If sources on the subject exist, I would love to hear more about the monarchy in ancient Rome. We hear about it so much during the series, but I don't think much about the people involved and the progression that caused the widespread fear of some people and the Senate of its return.
Rome's culture was very anti-king and they took great pride in not having a king. Brutus was descendant of the man who ended the monarchy and deposed the last king. I believe he was in possession of a family ring made from the melted down crown of said king. Not having a king was a big deal to Romans. Ceasar was immensely popular but even still the idea of him declaring himself king was completely sacrilege to the people of Rome.
I am also curious about Rome's early kings and how that played into the rexaphobia (is that a world lol?) Of the people of Rome. You would have to guess at least some were tyrants. I also appreciate how even despite the enormous popularity of Ceasar due in part to legislation he passed that legitimately helped the commoners of Rome, the people of Rome were still very cognizant of the slippery slope that accompanies granting any one man too much absolute power. Of course they did grant Ceasar too much power but the debate about doing such existed back then.
There are no reliable sources on the kings and pretty much all of the kings and their actions were mythological or at least unconfirmed. The Romans did not write and document their history until much later during the Republic (mostly due to Greek influence)
Sadly (for our curiosity, at least), Rome got sacked sometime around 390 BCE, after the founding of the republic, but before a lot of the events we have good sources on, like the Punic Wars. As a result, primary sources for Roman History before 390 BCE basically don't exist, only a mythologized history that the Romans told eachother. So what we know isn't much, and we can't trust it any further than we can throw it.
Never in my mind would I ever think there was a festival where priests got drunk and half-naked and fake-whipped people in the streets for good luck. I love this channel.
Rome had a fascinating culture. So much of their ways of life- their traditions, morals, beliefs, festivals etc. seem distinctly modern compared to their contemporaries.
@@awsmguy175 saying all of it is a bit of a stretch, and really their 'contemporaries' had pretty similar rituals in many ways. halloween can certainly be said to have influences from Lemuria (a holiday around may where roman children would wear masks to scare off spirits and family elders would throw black beans at their tribal ancestors to scare them away from the household), but is obviously modeled on Samhain (a celtic fireleaping festival in which the dead were thought to haunt the living) based on the date, and most of the celtic tradition surrounding the holiday are likely native and only bear similarity to the roman lemuria because both are indo-european groups and share a common linguistic and cultural ancestor
That's what happens when you adopt a lot of ancient stuff into your society. Christianity is as widespread through Europe thanks to the Romans. The Romans are also why we have Easter when we do. Hell, the Romans under Caesar are who gave us our internationally recognized calendar
Btw, Caesar claimed descendence from Aeneas. If that's not illustrious enough, it also means he claimed descendence from Venus. Both were much more prominent figures than Romulus and Remus. As blatantly disrespectful to tradition as it was, it had some sort of justification in it lineage-wise.
To say that the Julii had an un-impressive lineage is a bit rich, considering they were ancient Patricians with a mythological genealogy linking them to Iulus and then further back to Venus. Whatever we might think of such a claim, it seemed to be widely believed in ancient times.
No it was a hellenistic style diadem. Romans wore the leaves because they wanted to avoid crowns and any association with royalty. People celebrating triumphs wore laurel leaves for excample. Caesar is famous for wearing the laurel leaves crowns often (as shown a lot in pop culture). This was after he was given the right by the Senate to do it in all occasions and he had won a Civic Crown (medal of honor kind of thing for saving other soldiers) when he was young which was oak leaves and had the right to use it in public when he wanted. They were sometimes golden but Caesar, any emperor or any other Roman ever wore a diadem as a crown.
Sara Samaletdin Fascinating! Thanks. As a side note, it's interesting how symbols of power often start off mundane and become extravagant over time. Hellenistic diadems started off as a simple silk ribbon, right? Then they ended up as intricate golden pieces over time.
“Nothing brings an end to ritualised, drunken streaking like a festival devoted to the Virgin Mary.” *shirtless drunks hooting and cavorting the streets during the town fiesta*
0:25 Unimpressive lineage? Aren't the Iulia descended from Iulus, Aeneas's son, Venus's grandson? Sure, it's not as fancy as Mars's son, but I wouldn't call it unimpressive.
I think that was a propaganda move of Augustus, and Vergil basically constructed that out of thin air in his Aeneis, which he wrote to come into Augustus' favor.
Franz Luggin So you're saying that before Virgil no one knew that Ascanius was also called Iulus? I guess it's possible, but I had never considered it.
Was that unorthodox or did the Romans not mind? I don't think I would be happy if some political upstart (depending on when during his career it was) had to drag state politics into my relative's/friend's/whatever's funeral.
Franz Luggin Everything was about politics in Rome. And linages are not about politics completely, of course you would mention your aunts famous ancestors when she died since linage was everything to make her seem important. If those ancestors were yours too, well it is just added bonus for politics and for your family prestige not just for you and good for the whole family.
The bit about Pope Gelasius replacing Lupercalia with the Purification doesn't seem to make sense. The Purification/Candlemas is on the 2nd of February.
Maybe he told the people that if they stop celebrating Lupercalia they could celebrate Candlemas, but only if they did it 13 days sooner, just to get rid of the day association ig. I don't actually know but it's speculation
Maybe calendars got out of wack over time before we finally got the standard modern one? There were a few stages between the one Caesar made and the one we use today.
+Merrill Rabinovsky Or ... did we? This sounds to me A LOT like a Mardi Gras carneval as celebrated in, for example, New Orleans. This year, for example, Fat Tuesday was February 9. It hops around a lot, and of course in times and places it has been much more of Shrove Tuesday (for going to Confession) rather than Fat Tuesday, but I think there are more similarities between Lupercalia and Mardi Gras than between Lupercalia and St. Valentine's Day.
RonJohn63 Um ... yes, but so what? That is to say, I obviously know what Fat Tuesday is in principle and in history, which you should have gleaned from my comment about Shrove Tuesday and Confession. But just as is the case with St. Valentine's Day, the modern observation -- particularly in "Mardis Gras destinations" like New Orleans -- has largely broken loose from its Catholic origins. People do not go to New Orleans during "Mardis Gras season" to prepare for fasting and penance, they go to get drunk and have a wild street party.
RonJohn63 Oh, I see what is going on here. No, I did not mean that Mardis Gras is actually a survival of Lupercalia, only that the modern observation -- of the past 50 years or so -- is a kind of reincarnation of it, probably driven by a basic human desire to celebrate the end of winter with overindulgence.
Hol' up, how were the Julii unimpressive? Caesar's ancestry was one of his biggest assets, since they were mythically the descendants of Jul, son (or grandson) of Aeneas?
Yeah, that pulled me up a bit. This was at a time when ancestry 100% mattered. The Romans weren't racist (as long as you had citizenship, you were good) but politically, ancestry mattered to an amazing degree. The Colleen McCullough (If you haven't, start reading. The first book is difficult, after that the writing style improves dramatically) summary when talking about her research was he had body, brains and ancestry.
It wasn't. From McCullough, that's where Gaius Marius came in. Amazingly rich after his time in Spain, but a new man. Marrying a Julia gave him Julian Dignitas. He gave Caesar's Grandfather enough cash to revive the family fortunes.
But the Purification of the Blessed Virgin is on 2 February. That couldn't even be because of the Gregorian Shift,since that was 11 days, and 2 Feb is 13 days from 15 Feb.
I can just imagine that there were more leap days than just the ones of pope Gregory, the calendar of the whole first milennium is at times a mess, and exact modern dating is afaik more of a "most probably" than a "surely". And I'm not talking about some event in particular, but the continuity of the calendar as a whole (that there were no holes or extra days that were inserted for one reason or another that were simply lost to time). There was even a theory running about that was somewhat popular a decade or two ago that said that _three whole centuries_ never happened, including the whole reign of Carolus the Great, or that they were miscalculated and the events that were apparently three centuries apart were somehow all playing out in parallel. The phantom time hypothesis I think it is called. It took advantage of this inaccuracy in calendar dating to claim 611 was followed by 914 (or 614 by 911 I always forget).
+Franz Luggin fuck man, you made me look up that hypothesis, you made it sound rather plausable but the actual theory is just a bonkers conspiracy theory.
I thought the notion that Carolus the Great and many other important historical figures just never existed was enough of a hint how bonkers the theory was.
Doesn't Lupercalia has something to do with Carnival? In Brazil, people parade on the streets and involve a lots of alcohol. Carnaval is usually celebrated in February/March
Carnaval is a celebration of Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. It marks the begining of Lent, where fasting and restriction are common. I'm not sure what it has to do with Lupercalia, but Mardi Gras is a Christian holiday.
I wouldn't say the Julii were a bunch of nobodies. They did claim descent from Aeneas and were a prominent founding family of alba longa before that cities' residents relocated to Rome. The family had lost some clout and a lot of wealth by the time Ceasar was born but they were still one of the more prestigious families of Rome. I think the real controversy is the fact that the family isn't even Roman and were inserting themselves into a festival celebrating Rome's founding. Of course we all know this was just an excuse for Ceasar to refuse the diadem so.everyone knew he was in fact not a king and had no aspirations to be one. Just a divinely appointed life long dictator with absolute power of the state and its military. Definitely NOT a king.
1853 erwarben die Vereinigten Staaten im Gadsden-Kauf einige weitere Gebiete von Mexiko, wodurch die bis heute gültige Grenze zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und Mexiko entstand.
1:00 My opinion on Antony’s offering of the crown, it really didn’t seem like Caesar was serious about crowning himself, would you take it seriously if a guy in his underwear walked up and offered a crown to the president of prime minster of your country? If you would you probably need help, anyways I think it was Caesar’s doing but I don’t think he would have accepted it, it was maybe a failed publicity stunt Caesar was famous for many of PR stunts so I think it was a failed one. Anyways this is just my opinion it’s impossible to truly know what these people were thinking and what their intentions were we can only guess.
fugg fe is that all you have to say? christians have systematically replaced traditional festivals with their own in countries they've spread their religion to
I would also believe it had something to do with trying to supress other events of that time. Many chirches did that but none as effectively as the Judeo Christians.
the idea stated in the video that 'valentine's day' is intentionally on almost the same day as Lupercalia and represents the end of cold dead winter and the promise of new life with spring, is completely false. 'valentine's day' was totally made up, invented by hallmark to sell cards. it has no basis in festivals, rituals, rites, tradition, history, reality or anything else. It's a money-making scheme. And it works! Men across the globe are terrified of the consequences of forgetting to buy their other half a gift on this entirely fabricated holiday. And women love it more than any other day, as they are the focus and showered with gifts and attention. A clever, and entirely cynical, pr stunt. The fact that people believe there is any link to actual history is merely a true testament to the power of advertising.
@@J3diMindTrix St Valentine’s Day was a religious holiday, a feast day in honor of the Martyr St. Valentine. All the practices we suffer in modernity is what has been fabricated, but the liturgical feast is not.
Like the content of this video and your graphics 🙂. But the peculiar extreme Anglo pronunciation of these Latin terms is distracting. The speaker pronounces A as latin AE, and double ii as Latin ( AI ) .
Not the Roman pronunciation of "ae", maybe in church Latin... Just look at the name Caesar: we usually say "seezar", the way you described how he pronounces the "a" as "ee", where it was more "kaisar". The way Romans pronounced "ae" is nothing like this guy's "a".
The real 'Oopsie' of Caesar. Now I think I finally undestand why he was stabbed. From my childhood school days I just remembered Brutus betrayed him. That was the bigger shock that was conveyed to me. Like, what a disloyalty. Well, now I get it. Disloyalty was rewarded with disloyalty. He was a bully, to the extreme of forcing his way into old traditions, in the most visible way possible. Which culture doesn't punish something like that? It's like in the 4th of July some president went to the Washington monument and his/her campaign manager would introduce the new fireworks in the honor of the Declaration of his/her Majesty the President's hereti-, hereditary presidency, with the best of the people of US of America in his/her Majesty's interest. When the Declaration of Presidency would be placed next to G. Washington, the fireworks would begin. Next day stepping out of his car (being he or she) outside the White House, that there president would be shot. The bullet would be digged out the now former president. It would have a following engraving: 4.7. 20xx.
@@cerberaodollam I think more a Caesar kind of guy: likely a general voted to precidency, enjoying public hero status by maybe 70-90 %, the way Caesar was people's favourite - until this stunt in the video. I think the guy you refer to is more like dividing the country in half. Better distance ourselves more from the real guys who have helf the office, and try to place a guy like Caesar in the seat - like I meant. I know it's hard when it comes so close what current political agents do. So, the worse case of the level in the video is an egoist with the support of a near absolute majority, like Caesar.
The primal rites & festive did not go quietly to make way for "Christianity". Most of the ancient festivals had to be maintained, albeit, under rebranding. Ppl wld not let them go. I agree with the February 14/15 time of year as the spark of spring to make it good for "luv". I believe I read, it may have coincided with the time of mating for some animals. (Giving birth in good weather.). But I'm not a country girl, can't say for sure. 😉😊💖 { 🐦🐦🐦+🐝🐝🐝=💞😻👶🐣🐈🐇🐑}🌷🌼🌸🌾🌿🌱🐾🐾😍😋💗
the idea stated in the video that 'valentine's day' is intentionally on almost the same day as Lupercalia and represents the end of cold dead winter and the promise of new life with spring, is completely false. 'valentine's day' was totally made up, invented by hallmark to sell cards. it has no basis in festivals, rituals, rites, tradition, history, reality or anything else. It's a money-making scheme. And it works! Men across the globe are terrified of the consequences of forgetting to buy their other half a gift on this entirely fabricated holiday. And women love it more than any other day, as they are the focus and showered with gifts and attention. A clever, and entirely cynical, pr stunt. The fact that people believe there is any link to actual history is merely a true testament to the power of advertising.
@@J3diMindTrix There actually was a martyr who was burned in 14 February. Maybe Saint Valentine. Really. Look it up. Everything has been taken over by gold grubbers, no doubt. They want women to believe to live it, but not so sure it's the best sell. But who doesn't love chocolate & flowers? I does brighten a winter day.
HC: Your assumption that 'valentine's day' being on almost the same day as Lupercalia and representing the end of cold dead winter and the promise of new life with spring, is unfortunately, incorrect. 'valentine's day' was totally made up, invented by hallmark to sell cards. it has no basis in festivals, rituals, rites, tradition, history, reality or anything else. It's a money-making scheme. And it works! Men across the globe are terrified of the consequences of forgetting to buy their other half a gift on this entirely fabricated holiday. And women love it more than any other day, as they are the focus and showered with gifts and attention. A clever, and entirely cynical, pr stunt. The fact that people believe there is any link to actual history is merely a true testament to the power of advertising.
@@gadsdenjack nah they chose that day for a reason obviously what I meant to say doesn’t seem to have come across very astutely I meant that Valentine’s Day is a fake celebration, made up by hallmark, but is based on a real one (Lupercalia). They conveniently appropriated the ancient festival. Except eradicated most of the meaning as nowadays it’s more about buying gifts and cards and romantic things rather than any deeper meaning. Generally typical of holidays in the west (with Christmas having gotten much the same treatment, being divested of all its spiritual meaning and corrupted into a soulless and avaricious celebration of materialism and consumerism)
If sources on the subject exist, I would love to hear more about the monarchy in ancient Rome. We hear about it so much during the series, but I don't think much about the people involved and the progression that caused the widespread fear of some people and the Senate of its return.
Rome's culture was very anti-king and they took great pride in not having a king. Brutus was descendant of the man who ended the monarchy and deposed the last king. I believe he was in possession of a family ring made from the melted down crown of said king. Not having a king was a big deal to Romans. Ceasar was immensely popular but even still the idea of him declaring himself king was completely sacrilege to the people of Rome.
I am also curious about Rome's early kings and how that played into the rexaphobia (is that a world lol?) Of the people of Rome. You would have to guess at least some were tyrants. I also appreciate how even despite the enormous popularity of Ceasar due in part to legislation he passed that legitimately helped the commoners of Rome, the people of Rome were still very cognizant of the slippery slope that accompanies granting any one man too much absolute power. Of course they did grant Ceasar too much power but the debate about doing such existed back then.
There are no reliable sources on the kings and pretty much all of the kings and their actions were mythological or at least unconfirmed.
The Romans did not write and document their history until much later during the Republic (mostly due to Greek influence)
Sadly (for our curiosity, at least), Rome got sacked sometime around 390 BCE, after the founding of the republic, but before a lot of the events we have good sources on, like the Punic Wars. As a result, primary sources for Roman History before 390 BCE basically don't exist, only a mythologized history that the Romans told eachother. So what we know isn't much, and we can't trust it any further than we can throw it.
Never in my mind would I ever think there was a festival where priests got drunk and half-naked and fake-whipped people in the streets for good luck.
I love this channel.
Rome had a fascinating culture. So much of their ways of life- their traditions, morals, beliefs, festivals etc. seem distinctly modern compared to their contemporaries.
that’s mostly because we inherited a lot of their traditions, festivals, and such
because all of our shit is copied from them and not their contemporaries
@@awsmguy175 saying all of it is a bit of a stretch, and really their 'contemporaries' had pretty similar rituals in many ways. halloween can certainly be said to have influences from Lemuria (a holiday around may where roman children would wear masks to scare off spirits and family elders would throw black beans at their tribal ancestors to scare them away from the household), but is obviously modeled on Samhain (a celtic fireleaping festival in which the dead were thought to haunt the living) based on the date, and most of the celtic tradition surrounding the holiday are likely native and only bear similarity to the roman lemuria because both are indo-european groups and share a common linguistic and cultural ancestor
That's what happens when you adopt a lot of ancient stuff into your society. Christianity is as widespread through Europe thanks to the Romans.
The Romans are also why we have Easter when we do.
Hell, the Romans under Caesar are who gave us our internationally recognized calendar
Lupercalia is undeniably better!
Btw, Caesar claimed descendence from Aeneas. If that's not illustrious enough, it also means he claimed descendence from Venus. Both were much more prominent figures than Romulus and Remus. As blatantly disrespectful to tradition as it was, it had some sort of justification in it lineage-wise.
Romolus and remus were descended from mars
Justification that he made up 😂
To say that the Julii had an un-impressive lineage is a bit rich, considering they were ancient Patricians with a mythological genealogy linking them to Iulus and then further back to Venus.
Whatever we might think of such a claim, it seemed to be widely believed in ancient times.
Compared with the notability of the Fabii through Roman history it is true though. And he said the same of the Quintilii in the last episode
Unimpressive Lineage in COMPARISON to Romulus and Reemes what even is this comment
Wait, what was the Roman equivalent of a crown?
+Algae Drone A circle of gold leaves.
Neat! Thanks
No it was a hellenistic style diadem. Romans wore the leaves because they wanted to avoid crowns and any association with royalty. People celebrating triumphs wore laurel leaves for excample. Caesar is famous for wearing the laurel leaves crowns often (as shown a lot in pop culture). This was after he was given the right by the Senate to do it in all occasions and he had won a Civic Crown (medal of honor kind of thing for saving other soldiers) when he was young which was oak leaves and had the right to use it in public when he wanted. They were sometimes golden but Caesar, any emperor or any other Roman ever wore a diadem as a crown.
Sara Samaletdin
Fascinating! Thanks. As a side note, it's interesting how symbols of power often start off mundane and become extravagant over time. Hellenistic diadems started off as a simple silk ribbon, right? Then they ended up as intricate golden pieces over time.
a fidget spinner
These videos are awesome, keep them up!
Thanks.
Wild that I'm still watching them nine years later.
I love this channel so much.
“Nothing brings an end to ritualised, drunken streaking like a festival devoted to the Virgin Mary.”
*shirtless drunks hooting and cavorting the streets during the town fiesta*
Make Lupercalia great again!
HERE, HERE!!
Eh...I'd rather not be reminded.
wrg, dump and dumpsters are just sht
Just go to Brazil during Carnaval. It's usually in February with people half-naked parading on the streets and lots of alcohol involved.
0:25 Unimpressive lineage? Aren't the Iulia descended from Iulus, Aeneas's son, Venus's grandson? Sure, it's not as fancy as Mars's son, but I wouldn't call it unimpressive.
I think that was a propaganda move of Augustus, and Vergil basically constructed that out of thin air in his Aeneis, which he wrote to come into Augustus' favor.
Franz Luggin So you're saying that before Virgil no one knew that Ascanius was also called Iulus? I guess it's possible, but I had never considered it.
Caesar mentioned his family lineage himself during a funeral oration for his aunt Julia like it was something everyone knew already.
Was that unorthodox or did the Romans not mind? I don't think I would be happy if some political upstart (depending on when during his career it was) had to drag state politics into my relative's/friend's/whatever's funeral.
Franz Luggin Everything was about politics in Rome. And linages are not about politics completely, of course you would mention your aunts famous ancestors when she died since linage was everything to make her seem important. If those ancestors were yours too, well it is just added bonus for politics and for your family prestige not just for you and good for the whole family.
The bit about Pope Gelasius replacing Lupercalia with the Purification doesn't seem to make sense. The Purification/Candlemas is on the 2nd of February.
Maybe he told the people that if they stop celebrating Lupercalia they could celebrate Candlemas, but only if they did it 13 days sooner, just to get rid of the day association ig. I don't actually know but it's speculation
Maybe calendars got out of wack over time before we finally got the standard modern one? There were a few stages between the one Caesar made and the one we use today.
@@eliad6543 more likely than not the video author made an error.
Bernard thank you for pointing that out. Too many people keep getting this topic wrong and it’s embarrassing
Finally someone who agrees with me Lupercalia is an amazing holiday why did we get rid of it ????????????
+Merrill Rabinovsky
Or ... did we? This sounds to me A LOT like a Mardi Gras carneval as celebrated in, for example, New Orleans. This year, for example, Fat Tuesday was February 9. It hops around a lot, and of course in times and places it has been much more of Shrove Tuesday (for going to Confession) rather than Fat Tuesday, but I think there are more similarities between Lupercalia and Mardi Gras than between Lupercalia and St. Valentine's Day.
No. Fat Tuesday is held the day before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of fasting in the Lenten season.
RonJohn63 Um ... yes, but so what? That is to say, I obviously know what Fat Tuesday is in principle and in history, which you should have gleaned from my comment about Shrove Tuesday and Confession. But just as is the case with St. Valentine's Day, the modern observation -- particularly in "Mardis Gras destinations" like New Orleans -- has largely broken loose from its Catholic origins. People do not go to New Orleans during "Mardis Gras season" to prepare for fasting and penance, they go to get drunk and have a wild street party.
RonJohn63
Oh, I see what is going on here. No, I did not mean that Mardis Gras is actually a survival of Lupercalia, only that the modern observation -- of the past 50 years or so -- is a kind of reincarnation of it, probably driven by a basic human desire to celebrate the end of winter with overindulgence.
Church. Obviously.
we should bring back naked whip running as a tradition
We nee to bring this back. Make lupercalia great again!
Impossible - a historia civilis video I’ve never watched before
Hol' up, how were the Julii unimpressive? Caesar's ancestry was one of his biggest assets, since they were mythically the descendants of Jul, son (or grandson) of Aeneas?
Yeah, that pulled me up a bit.
This was at a time when ancestry 100% mattered.
The Romans weren't racist (as long as you had citizenship, you were good) but politically, ancestry mattered to an amazing degree.
The Colleen McCullough (If you haven't, start reading. The first book is difficult, after that the writing style improves dramatically) summary when talking about her research was he had body, brains and ancestry.
Robert Bray Yeah, the lineage thing bugged me. Maybe he meant that Caesar's own family wasn't bery rich (if I remember correctly) before, well, Caesar
It wasn't. From McCullough, that's where Gaius Marius came in.
Amazingly rich after his time in Spain, but a new man.
Marrying a Julia gave him Julian Dignitas. He gave Caesar's Grandfather enough cash to revive the family fortunes.
The first mention of the forbidden one
But the Purification of the Blessed Virgin is on 2 February. That couldn't even be because of the Gregorian Shift,since that was 11 days, and 2 Feb is 13 days from 15 Feb.
I can just imagine that there were more leap days than just the ones of pope Gregory, the calendar of the whole first milennium is at times a mess, and exact modern dating is afaik more of a "most probably" than a "surely". And I'm not talking about some event in particular, but the continuity of the calendar as a whole (that there were no holes or extra days that were inserted for one reason or another that were simply lost to time).
There was even a theory running about that was somewhat popular a decade or two ago that said that _three whole centuries_ never happened, including the whole reign of Carolus the Great, or that they were miscalculated and the events that were apparently three centuries apart were somehow all playing out in parallel. The phantom time hypothesis I think it is called. It took advantage of this inaccuracy in calendar dating to claim 611 was followed by 914 (or 614 by 911 I always forget).
+Franz Luggin fuck man, you made me look up that hypothesis, you made it sound rather plausable but the actual theory is just a bonkers conspiracy theory.
I thought the notion that Carolus the Great and many other important historical figures just never existed was enough of a hint how bonkers the theory was.
Next time your girlfriend complains, that you forgot about valentines day, just tell her you have something better planned and prepare the goats.
Are the dates of lupercalia and valentines day both on the gregorian calander or?
We should bring this back
Surprising that nobody's coming back here after the new vid
Marc Nassif exactly
Doesn't Lupercalia has something to do with Carnival? In Brazil, people parade on the streets and involve a lots of alcohol. Carnaval is usually celebrated in February/March
Carnaval is a celebration of Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. It marks the begining of Lent, where fasting and restriction are common. I'm not sure what it has to do with Lupercalia, but Mardi Gras is a Christian holiday.
Historia, is the guitar in the background a recording of yourself?
Mardi Gras seems to be the more related descendant of Lupercalia
I love these older vids but everytime I wa6ch one I think my headphones broke
If this ever gets remade please include other big facts.
why does the February calendar has 30 days?
The February calendars have 30 days. But still great videos!
Calendar of Romulus only had 10 months to begin with so no point in arguing about 2 days
@@czaczaja Yeah but they were using the Julian calendar by this point, which would have February be 28 days
I wouldn't say the Julii were a bunch of nobodies. They did claim descent from Aeneas and were a prominent founding family of alba longa before that cities' residents relocated to Rome. The family had lost some clout and a lot of wealth by the time Ceasar was born but they were still one of the more prestigious families of Rome. I think the real controversy is the fact that the family isn't even Roman and were inserting themselves into a festival celebrating Rome's founding. Of course we all know this was just an excuse for Ceasar to refuse the diadem so.everyone knew he was in fact not a king and had no aspirations to be one. Just a divinely appointed life long dictator with absolute power of the state and its military. Definitely NOT a king.
anyone knows the links of the music played
Sounds like he did it himself in the same room as the voice over.
watching it on lupercalia day
Welp, time replace Valentines... Who sells Goat Wips?
lycan2500 1 Skip the animal sacrifices in favour of having living dogs be part of it and I bet a lot of drunk college students would volunteer.
Ask not who sells goat whips, ask who sells goats.
Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
Calendar?
1853 erwarben die Vereinigten Staaten im Gadsden-Kauf einige weitere Gebiete von Mexiko, wodurch die bis heute gültige Grenze zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und Mexiko entstand.
1:00 My opinion on Antony’s offering of the crown, it really didn’t seem like Caesar was serious about crowning himself, would you take it seriously if a guy in his underwear walked up and offered a crown to the president of prime minster of your country? If you would you probably need help, anyways I think it was Caesar’s doing but I don’t think he would have accepted it, it was maybe a failed publicity stunt Caesar was famous for many of PR stunts so I think it was a failed one. Anyways this is just my opinion it’s impossible to truly know what these people were thinking and what their intentions were we can only guess.
Christianity. Ruining everything that's fun since the antiquity.
100% agreed. Was JUST about to post something similar myself lol.
Calm down edgelord
fugg fe is that all you have to say? christians have systematically replaced traditional festivals with their own in countries they've spread their religion to
*tips fedora*
@@1N73RC3P7OR oh no the infallible hat joke argument
I would also believe it had something to do with trying to supress other events of that time. Many chirches did that but none as effectively as the Judeo Christians.
the idea stated in the video that 'valentine's day' is intentionally on almost the same day as Lupercalia and represents the end of cold dead winter and the promise of new life with spring, is completely false. 'valentine's day' was totally made up, invented by hallmark to sell cards. it has no basis in festivals, rituals, rites, tradition, history, reality or anything else. It's a money-making scheme. And it works! Men across the globe are terrified of the consequences of forgetting to buy their other half a gift on this entirely fabricated holiday. And women love it more than any other day, as they are the focus and showered with gifts and attention. A clever, and entirely cynical, pr stunt. The fact that people believe there is any link to actual history is merely a true testament to the power of advertising.
@@J3diMindTrix St Valentine’s Day was a religious holiday, a feast day in honor of the Martyr St. Valentine.
All the practices we suffer in modernity is what has been fabricated, but the liturgical feast is not.
Other Churches? And what are Judeo Christians? That sounds like an oxymoron.
It returned to NORMAL? 😇
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I agree
Lupercalia-fragalistic-expalidocious!
Don't you mean flagellistic?
Like the content of this video and your graphics 🙂. But the peculiar extreme Anglo pronunciation of these Latin terms is distracting. The speaker pronounces A as latin AE, and double ii as Latin ( AI ) .
Not the Roman pronunciation of "ae", maybe in church Latin... Just look at the name Caesar: we usually say "seezar", the way you described how he pronounces the "a" as "ee", where it was more "kaisar". The way Romans pronounced "ae" is nothing like this guy's "a".
They lost me when they killed the dog. Just... what the hell, guys?
Damn church, always ruining our fun
can we bring back animal sacrifices?
We sacrifice millions a day to the gods of capitalism
Sheeeeeeesh
The real 'Oopsie' of Caesar.
Now I think I finally undestand why he was stabbed.
From my childhood school days I just remembered Brutus betrayed him.
That was the bigger shock that was conveyed to me.
Like, what a disloyalty. Well, now I get it. Disloyalty was rewarded with disloyalty.
He was a bully, to the extreme of forcing his way into old traditions, in the most visible way possible.
Which culture doesn't punish something like that?
It's like in the 4th of July some president went to the Washington monument and his/her campaign manager would introduce the new fireworks in the honor of the Declaration of his/her Majesty the President's hereti-, hereditary presidency,
with the best of the people of US of America in his/her Majesty's interest.
When the Declaration of Presidency would be placed next to G. Washington, the fireworks would begin.
Next day stepping out of his car (being he or she) outside the White House, that there president would be shot.
The bullet would be digged out the now former president. It would have a following engraving:
4.7. 20xx.
I'm kinda hoping for that because this absolute dickhead a) deserves it, b) wouldn't consider such crassness to be beneath him.
@@cerberaodollam I think more a Caesar kind of guy: likely a general voted to precidency, enjoying public hero status by maybe 70-90 %, the way Caesar was people's favourite - until this stunt in the video. I think the guy you refer to is more like dividing the country in half.
Better distance ourselves more from the real guys who have helf the office, and try to place a guy like Caesar in the seat - like I meant. I know it's hard when it comes so close what current political agents do. So, the worse case of the level in the video is an egoist with the support of a near absolute majority, like Caesar.
Classic Christian attitude towards a wholesome, family fun festival.
You just know that furries would ruin this holiday smh
Christianiaty on the look out to ruin fun everyone since forever...
wrg
Hot take: Saint Valentine’s is a Roman holiday.
If we've learned anything from this let it be that "Christianity has pagan DNA"
So you dont pronounce latin correctly but you say 'pagan' as paaagan. ;)
Good videos.
The primal rites & festive did not go quietly to make way for "Christianity".
Most of the ancient festivals had to be maintained, albeit, under rebranding.
Ppl wld not let them go.
I agree with the February 14/15 time of year as the spark of spring to make it good for "luv".
I believe I read, it may have coincided with the time of mating for some animals.
(Giving birth in good weather.). But I'm not a country girl, can't say for sure. 😉😊💖
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the idea stated in the video that 'valentine's day' is intentionally on almost the same day as Lupercalia and represents the end of cold dead winter and the promise of new life with spring, is completely false. 'valentine's day' was totally made up, invented by hallmark to sell cards. it has no basis in festivals, rituals, rites, tradition, history, reality or anything else. It's a money-making scheme. And it works! Men across the globe are terrified of the consequences of forgetting to buy their other half a gift on this entirely fabricated holiday. And women love it more than any other day, as they are the focus and showered with gifts and attention. A clever, and entirely cynical, pr stunt. The fact that people believe there is any link to actual history is merely a true testament to the power of advertising.
Too bad that the pagan religions are dead and the Church of the One True God, who reigns in saecula saeculorum, lives on.
@@J3diMindTrix
There actually was a martyr who was burned in 14 February. Maybe Saint Valentine.
Really. Look it up.
Everything has been taken over by gold grubbers, no doubt.
They want women to believe to live it, but not so sure it's the best sell.
But who doesn't love chocolate & flowers? I does brighten a winter day.
@@Joshharrison224 Amen
666th like. Come on guys, get with it!
Trust the church to ruin something fun
HC: Your assumption that 'valentine's day' being on almost the same day as Lupercalia and representing the end of cold dead winter and the promise of new life with spring, is unfortunately, incorrect. 'valentine's day' was totally made up, invented by hallmark to sell cards. it has no basis in festivals, rituals, rites, tradition, history, reality or anything else. It's a money-making scheme. And it works! Men across the globe are terrified of the consequences of forgetting to buy their other half a gift on this entirely fabricated holiday. And women love it more than any other day, as they are the focus and showered with gifts and attention. A clever, and entirely cynical, pr stunt. The fact that people believe there is any link to actual history is merely a true testament to the power of advertising.
OK? Did hallmark just throw a dart at a calender, or did they put some thought into timing it?
@@gadsdenjack nah they chose that day for a reason obviously what I meant to say doesn’t seem to have come across very astutely I meant that Valentine’s Day is a fake celebration, made up by hallmark, but is based on a real one (Lupercalia). They conveniently appropriated the ancient festival. Except eradicated most of the meaning as nowadays it’s more about buying gifts and cards and romantic things rather than any deeper meaning. Generally typical of holidays in the west (with Christmas having gotten much the same treatment, being divested of all its spiritual meaning and corrupted into a soulless and avaricious celebration of materialism and consumerism)
filthyanity ruins everything
Shut your blasphemous mouth, heathen
@@henriqueoliveira5123 never!!!