I learn a lot from your videos. It is very interesting to know and understand about ancient Roman society and its complexity. I love ancient history. I'm a fan of this institute.😍
Who would have thought that in the space of about 70 years Rome would go from Paganism being the state religion to it being outlawed by the Emperor Theodosius in AD 380, with the Vestal Virgins being put out onto the street and the sacred flame put out and the temple closed. The Emperor Galerius started the change with his edict of toleration. Theodosius dealt it the coup de grace with his Edict of Thessalonica making Christianity the state church of the Roman Empire. Many Temples were turned into churches.
Question: I've seen some people teach the priests of the Imperial Cult, or some designee, would sit outside the market and require an oath of allegiance to Caesar before you could enter the market to set up shop or to purchase. Are you aware of this? If so, do you have any primary sources?
"What bad luck that the city of Rome survived even when its empire was smashed. That the Pope kept it going! The vain emperors could capture her empty ruins & the name of Rome within them! Rome conquered Christianity by becoming Christendom. Every apostasy from Rome was merely a new great war. Every conversion to Rome, in the farthest corners of the world, was a continuance of the classical plunderings. America was discovered to reanimate slavery! Spain, as a Roman province, was the new lord of the world. Then the renewal of the Germanic plundering forays in the twentieth century. Only the measure gigantically magnified, the entire earth instead of the Mediterranean, a hundred times as many people meeting with destruction, participating in it. There twenty Christian centuries were necessary to give the ancient & naked Roman idea a garment for its nakedness & a conscience for weak moment. And now the idea is here, perfect & equipped with all the forces of the soul. Who will destroy it? Is it indestructible? Has mankind, with a thousand fold efforts, carefully conquered its own annihilation?" [The Human Province, Elias Canetti, 1973, English Edition, 1978, Sec. "1943“]
Wow! Fantastic quote. This makes me want to read The Human Province. I'd often thought about the European need to constantly fight itself as an extension of an idealized identity based in the Roman empire and this quote puts a very compelling spin on that idea. Has the West finally overcome its need to conquer and assimilate different cultures in the name of civilizing the other? Let's hope so! Thanks for sharing.
@@frankoharry ... "Literacy create very much simpler kinds of people than those that develop in the complex web of ordinary tribal and oral societies. For the fragmented man creates the homogenized Western world, while oral societies are made up of people differentiated, not by their special skills or visible marks, but by their unique emotional mixes." [Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Marshall McLuhan, 1964, Ch. 5: Hybrid Energy, p. 59]
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I learn a lot from your videos. It is very interesting to know and understand about ancient Roman society and its complexity. I love ancient history. I'm a fan of this institute.😍
'The Eternal City' by Dr. Taylor Marshall. He goes back to the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament.
Who would have thought that in the space of about 70 years Rome would go from Paganism being the state religion to it being outlawed by the Emperor Theodosius in AD 380, with the Vestal Virgins being put out onto the street and the sacred flame put out and the temple closed. The Emperor Galerius started the change with his edict of toleration. Theodosius dealt it the coup de grace with his Edict of Thessalonica making Christianity the state church of the Roman Empire. Many Temples were turned into churches.
Question: I've seen some people teach the priests of the Imperial Cult, or some designee, would sit outside the market and require an oath of allegiance to Caesar before you could enter the market to set up shop or to purchase. Are you aware of this? If so, do you have any primary sources?
Wish he would talk about the sacred chickens, when did the romans start consulting them before war etc.
So interesting
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"What bad luck that the city of Rome survived even when its empire was smashed. That the Pope kept it going! The vain emperors could capture her empty ruins & the name of Rome within them! Rome conquered Christianity by becoming Christendom. Every apostasy from Rome was merely a new great war. Every conversion to Rome, in the farthest corners of the world, was a continuance of the classical plunderings. America was discovered to reanimate slavery! Spain, as a Roman province, was the new lord of the world. Then the renewal of the Germanic plundering forays in the twentieth century. Only the measure gigantically magnified, the entire earth instead of the Mediterranean, a hundred times as many people meeting with destruction, participating in it. There twenty Christian centuries were necessary to give the ancient & naked Roman idea a garment for its nakedness & a conscience for weak moment. And now the idea is here, perfect & equipped with all the forces of the soul. Who will destroy it? Is it indestructible? Has mankind, with a thousand fold efforts, carefully conquered its own annihilation?"
[The Human Province, Elias Canetti, 1973, English Edition, 1978, Sec. "1943“]
Wow! Fantastic quote. This makes me want to read The Human Province.
I'd often thought about the European need to constantly fight itself as an extension of an idealized identity based in the Roman empire and this quote puts a very compelling spin on that idea.
Has the West finally overcome its need to conquer and assimilate different cultures in the name of civilizing the other? Let's hope so!
Thanks for sharing.
@@frankoharry ... "Literacy create very much simpler kinds of people than those that develop in the complex web of ordinary tribal and oral societies. For the fragmented man creates the homogenized Western world, while oral societies are made up of people differentiated, not by their special skills or visible marks, but by their unique emotional mixes."
[Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Marshall McLuhan, 1964, Ch. 5: Hybrid Energy, p. 59]
Darius, why don't you come visit my temple and drink wome wine ? He he
Another invitation was "why don't you come to my temple and give the Godess some of your blood as a sacrfice?"
lol where are the roman art and not just the European renaissance art