The Untold Story Of Emperor Vespasian | Vespasian | Odyssey 

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That would have been an awesome quote from him.

Agree

Fantastic, thank you.

A lot of documentaries do this

He definitely was an accomplished bad ass.

Anybody who believes that every race, color and creed was represented in Rome in 70 AD is swallowing typical UK propaganda. There is no proof of that assertion.

It would be nice to know how after the first failed attempt to control the city in which he nearly died. A few days later the town ended up jumping from a cliff 🤔

@@semprelazio8864 money

Well it was Machiavelli who came up with the list remember hahahaha

Nerva benefited from inheriting a perfected tyrant beurocracy and was from the senatorial class. Further, the traditional aristocracy had been 'refreshed' by Gaius, Nero and Cladius. The hard work was done and Nerva was from the right team. All he had to do was not implement a 'reign of terror'.

Well probably it's because Domitian was considered to be a not-so-good are even a bad emperor. To call the Vespasian to Marcus Aurelius era the "7 good emperors and one ok one" is a mouthful

@@faustusliviuspraetextatus6773 possibly time to revise Domitian assessment? He did expand the empire. So he executed a few nobs and got the chop it was Rome baby 😎

@@indyrock8148 I was considering the resources that were available to Machiavelli when he coined the term "five good emperor". Without the benefit of modern historical resources, Machiavelli would surely be led to think that Domitian was not that great. Today we know that things are not so simple, but alas, the term "five good emperors" is already ingrained. I also believe that the classification "five good emperors" was also made because Machiavelli was trying to make a point regarding adoption, so even if Domitian was indeed a good emperor, I don't think Machiavelli would still include him in the list.

It is the victor who writes the history.

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This episode is UTTER RUBBISH! Shallow British take on Vespasian and his times -- that's fully loaded with the standard set OF LIES AND IGNORANCE of Roman History cooked up in the Anglo-Saxon mind on the outs.

@@ewrrfewdrfer I don't mind you disagreeing - but rather than just knock the episode and accuse it of a standard set of lies and ignorance, how about you tell us what these lies and ignorance are - and supply evidence! Just shouting about it without providing any proof makes your words look like the ramblings of the deranged.

@@danielshepherd5635 that is why one should not trust Josephus to be entirely factual. Would you trust the words of a traitor who is employed by the victors? However, to discount them entirely could be as big an error as to accept them completely

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This channel doesn't make any videos...they just license them from other people and post them...

And also, they are all, in fact, originally from cable television.

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The Jewish revolts did not start in Palestine, but in the province of Judaea. The Romans renamed the province Syria-Palaestina in 135 CE, after stamping out the second rebellion, as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Judaei and the province. Nero died in 68 CE.

@@michaelmelamed9103 Revolt started in 66 AD and so Nero was the Emperor who dispatched Vespasian and Titus to quell the revolt.

Vespasian. Hadrian. Trajan. Who else?

@@AnnhilateTheNihilist To me. Augustus. Vespasian. Trajan, Aurelius.

He was far from a peasant, though he did great things 👌

@@AnnhilateTheNihilist Aurelian.

@@thijshagenbeek8853 agreed top to bottom

Actually Caesar , Mark Anthoy all were from the wealthiest cornellius Lentulus family going back 200 years before Caesar

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@@joepulpow.3285 And this family decided to dump Rome and rule through Egypt. That is why they tried to weaken Rom. Caesar's Oncle unleashed the Spartacus and his cousine was indicted ...this was then call the Catalin Conspiracy.....Read Sallust and you will see some awesome similarities ( like burning down the cities...)

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I don't know, but it's from the UK, and they do history. It's their THING. Also, they value intelligence. Nothing like here in the land of the Cult of Ignorance.

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The word "corn" is used in the first English translations of The Bible and was definitely not referring to "maize."

Go to 32:09 where he talks about the ancient view of the ocean. So damn cool!

Who is he?

Her name was Antonia Caenis

Yes glad the Romans also executed them too !

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@@LiminalQueenMedia ah cool thanks! Something to think about!

Yes great reads !!

Thanks for mentioning this. I got the first 3 on order. I read Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series of books a few years ago so I’m looking forward to these. I never heard about Vespasian until I watched the 1981 miniseries Masada. There’s a brief scene when the main character of the show played by Peter O’Toole meets Vespasian played by Timothy West. One of many great parts of the miniseries. Highly recommended if you haven’t seen it.

Hey, that line also gave us two of the greatest men of all time. Gaius Julius Caesar and Octavius, aka Augustus Caeser.

@@WilliamLawrence7 I guess we can argue about that. As so often it's the founders of a dynasty who are the powerful and charismatic leaders. What comes afterwards... not so much. Proven perfectly with the J-C Clan.

Claudius was not a bad emperor, though he did let his wives control matters too much.

@@anarchistatheist1917 I would agree. Women and freedmen. But he was a scholar, not a ruler, never mind military leader (the conquest of Britain wasn't him leading from the front like Caesar in Gaul). IIRC, he even said so (or it was reported that he did in either Livy or Sueton?) His lack of assertiveness arguably led to Nero (and the death of Britannicus).

@@michaelhoffmann2891 name 2 greater men from one dynasty. Although granted its a bit of a stretch to even call them from the same dynasty but still...

he built the Flavian Amphitheater on lands taken back from Nero

@@wenweisu99 Yep, lands that Nero took back after the 64CE fire of Rome

@Aaron Douglas That's a myth bro, Christians were never fed to animals, and were never persecuted for being Christians, but rather for not worshipping the Emeperor

@@SamoaVsEverybody814 and again chrustians, a sect that never was at that time. They who were persecuted were not christians, but rather a jewish sect, messiahnic judes, who revolted against Rome. Church fathers later appropriated them into Christianity. The winners write history, you know.

@@SamoaVsEverybody814 *Actually, they were fed to animals because NERO blamed them for the fire HE was responsible for. He blamed them because they were the odd men out. They were people that kept to themselves and didnt mix socially.*

I'll tell you an anecdote of the Emperor Vespasian. In Italy the name "Vespasiano", in addition to being the name of the great emperor who remembers history, is also synonymous with "public bath" as it was Vespasian who invented the road baths where the urine of travelers was collected and later sold to color the fabrics. One day his son Tito said to Vespasiano: Daddy, it's disgusting to collect urine! And he replied in Latin "Pecunia non olet", or "money has no smell!"

I'm a descendant of Vespasian's brother

@@OtaBengaBokongo Are you really?! 😀

You might like ‘Course of Honour’ by Lindsey Davis. An improvised telling of the story of Vespasian and his lover-come-wife Caenis’ lives.

Him and Titus...his son...detroyed Jerusalem and it's Temple in 70 CE

Woah. Marcus Aurelius was a proper boss dude. And Julius Ceasar was a genius, even if a little self absorbed

@@PhreekPestilenceCaesar had every right to be up his own arse tbf

Aurelian was a pretty impressive character, same for Constantine the Great. Hadrian was also pretty interesting.

Ha, ha! Nicely done.

@@tarnopol Genghis Khan did better.

@@darthvader5300 ...because he was a better sadist or a better lunatic?

​@@dayegilharno4988 Neither, but he is very intelligent and has common sense and the smarts and the WISDOM, despite the fact he is illiterate, and used terror to inspire loyalty but he knew not to push his men too far even thought they will follow him still. Hitler lost 800,000 men in the 1st year of his Russian invasion and he ignored the fact he lost the very cream of his officers and battle hardened and highly experienced commanders and troops. Regardless of the disinformation and misinformation circulating through the internet, Genghis Khan never lost a single battle, his casualties are extremely low, despite he can only field 500,000 men into battle, he crushed armies of many millions. He also knew how to rule within reason based on the situations and circumstances in different areas of Eurasia. I should know because our historians knew better to be honest to record everything in their complete entierty, even though we were defeated by him many centuries ago. But we learned from him and from his men and from his people and in time we were able to free ourselves from Mongolian rule.

@@darthvader5300 I was just trying to make a joke, but thanks for the extensive response (although the "armies of many millions" you mention give away that you are a little bit too much in love with the topic to be objective). You piqued my interest: Who is the "we" that you are referring to?

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Augustus was effective precisely because he did NOT present himself as an emperor.

@@user-no_body Yes, but he wasn't born to be Emperor. In fact, his family was of wealthy Plebeian status. A noble family, but Plebeian, nonetheless.

Augustus was the adopted son of Julius Caesar and made sure everybody knew it.

@@diarradunlap9337 Makes you think though bc so many people lived and died under his rule that 750 plus years of history became rewritten.

@@user-no_body Please expound, I'm not quiet clear on your points. Thanks

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In certain quarters it isn’t that uncommon.

Why Cincinnatus? The only achievement that he's well known for was ending his term as dictator...twice. There were others who did the same. E.g. Camillus, the Roman who saved Rome from the brink of being wiped from history, after Rome was sacked by the Guals. Camillus was made dictator x6 times...and 6 times he resigned power. (except one time the Senate forced him to serve out his entire term when tried to resign early).

@@tylerdurden3722 Marius the uncle of julius caesar saved rome from the Cimbri and the teutons.

I was thinking the same thing when I saw his profile on the Roman coin

I went to High School with Vespie and he used to have long rocker hair, honestly.

You look like you have a huge water melon head

@@KaiTakApproach Dude was a total jock, though! Once a jock, always a jock!

@@d.c.8828 I remember when he made Proconsul he started wearing a varsity jacket all the time, even in the 100 degree heat of Judea.