Crazy Roman Gods & Changing Sacred Beliefs 

Hi Darren. How I wish that my long departed history teachers were as engaging as you were in this video. Very interesting and informative. Now I must pray to my own goddess - as otherwise I won’t get my Sunday dinner! 🙇🏼

Great show! Buy me a coffee good idea.

Another very informative production. Glad you managed to escape the over zealous security guards. Can’t see a problem with your channel having the buy me a coffee option if nothing more than to show the viewers appreciation of you sharing your knowledge time and effort. All the best with the views and subs. Keep up the good work. Pete 👍

I absolutely loved this! Watched it under a tarp in the rain on the heath (with a glass of Gevrey Chambertin in hand obviously). I really had no idea that these hybridised and incredibly specific gods were a uniquely British thing within the Roman empire and I'm oddly proud of that! Really wonderful stuff - it would still have been a very interesting video even without your injection of humour but that was the icing on the cake. May your corn never develop mildew and may Subscriptia smile on you!

Very thought provoking-Thank you Darren

I went to a Mary Beard lecture today at the Sydney Opera House. You would have loved it.

Love the Morrissey reference 👍🏼 'As the flames rose to her Roman nose...'

hello again Darren, another good interesting video, the Coffee thing sounds like a good idea , really well done and thank you 😊

Very happy to buy you a coffee...

As ever, wonderfully presented and filmed as well as highly informative and full of fun. I imagine that given the Romans were basically the Borg of antiquity, they themselves must have lost track of the amount of local gods and religions they assimilated during their centuries of conquest. I like the idea of 'Buy you a coffee' given the joy your vlog gives to so many. That said... I'd prefer to buy you a cup of tea. 🤣

Another great video, thank you 😊

You really do visit and film at some stunning locations.

Good show thanks 🇺🇸 🇳🇿

You did a great service to the Corbridge museum as I had no idea it existed and looked very interesting. They should thank you! Enjoyed your discussion on British Roman religion. Introduced the idea of religion’s role of just simply getting things to work😂. Wonder if there is a god of shower drains.

It worked - I had to subscribe!

It's a shame the Roman bridge at Corstopitum was washed down, it would of been fascinating. There is part of it rebuilt on the south of the river but we can only guess what it really looked like. My sister was also born in Corbridge Maternity Hospital back in 1968 when it was a hospital, grandma lived on Front street. I love Corbridge even though I was born in Hexham. Great vlog again and thank you for visiting many places up here along the wall area. Subscribed, thank you and keep up the great work, Richy 😀👍

I don't understand the no filming bit. If I see something on here I like, I'm more likely to go and see it. Free advertisement for them. As for buy me a coffee, I never have, so far, but I don't have that on mine either. But you must do as you see fit. It's your channel after all. The problem is that I watch a small circle of RU-vidrs. If we all buy each other a coffee, it cancels itself out. I'll just do the slow trudge towards monetisation and hope I get there before I snuff it. I really enjoyed the video as I do all of them. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Darren, What a fascinating couple of places they are, thanks for taking us along. Sound decision making adopting the gods of the newly conquered. Personally I think it's a far better system, I'm on the side of Dionysus or to give him his more modern name Tweedy😂😂😂 The lion devouring it's victim is a superb sculpture, I wonder what the inspiration for the animal was, looks almost pagan - the body of a cow with the head of a sheep? No surprise to see the remains reused or repurposed. The guide at Italica told us that a lot of the remains there were used in road building. Apparently some of the marble statues were literally burnt in lime kilns for building materials, it appears in a painting of the town from some time ago. I find that hard to believe but it's only in our time that the city has been given official protected status. If I'd have been there I would have got one straight in my back garden .... to save it for posterity, obviously!! As an aside, it was free to enter Italica, free to all EU citizens, I just kept stum, although I probably count as one too. The guide was free too, booked through civitatis, It was a 1 1/2 tour and he was still explaining things after 2 hours, we gave him a very good tip, there is no obligation to do so. Just been looking at the English Heritage site, it's about £10 entrance fee so that's probably why they were over protective, mind you, your video provides excellent publicity for the museum. In fact their site provides you with similar information but of course there was a distinct lack of presenters singing 1980s hits and dressing up in blond wigs. They will follow those who lead!! Maybe you could get more use out of that wig, I think you would do a great Atomic, or Heart of Glass! If I'm right you need to be over a certain threshold of subscribers and viewing hours to be able to monetise. I too never understood "buy me a coffee" either so I've never done that. I have contributed to several go fund me appeals. Copious amount of snow all over Spain yesterday causing chaos everywhere. Storm Monica they call it. We had a 15 minute flurry. It settled just a little bit higher. All the best!!

That was very interesting. Surely it's "buy me a cuppa and a sticky bun". How about Patreon set at a sensible low rate, then you may get those who enjoy tour vids saying 'why not, taint much dosh'.

I loved your tribute to Morrissey 🤣...I'm March 1968 born, the Smiths early 80's were my band of choice as a teenager.

Let's not forget Fastidia*, the goddess of spring-cleaning. Great video, by the way. *joke 😂

👍🇬🇧 Tee shirts and mugs and key rings are a good revenue .

Thank you, interesting sites and informative. I think the image of you in a blond wig will, unfortunately, stay with me for some time. Go with the coffee, I have done that for others and recognise and value the effort you put in.

Knowing how much time, dedication and money that goes into producing your videos, I think people should be able to show their appreciation and help develop your content.

Would appreciate opportunity to buy you a coffee. I contribute regularly, in small amounts, to many RU-vidrs in appreciation and wanting to see more content. Yours is entertaining, interesting, and often with astounding scenery.

Yes, apologise to Morrissey before he writes a song about it.

Don't follow the crowd. Start a buy me a whisky then upload the resultant inebriated Romano ramblings. Cheers oops SALUTI ! hic

Hail Mithras,Sol Invictus ☀️

I am a fan of the Smiths ...I have agreed a deal with Mr WC21 ...Subscribe and he'll not croon, or may do more of it if it gets him likes and coffees ...I'm not sure about music these days. My thought about religion is this, if the Romans conquered us now, they'd deify the Flying Spaghetti Monster.