The Roman Forum in the Age of Augustus: A Walking Tour
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- A walk through the heart of Rome during the reign of the first emperor.
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When you said king of Armenia my heart dropped, it's so hearwarming to even hear a mention of your homeland which is same age if not older than the contry of Romans.
It’s crazy, the Armenians are absolutely ancient. And the kingdom would endure into even the late empire and become pivotal in the conflicts between eastern Rome and Persia.
God Bless Armenia, now more than ever.
Your videos are making me so happy. I’m so interested in this and of course I’m not college-educated and I’m so happy that you’re putting this out. I think the teaching company can really gain something by picking you up
That's very kind of you to say. The teaching company isn't knocking at my door yet, but fingers crossed...
How's your scholar's cradle? :)
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How fun would it be if one day you could hire a virtual reality set and walk through the Roman forum, while the set is communicating with the other sets, visualising Roman citizens in your own walk.
Amazing idea, I would pay for this!
Imagine all the trigger warnings!
Love all your videos, you put everything forward in such an engaging way. I can't wait for your book to arrive.
I'm very thankful I came across your channel, all the best.
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Glad you enjoyed it!
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@@billmc4673 Well that makes sense.
Julius Caesar did not conquer all of Gaul.
One small village Amorica (Brittany) famously managed to resist the Romans with the help of a magic potion concocted by the druïde Panoramix. This potion gave extraordinary strength to their heroes Asterix and Obelix.
you know where I can Getafix of that potion?
@@Catonius As the heroes Asterix and Obelix discovered during their visit to Brittain, tea is just as effective
ROFLIX, the village buffon, approves.
I was in Rome two years ago. This brings it all back to me. Lovely.
Enjoyed your presentation very much. You do excellent job of bringing Ancient Rome back to life. Your use of the modern pictures combined with straight forward dialog is what I like the best. Looking forward to more.
I'm very glad to hear it.
Excellent! Thank you! Finally some detail in your video. I was pretty much not gonna watch anymore but this is much better than I know. I’m sure you left alot out.
Wonderful. You really bring Roman history to life. Thanks.
You're very welcome
This may be heresy but one of the things I really like about these videos, besides using my own imagination, is seeing the 3D renderings of how it probably looked at the time. I think it helps invite the senses to dig in more or not become uninterested with the decay of modern day.
Great video and amazing channel! These great anecdotes and interesting stories really bring the ancient world to life. Reminds me of Historia Civilis in that sense. Keep it up👍🏻
Thank you!
Your videos are so informative. To look at the actual locations of these ancient historical events really brings them to life.
This is the best telling of the fall of the republic I have ever listened to.
Amazing tour!
I'm a history buff and love the way you present information with all the nuances that may have been unknown to most of us. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Michigan girl here loving Old Architecture, Thank you so much.
You’re very welcome
Dr. Ryan packs quite a lecture. Take notes to keep up with it. Certainly one of the finest historical channels available.
Great stuff as I’ve come to expect.
Thank you
Good video very intresting. Thank you for making this. I have now subscribed to your channel....😊
These tours are awesome! 🙏🏼 I visited years ago and very quickly without a guide so next time ;) do run tours yourself?
Excellent content keep it coming
Thank you - and stay tuned
I have always enjoyed your videos. I absolutely adored you after watching your video on Detroit. My hometown. I knew you were a man of steel when you mentioned bicycling around the city to get photos of the architecture. Takes a brave soul to putz around the neighborhoods of Detroit for fun! Hats off to you.
Love your channel! Thank you for what you do! This is precisely the kind of historical content I'm looking for!
Just had delivery of your book!
It's amazing how many Roman structures (like the 'Parthian arch') survived until the Renaissance. The Renaissance is supposedly the first time since antiquity that these structures would have been appreciated, yet it seems the people of the Renaissance were more eager to tear apart Roman structures than people had been in the middle ages.
Think of it like this: In the middle ages people were *frantically* and methodically tearing down the ancient Roman monuments, in the Renaissance it happened comparatively very seldom, because of the respect they had for the ancients.
@@olofmorck7436 no?
i hope one day to take a tour of the forum with fully immersive VR, and experience the atmosphere of a typical day in ancient rome.
Thanks for the info, it is wonderful. I adore Caesar too.
It would be awesome if you could include a reconstructed image of these monuments alongside the reference. The description is good but it would be much easier to envision with some sort of outline at least if not a more meticulous representation
Excellent Thank you sir.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am ADDICTED to these videos put me in rehab
This channel satisfies a need I can't fulfill with any reading about the roman empire
You crack me up! I love your speech! So many juicy tidbits of interesting history!! I’d take a class with you anytime!!
I have been wishing since the 80s that when Virtual Reality technology became good enough we could have virtual tours of accurately recreated ancient cities and monuments. I think we have technology now for it still hope someone designs it.
Thank you for this wonderful presentation. I agree that the Age of Augustus is the most interesting period of ancient Rome.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@toldinstone There is a keen interest in ancient Rome, you maybe amazed to know (or perhaps not). The HBO series Rome which ran for two seasons has a cult following. I own the DVDs but watch clips on YT. These small clips have 100's of thousands of views and from reading the comments I can see that most of the posters know the plot lines and characters.
Ciaran Hinds is acknowledged to be the most talented actor to have played Julius Caesar. He nails it, they say. The Octavian actor is also admired.
The general consensus is that JC and CA are two of the most charasmatic, shrewd, and brilliant leaders of all time.
@@user-jv9qz2bu1r I enjoyed that series - and agree that Ciaran Hinds absolutely nailed the role of Caesar.
@@toldinstone Glad to hear that and have an expert in the Ancients validate the performance.
The two scenes that everyone enjoyed the most and that you see quoted repeatedly: the scene in the Egyptian palace where they bring in Pompey's head. To the jabbering Ptolemy: Silence! And then HInds, fuming: He was a Consul of Rome! Shame on the House of Ptolemy. ... Later in the same palace: Bring me the man who took Pompey's life... and speaking to the court Eunuch/Minister: You wretched woman!
Finally, as regards JC - it would be a lot easier to praise his genius had he not slaughtered 1 million
@@JW-mb6tq the Caligula episodes are appealing
You got to make more videos!
The tall brownstone in the background 38:01? I've been in that building . . . a police station . . . perhaps an Italian Army facility to protect The Forum. 1962. I was young and remember the very tall marble structure behind that. I knew I was at some place special.
How I wish I could time-travel, I’d go back to the Athenian Acropolis c. 450 BC, and the Roman Forum ca. 50 AD. It might be interesting to do a video on the Cursus Honorum and the greatly unbalanced voting of the classes and tribes, which became later know as the republican part of Res Publica. The office of Tribune of the Plebs is interesting, too, Claudius Pulcher, a patrician, changed to a plebian (Clodius), in order to get this powerful office. He also committed a sacrilege that is interesting, by sneaking into important all-female only religious rites.
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I've heard that Octavian was Landed Gentry in Rome. Have you ever heard this and does anyone know where was his royal line is from?
incredible
Didn't Caesar reform the calendar in his role as Pontifex Maximus, whose reponsibility the calendar normally was, not by virtue of being dictator? I recall the museum displays in Rome said he could not update the calendar every year (as was the usual practice) because he was away on campaign so much.
These videos need many more pictures including aerial photography (Google Earth is fine) with arrows to point at precisely what you are referring to. Essentially, this video is an audio tour of the site with pictures we can't tell how they are related. With properly related audio and video, you would tell a very important story.
So cool..
A little wordy but I was taken there across the centuries. Thank you.
Why do you call it rostra? Was it always referred to in the plural?
Ive always been fascinated with the Rome of antiquity. I like to daydream about what day to day life was like in Rome at that time. What really interests me is how advanced and modern the city was, people living day to day in a way that is not much different to our modern lives. Lawyers, artisans, city adminstrators, small business owners, criminals, vagrants, artists, immigrants, tourists, mailmen, politicians, prostitutes and priests populating apartment complexes, makeshift hovels in back alleys and expensive villas. Plays and sporting events entertained the people in huge venues.
I visited the forum in 2018, and then walked to the nearby Tarpeian Rock, which is hard to see from the street. The Tarpeian Rock should be discussed by you; that would be interesting.
Thank you. As it happens, I'll be in Rome next week; I'll check out the infamous Rock then.
@@toldinstone why is it infamous?
@@thessop9439 Traitors were flung to their deaths from it
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Very informative but not enough variety in pictures for my taste..
For those that don’t know, Julius Caesar left money in his will to every citizen of Rome. I’m not sure they knew this before his funeral, but the common people loved him anyway.
Caesar was crazy popular with the masses. It was the senatorial class that wasn't as much of a fan
Europeans better appreciate what they have, in America the only ancient building I’ve stumbled upon is an abandoned blockbuster.
You should travel more...and don’t forget to be kind and rewind
Blockbuster UNESCO heritage site
youve got to look a little harder but north americas history of civilizations isn't as lost to time, or as primitive, as weve always thought. the channel "Ancient Americas" is pretty new but has cranked out a dozen plus videos that have blown out my entire conception of the history of the americas. there are some insane things in america's past.
@@denizmetint.462 more like "poverty point" unesco world heritage site., it's like north america's gobekli teppe or Ur.
That's because the American Indians didn't build shit. You have to go to South America to find much of anything. Caral in Peru for example was rocking large pyramids before Egypt.
A question....
In the TV series ROME, there was a very large calendar wall
Did it actually exist, or was it just.... Hollywood?
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The way Cicero was killed REALLY REALLY bothers me
Had no idea that the Vestal Temple was supposed to look like a glorified hut. Crazy
I was also surprised when I discovered that. The hut was glorified beyond recognition...
I think it's interesting that their word for hut was "Casa".
I keep reading descriptions of all the Roman temples and other structures that are destroyed by fire...but they all seem to be made of stone and marble. How much could the fire of an impromptu cremation destroy the curia, for example? Very confusing!
Their roofs were framed with wood, and the heat of a burning roof was often enough to crack and pulverize the stone walls.
Marble actually burns. It was often stripped off ancient buildings and burned to collect the resulting lime ash.
Just to everyone who plans to visit the Roman forums, be careful if you pick a guide. I went on my own, but I overheard a couple of them in Spanish tours, and it's baffling how misinformed they are. First guy was okish, he committed some mistakes that seem pretty basic (like claiming Caesar crossed the Tiber rather than the Rubicon), but overall was correct. The second guy was amazingly bad. I'm an armchair historian whose knowledge comes from TH-cam, podcasts and Wikipedia. So far from really knowledgeable. But it was embarrassing to hear that guy. Telling tourists that Rome was an ideal democracy before Caesar became dictator, claiming that Brutus was Caesar's biological son, and outlandish bs like that. Just because they're guides it doesn't mean they know stuff. You'd be much better informed listening to Mr Toldinstone
Very interesting thank you a different perspective, hard to believe the giants of history went to work in these now dilapidated places.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fascinating, though how awful what Augustus did to Julia. That poor woman was treated worse than an animal then left to die.
Can. Fix parts
Imagine trying to hire a group of individuals to keep a flame on 24/7. And tell this group it’s for 30 years, and they can’t have sex the entire time or they’re buried alive. Hilarious to think about in today’s culture. Literally just a fire 😂😂
Go blue!
We all want to time travel to Rome to see how glorious it was but we also forget that in the streets walk armed Gladiators just looking to get into a fight lol
Only in Rome could a senator die by javelin during a casual stroll through the streets lol
Poor Julia (daughter of Augustus) and Julia is the name of my own daughter.
Pontifex Maximus. The priest was a bridge from this world to the gods.
it would be great if SOMEONE had the talent to show some illustrations about this period rather than just 1 photo ,you know for the less enlightened
Wow! Doctor Ryan, I LOVE the content of your presentations. Sadly, your speaking pattern, consisting of pauses separating rushes of hurried words is often difficult for me to understand. I don't wish to miss any part of your excellent programs. Would it be possible for you to slow down? Many, many thanks.
There is an option in TH-cam to change the playback speed. .75 may be better for you
I definitely think Augustus killed Agrippa. And cleopatra is involved in every bad happening after Julius . . .
Who was mostly responsible for disassembling the Roman ruins and carting away the materials.
The Romans themselves, especially during the Renaissance
Toldinstone has a video about exactly this.
Mainly Popes and wealthy Romans wanting to expand their palaces.
Sometimes I have a hard time discerning whether you're talking about Ancient Rome or US History or US current events.
Same thing will happend yo us . greed and corruption is distroying the world. !! Will we ever learn ????
"licked by lazy tongues"
licked by lazy tongues of blue-ish flame.
Bath’s everywhere
It certainly loses its impact in modern English when you pronounce it Winnie weedy wiki.
Don’t understand why some people pronounce the word, “tour“ as if it should sound like, “tore” instead of correctly as “toor”.
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The Roman calendar was so out of sync because Caesar, as Pontifex Maximus, hadn't been adding days at the end like he was supposed to. This is a great channel, but your bias to "Caesar is awesome" is really showing here.
Well, I'm hardly alone in that bias...
Caesar was indeed irresponsible in his intercalations as P. M., but it can't be denied that he fixed the calendar.
@@toldinstone I agree that he changed the calendar to the more accurate one developed in Hellenistic Egypt, but all calendars, including our own, require adjustments over time. Caesar neglected his duty in making those adjustments. If I fail to maintain a property, but then make significant needed repairs, should I be praised? Or should I have done my duty previously?
@@blakemorris2328 Well Caeser is pretty awesome.
This was supposed to be a walking tour rather than a history lesson.
It's both. For the walking tour, complete with directions, see this page:
toldinstone.com/the-roman-forum-in-the-age-of-augustus/
Thank you Mussolini.
Meatchicken
I wish you would take more care in your pronunciation; that you'd slow down. The words run together. My laptop is connected to a JBL speaker.
B.C.E. : the Jewish revenge.
Loony alert.
@@TesterAnimal1 furry alert
What an odd term, BCE. Trying to deny the historical impact of Christianity?
Of course not. I am merely following the convention used by the vast majority of ancient historians working today.
@@toldinstone And the motives behind that move ?
In your opinion.
Jacobin by any chance ?
Not being personal I find your Chanel interesting.
Yes.
It’s a conspiracy.
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I don't find it "odd".
BCE
Its not a thing
Stop with the BCE BS. There's no difference between bce and bc and bce sounds contrived.
I agree, and not from a christian point of view but since the last 50 years of history have no rights to suddenly deny 1950 years of using the BC/AD. It is a fact that the christian reference dominated the last two millenia.
@@ericastier1646 Mine objection isn't religious either. I can live with ce. BCE just sounds so contrived, either way, the distinction is being made based on a religious event, so who's kidding whom.
you'll get used to it don't worry
@@lamole329 No I won't. I haven't yet, and it's been like 10+years.
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P or N connotation?