That insula would barely look out of place in early 20th century Brooklyn or Chicago. Just replace the aqueduct in the background with an el-train, and put a water tank on the roof. Nothing really changes.
Yeah, wealth per capita didn't change too much from Roman Times until the Second Industrial Revolution, a lot of the housing that the insula brings to mind was built during the Second Industrial Revolution. I think it would be fair to say that in the 20th century, the average American would be living in something more that resembles more of a domus than an insula. It's all Malthusian really, the sustained economic growth was just always lower than the potential populational growth, the pie may double but population would grow to catch it up... Nowadays, with fertility rates low and growth rates positive, we should see the average wealth change ever faster in developed nations.
@@andersonklein3587 You won't see any positive change - Immigration from the 3rd world is being used to suppress wages and keep the lower classes poor.
@@steakinbacon8593 - It wasn't lost, the muslims destroyed it in endless conquests. They also destroyed 2 of the world's largest libraries in Alexandria & Nalanda. They don't preserve other cultures despite their claims today, when you just look around at islamic countries that are full of ruins while only mosques & other islamic structures & palaces are preserved.
@@MeanOldLady nah they aint that bad. they built the baghdad house of wisdom, they had many notable scientists such as Ibn al-Haytham and Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi. they also took many ideas from classical greek scientists, they tried to build fyling mechanisms before leonardo. plus if they "destroy " all works of pervious civilizations why are the egyptian temples and summerian ziggurats still there ?
this is coming from a person who actually studied ancient history: stellar work. i never thought i'd find a channel that manages to combine history and entertainment in such a way. I love it.
The insula is still to this day the best urban model existing and still used in europe after the concept was modernized in France by Napoléon III to build modern Paris and major French cities, in France we call it 'ilôt" (which is the French evolution of the word Insula). And even after the post-war period that saw the building of anarchical constructions, nowadays, urban planner are coming back again at the insula. The Romans were a people centuries ahead of their time.
I've seen videos on Roman dwellings before but they always focused on the villas. This video taught me much more and I learned new things! Thanks. The pic at 5:36 looks like one of the houses I saw in Pompeii
Actually a lot has changed depending on the country. The plebs in Rome only had a room in the insulae to which they would return in the evening to sleep, but would do everything else in the streets: eat, go to the latrines, the baths... Nowadays with TV, a bathroom and take-out food, some people never leave their homes.
@@melchid8448 Rome was a very urbanized society (Alexandria, Athens, Carthage, ROME), it probably had more ppl in insulas and cities compared to other ancient civilizations. Probably not most people overall, but more than usual. Otherwise seems like today the rich live higher up now (elevators, pumped water, buildings that prolly wont burn or collapse etc). BUT the Romans did seem to basically design the best high-density living/working system, just 2000+ yrs ago. Damn.
Excellent summary and collection of graphical resources!!! Also, I have to compliment the writer of script for the interesting way that the story of Ofella was woven into the distinctions of Domus, Insula and Villa. I knew the differences, kinda, but this story and the way the descriptions were provided in the story really made the difference concrete for me! ;)
Hey thank you so much man! We're two guys who do these, I'm the narrator typing right now. I also read through the comments ans answer them, so on behalf of the writer: thank you so much! I'll let him know about your comment and I'm absolutely sure, he'll be very very happy to receive this kind of feedback. He puts a lot of effort into these kind of embedded narratives, which are not easy to do. Especially because they ultimately need to fit into a video format, this is to say that we sometimes have to shorten or cut very funny/ creative ideas.
@@SandRhomanHistory - narrative Again, it's not so often that a thoughtful blending of a personal story with a overall cultural story is done. And I have to say that it really helped. I was in Ostia, btw, and I went there specifically to view the Insulae that were there, including the House of Diana, which I think in the graphic is interpreted (I could be wrong). So, I was there with you, more than you 2 might think, but I still learned from your presentation. Side thought on the three types of structures. It would be amazingly great if some millionaire thought to recreate several examples of domi, insulae and even villae, complete with furnishings, facilities and so on. Either exactly as they were in Roman times, or with slight tweaks for modern conveniences, such as glass windows, bathrooms, kitchens, and of course economical heating/cooling. The first way would be to see the finished product, as we see in digital imaging, but the second, for a way to grok (ala Heinlein) the Roman way of life with a modern twist, which could inspire many new ways of building in the future. Quis amat valeat pereat qui nescit amare bis tanti pereat quisquis amare vetat “May those who love prosper; let them perish who cannot love; let them perish twice over who veto love.” (Inscription in Hse of Caecilius Iucundus)
I came here after reading Lindsey Davis's Marcus Didius Falco novels. They are brilliant at describing the everyday life in Ancient Rome, the one thing that I found most unbelievable was the concept of him living in a seventh floor apartment. Given that Lindsey took some liberties in assigning some modern psychology and attitudes to the characters I was really curious to see if all the material history was correct. (I know her writing is extremely well researched, but you never know when a writer is just applying their artistic licence) Turns out it was accurate! Great video and really well explained
When I visited Florence several years ago I stayed in the 7th story of a building built around 1500, probably to a similar quality as Roman buildings. It was quite the trek up on a meandering central staircase.
Yeah, Sulla was a butcher. During the Social Wars, Sulla distroyed my mom & dad's town in Naples, and killed everyone in it. Only those who escaped into the mountains survived. Ok, it was 2110 years ago, but it's hard not to hold a grudge.
Whoever finds our reference to a certain poem by Catullus will be blessed by the gods. Minor spoiler for the video: Plutarch wrote that Sulla had to say the following about Ofella "The lice were very troublesome to a clown, as he was ploughing. Twice he stopped his ploughing and purged his jacket. But he was still bitten, and in order that he might not be hindered in his work, he burnt the jacket; and I advise those who have been twice humbled not to make fire necessary the third time." Also note that the study room is called Tablinum while I say Tablinium by mistake.
15 seconds into the video and I'm already subscribed. Thanks for such great content! The effort, thoroughness and dedication are eviident, so please keep going ;)
It always amazes me that for people of today, an ancient Roman town would've looked more familiar than a medieval town. They were so advanced that it took Europeans over a thousand years to reach this level of urban planing and infrastructure again. And when this happened, it only took us like 300 years to get to where we are now. So from a certain point of view, we aren't really that distant from antiquity.
I love how some of these words are still common in normal Swedish. Villa (fancy house), Vestibul (entrance room), Taverna (restaurant or bar), Latrin (military term for toilet).
I rarely see texts or videos talk about Roman apartment buildings besides perhaps a token sentence. Thank you for talking at length about how most Romans actually would've lived instead of only the wealthy few.
Nice video the residence of Ancient Roman made of insula, Domus and villa remind me of modern New Yorkers that lives in apartments, condominiums, houses, and mansions. Dramatic end of Ofela at the end.
Oh! That explains a lot the famous "Romani ite domum" scene from the Life of Brian. Those nigh patrol soldiers lived in "insulas", so they actually liked the slogan.
This is all fascinating, and you have a new subscriber. I'd be really interested in seeing more of what life was like in the insulae. I imagine that like our apartment buildings some buildings were much nicer than others. It also might have been useful to point out WHY the higher floors were cheaper. (no elevators).
I recall hearing second-hand that Cicero owned apartment blocks and bragged about how run down they were. I'm guessing that there was a wide variation of circumstances, but I don't know how structural integrity compares to modern architecture. They don't have the acid rain issues plaguing modern Italy either tho.
Cool, I'm very happy to hear that. I did a bit of teaching myself and appreciate it very much when teachers try to use elearning tools such as TH-cam. I'll def check out your stuff!
Im learning Russian and it's cool to see there is similarities between Russian and Latin just like Latin and English. The Russian word for home is дом, or "Dom" in English alphabet. Obviously shares a history with the Latin Domus.
@@dorianphilotheates3769 Plus, Russian was influenced by Byzantine Greek. It seems more likely that they got it from the Byzantines than the Latin Romans, if it wasn't already a feature of Russian.
SonofSethoitae - No doubt the Russians were heavily influenced - I would even say, shaped - by the dominant Greek culture of the Byzantine empire. But their word for “home” far predates any contact with Greeks or Romans. It is early Slavonic in origin and the root goes back many millennia further to Proto-Indo-European; it is cognate not only with Greek (domos) and Latin ( domus) but also English (dhome = home) and the other Germanic languages, as well as Persian (hom), Sanskrit (om) and a host of others derived from PIE.
@@dorianphilotheates3769 Well yeah, my only point was that Greek is more likely than Latin because of the Byzantines, though it likely came from neither because Proto-Indo-European was a thing
I'm sorry , it appears to say at one point that Ofella presented Sulla with the head of "his rival Marius". It is very important to make clear that this refers to Marius the Younger.
Can you make a video about the Roman revenge after the massacre of the Teutoburg forest? In particular about the figure of Lucius Apronius, a Roman general that recived the Ornamental Triumphalia in 15AD?
Why isn't the ground level of an insula considered the first floor? Why is it the floor above the shops? Was it the Romans who did that floor designation, or was it more modern scholars?
They belonged to individuals or possibly consortia. The only state support was bread / grain handouts, public fountains, and the games. I'm not sure about the baths, can anyone comment?
The basic designed of insulae is still around, it's common to see in dense cities in the US and Europe and rn here in the US it's making a comeback with the 5 over 1s.
Modern spanish hacienda and hatos seem to continue the tradition of villas rusticas, the housing design and urban planing of cities of both metropolitan Spain and its colonies largely derived from roman standards.
Considering Roman prowess in engineering and construction otherwise, it is a little surprising that they did not improve the quality of the insulae, at least enough to prevent fires and building collapse. One question is who owned the insulae? Were they investments for the wealthy or for the merchant class?
Hey, essay we quoted in the video (by Janet DeLaine) answers that questions , i think. Due to a lack of time I'll quote the entire paragraph: "Because of the basic legal principle that whoever owned the land owned what was above it (Dig. 8.2.36 (Papinian); 43.17.3.7 (Labeo in Ulpian), multistorey apartment blocks designed for multiple occupancy had to have been largely rental properties (although we have to allow for some degree of possible occupancy by owners and/or their families and dependents for parts of such buildings), and hence must have accounted for the greater proportion of insulae at Rome. It was also possible to own a proportion of an insula, however defined; Cicero (Att. 15.26.4) owned one‐eighth of one, presumably then taking a one‐eighth share of the total income from rents. Whatever their physical composition, however, insulae were certainly a source of income for their owners, who generally belonged to the upper socioeconomic levels of Roman society, including but by no means exclusively senators (Frier 1980, 23-26). While there is evidence for insulae bringing in high returns from rents, there is also evidence from both literary sources and legal texts that risks could be high as well, due to the continuing danger of destruction by fire and/or of collapse, particularly of multistorey structures (e.g. Gell. NA 15.1.1-3; Sen. Controv. 2.11; Sen. QNat. 6.32.5; Juv. 3.7-8, 193-6)." (Source: DeLaine, J., Insulae, in: Holleran, C., and Claridge, A., a companion to the city of Rome) Let me know whether that helps!
@@SandRhomanHistory Yes, this is very helpful. But it also highlights the question of why Romans didn't improve the construction to reduce the risk. Of course, I am thinking with the perspective of a 21st century individual living in a capitalist economy. Although the Romans were obviously interested in making money, possibly they did not think in absolutely capitalist terms. Class must have played a larger role in how they thought about directing resources. We also have to consider that even in a capitalist economy, builders make questionable and dangerous choices in order to reduce costs. It is interesting to me how an ancient Roman and a modern individual would evaluate and act given an otherwise identical situation. Again, thanks for the reply.
Improving quality of insulae was question of money. Money as we all know, is measure of work. Productivity was very low during those days compared to ours. Ordinary workers and citizens of Rome could not produce enough to make improvements to their living conditions. Roman productivity and economy per capita was worse than any third world country of today, but still it was leader of the world then.
I mean why would the average person care about rich nobles killing upstart nobles? An assassination is straight forward. Ya don’t have to put up with their rivalry.
I think(?) it went Domus-> House/household, Dominus-> Head of the household, Domicile->the building. Domain comes from Desmense(?), which is the area of land you control/are the head of.
The way domus went to become domain I'm not sure, what I'm pretty sure of is that domus is the root word from which domain stems. Condominium (AKA condo) is the shared domain (co-domain), dominium = domain = something owned, by an owner, or dominus.
This video was released like 4 almost 5 years ago so I’m probably not gonna get a response but, here I go: wouldn’t retired roman legions be granted a plot of land to farm on? And, if so, wouldn’t that be considered a villa?
Very morbid ending lol. "He simply had him slain" *happy music*
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That's our Sulla! *laugh track*
Hahahaha, perfect ending...
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That insula would barely look out of place in early 20th century Brooklyn or Chicago. Just replace the aqueduct in the background with an el-train, and put a water tank on the roof. Nothing really changes.
Yeah, wealth per capita didn't change too much from Roman Times until the Second Industrial Revolution, a lot of the housing that the insula brings to mind was built during the Second Industrial Revolution. I think it would be fair to say that in the 20th century, the average American would be living in something more that resembles more of a domus than an insula. It's all Malthusian really, the sustained economic growth was just always lower than the potential populational growth, the pie may double but population would grow to catch it up... Nowadays, with fertility rates low and growth rates positive, we should see the average wealth change ever faster in developed nations.
@@andersonklein3587 nothing new under the sun
@@andersonklein3587 You won't see any positive change - Immigration from the 3rd world is being used to suppress wages and keep the lower classes poor.
Yup.
Just add a bunch of niggaz.
its amazing how modern their buildings look.
Imagine what the world would look like if all the knowledge that the Romans had wasnt lost When the medieval era started
Actually, is the other way around. Modern architecture is strongly influenced by classic greek-roman.
it wasnt lost Byzantium empire still continued
@@steakinbacon8593 - It wasn't lost, the muslims destroyed it in endless conquests.
They also destroyed 2 of the world's largest libraries in Alexandria & Nalanda.
They don't preserve other cultures despite their claims today, when you just look around at islamic countries that are full of ruins while only mosques & other islamic structures & palaces are preserved.
@@MeanOldLady nah they aint that bad. they built the baghdad house of wisdom, they had many notable scientists such as Ibn al-Haytham and Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi. they also took many ideas from classical greek scientists, they tried to build fyling mechanisms before leonardo. plus if they "destroy " all works of pervious civilizations why are the egyptian temples and summerian ziggurats still there ?
You should make a series out of this! Living in Ancient Rome
We're on it :) We already did a Food in Ancient Rome video and more is soon to come!
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this is coming from a person who actually studied ancient history:
stellar work. i never thought i'd find a channel that manages to combine history and entertainment in such a way. I love it.
thank you. We studied it ourselves, we're glad it shows :)
Well you didn’t obviously
You should also check out history civilis. Different style but good quality too. Good luck with your study. I gotten my bachelor in it a few years ago
SandRhoman History is lying
The insula is still to this day the best urban model existing and still used in europe after the concept was modernized in France by Napoléon III to build modern Paris and major French cities, in France we call it 'ilôt" (which is the French evolution of the word Insula).
And even after the post-war period that saw the building of anarchical constructions, nowadays, urban planner are coming back again at the insula.
The Romans were a people centuries ahead of their time.
I've seen videos on Roman dwellings before but they always focused on the villas. This video taught me much more and I learned new things! Thanks. The pic at 5:36 looks like one of the houses I saw in Pompeii
The pic is from Pompeii!
It's honestly way more interesting to learn about how the average person lived rather than the ultra wealthy.
@@hedgehog3180 Yes
@@hedgehog3180 Yes because it gives a more accurate and honest not romanticized story of how Ancient Rome really was on average
@@hedgehog3180 it’s more interesting learning about random average people living in Roman times than the rich and famous people we only learn about
Soo... Nothing really changed about housing since Ancient Rome?
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Actually a lot has changed depending on the country. The plebs in Rome only had a room in the insulae to which they would return in the evening to sleep, but would do everything else in the streets: eat, go to the latrines, the baths... Nowadays with TV, a bathroom and take-out food, some people never leave their homes.
You do realize that this video shows about top %1 to %5 so other %95 was your average agricultural labourer.
@@melchid8448 Rome was a very urbanized society (Alexandria, Athens, Carthage, ROME), it probably had more ppl in insulas and cities compared to other ancient civilizations. Probably not most people overall, but more than usual.
Otherwise seems like today the rich live higher up now (elevators, pumped water, buildings that prolly wont burn or collapse etc). BUT the Romans did seem to basically design the best high-density living/working system, just 2000+ yrs ago. Damn.
Excellent summary and collection of graphical resources!!!
Also, I have to compliment the writer of script for the interesting way that the story of Ofella was woven into the distinctions of Domus, Insula and Villa. I knew the differences, kinda, but this story and the way the descriptions were provided in the story really made the difference concrete for me! ;)
Hey thank you so much man! We're two guys who do these, I'm the narrator typing right now. I also read through the comments ans answer them, so on behalf of the writer: thank you so much! I'll let him know about your comment and I'm absolutely sure, he'll be very very happy to receive this kind of feedback. He puts a lot of effort into these kind of embedded narratives, which are not easy to do. Especially because they ultimately need to fit into a video format, this is to say that we sometimes have to shorten or cut very funny/ creative ideas.
@@SandRhomanHistory - narrative
Again, it's not so often that a thoughtful blending of a personal story with a overall cultural story is done. And I have to say that it really helped. I was in Ostia, btw, and I went there specifically to view the Insulae that were there, including the House of Diana, which I think in the graphic is interpreted (I could be wrong).
So, I was there with you, more than you 2 might think, but I still learned from your presentation.
Side thought on the three types of structures. It would be amazingly great if some millionaire thought to recreate several examples of domi, insulae and even villae, complete with furnishings, facilities and so on. Either exactly as they were in Roman times, or with slight tweaks for modern conveniences, such as glass windows, bathrooms, kitchens, and of course economical heating/cooling. The first way would be to see the finished product, as we see in digital imaging, but the second, for a way to grok (ala Heinlein) the Roman way of life with a modern twist, which could inspire many new ways of building in the future.
Quis amat valeat
pereat qui nescit amare
bis tanti pereat quisquis amare vetat
“May those who love prosper;
let them perish who cannot love;
let them perish twice over who veto love.”
(Inscription in Hse of Caecilius Iucundus)
I came here after reading Lindsey Davis's Marcus Didius Falco novels. They are brilliant at describing the everyday life in Ancient Rome, the one thing that I found most unbelievable was the concept of him living in a seventh floor apartment. Given that Lindsey took some liberties in assigning some modern psychology and attitudes to the characters I was really curious to see if all the material history was correct. (I know her writing is extremely well researched, but you never know when a writer is just applying their artistic licence) Turns out it was accurate! Great video and really well explained
When I visited Florence several years ago I stayed in the 7th story of a building built around 1500, probably to a similar quality as Roman buildings. It was quite the trek up on a meandering central staircase.
"Mentula" graffitied on the insula was a nice touch.
i love you.
Whats the meaning?
Oh its dick
@@gui18bifit's a part of the male anatomy
I heard that age of empires sound effect, great video!
This was quite informative, and pleasant to watch! Also, I love that you threw in the "House built" sound from Age of Empires II :)
i'm glad you noticed!
Yeah, Sulla was a butcher. During the Social Wars, Sulla distroyed my mom & dad's town in Naples, and killed everyone in it. Only those who escaped into the mountains survived. Ok, it was 2110 years ago, but it's hard not to hold a grudge.
What if you found out that your ancestors were either related or in commiseration with Sulla?
Wierd grudge and pretty long,but ok
@@jmitterii2 That wouldn't surprise me at all.
@@bryanmanuel4945 Definitely not out of the ordinary for the Italians.
How did your parents survive?
Very good job!!! Nice yo hear a historic TH-cam channel with actual facts and research!!! Thank you!
Can't believe you have less than 3k subs these are amazing, hope you go big soon
Many more now, truly desevered, one of the best history channels on TH-cam
Offela should have stayed safe in his domus with no external windows. It’s dangerous out there
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Nice job mixing architectural and cultural information with the historical example. Helps it stick in memory
Ah. little red squares. i feel at home already
The terra cotta roof tiles weren't for aesthetics, but because Rome was gutted by fires twice in the 1st century AD
I understood that reference.
😄
Whoever finds our reference to a certain poem by Catullus will be blessed by the gods.
Minor spoiler for the video:
Plutarch wrote that Sulla had to say the following about Ofella
"The lice were very troublesome to a clown, as he was ploughing. Twice he stopped his ploughing and purged his jacket. But he was still bitten, and in order that he might not be hindered in his work, he burnt the jacket; and I advise those who have been twice humbled not to make fire necessary the third time."
Also note that the study room is called Tablinum while I say Tablinium by mistake.
on the insula in the beginning of the video! hah, I even know the poem!
Do you say aluminum or aluminium?
15 seconds into the video and I'm already subscribed. Thanks for such great content! The effort, thoroughness and dedication are eviident, so please keep going ;)
It always amazes me that for people of today, an ancient Roman town would've looked more familiar than a medieval town. They were so advanced that it took Europeans over a thousand years to reach this level of urban planing and infrastructure again. And when this happened, it only took us like 300 years to get to where we are now. So from a certain point of view, we aren't really that distant from antiquity.
Great video. I love the history of architecture!
I love how some of these words are still common in normal Swedish. Villa (fancy house), Vestibul (entrance room), Taverna (restaurant or bar), Latrin (military term for toilet).
good job on this video, loved it
@EWP thank you.
I rarely see texts or videos talk about Roman apartment buildings besides perhaps a token sentence. Thank you for talking at length about how most Romans actually would've lived instead of only the wealthy few.
This was amazing. Subbed. Thank you
thanks for subbing :) I'm glad you liked it.
shout out to the fast start.
hey how nice of you. It was honestly a lot of fun to create the intro :)
I love your channel. Thanks for so much info and the effort for the animations.
Nice video the residence of Ancient Roman made of insula, Domus and villa remind me of modern New Yorkers that lives in apartments, condominiums, houses, and mansions. Dramatic end of Ofela at the end.
very cheerful music that ended with a public slaying lol. Great videos btw!
Watching this for school, and honestly, I probably would've watched it even if I didn't have to.
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Such a great and informative video.... Very well done💞
Another ancient Roman channel for me to watch :D
This is a very good program, thank you for making it
I visited the "Grotte di Catullo" and although there are only ruins left it is very impressive!
it's a true beauty
Hearing Latin pronounced in your accent is very pleasing to the ears.
Thank you for this video! I have a test about rome coming soon!
So pretty much like today. You have flats, penthouses, condos, and villas.
Nothing has changed.
Except the penthouse was floor 1 not the top floor.
For the Insulas anyway.
Insula looks like 1900 Brooklyn’s
I mean how many ways do you have to put a lot of people together in a finite area?
Amazing video, fascinatingly presented. Thank you for this
Superb presentation, as always. Greetings from Greece!
I adore the animations. Although have you sneaked in the Roman baths at Bath? They were a public bath not a villa.
6:04, damn it, man, I thought I had AoE2 up when I heard that lmao. Very nice.
The visuals were on point 🤌
Very unique animation style.
hey thank you. I hope that's a good thing :)
Oh! That explains a lot the famous "Romani ite domum" scene from the Life of Brian. Those nigh patrol soldiers lived in "insulas", so they actually liked the slogan.
Very interesting thank you for the video
nice little fade out with the plonky ukelele/glockenspiel combo. top class.
Thanks. I wanted to see the interiors of the basic apartment buildings, and compare them to today, etc.
This is all fascinating, and you have a new subscriber. I'd be really interested in seeing more of what life was like in the insulae. I imagine that like our apartment buildings some buildings were much nicer than others. It also might have been useful to point out WHY the higher floors were cheaper. (no elevators).
Higher floors also get the lowest water pressure. I am not sure if that happened at all, just pointing out something.
Most people would have to get water from a public tap and carry it upstairs.
Amazing video. Things are still the same in terms of luxury dwellings versus housing for more disadvantaged people.
Do we have any idea on the average lifespan of an insulae building? How often would they be torn down and reconstructed?
I recall hearing second-hand that Cicero owned apartment blocks and bragged about how run down they were. I'm guessing that there was a wide variation of circumstances, but I don't know how structural integrity compares to modern architecture. They don't have the acid rain issues plaguing modern Italy either tho.
You deserve my SUB!!! :)
hey, thank you kind Sir. I appreciate it.
@@SandRhomanHistory It's a pleasure to watch such good materials! Wish you more and more Subs. AVE 'SandRhoman History' !!! ;)
This was excellent, thank you
"simply had him slain" as happy music starts to play 🤣🤣🚘
Awesome video! Going to definately use this in my classroom.
Hey, I'm very happy to hrar that! I'm curious, what level do you teach?
@@SandRhomanHistory I teach high school, from grades 7 to senior. I have made a few videos that work for all of these ages, but yours is awesome.
Cool, I'm very happy to hear that. I did a bit of teaching myself and appreciate it very much when teachers try to use elearning tools such as TH-cam. I'll def check out your stuff!
Wonderful video. Thanks a lot. Very interesting. Not much has changed in the world since then except medicine, science and technology.
amazing
Fantastic upload
thank you.
Now I understand why and how Rome burned in Nero's time.
Nice channel. Keep it up!
Im learning Russian and it's cool to see there is similarities between Russian and Latin just like Latin and English. The Russian word for home is дом, or "Dom" in English alphabet. Obviously shares a history with the Latin Domus.
Moxxuren - DOM is the common Indo-European root. In Ancient Greek, one of the words for house/home is domos/doma.
@@dorianphilotheates3769 Plus, Russian was influenced by Byzantine Greek. It seems more likely that they got it from the Byzantines than the Latin Romans, if it wasn't already a feature of Russian.
SonofSethoitae - No doubt the Russians were heavily influenced - I would even say, shaped - by the dominant Greek culture of the Byzantine empire. But their word for “home” far predates any contact with Greeks or Romans. It is early Slavonic in origin and the root goes back many millennia further to Proto-Indo-European; it is cognate not only with Greek (domos) and Latin ( domus) but also English (dhome = home) and the other Germanic languages, as well as Persian (hom), Sanskrit (om) and a host of others derived from PIE.
@@dorianphilotheates3769 Well yeah, my only point was that Greek is more likely than Latin because of the Byzantines, though it likely came from neither because Proto-Indo-European was a thing
SonofSethoitae - Right you are.
nice vid! I like this series about ancient rome
8:44 why is there a random fish swiming in a house pool where people bathe in
I'm sorry , it appears to say at one point that Ofella presented Sulla with the head of "his rival Marius". It is very important to make clear that this refers to Marius the Younger.
Can you make a video about the Roman revenge after the massacre of the Teutoburg forest? In particular about the figure of Lucius Apronius, a Roman general that recived the Ornamental Triumphalia in 15AD?
I simply wish it was a longer video
When even ancient Rome urban planning have far better organized then my city where I lived
I liked the first music a lot better, the second " happy music" comes off as joyful and out of place.
As an art history/archeology major, I regret not finding this last semester...
Why isn't the ground level of an insula considered the first floor? Why is it the floor above the shops? Was it the Romans who did that floor designation, or was it more modern scholars?
Some of those aqueducts are still in use today
at 7:28 is the substructure of a GIANT villa in Sirmione at the end of a narrow peninsula that stretches from the southernmost shore of Lake Garda.
Who were the insula rented from? Did trey belong to individual families or nobles, did they belong to the roman state?
They belonged to individuals or possibly consortia. The only state support was bread / grain handouts, public fountains, and the games. I'm not sure about the baths, can anyone comment?
The basic designed of insulae is still around, it's common to see in dense cities in the US and Europe and rn here in the US it's making a comeback with the 5 over 1s.
Modern spanish hacienda and hatos seem to continue the tradition of villas rusticas, the housing design and urban planing of cities of both metropolitan Spain and its colonies largely derived from roman standards.
Do you hide the age of empires house sound effect in many vids? lol
RIP Offela. Feels bad for this guy :(
"Only the rich owned a countryside villa."
Some things never change.
seems to be something that barely ever changes for sure.
I guess a fella just cant get a break even back then
I can't seem to find that video about firefighting in ancient Rome?
it’s not public anymore. might reupload at some point though
Considering Roman prowess in engineering and construction otherwise, it is a little surprising that they did not improve the quality of the insulae, at least enough to prevent fires and building collapse.
One question is who owned the insulae? Were they investments for the wealthy or for the merchant class?
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Hey, essay we quoted in the video (by Janet DeLaine) answers that questions , i think. Due to a lack of time I'll quote the entire paragraph:
"Because of the basic legal principle that whoever owned the land owned what was above it (Dig. 8.2.36 (Papinian); 43.17.3.7 (Labeo in Ulpian), multistorey apartment blocks designed for multiple occupancy had to have been largely rental properties (although we have to allow for some degree of possible occupancy by owners and/or their families and dependents for parts of such buildings), and hence must have accounted for the greater proportion of insulae at Rome. It was also possible to own a proportion of an insula, however defined; Cicero (Att. 15.26.4) owned one‐eighth of one, presumably then taking a one‐eighth share of the total income from rents. Whatever their physical composition, however, insulae were certainly a source of income for their owners, who generally belonged to the upper socioeconomic levels of Roman society, including but by no means exclusively senators (Frier 1980, 23-26). While there is evidence for insulae bringing in high returns from rents, there is also evidence from both literary sources and legal texts that risks could be high as well, due to the continuing danger of destruction by fire and/or of collapse, particularly of multistorey structures (e.g. Gell. NA 15.1.1-3; Sen. Controv. 2.11; Sen. QNat. 6.32.5; Juv. 3.7-8, 193-6)."
(Source: DeLaine, J., Insulae, in: Holleran, C., and Claridge, A., a companion to the city of Rome)
Let me know whether that helps!
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@@SandRhomanHistory Yes, this is very helpful. But it also highlights the question of why Romans didn't improve the construction to reduce the risk. Of course, I am thinking with the perspective of a 21st century individual living in a capitalist economy. Although the Romans were obviously interested in making money, possibly they did not think in absolutely capitalist terms. Class must have played a larger role in how they thought about directing resources.
We also have to consider that even in a capitalist economy, builders make questionable and dangerous choices in order to reduce costs.
It is interesting to me how an ancient Roman and a modern individual would evaluate and act given an otherwise identical situation.
Again, thanks for the reply.
Improving quality of insulae was question of money. Money as we all know, is measure of work. Productivity was very low during those days compared to ours. Ordinary workers and citizens of Rome could not produce enough to make improvements to their living conditions. Roman productivity and economy per capita was worse than any third world country of today, but still it was leader of the world then.
6:04 that AOE sound effect
You know that the grotte di catullo are not located at the gulf of Naples? It is a bit confusing in the video
Is that were they get the saying : Did he get the point?
I wish we had a Gen Sulla in America right now. He was a staunch conservative. He would clean house big time.
Great vid. Roman life was so strange, all the sophistication of modern life but you can still kill your rivals in front of a crowd of people. Lol
I mean why would the average person care about rich nobles killing upstart nobles? An assassination is straight forward. Ya don’t have to put up with their rivalry.
The apartment blocks remind me of early style New York City.
Rome, the true light of the world
Now:
Italian:no no no want money what do you want
@@Threepeater6447 it's sad i know
Fascinating content. Thank you : ) Irritating background tinkling. No thank you : (
6:03 Dat AoE house building sound, yes...
Domus is the word from which 'domain' comes. Dominus: lord.
I think(?) it went Domus-> House/household, Dominus-> Head of the household, Domicile->the building. Domain comes from Desmense(?), which is the area of land you control/are the head of.
The way domus went to become domain I'm not sure, what I'm pretty sure of is that domus is the root word from which domain stems. Condominium (AKA condo) is the shared domain (co-domain), dominium = domain = something owned, by an owner, or dominus.
The video itself is very informative but the subtitles are not even close to be correct... :D
Nice
First rule of power: Never surpass the master. Rule #2 Be indispensable. This guy broke both and met his predictable fate.
When Europeans first travelled to sub Saharan Africa, they found no use of the wheel or two story buildings.
What language uses apostrophe as the thousands divider in numbers?
Ask Google
@@williamkeith8944 Switzerland/Lichtenstein apparently.
Americans have historically done that as well, though judging from his accent he is likely not American
This video was released like 4 almost 5 years ago so I’m probably not gonna get a response but, here I go: wouldn’t retired roman legions be granted a plot of land to farm on? And, if so, wouldn’t that be considered a villa?
yeah if he built a villa on the land he was given then yes. (not sure how much land the received though)
@@SandRhomanHistory woah, thanks!
And He was slain
“Happy music plays”