The Complete History of Rome, Summarized

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What if RU-vid video... but documentary?????? Join Blue on a feature-length journey through all of Roman history: from its origins, through the Republic, up and down the Empire, and out into the medieval world of Catholicism in the Latin West and the Byzantine Empire in the Greek East. It's a BIG tale, so Let's Do Some History!
SOURCES & Further Reading:
BOOKS
"SPQR" by Mary Beard
"Rome: A History in Seven Sackings" by Matthew Kneale
"The Roman Way" by Edith Hamilton
"The Aeneid" by Virgil
"Histories" by Polybius
"Ab Urbe Condita" by Livy
"De Bello Gallico" by Julius Caesar
"Odes" by Horace
"Parallel Lives" by Plutarch
"Rubicon" by Tom Holland
"The Storm Before the Storm" by Mike Duncan
"The Enemies of Rome" by Stephen P. Kershaw
"The Age of Augustus" by Werner Eck
"Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire" by Ronald Mellor
"Cleopatra: A Life" by Stacy Schiff
"Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants" By Garrett Ryan
"The Classical World" by Robin Lane Fox
"Ravenna" by Judith Herrin
National Geographic "Ultimate Visual History of the World" by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
"Byzantium" I, II, and III by John Julius Norwich
"The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome" by Anthony Kaldellis
"The Alexiad" by Anna Komnene
"Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire" by Caroline Finkel
"Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History" by John Julius Norwich
"A History of Venice" by John Julius Norwich.
ONLINE
Ara Pacis Augustae" by Mark Cartwright on World History Encyclopedia www.worldhistory.org/article/...
"Ara Pacis Augustae" by Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker on Smarthistory smarthistory.org/ara-pacis/.
GREAT COURSES LECTURES
"Piazza Farnese to the Ara Pacis" from "The Essential Guide to Italy" by Dr. Kenneth R. Bartlett
"The Pax Romana", "Rome's Golden and Silver Ages" & "Late Antiquity - Crisis and Response" & "Barbarians and Emperors" from "Foundations of Western Civilization" by Thomas F.X. Noble
"Roman Art and Architecte" & "From Commodus to Caracalla" & "The Crisis of the Third Century" & "Diocletian and Late Third-Century Reforms" from "The Roman Empire: From Augustus to The Fall of Rome" by Gregory Aldrete.
VIDEOS
"Ecclesiastical Latin vs Classical Pronunciation History | Latin: The Immortal Language" & "How Latin became Italian 🇮🇹" by polýMATHY, • Ecclesiastical Latin v... , • How Latin became Itali...
UNIVERSITY
I have a bachelor's degree in Classical Studies.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
1:26 - The Birth of Rome
10:25 - The Roman Republic
15:59 - The Punic Wars
24:28 - Rome's First Assassination (uh oh)
35:38 - Julius Caesar
50:12 - Octavian vs the Assassins
57:45 - Octavian vs Antony
1:07:38 - Augustus as Emperor
1:25:26 - The Roman Empire
1:36:11 - The Crisis of the Third Century
1:46:58 - The Fall of Rome
1:58:08 - Rome After Empire
2:10:12 - The Byzantine Empire
2:24:26 - The Byzantine Golden Age
2:37:57 - The Decline and Fall of Byzantium
2:53:05 - Conclusion
MUSIC:
Courtesy of composer Austin Wintory / @awintory
austinwintory.bandcamp.com/
I Know How It Feels To Be Lost, Mount Olympus, Reclamation, Welcome to the Real Underworld, Threshold, The Decision, Temptations, The Reliquary - from the Stray Gods Pantheon Edition and Journey scores.
Also, "Scheming Weasel" & "Local Forecast" & "Sneaky Snitch" & Marty Gots A Plan" & "Pippin the Hunchback" by Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Also Also, "Slaysenflite" from Age of Mythology, "Phoebe the Orphan" & "The Sacred Land of Artemis" & "Naxos Island" & "Kephallonia Island" from Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
Additional thanks to our the members of our discord community who kindly checked over my video draft and helped me pick out video thumbnails: Jonny, Catia, Chehrazad, and Billy. Thank you for all your help across multiple videos and your endless commitment to sharing cool facts about Mediterranean civilizations, Rome and otherwise.
Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up.
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@snomcultist189 6 месяцев назад

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@Magicghost23 6 месяцев назад

When you want to stop thinking about rome and then this comes along.

@goroakechi6126 6 месяцев назад

The average history major experience.

@michaelgrey1503 6 месяцев назад

Blue never wants to stop thinking about rome.

@thomasrogers8239 6 месяцев назад

Why would you want to stop thinking about Rome?

@Thecrimsonking01 6 месяцев назад

This comes along when I'm rewatching hbos Rome .

@desertranger7575 6 месяцев назад

No brother! Never stop thinking about the glory of Rome!!

@user-kz6in8qk2h 3 месяца назад

Today I realized: If you had no familiarity with elephants, you’d probably assume that these two-speared, snake-faced, gigantic *WAR MONSTERS* were probably carnivorous.

@Titancameraman64 Месяц назад

This adds a whole new layer of terrifying

@ChristinaFromYoutube Месяц назад

The tusks are wild looking

@jennymckenzie5304 Месяц назад

"Hannibal's got elephants!" "What's an elephant?" "Well it's like a big upside down squirrel, Centurion." "Quad the fuck?"

@bobs_toys Месяц назад

Until you get to that one person. "is that yo mamma?"

@ChristinaFromYoutube Месяц назад

@@jennymckenzie5304 the funniest part to me is that the Romans were more freaked out by native Brits than they were the elephants. But apparently the Brits were painted blue and were up to their noses in the swamp... which would be fairly unsettling to see nothing but eyes, forehead, and dreadlocks poking out all over the swamps everywhere you look.

@Jarakin 4 месяца назад

“It doesn’t take a lot of elephants to have a scary amount of elephant on the battlefield!” Never really thought about it that way, but yeah.

@raythelame69 27 дней назад

tried to fall asleep to this, it didn't work

@kwitshadie6539 16 дней назад

Same here, it’s midnight darn it. 😓😅

@John11769 12 дней назад

It’s the pausing and reading paragraphs because he’s saying something else completely right? Love this man’s vids but it’s definitely not a casual listen lol

@mybodyisamachine 8 дней назад

Worked for me, guess I'm built different 💪

@mikewinans5091 6 месяцев назад

3 hours of blue talking about the classical world?! This is the dream!!

@Bigrednumber77 6 месяцев назад

ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY

@Campfire_Bandit 6 месяцев назад

@Unenvarjo 6 месяцев назад

Well, I know what I’ll be doing tonight

@VoidLantadd 6 месяцев назад

2 hours of classical Rome. 1 hour of medieval Rome.

@faerylnhiikira1053 6 месяцев назад

Oh snap. I didn't even realize it was that long when I clicked. Worth it!

@DanGamingFan2846 6 месяцев назад

Less than 3 hours to summarize one of the largest, longest lasting, and most enfluential empires the world has ever seen. If anyone can do it, Blue can. Your content never disappoints. Thank you for this.

@watershipup7101 6 месяцев назад

Agreed

@genjis5155 6 месяцев назад

Blue is the best.

@alyssafitzgerald83 6 месяцев назад

There are entire college courses that study individual parts of this and Blue just speedrun all of it.

@basicpigeonbee 6 месяцев назад

@@alyssafitzgerald83yes summaries are shorter then indepth courses

@cewla3348 6 месяцев назад

@@basicpigeonbee he provides a summary of EVERY MAJOR EVENT IN ROMAN HISTORY. a summary of FUCKING ROME. IN JUST THREE HOURS, GOING BEYOND JUST "HE DIED".

@conho4898 6 месяцев назад

Imagine a thousand years later, somebody makes a similar video about the history of the fallen USA

@Kaede-Sasaki 5 месяцев назад

And then they proceeded to skim over the first 100 years of its history moving to the reconstruction after the civil war after just taking a test on the different English colonies.¹ Still brought to you by skillshare. 😂 ------ ¹ this video skipped/skimmed over the Roman Kingdom and the early Roman Republic periods, jumping straight to Pyrrhus and then Carthage. Not even 15 minutes in a 3 hour long movie and 753bc jumps to 270bc.

@FinrodFelagundTheFair 3 месяца назад

@Kaede-Sasaki Part of that is the fact we don't have much history From the Kingdom era and an earlier Sack in around 653 BC. Due to that and a lack of historical writing till the start of the early republic Where the Picture Comes back into focus.

@RazorsharpLT 2 месяца назад

@@Kaede-Sasaki Well... to be fair - the Roman Kingdoms are more legend than history.

@intellectually_lazy Месяц назад

i do

@intellectually_lazy Месяц назад

@@RazorsharpLT and balanced

@danielmcgillis270 6 месяцев назад

This is why men can not stop watching videos about the Roman Empire. It is just so damn cool. Wars, assassinations, people larger than life, dirty politics, violent politics, and on and on and on. How could a man with a shred of intellect not be interested in learning the history of this? It's like the second world war, its history, and it is important.

@packitboi4795 Месяц назад

It ain’t just men dawg

@jimdeguzman3231 Месяц назад

So many lessons in life. Rome gave me clarity.

@Draconic_Aura 16 дней назад

WW2 is kinda boring since it is literally "good" vs evil

@KentBryanDMedez-tw6wc 16 дней назад

@@Draconic_Aura I disagree. The politicians who conducted/started the war might have been the "good vs. evil" of world war 2. It is the stories of the soldiers, normal people and civilians who experienced the war is what made ww2 a vital piece of history. There were never a good country and bad country in terms of these soldiers and civilians, there were only survivors and victims. And discovering how these people went through one of the most important events of the 20th century and how it even became what it is in the first place is what makes it fascinating. If that makes sense. . .but my point is - world war 2 was not boring, but rather tragic. I think if you think ww2 is boring, your teacher just taught history bad imo, probably just mentioning that "this happened to this date and then this happened because of this. And this is how many casualties that war created" and so on. . .lmao

@nicholasbove3554 6 месяцев назад

Oh yes blue has joined the 2 hour video essay crew!

@godking6504 6 месяцев назад

@baturalpdurmaz9272 6 месяцев назад

He finally complete his evaluation now he is invincible

@AWandaMain 6 месяцев назад

3 hour*

@boredbby3326 6 месяцев назад

😢😢

@alexandrugavrilet5031 6 месяцев назад

@AlvoriaGPM 6 месяцев назад

It was at this point that I realized that the average OSP subscriber has a better grasp of Roman history than pretty much any historical Roman did.

@nohbuddy1 6 месяцев назад

Most people do nowadays, not just subscribers

@wargriffin5 6 месяцев назад

The benefit of hindsight, no doubt. 😉

@Landis963 6 месяцев назад

@@wargriffin5Was coming here to comment exactly this. Hindsight is 20/20, and enhanced further when talked through by someone who knows what they're talking about.

@wildfire9280 6 месяцев назад

@@Landis963 People certainly understand 2007-2009 better than they did in 2007-2009.

@MatthewSmith-sz1yq 6 месяцев назад

@@Landis963hindsight partially, but also information is drastically more available nowadays. If you were an average person in the Roman empire, you'd live in a small village, where almost nobody had ever traveled further than 20 miles. You would be illiterate, and the only knowledge of the "outside world" would come from rare government announcements or travellers. Such knowledge would be mostly useless too, since a war breaking out or political assassinations wouldn't impact your village unless it was close by. People really underestimate just how much things like widespread literacy and vehicular transportation has changed human societies. Before these, you had no means of recording or learning information except by word of mouth, and 95% of the population never went further than 30-40 miles from where they were born. Combine these two realities, and you had a world where the vast majority of the population knew nothing about the outside world. There are even stories of towns in a region that got conquered who never even realized they were part of a different empire until years later.

@Crowbars2 6 месяцев назад

2:07:35 - _"For the average pilgrim arriving in Rome at the turn of the millennium, they might be surprised to encounter not one city, but seemingly three. The old core among the hills had become largely uninhabited, as the population clustered by the Campus Martius"_ That must've been so amazing to see. To see all the buildings of Ancient/Classical Rome before they were built over. To see exactly where so many of the greatest events of the past ~1500 years had exactly occurred, but were no longer inhabited; The Theatre of Pompey, the Temple of Caesar, the Roman Forum. To see the majesty of Rome in all it's glory, it must've been so amazing, yet so saddening to see them empty and in disrepair.

@JoshSweetvale 3 месяца назад

Populated by goats and shepards patrolling for wild dogs.

@TheLinuxCast 6 месяцев назад

"Alexander the Short Sighted." I laughed for 10 minutes.

@michaelgrey1503 6 месяцев назад

Remember a couple of weeks ago when Red said that we would get back to our normal programming? And then Blue decided to make this absolutely unhinged and glorious video essay?

@itz_ringlot9168 6 месяцев назад

I mean, absolutely unhinged videos about whatever they want to talk about sounds pretty normal

@brianaschmidt910 6 месяцев назад

@@itz_ringlot9168definitely a return to their roots

@Megalon445 6 месяцев назад

Blue wasn’t lying, Rome really is the substrate of his conscience

@jacktaylor6253 6 месяцев назад

Everyone: "YOU ATTACKED US!" Role: "No, i self defensed you!"

@Nutt11g 2 месяца назад

Listening to this whole thing while deep cleaning a work kitchen is brilliant. If I am in a certain spot and I look in a certain direction, a period of Roman history will flash back to me. The entire cooking line is mentally smeared all over with byzantine history, and if I ever go behind the grills and clean again, the Byzantine reconquests will start recalling.

@NovaRuner 6 месяцев назад

Ok…. In general we kind of understand that Blue really likes Rome, but then you watch this and realize just how much, and just how much he can eagerly talk about Rome. Bravo Blue. Good job.

@shotgunpete5117 4 месяца назад

Personally I have come to appreciate such moments when you thought you knew about something, and then someone comes along to remind you how little you know, really. It's just inspiring to think of the amount of hours it must have taken to not only learn all of this information, but to make the connections and see the bigger picture and summarize it all in such an efficient and entertaining way. It boggles the mind.

@Patch-lz9yi 6 месяцев назад

Three hours of Rome. The classics majors are going to have a field day watching this.

@MeyerLeah990 6 месяцев назад

Strangely, the takeaway from this video for me is that I really want to see Blue go over Charlemange, who in my corner of the world is remembered as a pretty big emperor, despite no one really knowing how he got to that point.

@aw2584 4 месяца назад

I mean he was a pretty big radio DJ at one point, so it kinda makes sense...

@sixpathskaiokentv 3 месяца назад

@@aw2584 Caesar: "He copied my whole fucking FLOW"

@GGsYoyo 3 месяца назад

Perfect video to celebrate the Ides of March with

@Obi-Wan_Kenobi 6 месяцев назад

Ah, the history of Rome. I expected an Empire of your reputation to be a little more... definitive. My applause to you Blue for concocting such an excellent and thorough culmination of Roman history! But I must say, given your fondness of the subject matter (even with it being 3 hours long!) this video... it's shorter than I expected.

@OverlySarcasticProductions 6 месяцев назад

I had to deal with this Imperial slime myself. -B

@dextersauve5491 5 месяцев назад

@@OverlySarcasticProductionsI don't even know what this is just the best reply to a comment I have ever seen I cannot put this into words

@superjumpbros64 3 месяца назад

General Kenobi!!!

@GeneralKenobi236 3 месяца назад

@@superjumpbros64 hello there that’s that’s obi

@thomasinefitzpatrick 3 месяца назад

I HATE YOU!!! XD jk.... But seriously... Obi-wan was a prick I still actually like him, and him and Anakin coordinating was a thing of glory that they nailed... but F Obi-Wank Empire poppin, rebel droppin 4 lyfe! For the Republic!.... Er.... The Empire! XD

@edcrfv098765 6 месяцев назад

"I'm sorry I've summarized Greece and Rome so much that it goes beyond summary and enters into the realm of synopsis. Our channel is supposed to be summaries, and I've betrayed that".

@OverlySarcasticProductions 6 месяцев назад

The prophecies foretold this moment -B

@Kaijugan Месяц назад

@@OverlySarcasticProductions Hope we get more of these for other histories

@TheGuyWithTheSax 2 месяца назад

Blue, I've watched this video a bunch of times. Sometimes curiously, and sometimes because I needed something comfy in the background to help in tough times or to sleep. Thank you for making something so delightfully educationally entertaining that it can help me deal with the mess inside.

@dantheories7276 Месяц назад

I know what an elephant is, and I'd still be pretty scared if I had to fight one.

@Rutgerman95 6 месяцев назад

The Detail Diatribe wasn't kidding, Blue is on his Symbiote arc ....and the Symbiote wants to talk about Rome just as much as he does So, 5 hour deep dive on all the nuances of Venice next week?

@jacktaylor6253 6 месяцев назад

Dont give him the idea!

@ScarletShade13 6 месяцев назад

@@jacktaylor6253ABSOLUTELY give him the idea!

@anyasvt 6 месяцев назад

unnecessarily detailed and long venice video released on critically acclaimed youtube channel OSP is a lifelong dream of mine

@jacktaylor6253 6 месяцев назад

@@anyasvt well Blue is married to the Immortal Spirit of Venice, so we can only hope!

@unknownentity4620 5 месяцев назад

@@jacktaylor6253 huh so that's why Cyan has eldritch energy.

@Die_Hard_Historian 6 месяцев назад

Every Latin student who watches your channel thanks you for this, including me. I’m gonna find a way to make my teacher watch this in our class!

@Vgn1701 5 месяцев назад

SAME Gonna send this to my fellow students at uni xD

@grahambarr2965 4 месяца назад

@phoenixblued9625 Месяц назад

@Die_Hard_Historian have you succeeded so far?

@Die_Hard_Historian Месяц назад

@@phoenixblued9625 well my new latin teacher’s really silly and I might see if we can!! My class will hate me though. Currently, whenever I watch history videos on youtube they always lead back to this specific OSP video. It can be anything: napoleon, william the conqueror, etc. It WILL be 3am somewhere and I WILL wake up to blue talking about roman politics.

@cowboystormchaser 6 месяцев назад

I'm a high school science teacher; my hobbies include storm-chasing and birdwatching and I've rarely, if ever, had any special interest in history. But I watched every second of this video and DANG it was fascinating and informative. Great job, Blue, taking a subject I would have never given a second thought to and making it so cool and relevant! You would make an excellent teacher.

@ottarak472 20 дней назад

I fell asleep with youtube on autoplay, woke up 3 minutes into this video. Just kept watching and really learned something. Thanks!!

@mariachiaratramontana4474 6 месяцев назад

I am Italian and I live in Italy and in my opinion you have done a fantastic job at representing, describing and always with a pinch of comedy to mix it all up. It's always a pleasure to see you. Thank you 💘💘💘💘💘

@OverlySarcasticProductions 6 месяцев назад

Grazie a lei -B

@mariachiaratramontana4474 6 месяцев назад

@@OverlySarcasticProductions Non c'è di che 🥰😍😘

@chase5298 4 месяца назад

Who cares if you're Italian? doesn't make your opinion worth more.

@cyndlehick9777 3 месяца назад

@@chase5298you’re quite bitter dude. He appreciates it because he’s from Italy. Is he not allowed to appreciate a video about part of Italy’s history? Do you feel the need to be rude?

@kikkithewriter8607 2 месяца назад

@@chase5298 ... Are you mad that you're not italian?

@TheOneHistoryGuy 6 месяцев назад

Every channel has its 'big' project - the video that's pretty much a feature film, combining all of the skills the creators have acquired as they talk about their very own passion project. Sometimes, they have more than one. Some have no such project. We now witness the glory that is the OSP feature - Blue talking about the Roman Empire for almost 3 hours. You did it, Blue - you magnificent bastard! ^^

@Craftymom1o19 6 месяцев назад

Timing wise it’s smart to release an essay like this post Halloween, ballpark full holiday season to get through the slog of traveling to visit friends and family during this time if not get through actually visiting friends and family. While creators take a break during the same time. Win/win/win 👍

@addison_v_ertisement1678 Месяц назад

And then there's MauLer, who has big projects and an occasional small video.

@Ian_sothejokeworks 5 месяцев назад

I would listen to Blue describe the chronological bowel movements of the Hapsburgs for 4 hours, with Red interjecting with which ones would win in a fistfight. I would pay for it. I love these guys.

@helenbunnehmummeh5154 5 месяцев назад

Imagine hearing this video as a first introduction to this channel. Then, I Imagine you fell asleep listening to YT, but this guy’s persistent narration wakes you up with a crazy good capsule classics classroom. That’s where I am right now - mind blown. 😅

@Tenshi6Tantou6Rei 6 месяцев назад

This has been surprisingly emotional. I will be sure to think about the roman empire, the truly disastrous fumbling perpetually self-sabotaging old thing that it truly was

@jgadonisspeaks 3 месяца назад

Your mom slurping me was very emotional too 😅

@nikhilkapoor428 6 месяцев назад

This is a small note but I love how in the Description, there’s a list of all the sources used, both book and online. There’s a lot of other sources cited in the description but the last thing ever said is the “I have a degree in classical studies”. All in all, there’s something pretty humble about Blue (I presume having written the description) giving more importance to the accumulation of all the research into Rome’s history done by people before him before giving himself credit.

@FinrodFelagundTheFair 3 месяца назад

I love it, too. Considering the way we tend to view credits as a top-down list of who did what with the most important people at the top.

@LakesideTrey 5 месяцев назад

11:22 I finally understand how all of my peaceful attempts at grand strategy games end with me conquering everyone around me

@garrettsmith9556 4 месяца назад

As a history major, I like how you explain the origin of Rome while using a source you know is flawed. Nice.

@jaynoon6376 Месяц назад

Ships o ions for the masses

@jaynoon6376 Месяц назад

Before the earthquake

@jarettkwiatek2122 6 месяцев назад

I saw the title and the first words out of my mouth were “Dear God Blue”

@Nara.Shikamaru 6 месяцев назад

Blue, you’ve done more to promote interest in the continued study of history than nearly any teacher or professor I’ve ever had. Great job! Thank you so much for all of your hard work over the last decade or so. 🤙🏽❤️

@breawycker 4 месяца назад

The idea that every man is always thinking about the Roman Empire is a misconception. Blue from OSP Georg who thinks about the Roman Empire 24/7 is an outlier and should not be counted

@alexcao2825 6 месяцев назад

Can't wait for the inevitable 10 hour essay on domes, that'll be a dream.

@heck3143 6 месяцев назад

This man. This absolute legend of a man. Homie made an End Game length video about Rome, and we get it for FREE. What a fucking guy.

@DavidbarZeus1 6 месяцев назад

Interesting thing about Caesar's first co-consul, he spent basically the entire year saying that there were bad omens and thus business couldn't be done. Since Caesar was the high priest of Jupiter, he knew better and knew a delaying tactic when he saw it, so he went on to work. The Senate, including his Optimate enemies did the same thing. As a result, the Romans called it the Year of Julius and Caesar, instead of Caesar and Bibulus, due to Bibulus doing absolutely nothing. Pompey had been married, quite happily to one of Caesar's daughters, but when she died in childbirth, the alliance was broken. Caesar, before starting his march on Rome, offered several compromises, but Cato the Younger absolutely refused them all, so he sent Mark Antony down and got him elected Tribune. The Optimates then did the worst thing possible, and attacked Antony while he was Tribune. That was a BIG no-no in Rome, so they literally handed Caesar his excuse to march on Rome. Lepidus, far from being unimportant, actually had what could have easily been one of the most important provinces. Roman Africa was the biggest grower of grain, and supplied much of the city's food. The problem was that darn Pompey in Sicily playing at being a pirate. The Colosseum, as a side note, was funded by the loot that the Romans took from their conquest of Judea.

@captainnerd6452 4 месяца назад

I took two years of Latin in high school, studying not just the language but also some of the history as well. It paid off by instilling a love of languages as well as expanding my vocabulary by recognizing the Latin roots of so many English words. In college I took a few semesters of German, two semesters of Russian, and for the past decade I've been learning Japanese. All because a dedicated teacher of Latin opened my eyes to more than just my tiny Appalachian hometown, and triggered a drive to learn more. Thank you for this video lesson, you've filled in quite a few gaps in a story that I only had a patchwork understanding of! Very well done, thanks to you for helping to keep Rome eternal!

@shadda 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for pointing out the carthage "salted the earth" myth. That's one that I find in a lot of otherwise reputable history books written by otherwise reputable historians, but it's so damn easy to disprove and the idea didn't start getting around until centuries later as a biblical reference.

@slwrabbits 6 месяцев назад

I wonder a bit if it was a rumor the Romans spread to discourage resettlement.

@Jibash 6 месяцев назад

Hundreds of years summerised in 3 hours. Yeah, seems about right Btw good job Blue 🎉

@Nicklightning102 6 месяцев назад

Don't you mean thousands of years?

@XscifreakX69 6 месяцев назад

Blue is real proud of that "Reme" joke, and for good reason 😂

@Beryllahawk 6 месяцев назад

This was just lovely, and I once again have a deep appreciation for Blue's enthusiasm and yes even his sentimentality about Rome. It's damn inspiring, really, not just for the history but for the real life, personal lessons one can take away from this "big picture" look at such an incredible culture. To adapt, to do your best no matter what, to endure far beyond what ANYONE would expect. Defeated but never vanquished. Coming from someone going through some shit right now - these phrases in particular were a surprising amount of comfort. Not what you set out to do, I know. But thank you anyway.

@SirNobleIZH Месяц назад

1:46:58 This is my favorite line about Rome I've ever heard

@thejcaesar42 6 месяцев назад

nearly 2000 years of history in three hours. Guess I know what I'm doing while i eat all my thanksgiving leftovers.

@marcuslouvierF1 6 месяцев назад

2206 years, 753 BCE-1453 AD

@runningthemeta5570 6 месяцев назад

I cannot express how well timed this is. I’m taking a Greek and Roman history class and this is great for studying for the class.

@KaisersPops 2 месяца назад

I legit had flashbacks to my senior year. Watching crash course by John Green everyday.

@Annathroy Месяц назад

This has to be one of the best videos on the said topic. Thank You for your effort.

@stampedlizzy736 6 месяцев назад

An almost 3 hour episode? Yes, please!

@christiancarson7566 6 месяцев назад

I love OSP. I wasn't sure about watching this one because of its' length, but three hours and three bottles of wine later; I'm glad that I did.

@OverlySarcasticProductions 6 месяцев назад

In vino, veritas. -B

@ghostblade5954 5 месяцев назад

@@OverlySarcasticProductions nell'acqua c'è il buon senso

@aw2584 4 месяца назад

@@ghostblade5954ego cacas ego et foetet

@garywray7998 3 месяца назад

Real

@SirNobleIZH Месяц назад

@@OverlySarcasticProductions In amethyst, there is meth

@BadPenny3 6 месяцев назад

My interest in the Roman Empire is probably less than the average person, but this was such a great video. It's hard to resist Blue's enthusiasm.

@davygravy7 3 месяца назад

I fell asleep listening to this and I was reliving through all of what you were saying for an hour and a half dream 🙃

@Giuliana22. 2 месяца назад

that happened to me a couple nights ago, woke up with rome on the brain xD

@bongo9384 6 месяцев назад

MY AUTISM IS FED, MY EMPIRE IS ROMAN, MY HISTORY IS BLUE. LETS. FUCKING. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Edit: Thanks for the heart, OSP! you guys are really cool!

@driftingnitro6490 6 месяцев назад

I just opened this video without looking at the runtime and only realized it was running longer than usual after 17 minutes LMAO. Wasn't expecting such a wealth of content this week. thank you blue.

@meeeg7029 6 месяцев назад

OSP saving my audhd ass from failing world history yet again!!! Y’all the goat!!!

@Kaede-Sasaki 5 месяцев назад

My adhd self can't sit for 3 hours, especially since the old Republic (500bc-300bc) part that I wanted lasted about 10 minutes in a 3 hour video. 😂 Imagine if 300 years was skipped/skimmed over in less than 10 minutes of the whole school year. 😂

@tapiocapearl0304 6 месяцев назад

Lowkey wanted this video to never end and Rome to never die. Like this was a movie and i was rooting for the hero. Haunted as all the things of our modern society that was shaped by Rome crosses my mind.

@jayhackett7240 6 месяцев назад

... I have an assignment due about this exact topic in 2 weeks. Draft plan complete but forced to have a sleepy day in after burning myself out on 3 assignments at once over the past week after binge-studying post-recovery from a chest infection. Bless you for this I can simply enjoy happily whilst getting my brain back from the comfort of 10+ blankets, you people are gods-be-damned angels.

@celticbear714 6 месяцев назад

I actually thought Caesar's Gallic Wars was a good read. There's some really patriotic speeches and moments sprinkled throughout, like how the first time the Romans beached on Britain everyone was too scared to press against the naked, screaming, British barbarians, and a standard bearer basically called them a bunch of pushovers and led the charge wielding nothing but a stick with an eagle statue on the end of it.

@kingeddiam2543 6 месяцев назад

Is there anywhere to read it for free do you know?

@Vgn1701 5 месяцев назад

Sorry, I have very strong opinions on anything Roman and I HATE Caesar. Sure it's an easy read, but urgh. The language is just boring and it's always the same. The Britain episode was interesting though I must agree. Cicero on the other end is my hero. I know his speeches was revised sometimes but the Latin rhethoric is just PEAK. Caesar's Latin is... well, read any modern history book and you know what his books are like. How did you come to read the whole of Bellum Gallicum? I'm studying Latin, so that's why I read it. Just interested in someone else who's maybe a bit as crazy ;)

@TurboImperator 5 месяцев назад

@@Vgn1701 I've read a translation and it was a pretty cool read. Boasting about cutting Gallic heads and arms, explaining the way he thought through his pardons and what not. Caesar is about the greatest person Rome has produced once you stop living a fairy tale of "politics can be honest and all disney marvel avengers like". Same with Octavian, ya he used propaganda, it's effective. Hate the game not the player.

@Vgn1701 5 месяцев назад

@@TurboImperator completely agree. I think Caesar & Octavian are super interesting people and analyzing their politics is fun. I'm just very emotionally invested in the Republic, so I'm more on Cicero and Cato's side of things. xD

@jaynoon6376 Месяц назад

Show them the good weather man

@olimarrion270 6 месяцев назад

I gotta thank Blue, the effort he puts into “doing history” is astounding. You rock Blue!!

@jeffreyzervos6938 2 месяца назад

Rome has been one of the most important cities for so long it's crazy to think about.

@alexsmith6281 6 месяцев назад

Congrats on finally compiling all the videos on Rome with new information sprinkled in. Just as I said before on the Geography Now USA video, I consider this video the magnum opus of Blue’s work on this channel.

@sechran 6 месяцев назад

"Everything else is just Livy's filler arcs." - ... I'm now imagining Romulus and Remus taking an episode to get their flying car driver's licenses.

@Ozzy08018 5 месяцев назад

I've watched this like 12 times already. Not as background noise, but actually watched it.

@hsthatzo8063 Месяц назад

Incredibly thorough, interesting video with fun humour🔥

@whowhenhowwhy 6 месяцев назад

My wife asked me how often I think about the roman empire, and my answer was "biweekly. No, the other bieeekly". And that's entirely on you.

@wholesome2399 6 месяцев назад

How often to do you think about The Roman Empire? Blue: I'm trying okay

@mysticmelodia 2 месяца назад

This is my 4th time watching this video (between the autism and love of history, my need for background noise while working and also existing, and the three-to-four hour drives between home and school, I know what works) and we’re reaching the point I’m starting to memorize things lmao

@drudenae Месяц назад

My brother in Christ, the glory of Rome is eternal.

@av1598 24 дня назад

Didn’t they kill Christ ? 🤨

@piotrmorawski1764 6 месяцев назад

The 4 hour long Complete History of the Most Serenene Republic of Venice, when? 😆

@0katsuki0 6 месяцев назад

bold of you to assume Blue wouldn't be the first 12 hour video essay

@piotrmorawski1764 6 месяцев назад

12 hours of thalassocratic goodness? My body is even more ready than in 1204 🦁🪽

@cosmodoge6565 6 месяцев назад

'Rome was a mess!' Roll credits

@mini3mayhem 5 месяцев назад

Jesus H. Christ, I remember you saying in the New Years podcast that this video was getting a lot of views really quickly but good god, a million views in a month is insane

@darksnakenerdmaster 6 месяцев назад

At first I thought this was a compilation video of previously released Rome videos. Now I know that it's a summary of sufficient detail to be considered the coursework of a history course on the ENTIRETY of Roman history

@metarcee2483 6 месяцев назад

It's both, actually.

@Cetadrius01 6 месяцев назад

I can't imagine the insane amount of work this took... Great job Blue and thanks

@theanimeunderworld8338 6 месяцев назад

I just ordered MANY pins and can't wait for them to arrive! Waited a long time for these

@MatthewStidham 3 месяца назад

That was your best video ever. Congratulations.

@smoorezog 2 месяца назад

I'd pay BIG bucks for more of these 2 hour long historical deep dives.

@requiem6465 6 месяцев назад

Blue still needs to do a video on the Sultanate of Rûm. Severely underrated Rome successor

@roarytheromanarcanine 6 месяцев назад

Blue you are insane. I can only imagine how much work this whole thing was.

@kendamo7034 4 месяца назад

This was an great summary. Ancient Rome is fascinating. The fact that they would flood the colosseum to have ship battles is amazing. It’s too bad they didn’t think to video them. That would be amazing to see.

@tavish4699 6 месяцев назад

This is a good overview of Roman history and a good starting point to further investigate certain points of its history Thanks for not overcomplicating it

@britfox7766 6 месяцев назад

30 minutes ago, and already christmas/saturnalia has come early! I thought it was impossible to surpass the Byzantine History video, but you guys have outdone yourselves again

@ocularpatdown 6 месяцев назад

Sol Invictus is the reason for the season.

@syrune 6 месяцев назад

Thinking about Rome is like loosing The Game. You just did both

@rosearcanum5021 6 месяцев назад

listening to blue speak so politely about augustus is incredibly funny bc my roman history professor had one (1) class about that man n he spent the whole lecture explaining why he thinks old auggie is a little bitch. shout out to him he was possibly the realest professor i had

@desertdove 6 месяцев назад

those are always the best professors 😂

@angusmacdonald7187 4 месяца назад

Many a moon ago I took a course entitled "The Fall of the Roman Empire". At the beginning of the class, the professor stated, "by the end of this class you are probably not going to be certain what the word 'Fall' means, and you definitely will be confused over the terms 'Roman' and 'Empire'; if I do my job well, you will also be confused by the words 'The' and 'Of'." One of the best history classes I ever took 🙂

@markadkins1842 6 месяцев назад

"A particularly salty period of Roman history..." when discussing Carthage. I see what you did there!

@jacobparry177 6 месяцев назад

Can't wait to rewatch this a few times over the course of 3 years until the 4hr version comes out👀

@SemiIocon 20 дней назад

Love the inclusion of the Age of Empires music in this. It's so nostalgic, yet so subtle.

@SupernovaOneFourOne 2 месяца назад

This is an incredible video because it's sometimes so hard to keep track of the order certain things have happened. This makes it super easy!

@writecraft7049 6 месяцев назад

Goddamn you finally did it didn’t you? All that practice, all that time to making the other things, just to get this one mega vid done, to finally make a documentary long history vid. . . Good job, blue. I hope cyan and red are fine.

@SentimentalMemories 6 месяцев назад

*Grabs popcorn* This will genuinely keep me entertained for years to come. Thank you for everything you do, Blue💙

@Rhiannonganon Месяц назад

I'm British so Rome definitely had a huge Impact on my country, I love visiting Roman towns, ancient and abandoned ones, we lived in porchester when I was a kid and it has a huge Roman fort right on a seafront, we used to go there for picnics, my bucket list now contains visits to Rome, Pompeii and Herculaneum, I'm just dying to visit but funds and two disabled kids aren't making it easy 😢

@niacdoial 6 месяцев назад

At some point during this video, I idly commented that the "paste works you already published together, then link them with an intro and a conclusion" structure is the same as in the PhD thesis I will be writing soon. and that's when it flipping clicked.

@PakBallandSami 6 месяцев назад

“Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.” -Saint Venerable Bede

@michaelscott6022 6 месяцев назад

Coliseum's looking awfully crumbly these days.

@AL_AFGHANI1 6 месяцев назад

Porkball

@BritReadsBritAuthors 6 месяцев назад

Oh, if *that* isn't prophetic, nothing is, lol@@michaelscott6022

@smithsonian2464 6 месяцев назад

A three hour video essay on Rome? Hell, fucking, yes.

@Lorekeeper72 6 месяцев назад

Well, I didn't expect this, I also never expected to be willing to listen to a 3 hour video thats basically just a collection of all of Blue's past videos on Rome. I'm glad to be wrong on both counts.