none were mentioned in the episode, especially Drusilla, whose deification by the Senate prefigured Caligula's own divine pretensions.
"Caligula calling him mean nicknames, like Venus"
Knowing who Venus is, Caligula basically called him a Giga Chad or super hot.
Well he also called him Priapus, which I'll let you google on your own time, so who knows maybe it was more sexual harassment than childish teasing
@@JackRackam now that you mention it, yeah maybe Caligula wanted to have some with Cassius but couldn’t express it openly and so resorted to harassment and bullying.
@@JackRackamI suppose that’s a unique way of saying “damn, your cock is huge!”
I get the horse thing though, it was like satire, to say “look how useless you are a horse could replace you and nothing would change”
Ah, Rome, there are so many characters. Can't wait for an episode of Elagabalus.
meanwhile Caligula in a Japanese gacha game: *I'M GONNA PISS ON THE MOOOOOOONNNNNNN!!!*
YOU SEE THIS JULIUS, I PISSED ON THE MOON YOU IDIOT!!!000!
Nero: Dad go take your pills, Master is worried...
I'm a simple woman. I see Bootsie is in a video from a RUclipsr I've never heard of, I watch that video.
God Emperor Caligula’s intentions are beyond our feeble understanding
He worked in mysterious ways
"almost 15 years"
that is a loooooooong time
Can't tell if sarcasm or not, but it was only as long as Claudius' reign because immediately following him was Nero
@@JackRackam I mean, things seemed relatively stable at first under Nero. AT FIRST.
@@JackRackam it was sarcasm
you know roman empire was a long asting one
Just need a video on Claudius to complete the Nero Prequel Trilogy
Ah finally the best emperor of Rome
Highly recommend Dovahhatty’s vid on him. I was shocked how strongly everything was biased in his favor 😂 (Or I’m sorry, U N B I A S E D.)
And his eternal consul, horse
But what about Commodus! Or Elegabalus! So many good choices!
Nonsense. Valentinian III and Petronius Maximus were the best emperors of Rome.
@@kaiserproductions1278
Somehow those two were still better than late eastern Roman emperors.
Caligula really, really, _really_ hated the Senate and the senatorial class.
Can't say I don't understand why.
Caligula was probably my favourite character in Horrible Histories
THINK YOU'RE BIGGER THAN ME?!
ROME IS JUST A CITY OF HEADS WAITING FOR ME TO CHOP!
Turns out the military likes the Empire and they have all the sword 😂great line
When Jack Rackham and Oversimplified upload on the same Day:
*Today is a good Day to be not Dead!*
“Today is a good day to not be dead”
Sounds like the beginning to a default Total War general speech 😁
Dang this is like the second time I've done that and gotten a comment from someone telling me I've done it. Maybe Oversimplified has a thing for Saturdays
The Julio Claudian dynasty for the most part(at least in terms of the family and not the empire itself which wasn’t hurt too badly in the long run) was quite a tragic and horrifying mess of a story that had members and associates devour each other and anyone connected to them until there was nobody left to continue the cycle.
Junia Calvina, who as a woman could hold no political office, was a direct descendant of Augustus, and died towards the end of Vespasian's rule, some eleven years after Nero's death. Nerva, who ruled as princeps from 96 to 98, bore a distant connection to the extinct Julian and Claudian lines through a maternal uncle, though it's hard to determine if this was any kind of asset or liability in his installment as first citizen.
There's a whole theory surrounding "mad/tyrannical emperors" like Caligula, Nero and Vespasian, saying they were seen as crazy by the Roman aristocracy to which authors like Suetonius belonged because they didn't follow archtypical Roman codes and taoos in politics, like Caligula designating his horse as senator or consul because he saw these institutions as useless (which they kind of were under the Empire). This might have been due to the fact that these emperors were raised in the Eastern part of the Empire, in places like Egypt with a strong Hellenized culture and Oriental traditions, where the ruler was absolute and typically portrayed as divine. That's why Caligula paraded in Rome dressed as Jupiter or Apollo: to him, it was politics. To the Roman aristocracy, this, along with the centralization of powers without keeping up the pretense of the Senate, was tantamount to insanity.
Never heard of Vespasian being seen as insane tbh
Never heard of Vespasian being seen as insane tbh
Vespasian has never been characterized as mad, and indeed is remembered as being one of Rome's superior rulers.
The Ocean: *exists*
Caligula: THINK YA BIGGER THAN MEEE
Can you Make a video about Friedrich III. the german emperor who reigned for 100 days?
If he didn't smoke the 20th century could have been a lot better
Nero: ah yes, finnally a worthy opponent!
2:32 He said, ignoring the Roman people chanting for Tiberius’ body to be thrown in the Tiber River, a punishment primarily given to poor criminals
I believe that was the joke lol
I almost squealed with delight, can't wait to see Jack's take on the big C!
Oh yes, my day couldn’t have gotten any better with a new video from you! Me and my kids enjoy your videos, especially since COVID has had us stuck at home lol
So happy to hear! Glad the kids are enjoying history 😀
Lol I'm happy I'm not the only person who thought bootsie was kinda off as a name for a vicious tyrant lol
*Time travels back in time
Uh yeah, so Caligula is in power now right? Wait, what is that crucifixion cross for?
This was hilarious, and also terrifying. Well done! RIP Bootsie, we all saw it coming.
Ok I have heard other sources translate his name to mean “little boots” but your version is much cuter and the difference is just a matter of interpretation. So good job on making him sound as ridiculous as he possibly was!
Keep up the good work Jack!
Wonderwhy, Oversimplified, and Jack rackam on the same day things could not be better
I'm currently recovering from knee surgery and can't get out of bed, so this came at a perfect time!
Augustus did lots while being injury and illness prone, get well soon friend 😁.
@@sethgaston8347 Thanks, it helps that I'm like, super high right now because of the medicine they gave me, it's safe and I feel totally just completly relaxed! :)
@@masterywithdebraandkuku3410
Ah yes. Let’s hope you have insurance my friend. Otherwise we’re gonna have to start robbing banks to help pay the bill for those $900 bandages, let alone the $30,000 knee brace.
@@sethgaston8347 I have a legal guardian who pays for my shit, but just in case I have an antique sword!
@@masterywithdebraandkuku3410
Just don’t let it fall into the hands of the Highlander...... THERE CAN BE ONLY ONEEEEE!!!!
Pls do another direct sequel Claudius would make such a good vid
I love history, but you make it so much more fun. This would be wonderful if teachers would use this in their classrooms. Keep up the awesome work!
Wait, so Caligula literally meant "Bootsie?", Why do I imagine him wearing star shaped glasses and play bass with the catchphrase "The name is Bootsie, Baby."
If so, then he would've been the coolest emperor of all time!
Caligas were the sandals or boots used by Roman legionnaires. The ending "igula" indicates a diminutive. So Caligula would be literally little sandals or little boots.
So ye, the guy was called Bootsies.
Caligula executing civilians while slapping the hell outta of a bass guitar
Tony Robinson's Romans helped change my view of Caligula. Like, he was by no means stable, but he also wasn't batshit crazy. It was more like what would happen if you made an internet troll into a head of state today and even then, he certainly wasn't the worst emperor they ever had.
LET US PAINT MANY HAPPY TREES IN HONOR OF OUR DEITY, THE BENEVOLENT ROBERTVS NORMANIVS ROSSICVS!
🌲 🌲 🌲 PRAISE BE TO BOB! 🌲 🌲 🌲
15 years of no murders, civil war, or generals declaring themselves emperor is actual pretty good track record in the Roman Empire.
Those 13 years of stability from Claudius' reign are very underrated. He was a simp but I dare say he was one of the top 10 most stable Roman emperors I've ever heard of.
His experiences growing up seemed to shape his policies in a positive way, almost as if he wanted to make a real difference. His portrayal is pretty skewed and seeing as the Senate wrote most of the historical documents in Rome, it makes sense.
Seeing Peter Capaldi as Roman from Doctor Who makes me very happy.
Also, I'd rather be called "Venus" than Bootsies, but I guess the macho thing came to play there.
The only problem with the historical sources is that none of them are contemporary to Caligula and were all written later.
Was laterally wondering when your next video would come out
I feel like Caligula was just ahead of his time in the troll game.
Most of his "outlandish, rumored" stuff, imo, makes a lot of sense if explained through the lens of "I was just mocking you, fucks".
For example:
-Making his soldiers attack the sea and collect seashells was because of poor discipline and a lack of respect among the men. So he showed them by making them do pointless tasks.
-The Horse Consul thing was a dig at the other candidate, saying his horse would do a better job and then taking the joke literally for shits and giggles.
I mean, picture yourself with near unlimited funds, no one to tell you no, a bit of a traumatized background and a desire to have fun.
I'd have trolled my way out of Roman politics too. Bootsie, you weren't the greatest, you weren't even among the greats but you did good, boi.
After what we now know about how Nero's bad reputation was heavily over exaggerated by his enemies and that he was actually very popular with the roman people, I would not be surprised if we found out that Caligula was not a psychotic depraved maniac but rather just a mediocre, inexperienced emperor who was also a bit of a troll/shitposter
The Ottoman Empire had that habit for awhile in the 17th century. The had two sultans- Mustafa I and Ibrahim I- that were both branded as "Mad", but were more likely just mediocre or inept, and ran afoul of angry Ottoman bureaucrats. Mustafa I actually got to be Sultan twice despite his "lunacy", as he was used as a placeholder until the sons of his late brother Ahmed I reached their majority.
In all likeliness, I bet his reign was forgettable if not slighty positive for most people, he just gave the senatorial class lots of reasons to hate him
Well Caligula was never put under house arrest by Tiberius - instead, he went living with his great grand mother Livia first and then with his grand mother Antonia, before being called by Tiberius himself at his court. His attitude did not depend on his troubled youth nor to some illness, but rather on his juvenile frequentation with Easter monarchs - heck, even Germanicus himself was openly theocratic and, had he become emperor, would have likely behaved very similarly to Caligula. Also, Claudius faced several conspiracies under his 15 years tenure due to his authoritarian behaviour, sentenced his own niece to death... yeah, no different from Tiberius after all.
8:20 more like the pointy end of the stick
‘Tis I the humble viewer 9 seconds after release I understood it was a good decision to stay awake
Lol it’s 10 in the morning where I am, I was like “woah buddy, get your life together” lol
Aw man I can't get enough of the reenactment of Caligula's assassination
Wait a minute....
...Cali-gula...
...Cali-gola...
...Cali-go...
...Cali-co...
...A-ha! It was you the whole time, Mister Calico Jack Rackam!!
5:07 sounds like a great idea
Love the images of Caligula's "personal guard" 😂
Still more sane then some modern politicians
*Me who read trials of apollo*
I KNOW EVERYTHING YOU ARE ABOUT TO SAY BEFORE YOU WERE BORN.
How do we go about nominating Bob Ross for sainthood?
Loving the tie, my guy.
That thing about his boats burning down is so sad :(
6:22 Me: *o hi Peter Capaldi from "Fires of Pompeii", long time no see*
Keep us the great work, I'm loving your videos and can't wait to learn about Caligula
8:37 wow this guy really just roasted Rome so hard there's nothing left but ash.
That last sentence is so loaded with Implications I'm amazed it hasn't fallen straight through the floor.
My favorite channel!
Well this has been a long time coming!
Some other aspects of Caligula missed here was that during the beginning of his rule prior to his sickness, he also allowed the publishing of banned books... well, at least no one can knock him for discarding literature. He also favored client-kings over Roman governors (that included Herod Antipas) because of the possibility that Roman governors would eventually raise armies of their own and dethrone him, which is why he put into exile his two surviving sisters Julia Livilla and Agrippina the Younger, the latter who actually poisoned Claudius to make way for her son Nero, who ironically had her murdered in 59 CE.
Wait are we just gonna go down the Roman Emporers now?
Jack…..this channel and Infographics are probably the two best………Infographics may have the animation but,…..you sir Definitely have the advantage on the narration.
Jack's back!!!! Wooooot, let the insanity begin!!!!
No one:
Peter Capaldi going to vote: 6:22
Bad luck bootsie
You know what they say...
When in Rome bang Caligula
...But such was life for Uncle Claudius.
Some men are just servile by nature...
dear me... I think I am becoming a god
Unironically believing Caligula was insane is middle school level understanding of Roman history at best. The Senators were the only ones writing history books, so any Princeps who didn't grovel at their feet and instead catered to populism was portrayed as a lunatic or a tyrant. No different than today.
Man, what a chain of events.
Memes aside, it's baffling how Hollywood hasn't picked up a Caligula mini-series on some streaming service. Yeah, we have the 70's movie about him but a modern version of his wacky adventures is long overdue now.
A better retelling of Caligula's life than that movie with Malcolm McDowell...
Just need to say...The jokes are great all by themselves, but the stiff yet somehow totally expressive body language of the paper doll-like statues really *makes* it, y'know?
Man I love Caligoola!
0:03 "They Said It could not be done"
Google his boat! It's even bigger than you're thinking
You can say a lot of things about Bootsie, but in the end he was cut out for his job.
That’s the best summary of Little Boots’s reign of imperator I’ve seen. Jack Rackam (cool name for a pool shark btw.. “The name’s Jack Rackam, so rack em, Jack!”) always cuts through the bullshit and gets to the meat of the topic at hand.
The Peter Capaldi sighting got me good
He had lead poisoning. His sickness is blamed for his insanity but he had symptoms of lead poisoning as early as 3 years old, coincidently he got the name “bootsie” around the same time his seizures started.
Romans used lead as an artificial sweetener.
What?!
Aww, just look at him, in his wee lil’ boots. Can we keep him?
It's Bootsie baby
Thanks for teaching me how to pronounce scrounge! Also hilarious video as always
WOAH WOAH WOAH, Jack Rackam uploading two videos this close together???? Impossible, you must be an impostor.