What Was Normal Life Like For A Roman Centurion? | Warriors Way | Odyssey 

Where is that centurion which live you said you were showing?

Great show. You keep history alive. Bravo

@13:59 he throw pilum like a grandma

Well.. it was interesting.. and I did see a few centurions walk by... the title is not really saying what this is about..

Finally a representation of Romans (my ancestors) that is historicaly accurate! 😊 bravo

There was this YT channel Invicta presenting what it takes for a legion on the move...very impressive and worth watching.

thank you

17:07 I've heard varying opinions on the pilum. Some say they were meant to bend on impact, however, I've also heard that it is a common misconception.

A "classic example was decimation" it was anything but classic... it was super exceptional... for super obvious reasons!!!

The battle of teutoburg forest happened in 9AD not 15CE.. another inaccurate documentary.

Simply not true that Germania limited their military abilities, the area wasn’t considered worth the expense and trouble there weren’t enough benefits for permanent conquests, even though Probus marched to the Elbe and considered annexing and reducing it to a Provence before his assassination.

cool documentary

Age of Empires II style music/sound effects, and I love it! 🏹 ⚔ 🛡 🗡 🏰

Being left handed would make being a legionary tough for me.

I have a Roman Centurions uniform and went trick or treating with my 2 year old grandson . It was great ! One person called me a gladiator ! I had to explain I spent 10 years ( Army ) in Centurion school and am not a slave . My Son's named Julius Caesar and my grandson Roman . I spent two years in Germany with an ADA Battery near Trier Germany and it was great . In 1984 , Trier was 2000 years old and they had the Legio XX march at the Port De Negro gates , I have a post card from it ! Make Rome Great Again ! I also have a recording production company , " 10th Legion Productions " . Research Giaus Crastinus , Primus Pilus of the 10th . I wrote a song " Primus Pilus " about him ! " Victus Romanus " !

The guy who got executed for forgetting his sword was told by his commander to go get it and put it on. The soldier went to his tent and came back totally naked except for his sword on his hip, trying to be funny. That’s why he was executed. Apparently his commander didn’t see the humor.

Augustus: “Varus, give back the legions!”

The secret to Roman dominance, and later their failures is mainly attributed to three factors. First, training, the legions were not comprised of conscripts, but professional soldiers who were well trained, and disciplined. Their punishments were beyond imagination for us today. The term decimation comes from the decimation punishment which was the execution of ever tenth soldier hence deci-mation. Secondly their equipment, it was perfectly suited to the tactics they used, thirdly would be their small unit formations. The way the legions were organized meant that they were easier to command, and could form different formations easier, and quicker, than a larger traditional army of the era. When you take those three factors into account, you have an extreme departure from the norm of the time. Other empires might have been able to field a larger army, but it wasn't as well trained, or organized which means not nearly as effective. Couple that with the mostly solid leadership they primarily had and it was deadly effective. Barbarians aren't going to send out a call for levies and be able to stop a legion. The formation tactics they employed were also cutting edge for the time. In later years, the organization broke down, the cohesion, the standardized equipment, and the over reliance on auxiliary troops means training declined as well. They tried to rely on the tactics that had served them so well, but were not becoming outdated. History has taught that a military that fights to win the last war loses the next one, it was true of Rome, of France (multiple times), and quite a few other empires.

The Gaul commander had fought with the Roman Legions . The Roman Legions like to day trained on team work. Some of the best example are the Korean lower rank officers. They were better trained than the ones I had in Vietnam. The Vietnamese Army was the worst for the most part you bought your rank.

Outfitting the Roman army alone never ceases to amaze me.

The picture is incorrect. Roman Centurions were black. BBC and Netflix told me.

Ah! Chromed stirrups! lol 7:37

Varus was a lawyer - not a military commander. He was petty and cruel. The legions were sworn to follow him. This was the principle cause of Teutonburg massacre.

There are several glaring inaccuracies in this documentary. The main one being that Rome was in no way the first standing or professional army. Additionally, prior to the Roman Army nations were not throwing their armies against each other in random, disorganized melees. Other armies like the Greeks, Macedonians and Persians were using formations and tactics long before Rome was even a thought. They speak about Decimation like it was a fairly common practice. Which it never was. It was an extreme punishment rarely used as killing 1/10 out a cohort was a massive waste of men. Each professional soldier is a massive investment in both time to train and money to kit out and feed. And now you would have to replace all of them. No commander is going to want to do that very often if ever. The reason decimation was effective as a punishment is because of its rarity .

31:37 Is that type of sophisticated recruitment letter real?

the guy with the good hair kinda reminds me of Seth Rogan…I’m gonna refer to him as Dr. Seth from now on whenever he shows up

War was definitely considered, more of just a way of life in pre-industrial times.

The soldiers would have been much fitter looking than the stand-ins pictured!

I dont know if they were the first but the Spartans had a standing army way before Rome!

The soldiers took oaths, but I don't recall the documentary mentioning generals having to take oaths. If anyone knows more?

Nothing against the guy with the thick accent, but a narrator for a video for American viewers he is not. It was very distracting. What were you thinking???

Signing on for 25 year's in the Roman Army tells me that there wasn't much dieing in the ranks. How did the Army calculate the likelyhood of dying within this 25 years.🤔

Think a soldier won’t lie? Ask him how much his pack weighs and how far he marched that day. 😂

14:00 what was that throw lmao.

I saw what a Roman looked like... the b picture on Roman meal bread 2

I'm wondering how "real" the weapons and armor are in this documentary. Are the extras wearing real chainmail, scale armor, and banded armor? It LOOKS real, certainly. More so than other docuentaries and tv shows, where they'd have "knitted mail" for example, or outright printed patterns or molded foam. The helmets look like they're metal instead of foam or plastic. Interesting attention to detail! Perhaps the "costume designer" should be commended in this case.

Roman Centurions were from the Congo, my grandmother told me so.

Reville: Yell at legionaries Dawn: Yell at legionaries Mid-morning: Yell at legionaries Noon: Yell at legionaries Afternoon: Yell at legionaries Evening: Yell at legionaries Dinnertime: Yell at legionaries Nighttime: Yell at legionaries Sleeptime: Yell at legionaries in dream After retirement: Yell at kids and neighours (but not the wife)

If anyone's very much into Roman warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

Pre Empire was very different for the average Roman soldier.

What ever happened to good ol AD & BC…….. history lost right there

"What Was Normal Life Like For A ?" I guess we'll never know...

46:56 "Belarius". Who is that? Does he mean Belisarius?

Not always a lot of good Roman commanders would not throw in the new recruits are auxiliary troops they wanted to train them because they were knew they were loyal .

wtf. This video didn’t talk almost ALL about Centurions. It was about the life of Auxiliaries. Good video, but shit TITLE. 😑

the legions in this documentry is a mix ture diferent eras!!!!????

The secret to Roman military success is engineering. The Romans showed up in mass, built forts and garrisons that were well protected and maintained. It was next to impossible to dislodge them. It was this engineering that won wars. Never forget when Cesar came to the Rhine he built a bridge across it (300 yards over 30 foot deep cold moving water) crossed it, chased the local armies for few weeks then turned and crossed the river and tore the bridge down. All to let them know he could do was he wished.

If they were on Hadrian's Wall it would be tough cold, wet, and freezing and they had to keep the Picts (in today's Scotland) from jumping over the Wall to attack Britain's (today's English) after the Romans left in the early 5th century the Picts attacked all the way down to the south coast of today's England, that's why the Britain's asked the Anglo Saxons to come and help them.

What did I just watch? The video doesn't show Julius (or Iulius) very much. Yet, he is supposed to be the viewer's POV character. The only action he does in the entire documentary is RUNNING AWAY?! Also, the narrative clumsily jumps around: the story starts at the time of Augustus, but after that the story veers wildly back and forth from showing the pre-Marian legions before 100 BC (look at the armor) to the sack of Rome in the 5th century AD?!

Bad title. WTF?

Otto von Bismarck did not like war but recognized you had to get into one if you want to prevent worse conflict in the future. And if you think he had a hand in WW1 think again it was the French who resented losing for 40 years that started the Triple Entente, basically a plot against Germany.

13:59 One of these recruits, is not like the others, one of these recruits, doesn't belong...

What happend to the centurion story ????

I feel like the title did not match

Panonia is not in the Balkans 🙄 From how good this documentary looks you would think you’d get your facts right.

We need a modern revival.

Roman never fell they became the church ⛪️

Mussolini kinda tried to do it on beer and cheese didn't he? Sorry bud... 😂

Ave true to Caesar

Oops. They would train the auxiliaries I'm trying to say train them to fight in the right sequence and order of the Roman tactics where they learn discipline and how to fight together that was their biggest success on the battlefield fighting together as a unit.

It's not lost forever. We can still LARP it.

Ignorance appears to be contagious

For the senate and the people of Rome.

I’d love to be able to travel back in time and start building nations and taking over lands. I often think about how I would do it lol

So what about the Centurions ?

History is way more clear with a Hellenic classical education, and someone who speaks like a native Greek and not as an outsider/foreigner who learned Greek. Dionysius Pyrrhus requests the exclusive use of Hellene in his Cheiragogy: "Never desire to call yourselves Romans, but Hellenes, for the Romans from ancient Rome enslaved and destroyed Hellas." And George Gemistus Plethon pointed out to Constantine Palaeologus that the people he leads are "Hellenes, as their race and language and education testifies". Ducas Vatatzes, wrote in a letter to Pope Gregory IX about the wisdom that "rains upon the Hellenic nation". He maintained that the transfer of the imperial authority from Rome to Constantinople was national and not geographic, and therefore did not belong to the Latins occupying Constantinople: Constantine's heritage was passed on to the Hellenes, so he argued, and they alone were its inheritors and successors. His son, Theodore II Lascaris, was eager to project the name of the Greeks with true nationalistic zeal. He made it a point that "the Hellenic race looms over all other languages" and that "every kind of philosophy and form of knowledge is a discovery of Hellenes […]. What do you, O Rome, have to display?" The ancient Greeks used the name "Italia" In addition to the "Greek Italy" and it was Ulfilas, a Greek Who Created the Early German Alphabet. The Greeks created it, the Germans copy it, and the English exploit it. 😅 No other small country can compare with Greece in terms of impact on human benefit. In the beginning... God created the Earth, and in the light blue waters, put a small ship to travel forever, in order not only to give birth but also to transfer great ideas all over the world ... He called that ship...HELLAS! 🐬🐬🐬🐬 The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus. 🐟🐟🐟🐟

Bismarck did not incite the Prussian wars. Also that term is not established. Get your facts right.

Ugh! I hate when people say chainmail! Its just mail lol.

Several inaccuracies. One for all, it was far, very far from the greatest, or even one of the greatest romans defeats through history... Battle of lake Trasimene, Caudine Forks, Cannea, Carrhae, Arausio. Tragedy for the Romans, but surely the outcome was in Rome not that dramatic, since it was, to exaggerate a bit, a mere "border" skirmish. However those other battles threatened the Rome´s very existence.

Got to hand it to them the Germans they have been a worthy battle and fighting opponent since the beginning

Well I'm pretty sure life was short for the centurion. It must have sucked but it was still better than being a peasant. 😊

Very good, thank you for this, well done it be. But, however, can we please keep it at "B.C.", "A.D." and NOT change it into anything else.. Try not to "change" history shall we...

Lol it’s not like that bruh I own a challenger mate

11:30 Why the hell will allow the roman military someone to leave with their full gear?

Why does this Roman soldier of Germanic origin look southern Italian? Especially back two thousand years ago, many Germans were blond. Tacitus said they seemed to be of a pure race (which is not true now):

Change the title from Centurion to Legionare.

This world is crazy apparently Netflix thinks Roman’s are black and Egyptians are white. I can’t wait until Angelina Jolie plays Harriet Tubman

Annoying as hell that you use CE instead of AD.

What were the Prussian wars of Independence? Not to be nit picky but that's error.

wasnt there like 15,000 men in a legion?.....

"pailum" javilins

Roma Invicta

Hey roman what was life like for you normal??? I mean we don't have to fear barbarians anymore.

How does the one scholar say teutoburg was probably worst defeat of Roman's? Cannae was much worse and Carrhae was close in casualties as well.

Centurions weren't just black. They were predominantly latin (roman), may there have been black roman soldiers? Yes,definitely in the latter years of the roman empire there were black ones. In fact, the roman solider Morris I believe was his name, it could be argued he was the first knight..so to speak. The code of chivalry. To say ,"they were only black is not true".

Roman Republic treated citizen soldiers much better.

What? No transecual Centurions? No DEI in Roman times?

All these centurions are strong independent women...

Not BCE, it's BC end of story!

5 minutes for the introduction and i turned off

I dont know how this Erik Walters got his PhD.? A lot of BS. Overall not a very good video.

I love Rome lol

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Why do Italians speak with an A at the end of the final word of their sentences when they speak English? Soldiers-a Roman-a Punishment-a Germans-a I'm of Italian descent and have no idea why they talk like that when they speak English... (Honest question I would really like to know)

What the hell is c.e.

Totally misleading name!!

using common era is a bit on the big nose aint it

It’s BC not BCE..so dumb cus the pc version still marks before and after Jesus ..just stop and get help

Almost most of the time after a big battle was won the commanders would have big parties hands hands out all kinds of gifts little sacks of silver and gold a portion of the money of sale of the slaves the generals were always good the most of the time to their troops the ones that ate the same food and slept in the same tents who are the most successful