One of those wonderful programs that makes you go "that's all????" even after watching all the episodes!! Very enjoyable shoes w a great host who's love & enthusiasm for history matches up my own- which is kinda rare!!! Thx for the upload!!!
It’s a bit more complicated. Cato and the other senators wanted the power left in the hands of the aristocracy which just happened to be them. Men retiring from the army got nothing which caused a great deal of unease within the government. Caesar was a reformer and was willing to give the common man a way of working himself up to a better class. Basically you could purchase your way into a different class. Cato and the others were abhorred at the idea that someone who wasn’t born into their class could achieve that same rank in society.
The best documentary on the Ancient Rome I've seen so far! Thank you for your hard work, and for including citations from the sources and archeologists/historians opinions!
Actually the reason Caesar refused is because he and legions we're running out of supples as well and didnt have the resourses to feed the peopl But i believe Caesars most famous conquest is paving and building the structure of Rome becoming an empire
Great show, however im a bit disappointed. Nothing about Sulla and Marius. After Grachus history it would be nice to hear about it too as it set a background for what Ceasar was doing.
Very, very simplified story but yes, Julio Cesar was another who used the inexhaustible excuse of "in the name of the people ...". More than ambitious, he was a megalomaniac.
Absolutely fantastic job. Clearly and perfectly illustrated and was entertaining and intriguing from start to finish. Well done! One lesson to take away from this episode: don't ever fucking trust anyone, lol! Damn did they do Caesar dirty in the end.
Julius Caesar was not entirely unarmed when he was assassinated. He looked his deceitful friend Brutus in the eye, grabbed his sword which he hid behind his belt buckle, and said "EAT TWO, BRUTUS!" Then as he heaved his last breath, he quietly mumbled "You m'r f'r..."
It was the Babylonians who were the first world super power. Then came the Persians/Medes; then Alexander the Great who literally marched off the known map of the world--his generals split up THAT super power into four minor kingdoms. AFTER than came the Roman "Empire" a conglomerate of several tribal states, numbering about 10 areas at it's greatest Zenith--but certainly not the FIRST superpower--that honor goes to the Babylonian Empire! Which most historians overlook! A single leader over a vast territory such the world at that time had never known.
That's what Romes power was it could go and do anything nothing was impossible cause Rome made the impossible possible and beyond any ethnic group could do
Very true. I wish the series had gone into the influences Rome received from the civilizations that had preceded it, most notably the Helenistic successor kingdoms of Alexander's empire and the Achaemenids.
Há uma linha temporal de grandes civilizações que aparecem e desaparecem, mas a natureza humana pouco mudou. A incompetência e fraqueza da liderança, avareza, ganância desmesurada e comportamento destrutivo e prejudicial para os povos levaram ao desaparecimento de muitas civilizações. Agora também se consideram as forças naturais, movimentos tectónicos, sismos, secas, e instabilidade climática como determinantes no colapso de civilizações.
I don't get it. First it is mentioned that Cesar amassed great riches by taking the Gaul which he used to pay his debts and his army, and later he also takes the treasury monies to again pay his army.
Btw; I'm sure all of u have seen the film Cleopatra. When she enters the city on her humongous litter. That was completely fake. Cleopatra was Hated by Rome so she came w Caesar but quietly
@@joelbusald6416 Yes, and Dictator was a legal position in the laws of Rome, to see her through up to six months at a time of danger, in case both Consuls might be killed in war. Today we think of a dictator as a tyrant. In Rome's Republic, he was a last-stand protector of the SPQR.
Everything seemed correct to me according to what I learned in my Ancient Roman class. The only thing that wasn't mentioned that I would have liked to know if it was really said. "e tu brute" Did Ceasar say those words to Brutus as he was being stabbed?
@@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156 Salut, Hugo. For many answers to your question, please see my comments above (below?). While the program's accuracy may not be false, per se, I understand the frustration of Montes88. The documentary leaves out so many crucial details and so much background, that it almost amounts to anti-Caesarian propaganda.
@@adrianelias2365 What schools teach us about history is mind-numbingly superficial. it's why History Class in high school numbs our minds. If visit your local library and read the history books by the authors who lived through it, you will find it as thrilling as any Game of Thrones. The surviving books by Livy, Plutarch and Caesar himself are fantastic. For today's purpose, though, look up the Brothers Gracchi online, who died young just years before Caesar's birth, and whose dreams and policies influenced Caesar. Look up the civil war between Dictator Sulla, a friend of the Caesar family, and Gaius Marius, who married Caesar's aunt and who probably had a greater influence on the Republic than even Gaius Julius.
Your show on Caesar was superficial and gave even fewer details than other, average quality histories of the late Roman Republic. I find a lack of newer theories and discoveries, and also of examination or exploration of the events and behaviours which led to the break between Caesar and the Conservative senators who hated him. You repeated a few times that Caesar stole the State Treasury from the Temple of Saturn, yet you failed to mention that Caesar himself had added more to that treasury than had any other person in Rome's history. Therefore it could be legally argued in a Roman court, to quote another, gentler J.C. 100 years later, to render unto Caesar that which was Caesar's. You failed to mention even the single most famous conspirator against Caesar. You failed to bring up that the previous Dictator for Life, Sulla, had actually retired peacefully when he had fulfilled his political plans for Rome. Where is your description of how both Sulla and his enemy, Gaius Marius, proscribed their political opponents in the Senate? Why have you not compared their mass murders with Caesar's open campaign of clemency toward his enemy leaders and soldiers alike, both during and after his civil war? Where is the backdrop to Caesar's and his uncle Marius's campaigns to force a greedy and pound-foolish Senate to let the State-owned farm lands, which used to belong to small farm-owning Romans who had lost their holdings because Rome had expanded their military service from one Summer at a time to 20 years of never-ending service, usually abroad? Where are the Brothers Gracchi, whose murders by the Senate gave Marius and Caesar their political cause? It was these four men and their partisans who foresaw that the poor and unemployed rabble of Rome would soon rise up, as the Plebeians had before, and destroy the city, perhaps even the Republic, if the Senate did not begin to share the wealth of Rome with all citizens. The first step had to be the granting of farmable land to all Rome's retiring soldiers -- the sons and grandsons, after all, of the original owners of those family farms. Why do you not mention the Senate's unfairness and lack of vision as the main reason that men like Caesar had to fight them, at first politically, and then militarily? Finally, since this is a documentary about Gaius Julius Caesar, why is there no speculation about why Caesar did not do more to protect his own life, when he was aware of the rising evidence of at least one growing conspiracy against him, and when he still had so much more to do save the Republic and equalise her wealth among her citizens? This is a sadly disappointing documentary. I hope your others are better.
I think another glaring omission was his pursuit of Pompey to Egypt, where Ptolemy X111 Theos Philopater had Pompey killed as a assumed gift. Ceasar's meeting and eventual courtship with Cleopatra V11, resulting in their son Ceasarion. Not to mention the Seige of Alexandria, and the following Battle of the Nile where Ptolemy X111 drowned in the Nile. He was instrumental in Cleopatra gaining her title of Pharaoh of Egypt. He had even brought her and her entourage back to Rome numerous times. She was actually in Rome at the time of his assassination before returning to Egypt. I also found it odd that it wasn't mentioned that he had named his nephew Octavian his heir rather than Caesarion.
You ever heard of military strategy, I think history recognizes just more than only spears , they were so close with one another, they could smell the opponent mouth breath. Study some academia before you criticize of something you don’t know about.
