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Lauren D. Ginsberg, an Ancient Rome professor, answers the internet's burning questions about the Roman Empire. What did Romans snack on in the Colosseum? Why does Ancient Roman concrete differ from modern forms of concrete? Did gladiators really fight lions? This Roman expert answers all these questions and much more.
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Constantine Economides
Editor: Louville Moore; Ron Douglas
Expert: Lauren Ginsberg
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Production Assistant: Sonia Butt
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@rivers169 5 месяцев назад

I really love when historians discuss the daily life, economy, and traditions of a specific era.

@divyajoshi4498 5 месяцев назад

that’s anthropology!!

@brynwest4495 5 месяцев назад

@@divyajoshi4498 Actually that's not what they are called

@Tehan123 5 месяцев назад

It's great! It's called social history

@thatreddude7700 5 месяцев назад

Just think, in a thousand years someone will be discussing the United States in this manner.

@kevine.lemaster8473 5 месяцев назад

Unfortunately she started showing her extremely biased view history when she started blasting feminism

@NotMyName888 5 месяцев назад

I am delighted to learn that Ancient Romans brought little tailgating grills to the Colosseum. That makes my day.

@larapalma3744 5 месяцев назад

😊😊😊😊 mine too

@jsharp3165 5 месяцев назад

I like to think they had giant sponge # 1 fingers, too.

@liveforever141 4 месяца назад

they just wanted to grill

@meekmeads 4 месяца назад

Some things never change.

@vojtechhoracek7704 3 месяца назад

@@jsharp3165 Nope, sponges were for #2 only, check the section on sewers and hygiene.

@TheNightEyes 4 месяца назад

She has so much PASSION for the subject it’s contagious!

@gtrdxz 26 дней назад

Got a little woke there for a minute, then i remembered that was just at their end...

@stephanieread5404 10 дней назад

@@gtrdxz Seek help

@tannerwest92 Месяц назад

i don't think when someone asks who was the best roman emperor they're asking about how nice of a person they were i believe they're masking how effective an emperor they were for the prosperity of Rome As a whole.

@anoriolkoyt 29 дней назад

This.

@baumi1116 25 дней назад

Clearly Aurelian was the greatest emperor. He is the Restitutor Orbis after all. (Augustus/Octavian doesn't count. He's not an emperor really)

@vryizen4665 24 дня назад

I agree with this take. I loved most of her responses but this was a complete non-answer and I found it kind of frustrating. I was leaning towards Trajan and expecting her to come in with some interesting insight/ or obscure emperor that I hadn't given much thought towards.

@alZiiHardstylez 20 дней назад

Never trust a Jewish historian.

@JoaoPedroPT696 19 дней назад

Wired is woke asf so she has to put left-wing ideology when talking about politics. That's the problem with academia in the US.

@Masada1911 5 месяцев назад

Huh I was just thinking about the roman empire. What a coincidence.

@hollowtree9763 5 месяцев назад

I was watching ancient Rome VS Han dynasty when this popped up 💀

@brucehubbard8404 5 месяцев назад

😂

@LuggageLife 5 месяцев назад

😅

@samanthaporter6662 5 месяцев назад

😂

@musasifani 5 месяцев назад

Same😂

@pyrob2142 5 месяцев назад

So a vomitorium basically vomits people out of a stadium really quick? Still a fitting name.

@Materialist39 5 месяцев назад

ancient crowd control could be its own video, super cool to learn about

@SuperNineFingers 5 месяцев назад

We need vomitorium ! Get to the vomitorium! Is what Arnold should say

@antoniousai1989 5 месяцев назад

@@Materialist39 Basically, the police anti-riot squad today still uses the same methods the Romans used back then. The most distinguishable is the beating on the shield rhythmically, which creates discomfort to the people in front of you and the illusion that you have way more people than the one there really are.

@Idiomatick 5 месяцев назад

@@antoniousai1989 They also use the roman testudo formation while marching with their roman style scutum shields.

@antoniousai1989 5 месяцев назад

@@Idiomatick They don't rofl, they mostly walk in lines. The testudo is a semi-myth in the way it is represented. You can't move if you interlock the shields, they just did it occasionally to avoid missiles of any sort, such as arrows or javelins

@Julianaao2601 Месяц назад

We need a ancient Greek, Aztec and Mayan experts next please!! This was soooo interesting

@rangerhythms 5 месяцев назад

Can you please do one on the Indus Valley civilization next ? Especially given they pioneered underground sewage system around 2000 BCE, it would be interesting to understand what archaeologists think about it.

@nicewall8311 3 месяца назад

We know very little about the Indus valley civilization. We might know more in 10 years, but anything pre-common era (BCE) has significantly less archaeological evidence, so it's possible we may never know much about them.

@ReadDeadRedemption_ 5 месяцев назад

Could you do a video about ancient Egypt next? This was extremely interesting and informative!

@pro-socialsociopath769 5 месяцев назад

They've already done a video about aliens.

@aldolazuardy6697 5 месяцев назад

yes, yes, yes please! WIRED hear our plea 🙏🏽

@NSalonen 5 месяцев назад

And ancient Sumer

@bobobububu 5 месяцев назад

Dude, I bet Lauren studied about Rome for many years. She can't produce another video about Egypt just because you ask nicely.

@lucone2937 5 месяцев назад

Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians would be interesting people too.

@theuseriwantedwastaken 5 месяцев назад

She gives so much detailed into without it stretching forever. Love her energy and how she explains things

@suyashprksh Месяц назад

the video is fastened before uploading.

@mochafennec Месяц назад

@@suyashprksh The video is "cut down" , not "fastened", but her explanations are concise and yet full of detail despite the cuts.

@temeria1986 Месяц назад

Shes great! Fast and decisive information and you can clearly tell she loves her job. Only thing I disagree with is the part about civil war, where she essentially says "what is civil war, if slaves have an uprising is that civil war?" Slaves were considered...slaves not citizens so that wouldn't be a civil war but a slave uprising. Other than that, amazing video.

@Icanbacktrailers 15 дней назад

It seemed like a video for children. I was hoping I’d learn something new

@kaitlynoddie9649 20 дней назад

shocking lack of comments about the fact that ancient romans’ favourite position was cowgirl

@royvincenttrani 5 месяцев назад

Great video! I've been studying Roman history for school. This video is very useful for filling in the gaps that most books and lectures don't have time to talk about

@cdawg_sf 5 месяцев назад

I would love to take a class with this prof. Her energy makes the subject so interesting

@audreyharris7643 5 месяцев назад

Me to

@duane_313 5 месяцев назад

Yeah she’s great! She seems like she’s be a great grade school history teacher too 😁

@patrickkasprik2444 5 месяцев назад

She is Jewish so take a bit salt with what she is saying; it is truth mixed with degenerate lies to deconstruct europeean identity be forewarned.

@charlotte1062 5 месяцев назад

Same!! And it makes me really happy to find her on RateMyProf and see she's rated 5/5 :D

@AP-ye4zz 5 месяцев назад

I have and she’s a favorite in her department- super nice

@burtoncampbell4457 5 месяцев назад

She's so articulate in her explanations. I love how she explains the life expectancy and women's rights in terms of how progressive it was for the time, but how it also had its shortcomings.

@wingzer012 5 месяцев назад

@@jonbinki9651pls shutup

@Obi-WanKannabis 5 месяцев назад

Not really an historian, more of a feminist who is judging the past through modern lenses, pretty disappointing.

@burtoncampbell4457 5 месяцев назад

@@Obi-WanKannabis strongly disagree. She doesn't give any unfair treatment to the male or female side of the argument. She's simply stating that our modern standards of rights are far better than that of the Romans.

@colinwood9717 5 месяцев назад

@@Obi-WanKannabisyikes 🙄

@samtraynor3997 5 месяцев назад

@@burtoncampbell4457hardly, she's attempting to say they were "progressive" in terms of societal sexuality but "regressive" in terms of societal governance... I.e. cherry picking the parts of the society that fit her current narrative of what she considers progressive and acceptable in society to label as good and/or bad

@brandonkey181 4 месяца назад

Part 2 please!!! This woman is great at explaining this topic and is super knowledgable

@eggymayo3271 День назад

It's like year 5 roman history tbh

@brandonkey181 День назад

@@eggymayo3271 i had no such subject

@emilyniedbala Месяц назад

Fun fact: we DO still call them Vomitoriums in theatre! (Though we do most often just say “vom” for short)

@djones1234567654321 5 месяцев назад

I know she’s a professor and literally an expert on Rome but wow she is incredibly intelligent. The depth to which she was able to answer these finite questions is remarkable. What a brilliant scholar, respect to you Dr. Ginsburg

@2Links 5 месяцев назад

The answer about roman concrete really stuck out to me in this respect! Though maybe just because that's the part I know the least about.

@DrippiBean 5 месяцев назад

@@NN-zk4uz waman dum

@trevormichel1319 5 месяцев назад

Ok settle down

@vladutzuli 5 месяцев назад

@@NN-zk4uzyou are just assuming they never would have said that if it was a man doing the video. No proof, just projecting your own biases. Perhaps you need to examine your own conception of women instead of throwing accusations.

@Adamdidit 5 месяцев назад

@@vladutzuliI'm gonna jump on your comment to add that if the original poster actually had meant that, now they'll never admit it. All because this person jumped to conclusions and couldn't be patient enough to ask a leading question or two to get the op to explain themselves.

@ForeignIslander 5 месяцев назад

i love that our ancestors are so much like us, the local pub, grilling before a game, gladiators where basically a hard core version of WWE.

@njhoepner 5 месяцев назад

If you walk around in the Colosseum, you can see how much the design of our modern stadiums still follows it's pattern.

@SewingMink160 2 месяца назад

@@njhoepnerwell it is an effective architecture idea to use and we've basically only changed a few things.

@sahamal_savu 25 дней назад

Ancient Romans had their own version of Thunderdome called Pankration, the two fighters wore battle gloves with blades and spikes in them. The only rules were no biting or gouging, basically the same rule set at the beginning of modern MMA.

@MrFriendlyCsgoContent 25 дней назад

@@njhoepner now that I think of it there is only one real way to design a stadium.

@MrGeorge7823 14 дней назад

This is not a good thing.

@psychedelicyeti6053 4 месяца назад

I'm so thankful my middle school history/social science teachers were as passionate about teaching history as this professor because i remember so many of these facts. And why i found the "roman empire meme" so amusing. I hope for more of these videos about other cultures! 💕

@soul_asmr 2 месяца назад

I would take all of her classes in a heartbeat. I miss studying history sooooo much and I WISH more professors were like her!!!! Amazing energy

@TheKinoCorner 5 месяцев назад

I completely forgot I tweeted that. Glad to have made it into the video!

@GuerreroUrbano100 5 месяцев назад

This was very good! I’d love to see one about ancient Aztecs, specifically on the subject of Tenochtitlan.

@psychedelicyeti6053 4 месяца назад

I'd love to see this!

@MonkeyBombdotcom Месяц назад

Aztecs weren’t super ancient, more like a renassiance era people.

@Ootazfromda03 Месяц назад

Aztec civilization is not ancient, it sprung up after the medieval era (1300s) . I think you might be referring to the Olmec Civilization, which popped up approximately 1200-400 BC. Now that’s ancient. The Aztecs and Olmec did share the same geographical area tho. But the Olmecs are way older by the Aztecs a long shot.

@-alovelygaycat- Месяц назад

@@Ootazfromda03 I think it may also just be that we don’t really recognize how recent the Aztecs were in the span of human history. We think of them as ancient, but they were decidedly modern. Could also be thinking of the Mayans.

@haleyzorn8745 17 дней назад

@-alovelygaycat- Fun fact: The Mayans actually still exist! They're called the Quechua now and they are an indigenous minority of Mexico and Guatemala. Their language is still even spoken to this day; I've been to Mexico and in some of the tourist areas they have trilingual signs: Spanish, English, and Quechua. It's really cool.

@max_mittler 5 месяцев назад

She is so incredibly knowledgable and such a great educator :) Thanks for making this amazing video

@calvinball1 4 месяца назад

This was an absolutely amazing video. I love that we’ve broadened our context of learning to focus on day-to-day lives, context, and culture, and not jist painting in broad strokes and listing dates and lineages of rulers.

@SpiralSine6 5 месяцев назад

Tailgating outside the gladiatorial matches is something I never considered but somehow makes perfect sense.

@TheFranchiseCA 4 месяца назад

If you're going to be there for at least four hours, it only makes sense to have some food. You may as well have something worth eating.

@jmannysantiago 5 месяцев назад

This was great! I love her simple and detailed explanations. Please bring her back for more Roman Empire questions!

@marlonmoncrieffe0728 5 месяцев назад

I concur!

@joeyjojoshabbadoo8153 4 месяца назад

Preferably with citations lol

@hey.noah. 5 месяцев назад

This is so informative. Lauren is so great with answers. I would have loved to have her as a teacher x

@willelliott2671 4 месяца назад

Wow, these are usually fun but Dr. Ginsberg is particularly great. She's so engaging and her enthusiasm for the subject is really infectious.

@abrahamk9 5 месяцев назад

So Gladiators were the ancient world's WWE wrestlers.

@Alienwatcher 5 месяцев назад

My thoughts exactly

@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control 5 месяцев назад

More like MMA fighters in the fact that they actually fought but not usually to the death. But it wasn't just basic theatrics a la WWE.

@naturebehindglass6512 3 месяца назад

There were also several classes of gladiators. There were criminals condemned to fight on the arena. They were supposed to die there, so they did not really get training. Some of them actually survive and could rise in ranks. There were also professional gladiators, those were often slaves, but they were essentially trained athletes and entertainers. Some of them even became superstars... These are the ones she talked about in the video

@elevatedream Месяц назад

@@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control She said it was choreographed to be exciting for the audience...like WWE.

@alalalala57 Месяц назад

@@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control But MMA is boring. Theatrics for gladiatorial combat was a big deal. They were superstars, not just fighters lol.

@christopherwilson88 5 месяцев назад

I'd love two experts to see how Rome compared side by side in all facets with the Han of the same time, arguably the two greatest and I'd say inarguably the two most influential civilizations of the ancient world. Would be fascinating

@MrAH2010 4 месяца назад

There's a great historian called premodernist who has some good stuff. Unfortunately the rome vs China is a $3 patreon exclusive, but is a really good warch.

@suyashprksh Месяц назад

for that you gotta read the book

@Noland55 4 месяца назад

What a great video. Love it when actual experts speak on the subject. Thank you.

@garak55 2 месяца назад

If I'm being real with you, I think of the Roman Republic way more often than of the later Empire.

@NestorKYAT Месяц назад

I just think about the republic way more than any period of the empire honestly

@jaycrownshaw3902 13 дней назад

This. This right here. Empire is extremely overrated. The Republic is the best part

@PeterJeter123 5 месяцев назад

Love the charisma of this historian! Can we get an Ancient Egypt one?

@teoperez7163 Месяц назад

You got lucky, They did the egyptian one.

@andmicbro1 5 месяцев назад

It’s kind of crazy how alike the Romans were to us today. Obviously they were lacking in many modern advances in technology and scientific theory. But their culture is so similar in some ways it’s kind of crazy to think how they actually are pretty alike us in the modern era.

@ultrafly100 5 месяцев назад

Eerily similar. The Late Republic especially.

@DirkLasermaster 5 месяцев назад

One of my personal favorite comparisons was the correspondence between Marc Antony and Octavian before their civil war kicked off. They sent letters back and forth between Italy and Egypt just roasting each other. One calling the other an alcoholic, the other calling him a cuckold! It was by all means a twitter argument! Another favorite of mine is a Greek writer devoting a chapter in his book to his dog, and gushing over how awesome his dog is!

@RedLineShortFilms 5 месяцев назад

@@DirkLasermasterThat's amazing

@christopherstein2024 5 месяцев назад

Yeah like women not being able to vote and having their economy based on slavery...

@alexpleshy8565 5 месяцев назад

@@DirkLasermaster Pets in Rome at times had fancier graves and more touching epitaphs than some people

@chauswriting 4 месяца назад

This is so fascinating! These are the types of things that never get mentioned in movies ever. So cool to know how they washed their clothes

@katekramer7679 4 месяца назад

"Romans really pioneered the idea of socks and sandals" 🤣🤣 This was great, please invite Professor Ginsberg back for a Part II!

@gs7828 5 месяцев назад

As an Italian, thank you for covering our ancient culture with such passion. I really enjoyed your explanations!

@galmlrssg210 4 месяца назад

Ehhhh

@Cyanide_and_Loneliness 2 месяца назад

you Italians have as much of a cultural claim to Rome as Russia does.

@alexeyvankevich7096 2 месяца назад

@@Cyanide_and_Loneliness Moscow is the Third Rome!

@Tremendo 2 месяца назад

@@Cyanide_and_Loneliness No seas bruto.

@francesco7305 2 месяца назад

@@Cyanide_and_Loneliness your lack of knowledge is astonishing.

@jakebernstein3278 5 месяцев назад

So crazy that some gladiators were prepared to die. Imagine going into the colosseum knowing there’s nothing you can do.

@AK-47-yall 5 месяцев назад

Maybe they were told that their families would be taken care of if/when they died?

@gendengraven5049 5 месяцев назад

On some perspective, Gladiators aren't simply put in the colosseum to death, they are there to entertain. They mostly were taught to wound, not kill. Being a gladiator for most of the part is like a MMA Fighter or Sport celebrities these days, there are product advertisements, there are money to be made, and groups or guilds for it. Therefore, some gladiator could retire and enjoy their wealth. but that would be an entire different story if you're Christian on that age of time, death is absolute for you lol

@AerB111 5 месяцев назад

I think she should have worded it better. To me that take makes so little sense, that I interpreted it as "whoever is HOSTING the event decides that a specific gladiator is going to die", without him actually knowing it. So yeah, it was "agreed upon", but not by the person who was going to actually die. I may be wrong, but it makes much more sense like this.

@milesbeining 5 месяцев назад

⁠@@AerB111she says agreed upon by whoever had ownership of the gladiator

@Thorvir 5 месяцев назад

they themselves didnt know ,their owners did

@dirtbird7415 4 месяца назад

I am glad she pointed out the information about concrete . Often you here people say ancient things could not be replicated today , this is totally fallacious. Problem is cost is prohibitive compared to other methods.

@dietadam2295 3 месяца назад

It's also not useful for many modern purposes such as roads/bridges due to the drastically different loads and stresses it would incur.

@candyh4284 2 месяца назад

lookin @ you, damascus steel.

@zakris 5 месяцев назад

I just love learning about ancient Rome. The Romes society is sometimes so recognizable to us, still it's 2000 years ago...

@Sunflowersarepretty 5 месяцев назад

This video was interesting! Can we like get one on other empires too? I would love it as a series.

@paoloadp 5 месяцев назад

I’m an Italian living in Tokyo, and I actually do end up thinking about the Roman Empire daily (when thinking about cultural differences, food, muscle training, skin and hair cleaning etc 😅)

@sasstsuma1467 2 месяца назад

Oh, you're the Thermae Romae opening guy, aren't you!

@paoloadp 2 месяца назад

@@sasstsuma1467 ahahah yes

@dylanlabon9667 4 месяца назад

This video is absolutely incredible. Professor Ginsberg is so passionate, and she has me completely entranced.

@IWannaGoMissing 4 месяца назад

When we do concert gigs in arenas we still call the four wide entrances at each corner of the court “voms” so we do still use that word in my world!

@jessibenzel243 5 месяцев назад

This was one of the most fascinating videos I've seen in a while. I feel like I'll be thinking more about the Roman empire going forward.

@viktorianxd 5 месяцев назад

Yes one more!

@mygetawayart 5 месяцев назад

i love how so much of Roman life is so similar to our own that on the one hand it's depressing to see how little we've improved considering how much time has passed but it's also fascinating that we're doing basically the same things

@circeus 5 месяцев назад

Humans have been humans for a frickin' long time

@dylanb2990 5 месяцев назад

If consider modern humans have been around for about 150 thousand years, it hasn’t been that long.

@buzzkillington7872 5 месяцев назад

Except there’s more slaves and peasants than ‘citizens’

@PerfectSense77 5 месяцев назад

Oh, we’ve improved a fair bit. Many people don’t seem to realize how truly horrible history was once you go back about 500+ years.

@Supiragon1998 5 месяцев назад

@@PerfectSense77*100+

@Voltaireish 5 месяцев назад

That was amazing. Roman History has always interested me and it is a delight, when someone with way more insight than a common layman like me presents her knowledge to the audience. Thanks a lot. :)

@laurapalmer6699 4 месяца назад

This was fascinating!. I'm a history teacher and i will definitely be using some of these for my lessons.

@linksaya 5 месяцев назад

She's a person I would literally spend the day listening to. I really love her mind.

@markryan9323 5 месяцев назад

I feel like I was just attended a very fun Roman History class! Thank you so much and I'm really waiting for the next class!

@4862cjc 2 месяца назад

I am at the nine minute mark, and I have learned more here than in any history class lecture!

@AcmeMonkeyCompany 5 месяцев назад

She's fantastic! Please have her back, I learned a lot in 20 minutes

@lexieram6723 21 день назад

Haha I loved how excited she got showing the stamping of coins. 15:53

@eugeniobonello418 5 месяцев назад

She did awesome! Would gladly watch her talk about the ancient world again!

@AS-kq7hw 5 месяцев назад

The entire Tech Support series is just consistently great. This was a great topic, I always wondered about the vomitorium...

@Swim234 5 месяцев назад

sweet mercy we need part 2! this was great :)

@mogaman28 4 месяца назад

In Spain, the town of Santiponce (Seville) is partially build over the old Roman city of Itálica. Some areas of that town still uses the old roman sewer system while the rest uses a system build in the 20s of the 20th century. In the 90s there was once a massive rainfall that caused a flood on the town... The parts of the town serviced by the modern sewer system!!

@jaysmith8199 5 месяцев назад

There is a Roman bath in the city of Bath in the UK. In the 70s when I was a youngster you could paddle in it. (not any longer) it's in amazing condition to this day.

@Tatertot270 5 месяцев назад

This was all so informative 😮😮😮 wow!!! She has a lot of charisma and it’s so clear how passionate she is about her field!!

@jasminegoldstein5677 4 месяца назад

“Thrust slowly” had me choking on my water

@icecreamman2687 5 месяцев назад

besides the cop out non answer to "best emperor" this was really interesting!

@candyh4284 2 месяца назад

eh, i dunno. seems fair enough to me. If you asked me who "the best us president" was, I'd have a pretty similar answer that frankly, none of them, they all seem kinda like nutsacks to me.

@rainbowstalin594 2 месяца назад

@@candyh4284 Yea but the question obviously means who ruled the state the best so who was best at governing the empire, so her answer is a cop out and is loaded with some modern day political undertones.

@xxFortunadoxx Месяц назад

@@rainbowstalin594 But that's not really true. When most people cite Marcus Aurelius as the greatest emperor, only a fraction of that has to do with his governance. In actuality, he was the last of the good emperors at the end of the Pax Romana. People think he's the greatest because his death led to Commodus' reign, and after that, the year of the five emperors, but his legacy is so heavily tied to him writing Meditations that it's more: "decent emperor that kept the empire in good shape and wrote an excellent treatise on stoic philosophy that we still read in college today." If you're looking at the best at governing the empire, it would be Trajan. Rome was its absolute largest and most populous under Trajan. That said, I think her point is intended to instill the idea that we really shouldn't be idolizing these people as "good people" or "the best" as it's easy to mistake Augustus' rule bringing Rome into a new era as him being a just and moral person. In actuality, he was quite a brutal ruler who eliminated rivals and spread propaganda that eliminated dissent in much the same way that Caesar did. However those actions were quite effective at whipping various administrative regions that had fractured during the Second Triumvirate back into shape. It's kind of a "Hitler got the trains running on time, but at what cost" situation. Instead, we should look at them in purely descriptive terms like "products of their time" and "having varying degrees of effectiveness at maintaining Rome's power and influence."

@kerektor 5 месяцев назад

Loved this, Lauren has an incredibly positive energy and seems to have vast knowledge of many areas, not just her specialisation. Also I do love when historians talk about the common people, not just royalty and generals.

@tanyawriter13 5 месяцев назад

Would love an expert on more history like this for other locations, especially the Native Americans as we don't learn much about them in school here.

@avvery8593 5 месяцев назад

If you are in the U.S. you do learn quite a bit about tribes in the US, not enough about South America or Mexican tribes though, the truth is there isn't a lot of known history since most of the western tribes were wiped out by plague before any explorers even met them and they didn't have written language so much of the history and culture was lost or misinterpreted due to living members of different tribes merging.

@tanyawriter13 5 месяцев назад

@@avvery8593 that isn't true for most of us, unfortunately.

@avvery8593 5 месяцев назад

@@tanyawriter13 It is true, just look at school curriculums across the country.

@tannerparks6030 5 месяцев назад

@@avvery8593 Yeah I've been seeing that some states have started requiring Native American history to be taught in schools, but that's because they teach so little about it. Just a few years ago it was reported that 27 states don't mention a single Native American in their K-12 curriculum

@douggaudiosi14 5 месяцев назад

There's 1000s of videos on youtube. If you actually want to learn it's just a click away

@simrankazmi5396 4 месяца назад

U guys always find the loveliest people to do these !

@frankzeppelin 3 месяца назад

A note about the Pantheon: the concrete only needs to support its own weight (dead weight), but a bridge, road, or apartment building is constantly being stressed by wear and tear. Practical Engineer did a video on this. It's not that the Romans built things better than we do today, it's that the stuff we use today is built to handle things they never needed to. He suggests that a Roman architect or road builder would be astonished to see how strong and resilient modern structures are. (Also survivor bias in that they're studying, well, the Pantheon, not some random building.)

@jonathanbetts1169 2 месяца назад

This is true but this conversation usually revolves around still existing Roman concrete around water vs our concrete around water. She failed to mention in her answer that the "healing" aspect of the concreate seems to activate in contact with water.

@morlnsk 5 месяцев назад

she's so knowledgeable!! its a treat to watch someone so passionate:)

@DevilDwarf165 5 месяцев назад

I absolutely adore Greco-Roman mythology and the ancient ways of life. This was enlightening!

@antoniousai1989 5 месяцев назад

It's Greco or Roman. Their way of approaching religion is radically different

@lucone2937 5 месяцев назад

@@antoniousai1989 In Greco-Roman mythology the Romans regarded Jupiter as the equivalent of the Greek Zeus, Mars as Ares, Venus as Aphrodite, etc. Vergilius told the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Ancient Romans were regiliously very tolerant and they took influences nearly every part of their Empire like Egypt, Asia Minor and Syria.

@antoniousai1989 5 месяцев назад

@@lucone2937 Those gods were only a couple of them that they syncretized into the Roman religion, but the approach to religion itself was radically different. The whole concept of the Roman religion was the "peace with the gods", seen as a contract with the divine forces, which were innumerable. Also, even the position in the Roman Pantheon is different. Mars was a positive figure for the Romans, and an agricultural god as well, something that he wasn't for the Greeks. Saturn was the same, Minervae too, similar but not the same, because even the Greek gods basically did unite with the previous gods already present among the Italic civilizations. Romans also put lots of emphasis on seasons, cycles, and the days of the year, to the point that they had a god who was the conveyor of the concept of change and transformation, Janus.

@forzaacmilan36 5 месяцев назад

@@lucone2937 Ehmmm..... I'm not sure you're familiar with a people call christians

@candyh4284 2 месяца назад

@@forzaacmilan36 In fairness, as a Christian myself, if you think that a religion like what Christianity was back then (ostensibly a messianic cult trying to galvanize jewish people into conflict with the state in the near east) would be allowed in other periods either, I think it's just a misunderstanding of the progression of the christian tradition. Bearing in mind that Christians would eventually come to manifest the religion in an entirely different form for the sake of Constantine and the platonists, it's worth considering that it was more of a political issue than a religion issue.

@rodropoop923 2 месяца назад

Thought it was going to be a very boring video but i just watched till the end! Shes so fun to hear

@Zebra_Cakes 18 дней назад

I love how excited and passionate she is when she’s talking about all this. It’s really cool to see

@johnneat3381 5 месяцев назад

Mannnnn it was absolutely fascinating listening to you talk, Dr. Lauren! I was completely enthralled and I wish I could hear you talk about Rome all day, please do come back :D

@SaphireTech 5 месяцев назад

All the experts they invite for these videos are so passionate, makes it really fun and interesting to watch.

@cinnamonroll5659 3 месяца назад

the tailgating comparison is so cool. really shows you how humans are truly human, through all time

@jennys209 4 месяца назад

She's awesome, please bring her back if you do more of these

@pr0cr4st1na7or 5 месяцев назад

Vomitoria do still sometimes show up in live theatre settings, especially classically inspired stages and theatres "in the round." The one I'm most familiar with is in San Diego: the White Theatre in Balboa Park, part of the Old Globe complex, is a theatre in the round and has two vomitoria (or voms) through which actors enter and leave the stage.

@greegeo 5 месяцев назад

this was great, we need more time with her! do a second session!

@thomaskelly2881 4 месяца назад

let me go on record to say that while lime chunks in concrete could have nice properties more likely the temperate climate in combination with the fact that it was probable laid without slump(little air gaps) and without rebar(due to constant compression and unlikely to spall therefore) lead to longevity. the lime is like the cherry on top.

@Grace17893 2 месяца назад

Glad you guys are having fun; God bless you and xo

@cez19 5 месяцев назад

As a history teacher i still have plenty of questions to ask her. Please bring her back 🤓

@samlarsen7355 5 месяцев назад

Lauren was wonderful. Would love a part 2 in the future

@Eirikross 5 месяцев назад

Every argument made on roman concrete is also present in modern concrete. When calculateing crack failure, we calculate how large cracks can be selfrepaired and design our construsctions thereafter. Modern cancrete is much better due to addetives like plastecizers and silica that allow us to better compose the concrete for the task ahead. The idea to reinforce concrete was invented in 1885 long after the romanempire had fallen.

@bigmartin 4 месяца назад

Thank you, I loved that. I was never a big Roman Empire fan until I read Conn Iggulden’s Emperor series of books, the then the Robert Harris Cicero trilogy.. They got me hooked on Rome and so I visit as often as I can, oh not forgetting I, Claudius by Robert Graves!.. Thank you again, you have a new subscriber 😊

@dreamingofvenus 5 месяцев назад

I’m a Classical Studies major myself. Absolutely ADORED this vid!

@alamosh 5 месяцев назад

Man, over a hundred days of public holidays, they really got that right.

@GothGlitch93 2 месяца назад

The more I learn about the ancient world, the more I realize things haven't changed that much. We have only updated how we do those things. True innovation is rare.

@therearenonameslefta Месяц назад

Aurelian was like the sandy koufax of roman emperors. Best numbers over shorter period.

@MakoWoman 5 месяцев назад

Love her energy! Yall just have a knack for getting the best people

@stefan_no 5 месяцев назад

Wow that was such a cool video! I would have loved to be able to listen to this expert go on for a few hours 😊

@Gjd94 Месяц назад

The dunkin dounts Boston quip she said was so spot on. That's where I learned of my love for iced coffee

@nosuchthingasshould4175 5 месяцев назад

Remus and Romulus were a ‘historicised’ version of the Indo-European divine twins that existed across the many mythologies.

@robinrehlinghaus1944 5 месяцев назад

Tell me more

@nosuchthingasshould4175 5 месяцев назад

@@robinrehlinghaus1944 this is it. I only picked it up on another video. I expect more is easy enough to find

@robinrehlinghaus1944 5 месяцев назад

@@nosuchthingasshould4175 Where did you pick it up? It does sound like something Schwerpunkt would speak about.

@nosuchthingasshould4175 5 месяцев назад

@@robinrehlinghaus1944 possibly a channel called cracgenford, but I watch a lot of similar stuff so not sure.

@thenablade858 3 месяца назад

We don’t know anything about the origins of the myth. However, another early mythical figure that figured in the foundation of Rome was Aeneas. The Trojan prince who successfully escaped, thus Rome positioned itself as the successor to the ruined city of Troy. The biggest divine twins that I can think of are Nut and Geb (Egypt) and Apollo and Artemis, but they were not hostile to eachother and were male-female twins.

@djmurp2 5 месяцев назад

I know Lauren! We were faculty at the University of Cincinnati together! This is great 👍 Hi Lauren ✋

@ChadTheImpaler326 5 месяцев назад

You forgot to answer the most important question, "What have the Romans ever done for us?"

@robo5013 5 месяцев назад

For one they gave us the basis for our system of law. The framers of the constitution were heavily influenced by Roman (and Greek) history and used the model of the Roman Republic to craft that document. The US is basically New Rome.

@Xantar 5 месяцев назад

@@robo5013it's a Monty Python joke.

@leoribic1691 5 месяцев назад

ROMANES EVNT DOMVS

@D4N1CU5 5 месяцев назад

@@leoribic1691 People called Romanes, they go the house?

@leoribic1691 5 месяцев назад

@@D4N1CU5 No, it says Romans, go home!1!1! To be serious and honest, though, I'm learning Latin right now and that sketch feels hilariously accurate to the experience of it all sometimes.

@MuhammadDaif 4 месяца назад

That was captivating and interesting as it gets. Thank you for this video !

@autumnpeacock4156 Месяц назад

It’s crazy that people thing 35 was “old” to Ancient Romans like no that was not a senior citizen

@EllaABo 5 месяцев назад

Please do a part 2, I have so many more questions!

@Ace6434654321 5 месяцев назад

This was very interesting. She’s very good and answering questions and explaining history.

@vincnz08 2 месяца назад

love this !!! we need a part two like immediately!

@kgosch1 6 дней назад

She did a good job dodging the question about which emperor was the "best". She didn't want to say which of her children she loved more, and we got a lecture instead. Nice!

@evg3nius 4 дня назад

For how smart she came off otherwise, I'll say she didn't do a very good job. Pretended that question was about which emperor would be a good president today which it clearly wasn't, and then tried to apply the 2024 morals and agenda to people who lived 2000 years ago.

@TheJohtunnBandit 5 месяцев назад

Professor Ginsberg seems super fun to hang out with, please join our DND game or something

@philliprich1707 5 месяцев назад

As someone who thinks about the Roman empire on a VERY frequent basis, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Prof. Ginsburg was truly fun & interesting to listen to, great vid.