A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome - Ray Laurence 

MC King You mean...like rich kids today?

Did you not watch the video, there were slaves lol

The straight version

Josh Glynn the straight male version lol

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@Siddo Dennis and 37 too 😫😔😤😤

Oh yes

Those where the times

Indeed brother

Never forget 😔👊

Mind your own country

FBI was not invented yet

@@hopeless3844 r/whoooosh

THE IMPERIAL GUARD OPEN UP!!!

STOP, YOU VIOLATED THE LAW!

Watching comments lol

W a t c h i n g

read them don't watch it

Achemhem

just turned 999 to 1k 🤩

I just can't wait for them to misintepret our culture, they might have thought that we worship nicki minaj as some sort of fertility goddess or some shit.

+Jans Losn Ohh,you pagan,you don't worship the god Justin Bieber XD

+Stevie M The future must be aliens then. Because if left up to this next generation, we'll stagnate and go extinct.

+Pynaegan Blaming the newer generation is old news, been done by every other generation that has ever lived. And almost always, it is the older generation that is wrong.

+Stevie M for one they'd be able to read our comments and social posts

Very very underrated comment

You know that was just like knowing English and Spanish now

@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 kind of. Greek was spoken by the patricians and the high class, so it was considered important to learn, but todays politicians don’t speak Spanish in English speaking countries.

xDDD I'm ten and I know that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of a cell, the nucleus controls the cell's activities, and a vacuole is basically a storage place

@@thebenholdorf in your age I didn't have this knowledge.

What about the apps? Gotta think.📚🙆

Wow, haha so funny and original..

Arrogant Anarchist I know right? They sound 60 years old

And? Is this supposed to be deep or something? Like duh they would take pictures of (at the time) a big competition. If you're trying to make fun of teenagers today, your failing hard, because you're actually calling out ancient Romans for being as brutal as letting slaves fight each other.

@Kyle Muncal Ayup, it's those dang eye phones the reason ma wifey left me

More likely 5-6 years.

Yur Ie wow 13

More like 5 or 6 years, sadly. That’s one reason deaths in childbirth were so high.

OLD ENOUGH TO BLEED, OLD ENOUGH TO BREED

Life expectancy was like 20-30 for most people, so they got married by age 7, most had children by 12. People hit puberty much younger then naturally, and now our bodies have gradually adapted due to our longer life spans and societal changes. Even before the 1950s people got married at around age 12.

usus usus usus XD

Quintinus Caesurus Adolphus

Despacitus

Fuckus

Marcus. Gaius. Craissus. LOL (This partially symbolises the wealthiest man in Rome)

@@manager6826 why do you care so much lol

Was there color?

Didn't know that

@@annonymousdude9416 the statues weren't actually white, I do know that much

Lmao

bop god basically yes and yes

1. I study Latin at school, and while I'm not sure about the etymology of Subura as a proper name, it isn't related to that of suburban! Suburban comes from the prefix sub-, meaning under, and urbs, the city (often used as a synonym for Rome), so it literally means "under the city/city walls", which back then were usually built on high ground or on a hill. 2. yeah definitely

😂hood

Oh my god! I love to see a remake of Boyz N The Hood but it just takes place is Ancient Rome.

Also the exact composition of the statues is still a mystery.

The statues were cast in bronze, but they were melted down during wartime. The marble statues we see today are Roman marble copies of Greek works, or shoddy reinterpritations.

yep

I agree Simon, when they're just plain white they look more stoic. With colour they look... a bit, too vibrant, for my taste.

are u guys experts or somethin like archaelogists

+Nathan Shardelow why so serious lol

+Nathan Shardelow Romans had a plant that was very effective for contraceptive purposes called silphium. Accidental pregnancy wouldn't have been a problem.

***** They wouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place if they were using the plant. It PREVENTS pregnancy.

***** You did 5 minutes of goggling to discover all that. Good for you. I've done more than google it. Now go back to your corner and be silent.

+Cynical Cthulhu Your response is the spiritual equivalent to, "I'm smarter than you on this so shut up." Try: "Here's some evidence that my prior statement was correct, therefore I'm still on the top of the stack."

Bellanimation yas

Yes! I thought of Lucius Malfoy as soon as I heard that name😂

Bellanimation he has so sneak Tom's diary to Ginny

LMFAO

Bellanimation what

Exactly it's a part of tradition and people claim it's related to Islam which is against it

Actually the 7 year old name is Dominica ll (2)

Arranged, but not consummated until the children are much older.

I dunno how accurate that is, from what i've studied women could only be arranged into marriage when they were 12-14. It's not much better either, but still.

And then when people talks about Muhammed everybody loses their minds

Duh.

You wouldn't, why? Because supposedly it's impossible?

Hey man! You ruined it for me!

Except for Rory--oh wait. He survived Rome though...

ThePCguy17 WHOVIAN

ikr

@@XavierArrived LMAO!!!

Jesus?

Blasphemy

@@averydoofenshemretz1687 what lol

J e s u s

Oh hail

fucking plebs

gayboi

Um, actually... Not EVERY comment is like that...

*ironic*

@Corona Virus Wrote this 2 years ago so no idea lol

@@SwanofWar wow you even replied to him

Emilio López what happened in that emperors timr

@@pamellegallardo2246 He was a crazy man, started to kill everybody he think that would kill him, in 96 d.c he was killed by literally a bunch of people in his own bedroom, like 7 gladiators, and practicely everybody who was close to him, then the Emperor Nerva died in 98, and left Trajanus in the throne, and he was the best Emperor. (Sorry for bad english)

@@pamellegallardo2246 Tyrant. Executed many people thinking he was bringing down conspiracies against him and killed innocent people, paranoid they would kill him.

Lucius did not survive. He was cucked by Domitian(emperor). Domitian forced him to divorce his wife and took her for his own. Both Domitian and his new wife Domitia(yea, almost same name) and their families both benefited from the marriage and everyone was happy. Except Lucius. Lucius was known for having a sense of humor and Domitian was known for not having one. Domitian thought Lucius stepped out of line at a later point in time and executed him. EDIT: As daniel alzate pointed out the story I told was about Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus, not Lucius Pedanius Secundus, mistaken identity.

@@AtotehZ That was Elius Lamia

I even followed the link to the Ted Ed site and it only had this same one. Great animation.

Yea I want to know to

He will. If he strives to survive, that is.

Of course not, unless he turned into a : vampire (not one of those new ones that shines), an Immortal "highlander" or a Zombie

if he is a zombie, he hasn't survived

I- I'M DEAD 💀☠💀☠💀🤣🤣🤣🤣

😂😂😂

That he did

hahahahaah

LOL I love this

+Stocking Anarchy The word you are looking for is posh.

yellowcolourteam Mm, yes and no. I meant, as in, it sounds like his voice was made for youtube videos explaining Roman culture.

Yeah! 😂

Do you know what country's accent this is?

How do you know?

They shined ultraviolet light on the statues, which revealed the colors that they were formerly decorated with. The paint was either worn away after a thousand years or bleached away by British museum hands who did so because they mistakenly thought that all statues were supposed to be marble white. You can also google this to verify the facts and learn more about it =)

NoNamezLeft4Me lol stfu

youngking122 Maybe he actually wanted to know?

youngking122 Why tell him to stfu 1 month latter? He already stopped talking.

seth perea IKR LMFAOOOO

we literally live better than the kings of old

@@overpricedhealthcare nah, the technology might be better now but a king still has underlings to commands, someone to do his biddings, and a lot of power.

imagine being chosen to marry some random dude at the age 7

thats normal back then... dont compare ancient ages to nowadays.

@@UnknownServant no one is comparing the two.

Uh,,,, why..?

Lol this conversation

*Yeah its like they have to stalk everyone*

@@ceilingeye idk, I wanna see a girl version too cuz imma girl and I just wanna know

Stay inside get married to some guy you dont know or love at 7. Go live with him at age 12. Have some children and then die at like 35 to some disease.

Yeah, obviously. Why would the Professor of Roman History and Archaeology think that was his normal life? What a nincompoop.

I see that the sarcasm of my comment was lost on you, GrauderYT.

The video does mention that his family is not poor. The problem with studying history is that we only get the lives of people considered important enough to be documented- so we often know a lot about the history of the elite and upper class people in literate societies, but we don't get many documents about the lives of farmers and peasants and slaves. Archaeology is really important in that regard because while we might not have documents like tablets and books about their lives, archaeologists can reconstruct the lives of the lower class through artifacts.

Where' the indication they're rich? Slaves? A dime a dozen. Attending clients? Sure. They're well off, but not too rich.

Jothunheim if I lived back then I would have been complaining to my elder when is the internet net going to be invented I am so board They would say not for about twenty two hundred years. I would kill myself get reincarnated twenty two hundred years later.

Joeislayf I mean everybody knows that so it’s pointless

Well.... I'm from India and I didn't learn that so I don't know🐒

FBI no exist yet

One fine line One awful dime r/woooooosh

One fine line One awful dime r/woooooosh

But the kid is 17 FBI will wait patiently

One fine line One awful dime r/woooooosh

I think they were supposed to represent the middle class, whatever that may be. They aren't poor, but live in the suburbs.

Interestingly, Caesar, while being from a noble and respected family, with all the possibilities that Nobility brings, also lived in a poor district, because his family has fallen on hard times. So even for the Nobles and Aristocrats it's possible to be, in comparison, poor and live in less well-off districts, with still all the major benefits of Aristocracy.

I'm guessing it's more like buying an a penthouse in New York, sure you are encased in wealth but all around you is poverty.

Anony Mous thats not nice

Anarchy Empire true!

He became informatician

+sploofmonkey exept the entire religion of Christianity is based on misconceptions which have been scientofiy proven. Jesus was executed for being a public nuisence the entire symbol is meaningless

sploofmonkey nope its factual jesus was crucified because he was looked upon as insurgent rome had /has integrated many beliefs into their system and Christianity had sweet fuck all to do with any of it at the time of 'christ'

Christianity was one of the many other non-roman foreign cults. For example the cults of Mithra or Isis, but unlike Christianity, which primarily was known as a superstitious cult (until 3th/4th century or so), they were legal, since they tolerated worship of other deities as well. So, no, I wouldn't really think that there's a good chance or reason for most of any Roman youth to consider joining a forbidden cult.

And yet, many people in the Roman Empire became Christians. They knew the dangers, but they still made that choice. And by the time of Constantine the Great, they were so many that were fully tolerated at last.

Wtf

Do you know if these communal baths were a daily thing or a once a week thing?

+kataisa3 it's probaly hard to say

+kataisa3 also, they had to wear sandals 1 inch thick in the hot baths in order to not burn their feets on the floor of the bath (which was essentially a heater)

According to my guide in pomepii, as often as they could, at least 3 times a week. It was encouraged by emperors and governers, as it greatley enhances public health. Yup, even they knew that not everything was controlled by Jupiter\Jesus.

I know I'm late. But wouldn't that weaken your body and make you more vulnerable to sickness?

Your last bullet is obviously incorrect. Are you suggesting that the father was a woman? You wrote that men could never, at any age or status, be entrusted with business.

I fail to see how it is incorrect. He was a person alieni iuris (thus legally incapacitated), that has nothing to do with sex, and even a woman could be sui iuris on rare occasions. Read the first part of the sentence, this is only true when he was subjected to his father's potestas, that is until he emancipated himself

+Julie P. Actually boys reached adult hood whenever they started growing facial hair and during the coming of age ceremony, would shave it off so it could be a wide range of ages. (I know it sounds weird but its in my Latin text book)

Allen Shea that was in the ancient times, they used to examine the children and look for secondary sex characteristics. this procedure was abandoned as inobjective later on and replaced with a general specific age for everyone. notice how girls were considered mature sooner than boys, though :)

+bunnyfaceperson123 I think what she meant is that, so long as he remains within the family, the father has the singular legal authority in such matters(unless otherwise altered through emancipation). The point being that it's not about the age, it's about position in the family. He could be 50 and still not able to make such deals.

Child marriage is common in the US and perfectly legal unfortunately.

@@epicchocolate1866 Ok.

This was VERY uncommon in Roman times and this video is slightly inaccurate for saying that a 7 year old could get married From what I can tell, Roman men usually married between 14 - 25 and women from 13 - 19, so, an 7 year old usually wouldn't get married until Lucius is 23 and she is 13 (It was still fairly common for 8 - 12 year age gaps to exist Julius Caesar got married at the age of 16 to his wife who was 13 Cicero got married at 24 to his wife who was 16 Cato Minor first got married at age 23 to his wife who was 17 Fun fact about Cato's marriage - He divorced his wife for unknown reasons in 56 BC, she remarried to a man named Hortensius, Hortensius then died and Cato remarried her It is unclear why they got divorced many Roman writers say that Marcia (His wife) was very caring to Cato and Cato was very fond of Marcia

Royal S that’s not true at all, tens of thousands of children get married in the United States.

Rome Dep infant mortality are high and survival rates into adulthood are low (men soldiers die all the time) Those who survive past 15 last latest into 80s and average of 60s

Mi Les Exactly. It is often said that in ancient times the average life expectancy was around 40-50 years but that its the literal median wich takes into account all the dead infants. If you only consider those who made it into adulthood then the average was of about 65 years old. People like Augustus or Aristotle made it way into their seventies and they werent regarded the same way we would a 140 year old person.

Obviously more intelligent than you. Mortality rates were high for the young, but those who reached 15/16 usually lived until well past their sixties, a lifespan not so different than what we have today.

Even the Bible, which goes back over 3000 years, even stated that people have about 70 years given, but 80 years if they are strong enough to endure. It's still true today. Its just, like others state, its just the infant mortality rates taken into account.

it doesn't need a bible to determine that, first it simply requires experience,evidence and analysis and then we recognize it well enough to be written and perceived, hence the bible telling what it gathered based on the given reality around it. it's no scripture, but a compilation

+Zakthextremest Thanks - have you seen the blog blogs.kent.ac.uk/lucius-romans/

+Zakthextremest Be quiet

+Josh warren I can't, so you'll just have to ignore me instead.

+Zakthextremest Nice rejoinder.

+Zakthextremest Not bad

If the reason is covid based... That will change. Slowly but surely.

@@charlottem.1477 Def not covid based. More like helicopter parents

Rome was actually a relatively small city and frankly you wouldn’t be doing any of that unless you were a very high ranking aristocrat. Also you weren’t ever giving speeches.

Doesnt the word "barbaric" come from the latin word for beard?

Brad Stevens I think it was actually anyone who was not Roman. You could be cleaner than them and still be called Barbaric. That or I am confusing them with another civilization

Zach Miles Actually Barbaric is a Greek term from Barbaros and was used to describe foreign people in general. But was later use as a derogatory term.

After the reign of Hadrian (who wore a beard) the actually became quite fashionable. So it depends on the period you are discussing. Given the "Ancient Rome" lasted for hundreds of years, styles changed!

Leslie Yarmo 753 BC - 1453 AD. 2200 years of glorious Roman Civilisation. Longer than both the Chinese monarchy and Egyptian Kingdoms.

7 years old girl*

thanks for spoiling :D

TinyShaman We do, he was stabbed by a slave at age 61.

BLU Scout Thank you for sharing the information. However, the creators' awareness or ignorance about Lucius's future is beside the point here. Surely, you know that phrases like "In hindsight, we know about X..." are used *to tell* the audience about the thing, *not to ask rhetorical questions* about it.

BLU Scout Ted Polkoye Thank you, guys, for giving such strong support to my point. /'-D

+Ted Polkoye Source? I tried googling his name to find more, but the top searches were TED-Ed

+TinyShaman While you are right I did also expect to hear more of Lucius' story. I think it meant that we know that, that specific event was part of his future but we don't know how it played out for him.

He wasn't he just lived in a lower class area

+dalevlog lower-middle class

+dalevlog I believe the classes don't account for the "under" class (slaves) at all, so middle class is actually rather prestigious considering how many slaves existed.

+Divinate your sentence is illogical

+dalevlog Owning slaves and living in a bigger and comfortable domus as he did make him not poor, yet the luxury of the thermal baths was actually open for every Roman citizen, I believe totally free. A way of marketing that the Emperors used.

Possibly. They had other types of hair dye afterall. Some roman women would dye their hair all the time, particularly blond because they were jealous of the female German slaves their husbands got after the conquest in Germania. There is a passage about it somewhere.

Can you tell me whos the character in your profile pic ?

To The Paradise City On A Night Train Daria from Daria it came on in like the 90's and ended in the early 2000's it was on mtv

pushup daisies Hey! It's good to see another fan!

Her personality was just like the show, Depressing and boring.

daria omg

TranscendingPolygons Math: Not For Everyone

Nah.

The last things are basically summing up veganism as a thought in general.

So, plants are not part of "everything"?

Welp time for my weekly contemplation on the insignificance of the universe.

***** Something like that

+Cycling in Edmonton from the Eyes of a Teen he'd be thrown into the fire as soon as it bleeps and because itd obviously be a fancy iphone or something he wouldent even survive so now if hes smart hed take a nokia and then hed be able to fight his way out

She'd*

+Mike Stuivenvolt Oh my god X'D

no service, you need satellites for that shit.

+Vagabond i just said to my self how depressingly slow he did that

Totally!

THANK YOU

On mobile smh

😐

Ikr

Really

Ugh, yes. I was really want to learn more of the subject but the narrator's is just horrendous.

1,25 speed fixed it a bit

Bambi Dalton dont talk about my guy ray i know his son

(¤~¤)

Mr. Ray is a very hard working man and is a single dad for his son, please do not disrespect him or he'll send his men your way and change your rhythm of speech in a couple of punches to the jaw.

HavocTV the reason it was so low was due to death during childbirth

@@vitoandolini1234 Yeah, usually if you passed age 25, you will live up to 80 years.

Unless they were poor

giovonnie lewis Are you kidding? Especially if they were poor! All that manual labour isn’t easy.

Doubtful.

ZeoViolet such pleasant imagery

ZeoViolet They also used urine as mouth wash and to wash their cloths.

ZeoViolet wine was cooked in led culdrens too.

Urine was used to dye clothes. I don't see any evidence towards them using it to wash them. Do you have a citation.

Indeed it was used for such a function. www.cienciahistorica.com/articles-in-english/indeed-romans-used-urine-to-do-laundryand-worse-things/

Pan Limak Yes, he was a Patricius.

***** Yes, I wrote in Latin.

+PauloDiBoa Middle class=Patrician TOP FUCKING KEK

+Max Payne no Patrician is upper class

+Adorabelle1 Did you miss the part in which I write TOP FUCKING KEK?

Even Romania didnt exist 150 years ago. Also romanian means citizen of Rome, because those people who speaking a neo Latin language.

Do you even brow ? Bro.

+jz Fish bruh

Unibrows were considered attractive in ancient Greece and Rome.

Yes! Did you know they would ATTACH hair to their forehead for that exact reason?

ah, the good old standard where "fat" a.k.a. average and well-nutritioned women were considered attractive

Yeah you were looking

@@flip2724 😂😂 I would've said that if it weren't you.

Everyone was looking

Terkel Blegager sexual relationships between young boys and older men was a " thing" .

dont think it was that common in rome. it was mainly in sparta

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That was the Greeks

In Greek sexual relations between young boys and older men was okay, in Rome it was more common for sexual relations between men of similar ages.

+Tim-J.Swan hahahahaha

+Tim-J.Swan One catches a glimpse of hair.

Yeah, I like the intellectual warfare, but not so much the people arguing about religion and hating on other people for their questions or views. But other than that hahha:)

omg this video is 2 smart for me lol

To be fair you have to have to have a very high iq to understand Ted Ed comments...

Lol ikr omg ur so right

The Humungus thank you I’m only ten and these are very interesting

stfu

To be fair, I thought that the one slave looked a little like Snape. We both have Harry Potter on the brain.

+Hiba Samad lol sounds a lot like it

You know him too??

I was thinking the same thing 😝

me neither. history of women creeps me out

It wasn't too bad in terms of the time period. It was certainly more progressive than Ancient Greece and other societies at the time.

They probably had to use leaf pads/tampons

***** i was just curious considering they didnt address it here, i wasnt demanding anything

I think it's in the video called "Four Sisters In Ancient Rome". I'm not sure, correct me if I'm wrong~

Shut up son! children don't get to live too long!

it was made in the first 40 seconds.

Yeah, I re-watched after I posted that and realised it. My mistake.

who cares

***** Me, presumably other Irish people, also people who care about historical accuracy.

SCARSSURVIVED if you cared about historical accuracy, why the fuck would you watch an animated version of this XDDD

SCARSSURVIVED besides, ireland is so tiny it doesn't matter lel

***** okay

And then soon the *AVAR KHAGANATE*

the lives of poor romans would be pitifully lame though

Roman history was written by the powerful and wealthy. We simply have no sources about the poorer 99% of the people. It's already difficult enough to get any info on daily life, as most sources were about big, important things like wars, battles and politics.

drewpitbull ''A glimpse of a rich teenage male in ancient rome''

LMAO