What Roman Parties Were Really Like
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2024
- Contrary to popular belief, Rome was not all crazy sex parties. In fact, ancient Roman parties were pretty tame by today’s standards. Most of the time, it consisted of noble families getting together, eating elaborate food dishes, and talking about everything from politics to the weather. These parties were beacons of status and networking opportunities, which is why they became a cornerstone in everyday Roman life. Partying in Rome was common, but racy Ancient Roman escapades weren't popping off on the daily.
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_The party don't stop until everyone is pregnant_
- Caligula, probably
...and/or dead and sodomized. All three at once, preferably.
Mr person humanson...or at very least inseminated if not pregnant..
Little little bastard boots running all over Rome. 😁
What about the dudes
@@bobthebobman7457 The dudes fake it..
Nero killed his own wife, then found an underage male slave, had him castrated and then forced him to dress like his dead wife, and pretend to be her. I feel like that isn’t mentioned enough when Nero gets brought up.
@@NateNT87 look it up
@@NateNT87 And you never crossed the name Sporus in all that information? It happened.
It is said that Nero also burned down the city and blamed it on the Christians. If that is true, we could call that a false flag incident.
@@perrywhite2856 yes, and he fed the christians to his lions in the colosseum...
Nero was the last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the original 5 emperors. In order to shift away from Caesar's bloodline and give legitimacy to the emperors that followed, Nero had to be demonized. Not to say there isn't some truth to everything about him. But there certainly are some exaggerations and untruths mixed in as well. Just like today, the best propaganda has a kernel of truth in there somewhere.
Ain't no party like a Roman house party cause a Roman house party dont stop...
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Caesar doesn't like the Roman parties when he's the only one who doesn't have a knife on the table
Et tu Brute?
*Moments taken right before the disaster*
*These, ladies and gentlemen, was a moment recorded right before the assasina- ahem, the mistake of Caesar.*
Lol
But he wound up "Stuck" with the situation, anyway...
*The party has been canceled due to the justinianvirus*
plague of justinian en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian
Lol
@@CDNShuffle you are an example for a party pooper
@@ramisamman5674 im happy u feel that way
@@CDNShuffle ain't a feeling rather an observation
Fun fact: Romans used the Silphium flower as birth control back in the day, singlehandedly making it extinct ever since.
C J false
What’s fun about that “fact “ 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
C J I have a silphium in my garden.
I've ate that flower once and never got pregnant since.
Derek collins because you’re a guy
“Rome’s horny little problem” I’ve never seen, nor heard a more accurate description of Caligula
I can't believe you actually censored paintings lol
pretty pathetic. 😔
I know... It's art. I don't get it. It's like censoring indigenous nudity.
They don’t wanna miss out on that advertising money.
@@Galadrian70 Pretty pretty pathetic
Gotta keep that ad rev 👌😂😂
I can't imagine the amount of STD's people got from those parties
@Ace Saylor syphilis did not appear until the fifthteenth century it came from the nee world, it might have been lead posioning since emperors would have been drinking their water directly from aqueducts that were made with lead pipes where as regular people tended to drink from wells
Jace Rivera correct. In fact it was also the containers wine came in that were lined with lead. Lead poisoning is most probably the reason so many emperors were so, well obviously insane. Roman emperors are infamous for their eccentricity but it might have actually all been due to lead poisoning; this needs to be known more by everyone who is interested in the topic!
The little ironic twist here is that the lower in class and wealth you were, the less likely you were to drink from these lead-poisoned containers (and the opposite was true, the richer and fancier the more wine you drank and so the more poisoned you were) so it was actually better for your health overall; a commoner or even a slave might have been healthier than the emperor at the time. Also beer as mentioned was mostly a poor person’s drink but it was obviously far better for your health.
@@J3diMindTrix queen elizabeth of england also suffered from lead and mercury posioning
Jace Rivera it’s amazing to see really how little was known, even among the elites, which throughout history until very recently had a massively disproportionate amount of power and therefore access to the best and most knowledgeable doctors, advisors etc, engage in things which most people would consider unimaginably self-defeating, unhealthy, and stemming from just plain ignorance, that is common knowledge today but widely practised not too long ago. In fact it was the inverse of what one would expect, with the upper classes having the more unsavoury and debilitating habits, largely due to their debauchery and access to far-flung reaches. Syphilis was rampant in the Renaissance after it was brought back from the new world, but again, largely affected the elites as they would be more likely to commingle with those who had travelled far and wide. Incestuous relationships were common among royalty, which we now know is the cause of birth defects and genetic abnormalities such as the Hapsburg lip, for instance but even after thousands of years (the Egyptians were known for it) it never occurred to anyone to stop, despite the obvious lewd and foul implications. Make-up, from Ancient Egyptian kohl, right up until the 18th century, was also lead-based. And as someone who visibly wore a lot of it, as in all her portraits, that doesn’t greatly surprise me that she did!
So we had these insane, brain-damaged and poisoned people who often died before the age of 30 making decisions for the rest of society for most of history? Incredible, but true
I wonder who their descendants are today 🤔
“And then there was Nero.”
That had me laughing much more than I should have.
They watered down the wine also because at the time wine was really strong, it had much more alcool percentage than now so a glass of straight wine back then was enough to get you drunk. The water made it possible to enjoy more than one glass.
Why would it have more alcohol. That doesn't make any sense same distillation process
@@living4adrenaline it's.. concentrated..
Water was poison unless boiled. Adding water to wine killed the poisons in contaminated water making both drinkable. Somehow they survived.
I always have water nearby when drinking. Maybe it was easier to water it down since it wasn't installed in their kitchen sinks at the time? I only know one thing for certain... nobody on this comment section will ever experience such grand parties!
Julius Ceasar: Conqueror of Gaul
Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher King
Caligula: Rome's horny little problem
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Also Caesar: Queen of Bithynia( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Lol 😂
"Forget *everything* you know about ancient Rome's infamous parties."
Me: [does exactly that] ... [is left with exactly the same knowledge as before]
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Exactly.
The world: so, what kind of party do you want?
The Romans: Yes.
Party so hard a volcano erupted
That's what I call lit.
*Cries in Pompeii*
😂😂😂damn
Right! That’s what I said
Cant believe TH-cam has come to a point where one needs to censor ART...
Positively sickening it is!!
Yes its a shame however anything today can be considered « ART ». its like imagine no censoring on rap videos of naked women twerking etc. I think the best thing to do is just to suggest viewer’s discretion etc
@MCcookiebreath no, its not shaking their butts. Its shaking their butts "naked", as I mentioned in case you missed it. For example, 50 cent's disco inferno video. Rap is the #1 most viewed/listened genre of music and its quite hard to display rap's form of art on a platform that identify itself as "family friendly". TH-cam must apply censorship on nudity on all art forms. And yes, women shaking their butts in this context is depraved. Depraved may be defined as morally perverse. Depicting women twerking their butts on a family friendly platform is by consequence depraved, yes you are correct MCcookiebreath
I'd like the channel to do a video about the life of the Ancient Persians.
Misabel Rodriguez omg i just said the same! And Zoroastrianism (Persian religion old af)
I think it the oldest monotheistic religion around to date
@@diabloakland Yes! The Towers of Silence are fascinating.
I’m afghan n have def Persian n some Macedonian (Alexander the great not my relative but since he came by lol) waaaaay back. My ancestors were Buddhist n one alone the line married into a Zoroastrian family and then time went on now it’s Islamic.
Or Spartans.
In the Weird History from the future: How was to live during Coronavirus.
Weird history: a farce. Liberal media made mayhem over a flu.
@@unknownmke Yeah. Normal flu destroys 20-30% of your lungs for good.
@@jounazi8125 dont cigarettes do that? Yet people still smoke. 6 months ago people were eating each others buttholes, now everything closes cause of the flu
@@toddgarver5397 just becouse you live, doesnt mean others will. Go to italy to say that "its just flu" to those who has lost someone becouse of it. Not everything revolves around you
@@jounazi8125 Just wait until he caught it himself. I knew a guy who act like these peoples. He used to make fun of peoples and government make fuss of it. Now he caught it himself. God I almost feel bad for him when I look at pathetic sight right now. Almost.
The girl on the front of that Girls Gone Wild advertisement is in her 50s now. .. holy crap.
Still smash
And in 20 years she will be in her 70s. Very good, you can do 3rd grade math.
Now Shes girls got wrinkles
@@josephjakubec3171 You missed the point of his comment by a fucking mile.
Lol lol
Saturnalia actually was a holiday where the survents/slaves would get to kind of be in charge within reason, they could tell the upper class to wash their clothes and do the cooking etc. The lower and upper classes had dinner party's where they'd all gather and eat together, form relationships in society, listen to concerns and help each other. It was a brilliant way to reinforce societies the rich understood the poor the poor taken the piss out of the rich everyone was together and living during saturnalia. It was so much more than just getting drunk.
Saturnalia is not what you think it is the real truth is it's the worship the Devil.
@@michaelyoung7171 The Devil seems like a pretty chill guy all things considered.
@@cratoss.4772he isn't at all a lie because he is the father of all lies when he speaks a lie it's of his own because there is no truth in him.
Sounds nice
@@michaelyoung7171 how are they worshipping the devil if they don't believe in him...?
I would love to be a fly on the wall of a roman party. Shit sounded wild!
They still exist in our century
Hohoho You have no idea
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Is this a private party or can anybody come
Is that a private party or can we all
Come.
A lot of it was about status, just like in real life now. People who don’t have as much of a status in high school don’t really get invited to parties. They even drink wine, just to improve their appearance. I also like how wine has its own deity, Bacchus “The God of Wine”
And it is also fun.
Bacchus is great and all, but he's no Tyrion Lannister, the god of tits and wine
Nice icon
Bacchus in his Greek origin as Dionysus was actually a countercultural god, there having been a cult based around wine being seen as possession by a god that therefore released you from your bonds in society.
Just Some Guy without a Mustache So, I see you have good taste in history
They were often mixed sex parties but the men would retire to a separate room where they would discuss politics, make political alliances and engage in some good ol' Roman debauchery.
same things happen today times dont change same old same people love good food good conversation and sex
It's worth pointing out that Roman views on sexuality were very different. For instance, you may wonder why barbarians are always depicted with large phalluses whereas statues of famous Romans almost always have the tiniest wedding tackle. This is because Roman society viewed cunning and intellect as inversely proportional to ones physical "manhood."
It is very likely that the notorious debauchery of many of infamous Romans was greatly exaggerated in order to destroy their historical legacy. The Romans were very aware of legacy and spreading rumours of sexual depravity was a common move in the political playbook for ancient Rome.
It's much more interesting to believe it all but in reality most of it was likely invented posthumously to ruin a politicians legacy or contemporaneously to discredit them in their time.
Are you friends with Roman emperors?
It makes sense cause if you have a big dick all you usually do and talk about is just sex, their whole lives revolves round sex.
Yeah but what I know about humans just in my half century of life makes me think that it’s probably not too outta left field to believe the rumours were true.
8:00 chucky made his way into a painting somehow
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Damn they really are dolphins?!? No one's safe
Fr cant trust a dolphin-man hybrid..
lol, the delivery on that Vegas joke was mint.
Perfect tone shift. 👍
I’m newly subscribed I just love hearing history stories.❤️❤️
Another interesting video about rome! Actually learned a lot from it.
Actually closed my eyes a lot from it!
And that my friends is how venereal diseases are made...🤢
Lmao you think the Roman's were sexual deviants? Wait til you hear about their rival greece like 1000+ years earlier
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@@leonelfernandez9487 Yeah if Rome is level one then Greece is basically level 100
@@leonelfernandez9487 Lmaoooo 😂😂😂😂😂. They were way worse!!
@@seyeonyaseec My wife is Greek and she is a sexual deviant
Great video, emphasis on 'status', which was everything in ancient Rome. Cheers!🥂
This is my new favorite narrator and youtube channel
I just love the crazy, humorous, sarcastic tone you take when describing some of these activities. Saint Patrick's Day Parades!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your videos!!! I would like to see videos about Native Americans
A+ video!
Fascinating and shocking history of the Roman parties!
Great videos! Love this channel. Keep it up!
"Nor were they confined to one species of vice." 😳😳
"Party hard, stay drunk, stay high, stay crucified"
-pontius pilate
been watching select videos for a while, love your vids. Finally, I decided to Sub :D
Recently discovered your channel, and it’s awesome!
Had to laugh ..this being March 15 and all..the date of Caesar's final party...
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Love y’all vids keep it up!
So educational I love this Channel ❤️
Frat house party: man,this party is off the hook!!!!!
Ancient rome: hold my toga..
I always come to this channel when I'm bored and want to learn something new.
Loved the video!! Do more medieval videos!💕
Thank you. Very impressive and informative 👏
They partied so hard, overpartying was the second biggest cause of death among the nobility... right after a sudden and terminal case of knives in the back.
If you wanted to overdo some form of gluttony and excess then you could do no better than imitate Roman behaviour. They were savage...in both the conventional and modern sense.
True!
@Catch_Me_If_You_Can No, but the many documentaries (and some books) are credible enough.
@Catch_Me_If_You_Can This is the part where you present an argument that details why what I said was wrong.
Nobility have been dying mostly due to either murder or the various diseases caused by their excesses since time immemorial. I'm not sure how anyone can not know this.
@Catch_Me_If_You_Can Jesus Christ, I thought I was having a serious discussion with a serious person.
Пацан, иди ка ты кому то другому на ногу пописай.
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7:57 look at Chucky getting some haha😆
Love this channel! Do A Day In The Life Of A WWII Soldier! The one you did on WWI was super interesting
Makes sense. Thanks for this video.
Weird History: We're going to a party in Rome
Me: Slide the moonshine and 2 live crew album in the chariot
Years from now they’ll be discussing The Office’s “The Dinner Party” episode in history classes.
Great video! Do also a video of what ancient Greek parties were like!
I love, Love, *LOVE* your voice!! ☺️♥️✌️
I would love to try that menu - all those different kinds of meats!
'Rome's horny little problem' made me laugh😂
Good information. I LOVE to see all the different things the Romans compared to us today. Gret Fun. Thank you.
I am in love with such videos
As a young man I had different women approach me and say" Do you want to Party"? Looking back on this I now realize what they were asking.
Basically, the rich be flexin.
At least there's some good content to watch while the whole world is under quarantine!
its so awesome how u teach us a ton, while laughing!!
I have heard a story of a pagan cult or maybe even a sect within society, in which the priests of a pagan god,(a fertility god or goddess), would impregnate virgin girls on the altar to their god at a certain time of the year, when their god required worship.
Nine months later, babies were born to these former virgins, and 3 months later, when the time for worship of the god once again came, the priests would take these babies and offer them for sacrifice on the altar to their god,(or goddess).
The blood of these babies is said to have been used, to dye eggs a blood red, and presumably used in some other ritual or rite, in worship of the same god.
Got anything on that? And if so, could you give historical or archaeological information for this?
James Lanning thats the Cult of Ishtar which is where the holiday Easter actually comes from. The eggs and rabbits were also seen as symbols of fertility
@John Wack indeed
@@ambientapathy777 Okay, and do you have a reference in print in which this "cult," can be found?
Istar was Babylonian, but there were other cultures that used the same goddess, even if the name was different.
I've read some pretty 'dry,' stuff, and I haven't come across any reference to to sacrificed babies for blood dyed eggs.
I'm not rejecting the claim, that it didn't happen.
But where's the recorded history?
@@ambientapathy777 I thought Ishtar was Babylonian? What's the Greco-Roman equivalent to Ishtar?
*Paganism to extreme*
Thank you TH-cam for protecting me from the sight of a 5 or 6 nipples.
They definitely took partying to another level! Funny and scary all in one! 🥳
Maybe a video on Catherine the Great? Just watched the HBO series and it was amazing! I didn't know all of that drama about her reign.
I cannot believe they have censored art work in this.
Please do a video about Scotland in the 1700s!! and yes I am asking because Outlander
I can't count how many times I closed my eyes when watching this video.
Man, I love this channel! Don't ever stop! Also, don't think think I am mean. If I could afford to be a Patreon, I would be in a blink! However, cat and dog food or.....ja know!
I can already hear the parties
A lot of it was about status, just like in real life now. People who don't have as much of a status in highschool don't really get invited to parties. They even drink wine, just to improve their appearance. I also like how wine has it own deity, Bacchus "The God of Wine"
Bruh you just copied the other guys comment
We heard you the first time
@@thatwhiteguy5541 who me
Thank you.
Thanks for setting the record straight...not sure where the confusion came from
“would drink wine to boost their clout” LMFAOOOOOOOO
When in Rome: Bang Caligula
Nice!
Hey can you guys talk about the monk from ~600ad who was the first to climb mount fuji ?!
Can you do more about American history. (Civil war, revolutionary war, progressive era, etc)?
You should do a video on what life was really like for a Mountain man or Trapper back in the day.
I was the 15 th to view this the video was awesome
I am enjoying historic videos these days like periodic dramas
I feel like most of this is applicable today and the video missed out on opportunities to give more details
There was no tv. Sex was the only thing you could do. Plus that intervention show wasn’t around yet. NO CONSEQUENCES!!!
ShadowAngel what a stupid comment 😆
ShadowAngel Hahahah that shit went off the rails.
@ShadowAngel They were more into crucifixions and gladiator fights. Oh, and stonings. But hey they gave us running water and streets and shit
Everyone in those paintings are death now and we will too. Only then, each soul will know what he has put forth in this short stay. Ask any aged person, they will tell u how fast time flies. 'Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your compensation on the Day of Resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise has attained. And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion.'
Thanks
Hey already subscribed why am I still getting that little part of vid In beginning
Im 54 now.. I had party's like this in my 20s...
After watching this it makes sense that St. Paul wrote to the Church in Rome the difference between food for the stomach and food for the soul.
I've been trying to get this video for a week can you do Lewis clark and Sacajawea what it was like to be them or something Like that
Makes me think of the all of the State dinners throughout the world. Some things never change!
Could you do a video about Alister Crowley and his cult?
This is the protein that they would serve
*names every animal ever to live*
In my experience it was house parties where you were free to roam around. Or backyard parties you paid $5 with kegs where being too loud was a no no. Or hanging out in nature or in parks at night. Each place included socializing as well as romance in some form. As I got older people began networking and singing kareoke at the end of the night. Funny enough the early days included no food and only drink. I think most people got sick of the formality and would just hit up a fast food place afterwards. Sleeping over happened and I cannot recall too many people passing out. Dancing happened and music (a stereo) played most of the time. I did go to some with live bands and even a skate ramp once. From time to time drum circles happened and sometimes guitar playing. In my scene there was drug use and the exchange of merchandise which could include a bag of something. A good host provided this so you did not have to go and trust somebody you did not know. That was my experience in a nutshell.
More such historic videos
We haven’t change much , the same parties are still happening. depending of socials status and money. We haven’t evolved from our animalistic impulses.
Love the videos. Can you please do a video about masquerades , thanks
Ewwe nope, no, I'm good! Can't even try to imagine the stink and details without gagging! 🤢
That AD67 Party Was Off The Hook! Still Tired From That One..
I thought I recognized you! I need my thongs back, please 😁
Best thumbnail ever.