Do the Romans Still Matter?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- In this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Gareth Harney (OptimoPrincipi on Twitter) and I discuss why the Romans are so intriguing - and why, in a broader sense, they still matter in the 21st century.
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Chapters:
0:00 Arguing with Russell Crowe on Twitter
3:00 Bringing the Romans online
10:53 Live tweeting the Ides of March
17:25 The Romans were people too
24:58 Misconceptions about the Romans
28:37 An aside on gladiators
37:05 Why the Romans still matter
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Here in the UK we continued to have Roman currency, in part, right up until 1971 when decimalisation came in. The suffix "d" stood for Denarius.
4:18 me being an American thought he said "sauces" I was like ooo yes that would be pretty cool to get some ancient recipes from antiquity
It's incredible how much Roman architecture survived in Europe, the middle east & Northern Africa .Even after millennia of human plunder, natural disaster and wars. It remained in place because people after the Romans couldn't build it better until the 19th century.. So they either kept re-using it, or just left it in place because it was too much work to move it out of the way .
I'm clapping at the awareness that judging ancient people is wrong and ludicrous. Bravo!
Do the Romans Still Matter? Before watching, my amateur and probably naive opinion: Rome is still with us. The Vatican is a direct survival that has had great power, the Popes often acting as if they were Emperors, but consider the countries that have continued it's legacy. To me it seems that it wasn't just a question of power being shifted from Rome to Constantinople to (and I consider this at least somewhat valid) the Holy Roman Empire, it was that it diffused throughout Europe: the Empire was a Hydra that grew it's own heads. To use another metaphor The British Empire was an example of the Rome virus flaring up, not a new entity. They did after all honor Rome more than their own ancestors. British historians and archaeologists were guilty of this until very recently, and some still are. Rome never died. The history of Rome is the history of The West.
I beg to differ, it was the Republic to really shine, not the empire.
The Republic was the star, the empire the red giant destined to die.
The barbarians have always had this fascination with the empire, probably because it is the only thing they have really known between the two. 😄
Kingdom !?
The Quirites had no kingdom.
Not even the so-called seven kings were kings, they were despots, elected! 😄
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Also the east and south get over ur self
Well said
I absolutely love th idea of "live tweeting" the Ides of March! It reminds me of that old TV history show with Walter Cronkite, "You Are There."
loving all this content 🙏 TY
Great interview! I've definitely given him a follow. Could we see that Verona Gladiator Fresco online anywhere? I've googled and not found it yet
Splendid exchange, thank you.
What an interesting show, above all when Gareth emphasises the social mobility of ancient world. His remark makes you think a lot. And latter on, when he speaks of his reading of Livy, it is touching to see how Roman spirit still flows through the zest of the people.
This was fantastic!
Great interview.
Yes, the Romans still matter. Thanks for this awesome podcast!
I think a great guess would be chris from vlogging through history. He knows a lot about many topics like the American Civil War, and he is very interested in family trees and lineages. He has shown me how family ties affect power struggles in ancient, and more recent times.
I don't have an hour right now to watch this, but I tell my 18 year old son all the time that Romans still matter. We are still feeling the effects of their works in our religions, laws, languages, customs. ROMANS MATTER! I promise to watch the entire video later this evening!
Day thàt might work: Death of Cleopatra... Or Assassination of Caligula or Agrippina? The last day of the last Roman emperor.
Roman rule was vaste. This required a well conceived legal system, good quality communication, sophisticated management....all components of today's society.
You should have linked his actual twitter account in your description
Could you livetweet Pompei/Hurculaneum?
He's a great follow on Twitter for Roman content!
Yes.
So my dream of being a well-versed historian is crushed, as my name doesn't begin with G A R.......
beautiful man
I like gladiator because Rome. I hate Gladiator because that never happened, and Rome, in one form or another, lasted from 700ish BCE to 1450ish CE, and you’d thing that in over 2000 years worth of history, actual things that happened would be worth making into movies and/or shows.
This is what twitter--and frankly life--should be. Just people having fun talking with their favorite things. So much unnecessary drama on that app. What a breath of fresh air!
The fact that the romans gave the US it's system of governance cannot be overstated. Athens gets too much credit for what Rome really contributed, thanks to Greeks like Polybius (somewhat influenced by Aristotle) and Romans like Cicero (influenced by Polybius).
Had to stop after he started talking about "not getting into arguments on twitter," because that's real easy to say from a point of view where your basic human rights aren't the thing up for debate. 🙄