Lessons from Ancient Rome | Wealth, Rhetoric, and Religious Freedom 

That thumbnail 😂 “We’re going to build a wall and make the barbarians pay for it because let’s be honest, Caledonia isn’t sending us their best!” - Emperor Trumpius

0:08 "The wolves are attacking mylord!" 1:22 "Extra rations!"

Should have had Biden on the photo, I think he was born in the late Roman empire.

See any road in Britain, now imagine them being better 2,000 years ago because of these madlads.

2:41 Public speech IS art!

Getting rid of corrupt leaders was one of their admirable skills.

Rhetoric during the Republic: "We must adequately guide the senses to govern the State with reason" Rhetoric during the Empire: "PUT THIS CHILD ON THE THRONE OR HEADS WILL START ROLLING ON THE GROUND"

Add to this 'Protect our borders' (UK)

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Well done man. The Romans outmatch us in quite many ways .. The one with religion i always wondered, and you have answered me, so again good job!

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I have a feeling that by learning rhetoric and orathory skills since the youngest of years, these people were much smarter than us and had a lot better IQ. Better quality and natural food, clean air and much more physical activity than we have, must've only doubled it. Avarage patrician back then must've been a titan in comparsion to avarage modern president

To be fair to modern day people, philanthropy has been a part of British life for hundreds of years precisely for the same reasons. Many schools, universities, hospitals, orphanages (foundling institutions) in the UK all have roots in personal philanthropy.

I love the music from Stronghold. It really took me back 15 years.

Dude, I think I've told you before, your diction is so good that I can understand everything... Even in 2.0 speed 😲 And I'm not native English-speaker. I love your videos about our precious SPQR

The pen (and well trained orators) is/are mightier than the sword. That B.S. Marc Antony: hold my wine (proceeds to rouse up the people attending the funeral of Gaius Julius Caesar and destroy the reputations of Brutus, Cassius and the conspirators)

Where can I read more about the oratory studies and training of Roman public speakers? Is there a way to read what the teachers thought?

I that’s very interesting 🧐 hope you make a separate video on Cicero

Could you make a video about ancient Roman religion? No[__] No[__] Οι καιροί ου μενετοι " Fast actions are required in war because chances dont wait" -Perikles

Great video

Christians: "We want our God to be officially considered as such by the Empire" Romans: "Well, having a crucified carpenter as a God is f*cking weird, but hey, our first God was a penis with wings. In any case, where on the scale of gods is yours?" Christians: "Gods?" Romans: "This isn't going to end well, right?"

That thumbnail image does a really good job of blending the Roman Toga body with his face. It looks very good and is a tantalizing way to grab the audience into the topic

My man casually using Stronghold music.

Is it deliberate that this video is only available via a link? I.e. you can't find it in "videos", only if you have a link or if you open a playlist

The Stronghold 1 Music Tho 😂😂😂

I love the music from Stronghold

Spectacular content

That Stronghold background music

why is this unlisted?

If we could travel back in time, and as we enter the average Roman apartment, first thing we'd notice would be the blinking of "12:00" ... on the VCR and 0.00 on the microwave.

An 8 minute video with a sponsor? We can't avoid ads at all on this god forsaken website

No American politician would do anything to improve the community out of their own pocket.

On the other hand, Hitler was probably the best disciple of Cicero in recent history. We know how that turned out.

Yeah I don't know why we dont have great orators today. There are hardly any good speeches even compared to people of the recent past in the 20th and 19th centuries. I heard its because Politicians want to sound more down to earth and plain like the common folk but we all know they aren't. So can we at least get some fantastic speeches at least like Lincoln if not Caesar?

What an interesting comparison between old school Roman oratory and today's modern "speeches." Now if only we could compare the clipping and misinterpretations caused through the media to how the Romans delivered press, we'd really be building something there!

MORALITY? IN THE UPPER CLASS!?!?! Tis' unheard of in the modern world.

Ok but lets be fair... remember Lex Agraria?

Regarding the jews and christians in the Roman empire: The most crucial problem was, that they could not worship the cult of the deified emperors, which was obligatory. Of course the living emperors didn't like that.

They built roads with no potholes turning up in a year with out engineers

Good video! I definitely think there are things in the past that are admirable, rhetoric definitely, even compared to over one hundred years our rhetoric and levels of discourse has decline. I’m British, specifically English, so obviously I have a certain opinion of ‘Roman Inclusivity’, with the whole wholesale massacre of the Druids thing. But I do understand Romanisation and Roman Syncretism, something which actually continued with the Catholic Church, with plenty of pagan practices and traditions being incorporated into Christian or Catholic ideas, making the conversion process a smoother one. However, I hope you’re not one of those channels which underplays the persecution of the Christians, and overplays the persecution that Christians committed against Pagans. I often find with quite a few Rome centric channels, is that it occasionally turns into Anti-Christian grievance matches. Because they aren’t interested in Romans, they like the Romans, which I think is a very distinct difference. They say stuff like Constantine and others literally carried out wide scale anti-pagan persecutions and ‘spread Christianity by the sword’, when in truth, the Roman governmental system made that difficult and in archeological findings, only around 10% at most of pagan temples were destroyed. As far as I see, Pagan worship in the Roman Empire, despite some episodes of anti-pagan violence and persecution, largely died a more natural death by being replaced by the more attractive religion. P.S. The Crusades are a far more complicated topic then merely religious violence, with valid concerns of geopolitics involved and the fact it wasn’t black and white, nor was it constant violence between the servants of Christ and the servants of Muhammad, and I’d be very careful comparing it to the Romans. You may look at Jihad and Crusades and say ‘that’s terrible’, but then let’s look at Caesar conquering Gaul and sending 500 thousand to 1 million Gauls to the slave markets, and 500 thousand to 1 million into the grave. It’s another variation of the modern day opinion that we’re better then the people who struggled beyond what we could imagine today, when really, humans are humans, nothing about that has changed and if anything, we’re worse, because our methods of killing have only gotten more destructive. I don’t see people of the past threatening each other with Nuclear Armageddon

Missed opportunity with the thumbnail to be honest, Biden would fit better regardless of your political opinions.

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Charisma, intelligence and quick thinking....hmmm *Looks at the current leader of the strongest nation and looks at his predecessor.*

Never put "caring & Politicians" in the same sentence.

Christianity isn't the cause of war, it's the excuse used to justify war. Everyone wants God on their side.

Also a bit strange to imply Trump was the one reading from a script instead of the Current Guy, who is famous/notorious for his many mishaps when reading a teleprompter.

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Nice video. Though Trump is well known for working a crowd.

Quite surprised that the gracchi brothers were not the script introduction as they somewhat introduced widespread metropolita area romanus purchase of votes/acclimation by use of a grain dole for political followers and as such also kept the ever-present background unrest at bay. Romans of the first families could not resist upping each other as crowd adoration of the man was the virilitas basis of the civil authority, maintenance of control and familiae generationis dignitatem and so existed in Roma until by varying opinions 49 bce Caesar or 27 bce Caesar Augustus and Empire. For many the multigenerational electos familias public investments were both power and self-protection. Presumably the average roman citizen and the ever-expanding population of both slave/servants and newly arrived both legal/illegal non-core Roman looked up to the Seven Hill of Rome and the thereof families with pointed and earthly comments depending on one’s quick forming mob viewpoint. Oh! What is known as Buddhism is not a religion as it is ways/examples for a reasonable/now living and does not require a voiced/needed seed entity though such an acceptance/belief can be reasonable.

When Trump gives a speech, he kind of rambles a lot. The crowds are low energy, except for those key moments when he calls out Mexicans, George Soros, or Transexuals. It’s pretty devoid of any policy positions, inspiration, or logical persuasion. Regardless of how you feel about his politics, president Obama is a good example of a modern day orator.

Say what you will about him but Trump was a notable exception on this point 1:59

Exterminating disloyal minorities. Thank you Titus, though you could have done a bit more tbh.

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This is not very accurate. All the private donations made by wealthy Romans during the Punic wars are incomparable to the behavior of rich Americans during a time of peace. Instead, compare it with World War 2, when the entire American economy was turned into a war machine to defeat Germany and Japan, a lot of rich private citizens made huge contributions during that time.

This video is romanticizing Roman society.

You had to bring modern politics to your history channel right? Unsub

Civic Virtue > chairity

You begin you video with;" Think of that horrible road." I suggest that when you refer to religion that you think through the differences in 'religions.' As one of those who assert your superior knowledge of these things using your hushed tones, and inflections, I prevail upon you to not treat any, and all 'religions' as if they are the same thing with simply different names. I'm one who is not a church goes, yet I believe every word of the Bible. Christianity did not lead to Rome's demise, another very important thing is that those who represent Christianity very rarely are worthy of representing anything, or anyone other than themselves. I'll keep this short, for those who are interested in islam I encourage you to simply research what the islamo religion teaches about how dogs should be treated, or should I say mistreated, killed..