Who Were The Greatest Caesars Of Ancient Rome? | Romans with Tony Robinson | Odyssey 

As a doctor of history, I highly recommend this channel for all your historical needs. Although i do want to add, always follow the money for the truth of the matter. Do your own research as well. There's nothing like holding an ancient primary document! God Bless you all.

What is the point of informing subscribed followers in the Uk of documentaries they cannot watch in the UK? I'm just going to unsubscribe as all the best programs are not available to Brits and I keep getting excited to see you have blocked us from watching something good.

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I can hear it just fine and always have been able to. It would be YOUR issue if you can't hear the presenter, not the show. Use subtitles if you can't understand it

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 several people have commented on the volume of the music in conjunction with the narrative voice. I agree with them that a slightly lower volume of the music would be conducive to greater quality of the documentary and listening pleasure.

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 the subtitles actually drop out when he narration volume goes low. Everybody else is correct. The sound is all over the place, and does affect the viewing experience.

@@lorrainearmstrong7587, you can but most of us can’t, they need a better sound editor.

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 This is stolen and pirated from the BBC, and the sound balance is absolutely APPALING. The more I watch, the more I begin to think that the sound was not put through a compressor to fool RU-vid's Automatic Copyright Detection algorithm, the music is SO incongruent and out of place, and SO badly mixed, it was never on the original BBC production at all and has been deliberately added but very badly mixed: in order to fool YT's copyright detection. Down vote, report for copyright infringement. {:o:O:}

I'm just guessing, because I haven't verified with headphones, that this dub has a mono one channel audio signal, and if so, the one where Tony's voice is louder wasn't chosen. You may have noticed that guest speakers are never hidden behind music.

@@AnnieVanAuken Thank you.

I had to unplug / unpair the actual speakers to listen to this with the trash Tablet speakers because of the music killing the narration as well

Hold on im calling skrillex

I'm giving up. The music shooting up at odd times ruins the presentation for me.

Totally- just thought the same. I'm 5min in. need to remix this

@@mattwestfield351 Thank you, Matt. The music is not necessary. It's only a distraction. Thanks again.

I love Tony, but 19:40 why the fuck are you wearing socks in bed ????

@@lindalee3408 It's to avoid copyright

@@nassimboussaadia6720 That sounds true. I sure you are right. Thanks for the info.

Diarrea alert!

Omg I was just thinking the same thing lol. Looks like there's still a pulse for God's sake

I heard the cow screaming every time he made a cut!😮‍💨

You don’t eat your steak like that? No wonder you guys get sick all the time

That thing was damn near overcooked. You know, we have the longest intestinal systems of all land mammals? This is so we can eat a wide variety of foods. The diet used to consist heavily of fermented foods as well, it hardly does at all now. You must train your immunity like you would your brain, or your bicep. I’m sure the natives have ate a raw animal or two, they did just fine before their lands were demolished and poisoned.

god its overwhelming.

😂😂🤣!!!

I would love to see a mini series with co-naration by Tony AND Mary and not just naration but a discussion as well !

Me Too with Mary's husband because Mary is only four years younger than myself and I fell in 😘 with ancient History when 13 seeing pictures of the Pyramids and if I had not had a father that had to pay for college I would have been an archeologist but I was crushed by my father in 1972 telling me he sent me to college to find a husband not to find a life career. Feminist movement liberated women and they must not relinquish the freedom ever again as children isn't necessary for life happiness.

I can hear it just fine. Use subtitles if you can't hear the presenter

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 sorry are you a sound engineer because i am the sound is shocking. you need to be normalise sound. To normalize audio is to change its overall volume by a fixed amount to reach a target level. It is different from compression that changes volume over time in varying amounts. It does not affect dynamics like compression, and ideally does not change the sound in any way other than purely changing its volume. to make sound normal.

The mix is terrible! Every time the music is cued up it drowns out and/or competes heavily with the narration. I did, in fact have to use subtitles at some points and that should never happen. It's odd because I haven't noticed this problem with other Odyssey videos, which are typically stellar in all regards of their production.

Thanks for that explanation.We learn something new every day. 💜🫰🏼

Or...this is youtube...download the video onto editing software and reduce the music by 40% and turn up the audio to the video by 20%...easy fix...i have to fo this from time to time with my videos

@@BeautyByLinnoria ….it’s a stereo mix down …meaning merged in post production years ago. Those two tracks won’t be magically separated (in this case) if you still believe that’s possible still, I would urge you to do that and re upload it people would love that. But it’s such a long video and file it would take more time than it’s worth to do all that even if it was possible. But I say go for it

This is the way the show was done. Use subtitles if you can't deal with it

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 no thanks. I will pass.

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 it’s poor editing in filming if you ask me. I’m already hard of hearing and I hate using subtitles when the volume is already up very high

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 *_"It is done the way the show was."_* No, it's stolen and pirated from the BBC, and they've put it though a compressor to fool YT's automatic copyright detection. It levels everything flat, so when there are background sounds, Tony becomes almost inaudible. *_"Use subtitles"_* No, the thing to do is thumb down, Unsub and report the channel for copyright infringement. {:o:O:}

@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 This wasn't made by the BBC in the first place, which makes me doubt your knowledge as regards the rest of your statement.

It is done the way the show was. Use subtitles if you can't hear the presenter. I can understand them just fine

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 some of us are vision impaired

Worst sound editing I have ever heard. The most significant narration is drowned out by godawful, generic "boogeyman" music.

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 *_"It is done the way the show was."_* No, it's stolen and pirated from the BBC, and they've put it though a compressor to fool YT's automatic copyright detection. It levels everything flat, so when there are background sounds, Tony becomes almost inaudible. *_"Use subtitles if you can't hear the presenter."_* No, the thing to do is thumb down, Unsub and report the channel for copyright infringement. {:o:O:}

​@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095I will be glad to do what you suggest. Thank you.

Me, too. It was such a fascinating culture.

No, I think they've used a compressor of some sort that flattens everything and levels it all out. And whenever there are background sounds Tony goes even quieter. Probably done to out fox the copyright detection algorithm. The only way round it is to get the original DVD from BBC Productions. {:o:O:}

This is not the original one. This was originally a 4 part series which is still on the Timeline channel right now.

Yeah, well, I don't know why Julius Caesar is included in this "tyrannical emperors" video, as the view that he was "tyrannical", is certainly not objective, and he definitely was not "emperor"; in fact, the first Emperor of Rome was his adopted son, Octavian Augustus (30 BC-14 AD). As for "tyrannical emperors of Rome", Emperors like Octavian's (own) adopted son (and successor), Tiberius (14-37) would have qualified (at least, Emperors that came from Julia-Claudia Dynasty, the first Roman imperial dynasty). Also, right at the end of this video, a very important detail in Nero's reign (54-68) was left out: beginning in the year 66, fueled by real, and/or imaginary conspiracies, he unleashed a wave of terror on the members of the Senate (as well as other members of the nobility/patricians); this was (partly) the reason that, as soon as they could (in the year 68, shortly before his death/assisted suicide), the Senate declared Nero "enemy of the State".

@@mariusmatei2946 Yes, you are right to the detail of history. Julius Caesar was not tyrannical during his reign, and yes, not called Emperor......Caesar, after his death the rest of his successors were called Caesar. Thank you for the historical info.

@@miriamarit yes, "Caesar" (and variations of the name, e.g. "Kaiser", and/or "Czar") came to be synonymous with "Emperor".

@@mariusmatei2946 Yes, indeed...CAEZAR..CZAR OF RUSSIA, Czar Putin...sounds good eh?

@@miriamarit well, just like Czar Nicholas II, Putin's dragging Russia into the abyss!

I heard the narration just fine. Not sure what your issue is. Perhaps you should turn on the subtitles?

Yes, but I can’t help but think of my 1st knowledge of Tony Robinson as a comedic actor in Blackadder.

He had probably forgotten how...like many today.

Lewis .... small fellow? lol that small fellow is Sir Tony Robinson - and that meat looks raw!`

Ugh I almost threw up! It was raw!! 🤮

@@ChezzaAU ew!! Yeah it was! So gross!!

That meat was raw af.

Were the Romans civilization black people?

@@tommyjohnson6410 Depends on which part your talking about but if you're talking about Romans in Italia than they're skin complexion was white or middle eastern brown.

@heinrichbierhals-wn1xz my research is showing ancient Roman to be black people. Im thinking the whole Mediterranean area were black people.

@@tommyjohnson6410 Which research? I'm going to need some sources, I've never heard about this before.

@heinrichbierhals-wn1xz Well, I have learned that the Romans civilization was started by the Etruscans. We know that the etruscans were black people. The book Early Man in Britain by W Boyd Dawkins will tell you the Welsh, Scots, Iberians, Etruscans, and others were black people. We were lied to by racist scholars and historians. I was taught that the only blacks in Europe were slaves and servants. You can now look up online the color of Julius Caesar it will tell you he was much darker than his fake displays and pictures. So if the etruscans started Rome and they were black, then the Romans had to be black like the Greeks, Phoenicians, and the rest of the Mediterranean area. We know that Augustus Caesar was the 1st Emperor of rome. Negro was the fifth and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was directly related to Augustus Caesar. My question to you is why would a blonde or red hair, blue-eyed Caucasian man nickname himself Negro or Nero?? Negro and Nero means the same thing.

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That's a good point, that we would probably remember Caesar quite differently if the conspirators had won the second civil war. Even so, I think that Shakespeare has influenced how we remember the conspirators - Brutus and Cassius being cast as tragic heroes and probably getting a bit more credit than they deserved. When he wrote his Claudius novels, Robert Graves drew heavily on Suetonius, who drew heavily on the most scurrilous gossip about the Julio-Claudians to make the Antonine emperors look good by comparison. A lot of what we think we know about Caligula comes from Suetonius, and it's always interesting to see the historical evidence from different angles.

I'm with Rickard on this one. I never get ads

There's nothing new

Some of you whipper snappers seem very proud of your perfected hearing abilities making it impossible to face the fact the sound in this presentation needs adjusting.

@@naomisims7230 I was being 100% literal I've rewatched this doc 3 or 4 times. 👍

Tiberius Nero and commidius we're far worse I don't think ceaser was as bad as history betrays him to be but what he did to the Gauls was messed up. Sorry for the rant.

The two figures that changed the world had the initials "J.C"

Except that he shouldn't have been included in this "tyrannical emperors" video, as the view that he was "tyrannical", is certainly not objective, and he was definitely not an "emperor"; in fact, the first Emperor of Rome was Octavian Augustus (30 BC-14 AD), Julius Caesar's adopted son.

Admire? He was a piece of garbage from start to finish. Good riddance.

@@wvjeepguy8178 and you base your view on... what/care to explain what your view is based on?!?

@@mariusmatei2946 The documentary that we are commenting on? Did you just skip the entire thing? His own people murdered him for being a tyrant.

Poor Uncle Claudius was set up by Agrippina and her slimy son Nero

Same!