Hadrian - Rome's Restless Emperor Documentary

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  • @PeopleProfiles
    @PeopleProfiles  3 роки тому +8

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  • @ethanramos4441
    @ethanramos4441 4 роки тому +148

    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not fact. Everything we see is a perspectives, not the truth.”
    Hadrian

    • @ll-mc8bx
      @ll-mc8bx 4 роки тому +3

      So reality is a lie?

    • @00HoODBoy
      @00HoODBoy 4 роки тому +4

      @@ll-mc8bx it's just a story your brain tells you, no way to know for sure

    • @Comdesron17
      @Comdesron17 4 роки тому

      Hadrian - a pee-pee sniffer! lol So when he said this shit, "everything we hear is an opinion ....." was right after he took a good pounding up his ass! LMAO

    • @hououinkyouma3864
      @hououinkyouma3864 4 роки тому +3

      @@Comdesron17
      I can smell your foreskin collection from here.

    • @61subsandnovideos
      @61subsandnovideos 3 роки тому

      we see are perspectives* sorry can't help it

  • @juliuskithiki9484
    @juliuskithiki9484 4 роки тому +70

    A great ruler. As for his acts of violently subjugating rebel provinces that was expected of him as a ruler for peace had to be secured at all costs for the prosperity and the stability of the empire. I admired his practical step of withdrawing the Roman forces to the Euphrates territories beyond this frontier which had be acquired by his predecessor as a means of securing peace with Rome's old enemy and rival parthia

  • @colonelgraff9198
    @colonelgraff9198 4 роки тому +168

    “Yo Hadrian!” - Rocky Balboa

  • @CeridwenLynne
    @CeridwenLynne 4 роки тому +75

    Very interesting video. I think Hadrian was one of the greatest emperors of Rome along with Augustus, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, and Constantine. A lot of people seem to think that all Roman emperors were depraved, insane, and cared only about pleasure but this is not the case. Yes, Caligula, Nero, Domitian, and Commodus were likely unhinged but the majority of Roman emperors were either great leaders, able administrators, or average men. Hadrian was definitely a man ahead of his time. A very under rated emperor IMO.

    • @gandalfthegrey2592
      @gandalfthegrey2592 4 роки тому +14

      Woah take that back about Domitian. He was a great leader. Have you read up on any of the newer research on him? The Ancient Historians didn't like him. Domitian is a great Emperor.

    • @CeridwenLynne
      @CeridwenLynne 4 роки тому +4

      I’ll have to read up on him. I always thought he was a bit on the insane side in that he was paranoid everyone was plotting against him and had all these people killed. I do agree that he did do a lot of good things as well. He wasn’t nearly as bad as Caligula, Nero, or Commodus.

    • @powerist209
      @powerist209 4 роки тому +1

      And based on Nerva, he almost got killed (luckily he was only kidnapped and released once the deed was done) for pardoning Domitian’s assassins and part of his job also include appeasing his supporters than outright purge, which might show how popular he was.

    • @TheEminemOwns
      @TheEminemOwns 4 роки тому +5

      Claudius and Vespasian both deserve to be mentioned before Marcus Aurelius and Constantine as greatest emperors imo!

    • @Glaskruset
      @Glaskruset 4 роки тому +4

      I think its a shame that Caesar died when he did. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if he had time to roll out more reforms. Although he wasnt an emperor

  • @Blagon
    @Blagon 4 роки тому +60

    One of the most underrated emperors. Happy for this updated version

    • @saintofgamblingtv5134
      @saintofgamblingtv5134 4 роки тому +13

      Hadrian is actually quite well known today, one does not even have to be interested in history for knowing who he was. Hadrian is considered one of the greatest emperors by many and only those who study history yet doesn’t follow up todays people claims him to be ”underrated”. It’s true that he once was amongst historians, back then history wasn’t a part of our society on a same level as now. However, more precise term which you could’ve used would’ve been ”overlooked” as that sadly is true because only a handful has covered Hadrian on UA-cam

    • @jasonnaimie5465
      @jasonnaimie5465 Рік тому

      I agree.

  • @vespelian5274
    @vespelian5274 4 роки тому +38

    Hadrian was a uniquely modern man. A man of his time, but in many ways ahead of it and one of the few who could fit seamlessly into the modern age. One the great Caesars.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 3 роки тому

      About that he is actually Gay despite being married (unhappily)

    • @Michael_the_Drunkard
      @Michael_the_Drunkard 3 роки тому

      @@forickgrimaldus8301 that would make him bisexual. An unhappy marriage does not mean, he wasn't into women

    • @virginiaanyanwu9563
      @virginiaanyanwu9563 2 роки тому +2

      @@Michael_the_Drunkard true, and you've got to realize he was marrying his second cousin, one in which he had a 10 year age gap with. Him 24, her 14. I don't think anyone would be happy about that

    • @schoe2164
      @schoe2164 Рік тому

      ​@@virginiaanyanwu9563 Antinous was 11

    • @jasonnaimie5465
      @jasonnaimie5465 Рік тому

      I agree.

  • @stephanebelizaire3627
    @stephanebelizaire3627 3 роки тому +6

    Emperor Hadrian was a Great Ruler, and a Great Head of State, even today, He would be consider as a Great Politician, Great Reformer who loves his country and people. Bravo !

  • @oliviermosimann6931
    @oliviermosimann6931 3 роки тому +13

    My favorite roman emperor after Marcus Aurelius & Trajan. His wall in northern England still impresses new generations, to mention but that.

  • @naiman4535
    @naiman4535 4 роки тому +24

    I think that Hadrian was a mixture of both wise ruler and autocrat. By the time he became Emperor, Hadrian had risen up through the ranks of the empire, and had already proven himself to be a capable general and administrator. The wisest thing he ever did was probably to scale back on Trajan's expansionism to consolidate and defend the Roman Empire, even at the cost of losing some territory. Hadrian took a rational approach of cost / benefit analysis - what did a region cost to administer versus what did it bring in in benefits and revenue? By the time Hadrian came along, Rome had already transitioned from a more democratic Republic to a more autocratic Empire.

    • @nicodangond5822
      @nicodangond5822 2 роки тому

      Every emperor was by definition an autocrat LMAO

  • @estanislauborges8832
    @estanislauborges8832 3 роки тому +4

    Hadrian's reign, in my historical analysis, marked the cultural and "architectonic" apogee of Rome. During his reign, several architectonic works were carried out not only in Rome itself, but throughout all the empire. Hadrian, for example, rebuilt the famous Pantheon of Agrippa, which was once, in my historical analysis, the greatest architectural masterpiece of Augustus' reign, that is, it was the main "symbol" of Augustus' intention to transform Rome into a "city of marble" ("marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi"). Hadrian's intention to rebuild the Pantheon, for example, was not only intended to replace the original Pantheon built during Agrippa's third consulship (27 BC), but it was also intended to "symbolize" the glory of Rome.

  • @Joe11Blue
    @Joe11Blue 4 роки тому +60

    Don't forget, he built a wall.

    • @MendTheWorld
      @MendTheWorld 4 роки тому +1

      (.. speaking of authoritarian despots who use the resources of their empire to their own selfish ends, whilst crushing anyone who challenges him).

    • @bluewolf7572
      @bluewolf7572 4 роки тому +2

      sideways comment. your point?

    • @graccusbro2061
      @graccusbro2061 4 роки тому +2

      unlike Trump who only promised it lmao

    • @joetrimble7953
      @joetrimble7953 4 роки тому +4

      @@graccusbro2061 don't be ignorant. There are miles of wall delivered despite the idiots opposing Trump's protection. We need more brutal men who love the country.

    • @graccusbro2061
      @graccusbro2061 4 роки тому +2

      @@joetrimble7953 maybe a bit more intelligent though

  • @draekodamen-smith8434
    @draekodamen-smith8434 4 роки тому +15

    I am of the mind that Hadrian was an exceptional leader of his time. He maintained Rome and kept it viable. He was not depraved like his predecessors and reads as being quite sane. I think it's important to remember his part in the current Middle Eastern Israel/Palestine problem, and the ramifications his actions had for fostering the harsh phenomenon of European antisemitism. He decisions left powerful marks lasting more than a millennium. This is most impressive.

    • @Nana91171
      @Nana91171 4 роки тому +2

      Hadrian had quite a lasting impact on Israel/Judea; research 'Hadrian's Curse.'
      The 'curse' is part of why the Jews despise him so much.

    • @Michael_the_Drunkard
      @Michael_the_Drunkard 3 роки тому +3

      It was neither the first time nor was it warranted. Ever cared to look for the reasons instead of using self-serving power words like a€ti s%mi#ism and immediately designating them as innocent

    • @MybeautifulandamazingPrincess
      @MybeautifulandamazingPrincess Місяць тому

      I disagree. Jews have nothing to do with us Europeans, we are not the same. And people like you need to stop including them in everything concerning us

  • @alvar534
    @alvar534 4 роки тому +4

    One of the four emperors and over 300 senators spain gave to rome , and among them probably the best of all roman history in the words if roman chroniclers themselves , trajan

  • @rwarren58
    @rwarren58 4 роки тому +5

    Thank you for this wonderful documentary! The world needs to remember where it's been so it knows where it's going. I am like #600 and subscribed.

  • @jasonnaimie5465
    @jasonnaimie5465 Рік тому +1

    Hadrian was in the top 5 of the greatness of Roman emperors. second to emperor Augustus. Had the other emperors followed Augustus advice after the 9AD event, the roman empire might have lasted a lot longer than it did. great video

  • @petersclafani4370
    @petersclafani4370 4 роки тому +5

    One of the greatest emperors.

  • @julianterris
    @julianterris 4 роки тому +8

    I can't help thinking how enlightened Hadrian was. Clearly centuries ahead of his time, -loved by the people and loathed by the senate. What's not to like? Understandably not popular with the Jews, but he would have seen them (within his point of reference) as "outsiders" -I'm not endorsing that perspective, but he probably thought of them (in comparison with Rome and Athens as being "backward" He certainly managed a progressive vision with the vast majority of his subjects. I feel sorry for his long-suffering wife. Quite a fascinating "modern" character.

    • @powerist209
      @powerist209 4 роки тому +2

      Well, Historians think that he maybe homosexual even if you ignore implied pederasty.
      I mean accounts do show him being unhappy with his wife and awfully too close to male even by Roman standards.

    • @Thumper-cu6wc
      @Thumper-cu6wc 4 роки тому +1

      He's great if you're not Jewish or agree with living under an overlord. He was good for Rome, but was he good everyone else?

    • @danielavalsangiacomo6691
      @danielavalsangiacomo6691 4 роки тому +3

      @@Thumper-cu6wc rome was the world Back then. so yes. Civilization was rome and rome was civilization.

    • @Thumper-cu6wc
      @Thumper-cu6wc 4 роки тому +1

      @@danielavalsangiacomo6691
      Rome stole everyhing.

    • @hououinkyouma3864
      @hououinkyouma3864 4 роки тому +8

      @@Thumper-cu6wc
      Not stole. CONQUERED. All is fair in warfare.

  • @kevindavis8120
    @kevindavis8120 4 роки тому +7

    He right at the top. Remember Roam fell because it was over extended.

  • @paulabarra5431
    @paulabarra5431 3 роки тому +4

    I love Hadrian. I believed he is one of the most complex Roman emperor. I love his genius mind, and he was a very educated man. He took his time to get to know his people. He was smart and careful about his moves and often option for Democratic and non confrontational ways of dealing with border hostilities. He saved the Roman Empire men and coin.
    the only thing I do not like is that he is part to blame for the conflict between the Palestinian and the Israeli.
    Also I felt bad for Hadrian that after spending all his live since he was wedded to run away from his wife they still buried her next to him.

  • @daidsingszutu5728
    @daidsingszutu5728 8 місяців тому +1

    Emperor Hadrian is definitely one of the great rulers of human history.

  • @georgiaholmes5199
    @georgiaholmes5199 4 роки тому +6

    Thank you 😊

  • @rosariofurtadoleite9604
    @rosariofurtadoleite9604 4 роки тому +8

    Hadrian was IMO the greatest Roman Emperor. He was a man ahead of his time. He is the father of the greco-roman civilization.

  • @alfonsomartinez328
    @alfonsomartinez328 4 роки тому +4

    Excellent documentary!, would you ever consider doing one on Marcus Aurelius please?!?!

  • @GabrielSoares-ju9yq
    @GabrielSoares-ju9yq 4 роки тому +9

    theres a book about him from marguerite yourcenar, called Memórias de Adriano in my portuguese edition. It must be one of the most beautiful books ever written

    • @jacey1963
      @jacey1963 4 роки тому +1

      Thanks for the recommendation, here's a link to it should anyone be interested in further reading (Version is in Spanish): www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/8435018393/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thepeopleprof-21&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=8435018393&linkId=de5369a9f2fde67cdc383b7e75fc4b0b

    • @jamesrobiscoe1174
      @jamesrobiscoe1174 4 роки тому +1

      Yourcenar's biography is a treasury of insights on the man and his times. I've got the English version in my library. She's quite an historian and he's quite the man.

    • @CeridwenLynne
      @CeridwenLynne 4 роки тому +1

      I’m going to have to read that one. I’ve read Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome by Anthony Everett and enjoyed it. Hadrian is one of the more interesting Roman Emperors.

  • @soloar2007
    @soloar2007 3 роки тому +2

    thank you for this video

  • @NickVenture1
    @NickVenture1 3 роки тому +3

    This Emperor did not live long enough. 25 years more of his reign would have been better.

  • @Mezotm
    @Mezotm 2 роки тому

    Fantastic documentary very informative

  • @stephenparker4083
    @stephenparker4083 Рік тому +1

    For a sense of Hadrian from inside his skin, read The Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Youcenar, published in the mid-1950’s.

  • @brivonn5222
    @brivonn5222 4 роки тому +3

    Wow what an awesome channel! I just discovered it today and watched a few episodes already. Very informative and detailing and I love how you took your time and dedication to provide us with some very useful info and resources. Keep up the good work!

  • @simpicusmaximus
    @simpicusmaximus 4 роки тому +18

    Hadrian's only mistake was not wiping Judea off the map

    • @anja1627
      @anja1627 4 роки тому +6

      Why do you hate the Jews so much? What did they even do to you? 🙄

    • @asukafag1629
      @asukafag1629 4 роки тому +2

      He did it in a certain way lmao

    • @graccusbro2061
      @graccusbro2061 4 роки тому +3

      @@asukafag1629 >Syria Palestina

  • @stefansoder6903
    @stefansoder6903 4 роки тому +7

    This is excellent! Thank you! But why such a hurry when talking? You speak too fast and the pronunciation of foreign names and places are very hard to understand.

    • @christopherbawden8714
      @christopherbawden8714 4 роки тому +6

      Hello narrator here
      It's something that I, as an artist who is still honing my craft, will try to improve on. Sadly my Pronunciation and speed need a little tweaking and refining so hope you can forgive it and still enjoy the content! ☺️

  • @alexandruboldurescu7664
    @alexandruboldurescu7664 4 роки тому +1

    Impressive video

  • @grampajim1595
    @grampajim1595 2 роки тому

    Hadrian was a great ruler; he provided stability and prosperity for the vast
    majority of Rome's various peoples. His idea of consolidating the current
    borders resulted in decades of peace and prosperity after his death, only
    ending with the calamitous rule of Commodus.

  • @andrewlambert7246
    @andrewlambert7246 3 роки тому +2

    Impressive wall by any standards!

  • @elbee360
    @elbee360 2 роки тому +2

    Man of vision

  • @rodneymeeks4166
    @rodneymeeks4166 4 роки тому +9

    Old Trajan’sbusts kinda look like younger Emperor Palpatine 😂

    • @Duke_of_Lorraine
      @Duke_of_Lorraine 4 роки тому +2

      Even better : Constantine looks exactly like Sylvester Stallone

    • @vynonyoutube1418
      @vynonyoutube1418 4 роки тому +1

      Palpatine's design was actually based off Augustus. Specifically a statue of him with Pontifex Maximus robes.

    • @rodneymeeks4166
      @rodneymeeks4166 4 роки тому

      VYNLT well that makes perfect sense! 👌🏻

  • @akuleet6029
    @akuleet6029 Рік тому

    14:00 The betrayer Scorilo showed the Romans where the gold was hidden. Decebalus deviated the course of a river and hid the gold underneath then killed the workers*(which weren't Dacian) to keep it secret.

  • @josephsmith6777
    @josephsmith6777 4 роки тому +1

    Hes def in the top 5 ceaserss

  • @hanzohasashi6341
    @hanzohasashi6341 8 місяців тому +1

    hadrian before he became an emperor , was praefectus of athens... when he visited the city as an emperor , a huge marble gate (known as gate of hadrian, which still stands tall) was built to honour him !

  • @dataadam8638
    @dataadam8638 4 роки тому +3

    i loved the voice! supercool!

  • @Jeffcoaster
    @Jeffcoaster 4 роки тому

    Nice video... but isn't that a painting of Catiline at 4:03? That's not Hadrian.

  • @wetteefun
    @wetteefun 2 роки тому +3

    Imagine what a lucky bastard Antinoös must have been to get such a powerful and handsome daddy!

  • @tiberiudavidstingu9732
    @tiberiudavidstingu9732 3 роки тому +1

    This Hadrian is ❤💛💙

  • @BalkanMode
    @BalkanMode Рік тому

    Did Spain and Spanish exist in 76 AD? Did Hadrian’s “Spanish” mother speak Spanish?

  • @therearenoshortcuts9868
    @therearenoshortcuts9868 3 роки тому +1

    I thought the title said:
    Hadrian - From Pantheon to Patreon

  • @alexandercarder2281
    @alexandercarder2281 4 роки тому +5

    He built Hadrians wall

  • @mboyd692
    @mboyd692 Рік тому

    Excellent biography

  • @pavelavietor1
    @pavelavietor1 4 роки тому +4

    Hello TRAYANO , HADRIANO , JUSTICIANO. THE MUST INFLUENTIAL IBERIANS. SALUDOS TO ALL THE IBERIANS ON THE PLANET

  • @rabbisenpaisteingoyimman5572
    @rabbisenpaisteingoyimman5572 3 роки тому +22

    Hadrian did nothing wrong

    • @freckleheckler6311
      @freckleheckler6311 3 роки тому +1

      Lmfao what’s this a reference for? And why does Hadrian receive it?

    • @EternalEmperorofZakuul
      @EternalEmperorofZakuul Рік тому

      ​@@freckleheckler6311 fyu the bar kokba revolt that Hadrian later suppressed and destroyed Judea

  • @CissyBrazil
    @CissyBrazil 4 роки тому +9

    Never seen this before on a man, but his beard reaches around to the hair on back of neck. Sideburns are non existent. Lol.

    • @rodneymeeks4166
      @rodneymeeks4166 4 роки тому +1

      I know, I’m thinking about bringing it back! 🙉

    • @trevorfuson715
      @trevorfuson715 4 роки тому +1

      Damn hipsters !!Even in Rome...

    • @raymondkisner9240
      @raymondkisner9240 4 роки тому

      Hey he was the first modern hippie! Peace love and all the free love you can have!

  • @sir.fuentes7642
    @sir.fuentes7642 3 роки тому +2

    Italica, Spain.

  • @jaylockwood5030
    @jaylockwood5030 4 роки тому +1

    Pennywise the clown spotted 10:10 time travelling

  • @ldhmnh
    @ldhmnh 4 роки тому

    Good voice to take naps to

  • @talrulez
    @talrulez 2 роки тому

    "He was a hero, he called for freedom
    All the (Jews) people loved him, Bar Kochva is a hero!"

  • @danicornea
    @danicornea 3 роки тому +1

    Sorry folks...The Map of Roman Empire isn't acurrate...Simply because Emperor Trajan did not conquered 100% of King's Decebalus Kingdom of Dacia in 106 ad...only 1/3 rd of it...so you have to adjust it ...Kingdom of Dacia is nowaday Romania....Free dacians remained outside of roman dacian province....in 275 ad Emperor Aurelianus had left this province withdrowing south of Istros( Danube ) river which became the border of Rome with dacians for the next centuries until 476 ad when Roman Empire collapsed....

  • @jaybirdsf
    @jaybirdsf 4 роки тому +3

    This documentary says that Hadrian was born on January 10. Every source I've found cites his birthday as January 24. Are you trying to confuse me?

  • @BradyReese
    @BradyReese 2 роки тому +5

    Hadrian almost saved the world 🌎

  • @hadrianjohnstone6578
    @hadrianjohnstone6578 2 роки тому

    He was a product of his environment and as is common knowledge shows absolute power corrupts absolutely you cannot judge a person only their action's and the reason for their actions..

  • @johni9073
    @johni9073 4 роки тому +4

    I think you should have mentioned the policy of expelling Jews from Judaea after the Bar Kochba revolt. This was a major feature in the development of the Jewish diaspora and one of the seeds of one of the major problems of the world today, in Middle Eastern and global politics.

    • @johni9073
      @johni9073 4 роки тому +2

      @Christopher yrump Not what I meant. The important feature was Hadrian's policy decision and this in my view needed mentioning, since it had significant effect on subsequent world history. The people around at the time needed to be clear about priorities. "What did the Romans do for us" stuff, etc. What alternatives were there for more tolerance about religion? Any? But too often, such thinking is not just beyond the ability of fanatics, but deemed by many of them as taboo. After all, extreme nationalism is not about "thinking", but about "feeling". And if you "feel" the wrong feeling, then you're out.

    • @johni9073
      @johni9073 3 роки тому

      @c r I'm not laying blame on anyone on any side. I'm pointing out an important historical consequence of Hadrian's policy that hasn't been developed in the video. I understand nationalism to be mainly about emotion - you need to "feel" national, much more than reason your identity. In this, religion is a major feature, whatever that religion is. (So too is common language, though that's more rational, considering the importance of communication). However, in matters linguistic, Latin failed in the eastern part of the Empire, where things remained Greek, with local languages around too. Hadrian was of course, very well known for his flamboyant philhellenism. The move under the Antonines that Hadrian seems to have initiated, that got formalised under Caracalla, and that I see as really important, is the changed conceptualisation of citizenship, in at least legal terms, if perhaps not clearly practical ones. Caracalla of course, is often given base motives about wanting to increase the tax base for military adventuring, and that's credible. But there also seems to have been a real, political motivation too. Apparently, he was well educated, not stupid, if brutish, and had a mum who was highly interested in developing ideas about governance. The Constitutio antoniniana seems in many ways to have been an intellectual culmination and turning point, starting out as a major development in thinking about citizenship under Hadrian.

    • @johni9073
      @johni9073 3 роки тому +1

      @c r I don't agree. This is NOT about "Jewish exceptionalism", It's a point that Hadrian's policy fed a diaspora movement that has had serious repercussions ever since, right up to the present day. It's nothing to do with claims to validity for a "Jewish homeland". It's all to do with "ethnic cleansings" as political policy whose consequences remain a source of serious conflict.
      When and where exactly have I "demand[ed] consideration of a "Jewish case" as "exceptional"? Please read more carefully what I have posted for you.
      I'd add that Caracalla seems to have been exceptionally harsh in his treatment of Alexandrians in Egypt. For what major reasons seems to be very unclear: party political? racist? anger? or a whole range of other possibilities. We just don't know, though some historical sources interpret his motives as personal pique at feeling criticised and unloved.

    • @theshmancemancer
      @theshmancemancer 3 роки тому

      @c r they revolts were sparked from continuous oppression from the romans which lead to an uproar of violence. It's difficult to say who exactly started it, but it definitely isn't one sided.

  • @Halfdanr_H
    @Halfdanr_H 4 роки тому +1

    A great summation of Hadrian’s life. I’ve one criticism to offer: Decebalus is pronounced with a hard C. I appreciate you’re not using Classical Latin pronunciations for other names, but this one was very jarring to hear with the soft C.

  • @101SEAL
    @101SEAL Рік тому

    He sailed for Judea, followed by 12 legions.

  • @kimberlybrown5348
    @kimberlybrown5348 3 місяці тому

    Colonizer!😊

  • @henrikrolfsen1889
    @henrikrolfsen1889 2 роки тому +1

    The greatest of Rome's Builders. And what made him even greater? Women had absolutely no power over him. Hadrian much preferred the frim smooth bodies of teenage boys.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 2 роки тому +2

    Well I know one thing Jews they sure aren't a fan of him.

  • @kathleenogrady8459
    @kathleenogrady8459 Рік тому +1

    The narrator talks way too fast.

  • @eurtunwagens2359
    @eurtunwagens2359 8 місяців тому

    Strange person. So many contradictions ! But, the prosperity of the most people always prevails: the historian said: "He never, willingly, started a war". That is enough, for me, to count him, in the good guys.

  • @desertfox8583
    @desertfox8583 3 роки тому

    Previous to Hadrian's wall there were other 2 made of timber. Brits like to brat a lot about that the North of Scotland wasn't taken cause of the strength of their tribes, this is nothing further than the truth. Scotland wasn't completely taken cause the empire was already huge and there weren't enough legions to guard its frontiers.

    • @grampajim1595
      @grampajim1595 2 роки тому +1

      I kinda think that Hadrian saw Scotland as a very poor place with particularly
      stubborn people .. today's cost vs benefit analysis, and [correctly] concluded
      that Scotland was not worth invading.

    • @desertfox8583
      @desertfox8583 2 роки тому

      @@grampajim1595 You are right. I couldn't agree with you more.

    • @user-xo9pz7fd3j
      @user-xo9pz7fd3j 5 місяців тому

      Not to forget that between 78 and 84 AD the great Roman general Agricola invaded Scotland, defeated locals in the Battle of Mons Grapius, navigated around the country since coasts of Ireland. Then the emperors decided that was not cost effective to occupy that country, retired to Britannia and built the Wall. Enough va was enough

  • @tempuraadamsson6905
    @tempuraadamsson6905 8 місяців тому +2

    Antinous was HOT; Hadrian was too!

  • @rainwellwisher7075
    @rainwellwisher7075 4 роки тому

    Hadrian and seven sleepers of mount Angeles.

  • @Hadori-kun
    @Hadori-kun 3 роки тому +1

    why is this person copying my name

  • @guderian557
    @guderian557 4 роки тому +7

    'feet'? 'miles'? Only about 4% of the world's population use those arcane, obsolete units of measurement. If you upload a video to youtube, a global platform, use standard units of measurement!

    • @mrf3969
      @mrf3969 4 роки тому +3

      Is this seriously your problem? Christ if units of measurement get you so riled up as to comment on a history documentary, then you should maybe check your priorities and see there are much bigger issue's going on in the world than terminology used in a video.

    • @gilesjackson9996
      @gilesjackson9996 4 роки тому

      Lol Johan,got the metric left hook in there, what units did your forefathers use? 😄

    • @mrf3969
      @mrf3969 4 роки тому

      @Zeljko Trifunovic nope not a Christian at all and in fact don't believe in an almighty, but seems to me like you go through videos for comments like my previous one to troll? If so, the internet probably isn't the place for you...much worse things that the use of a deity's name to comment on and get riled about, or are the last few months not something on your radar?

    • @guderian557
      @guderian557 3 роки тому +1

      @c r You would think so at first glance, but the opposite is actually true. There are about 2 billion English speakers world wide, but only about 20% of those would know about 'imperial' or US customary units. So 80% of the English speaking world and 100% of the non-English speaking world use standard units of measurement.

  • @BlueMoonCircus
    @BlueMoonCircus 4 роки тому

    Is this narrator’s voice real?

  • @tiberiudavidstingu9732
    @tiberiudavidstingu9732 3 роки тому +1

    This Hadrian look like a Dacian😄

  • @pauljohansson363kagy5
    @pauljohansson363kagy5 4 роки тому +5

    Animula, vagula, blandula
    Hospes comesque corporis
    Quae nunc abibis in loca
    Pallidula, rigida, nudula
    Nec, ut soles, dabis iocos.

  • @johnrichardson7310
    @johnrichardson7310 4 роки тому +1

    Question why did roman emperor's take a wife if it's was know that the emperor was bisexual or gay? I just curious because Hadrian seem more stable headed and wise than other roman emperor's.

    • @rogerpropes7129
      @rogerpropes7129 4 роки тому +9

      In pre-Christian Greece and Rome marriage was a political and economic business arrangement, designed to produce children and leave the man, and sometimes the woman, to enjoy adulterous lovers, courtesans and whores, boys, and slaves of both sexes. Heterosexual monogamous marriage only filtered into their society and ours from the Christians, for better or worse, and they had no hang-ups about bisexuality, natural in humans.
      What is more curious to me is how they found time to do anything except carve and sculpture in stone?

    • @johnrichardson7310
      @johnrichardson7310 4 роки тому

      @@rogerpropes7129 they have did artists in Rome and Italy. All you need to do is think about the subject and start sculpting! There was at times when the Roman Empire was at peace!

    • @rogerpropes7129
      @rogerpropes7129 3 роки тому

      @c r Can you shed any light on the Greek words that became the English term 'the virgin Mary'?

    • @rogerpropes7129
      @rogerpropes7129 3 роки тому +1

      @c r (Athena Parthenos=the Parthenon.) I am 76, raised as a Baptist but no longer religious. From a quick re-reading of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus' birth it seems that only Matthew uses the word 'virgin' in the KJV, the rest make no reference at all to her virginity, simply that she was 'with child'. I have long suspected that she was first described as a 'maiden', for which the German cognate is 'Madchen/Madel', and 'virgin' is 'Jungfrau', which is just 'young woman' The English language has a very recent origin, a thousand years after the Gospels were written. Very much is obviously lost in translation.

    • @johnrichardson7310
      @johnrichardson7310 3 роки тому

      @L Alexander ah i see thank you for the information and replay. I sometimes forget that modern views of the world are not the same as the past. Sometimes I think it's hard for modern people to judge the history of the past without context of the past cultural with context its help to understand why people in the past had done certain things the way that they did.

  • @cej4673
    @cej4673 4 роки тому +2

    Why is it so fast? This guy talks like a machine gun

  • @alexandercarder2281
    @alexandercarder2281 4 роки тому +1

    He looks like Leonardos from 300 and he built Hadrians wall.

  • @amuktadir1991
    @amuktadir1991 2 роки тому

    Britain,with a game.

  • @a7md707
    @a7md707 3 роки тому +1

    What thumbnail is that? A backneck beard?

  • @gonzalofranco4296
    @gonzalofranco4296 3 роки тому

    22:20

  • @trumpthemessiah1238
    @trumpthemessiah1238 4 роки тому

    has there been a movie made out of this story? I would like to watch it please

  • @MrVInJV
    @MrVInJV 4 роки тому +2

    Time and resources.

  • @jeffgould3201
    @jeffgould3201 4 роки тому +4

    Fuckin great biography!!

  • @robertparker4912
    @robertparker4912 4 роки тому +2

    Hadrian built the Parthenon plus many others all over the world.

    • @torbjrnlund903
      @torbjrnlund903 4 роки тому +3

      Pantheon, not Partenon.

    • @torbjrnlund903
      @torbjrnlund903 4 роки тому +1

      @Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus Caesar The Parthenon was built about 500 years before Hadrian was born. Hadrian was born in the year 76 AD. The Partenon in Athen Greece was constructed about the year 447 BC. and the building was substantially completed by 432 BC. It was built under the general supervision of the artist Phidias, and architects were Ictinos and Callicrates.
      The original Pantheon was built during the reign of Augustus. It was destroyed along with other buildings in a huge fire in the year 80 AD. Domitian rebuilt the Pantheon, which was burnt again in 110 AD, however it was rebuilt by Trajan and Hadrian. The Historia Augusta says that Hadrian dedicated the Pantheon (among other buildings) in the name of the original builder, thus the inscription of the building says it was built by Agrippa.

    • @torbjrnlund903
      @torbjrnlund903 4 роки тому

      @Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus Caesar
      "Why do you talk of me in the third person?" - Well, I thought that was the norm, your Highness. That you get forgetful in such an old age is understandable and forgivable. It's probably Alzheimer's disease.

  • @starwarsfannumber
    @starwarsfannumber 2 роки тому

    Funny how they said they could take Ireland with one legion and they run into Dal ratia inhabitants in Ireland and Scotland and handrains wall was built and that was one galeic tribe and Irish raided England France and even Rome itself lol. THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS. plus Rome calling then Scott's is bullshit they called them picts and Gail's it a dal ratia pic alliance that formed that islands first unfied front alba with dal ratia king married to Egyptian princess Scotia. And there not looking to hard its king tuts missing sister case jn point a burial waring the same as king tut was buried in being found in Ireland plus Scotia is Buried in Ireland

  • @TheMontanakat
    @TheMontanakat 8 місяців тому +1

    His wall still stands.

  • @barrysmith6309
    @barrysmith6309 4 роки тому

    You

  • @SmkeDatKush
    @SmkeDatKush 4 роки тому

    Klay Thompson!

  • @benedicttolentino9062
    @benedicttolentino9062 3 роки тому +1

    What if i am antinous?

  • @jhontolentino4266
    @jhontolentino4266 3 роки тому +5

    I love antinous

  • @cittaromap4163
    @cittaromap4163 4 роки тому +1

    Hello Gorgeous

  • @josefmaster1188
    @josefmaster1188 4 роки тому +2

    Trajan was a lot better, hadrian never come close to the trajan's greatness

    • @hououinkyouma3864
      @hououinkyouma3864 4 роки тому +1

      He did BTFO the jews for centuries so I would say that he did.

  • @petersclafani4370
    @petersclafani4370 4 роки тому

    Most of the territory conquered was done during the republic.

  • @thephilosopherofculture4559
    @thephilosopherofculture4559 4 роки тому +2

    Fun trivia. In the museum of Vaisson la Romaine in the south of France there is a life-size statue of the lover of Hadrian. In his time and for many centuries after that, this lover (a man) was reputed to have the most attractive butt in the empire ever. Today, lots of women and homosexuals pass by that statue and have a secret, furtive feel of those buttocks. My girlfriend had, too, and urged me to feel them as well. It was an awkward experience to touch, illegally, this fine bun of a worldclass bum. It had become a bit greasy from all those anonymous feel--ups.

  • @merlinwizard1000
    @merlinwizard1000 6 місяців тому

    231st, 31 July 2024

  • @aquillafleetwood8180
    @aquillafleetwood8180 4 роки тому

    God used the Roman Empire, which is Daniel 2: 44.....
    God is in control!
    Google, the Northern Cross, by Aquilla Fleetwood, youtube.

  • @dj4rapz
    @dj4rapz 4 роки тому +1

    Awesome documentary but I can't help but get annoyed by the way the presenter speaks. It's like "10 Fortnire players who swooore".

    • @christopherbawden8714
      @christopherbawden8714 4 роки тому

      Hi there
      Many apologies for the way my voice comes across in the video's. It's actually quite hard to please everyone as I've had comments ranging from "too fast" to "why so slow?". But fear not viewer, for if my voice does irritate you so much, there are other wonderful documentaries narrated by our other narrator Alex. So if it's not to your liking, there are other alternatives ☺️

  • @PanteRan
    @PanteRan 7 місяців тому

    An evil one like most Rome's emperors

  • @sananbinh9260
    @sananbinh9260 3 роки тому +4

    Hadrian did nothing wrong