Life of Emperor Nero #5 - The Showman Emperor, Roman History Documentary Series
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
- Emperor Nero
We’ve certainly come along way since the time of Augustus, there was no longer any pretense of a republic, Rome was now a hereditary monarchy and Nero had seen the Empire as his personal inheritance, his right by blood. Augustus and his direct successor Tiberius had to strike a fine balance between exorcising their power and paying lip-service to the senate.
Throughout his reign, Nero displayed little interest in actually governing the Empire but he loved the recognition and fame that came with the position, and as H. H. Scullard writes in his book ‘From the Gracchi to Nero’ ‘He wrote poetry and the few surviving fragments do not suggest total lack of merit.’ And considering he spent most of his time devoted to his artistic pursuits we can’t certainly expect a total lack of skill. However, he was probably not as good as he thought.
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Sources and Suggested reading:
Annals and Histories - (Tacitus)
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The Twelve Caesars - (Suetonius)
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Dio's Roman history - (Cassius Dio)
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From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68 (H. H. Scullard) amzn.to/2DYhNCQ
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Chris Scarre):
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Check out this video on Nero's successor: ua-cam.com/video/OYmoEvx8ZSQ/v-deo.html
Cool.
1:13 There is no proof that Emperor Claudius was poisoned
"Nero played the harp whilst Rome burned!"
"Lyre!"
"No, it's true!"
Haha
Nero played a Kithara, but that would have killed your joke completely.
Nero according to Christians: Literally the Anti-Christ
Nero according to the Japanese: Umu waifu
Everything is a matter of perspective I guess... :P
@@TheSPQRHistorian I expected nothing less from the original neckbeard
Not just waifu but main heroine who saves Earth.
Though giving some context, Nero's redemption is a big part of the story.
The Quinquennium Neronis - 'nevertheless was so outstanding for five years especially in enhancing the city, that Trajan quite justifiably asserted that all emperors fell far short in his [first] five years. Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus, 5.1.
I blame his mother, I think she really messed him up, all the court politics, must have been a rough environment to grow up in.
@@TheSPQRHistorian I agree. If there was any emperor to have mummy issues it was Nero. In addition, with his other advices like Seneca eventually retiring and Nero being left on his own he just was not ruler material. His feud with his mother was definitely damaging but also being very young and with no previous experience, unlike all of his predocessors (even Caligula to a small extent) had more exposure to rule than Nero. However, this excellent video by Dominic Rathbone goes through some of the positive elements of his reign
ua-cam.com/video/n7qyfQKIt3c/v-deo.html
I can't stop watching these videos.
Neither can I
I was struggling for my homework but you really helped me out thank you
Nice work!!
Thanks a lot!
Excellent! I've seen a coupe of your videos, and I found them to be very educational, concise, and a pleasure to watch.
It's interesting watching these older videos; they are basically just an abridged version of Tacitus' The Annals.
They are good, but I think the quality has come up quite a bit over the last 4 years. Any thoughts on redoing the Julio-Claudian & maybe Flavian dynasty in the modern more nuanced style?
Either way, love the channel & what is being done.
Love your channel! Great content
Just thrilled with the content, excellent effort!!
Amazing quality and very unique, keep up the good work
Thank you!
Awsome keep it up love Roman emperor videos
🎶To me, you all score zero
My name is Emperor Nero
Evil men you’re not
I’m the worstest of the lot!
(Whoo!)
My rule was full of fear-o
Yes, men from far & near-o
Called me a fighting hero
Or I would have them slayed!
Changed the Olympic season
So the medals went to me, son
Burned Christians for no reason
Just a fun game I played, you know
Poisoned my stepbrother
Ordered men to kill my mother
Tried to drown her but she fled
So I had her stabbed instead
Wait! There’s more!
With my first wife, dear Octavia
I showed truly bad behavior
Chopped her head off, gave it to
My girlfriend who I then killed too
I’m bad! So baddy!
Of badness, I’m the daddy!
Come on, I want to see
A more evil bloke than me!🎶
I saw your comment on video influencers. You have a good channel
Thank you!
A fascinating emperor, and a superb and informative video ...new sub, i'm the 700th!
Haha thank you soo much Phil! My 700th sub! 😄
you deserve more!
Thanks :)
I think it is safe to say that Ryan started the fire
Sub #8.39 - 18-04-2021. Looking forward to you having more than 100k subs by next year.
Excellent once again, if you make a patreon to fund a higher quality microphone i would definitely be willing to pledge!
Thanks, Byzantanium! I do agree that I need to improve the audio and I'm looking to get a new mic for the next video. While I do appreciate your willingness to pledge, I won't set up a patreon right now ;)
I absolutely love that we know All these details/ little gems of history. Wonder what we would know if the sackings of Rome never had occurred.
So much information was lost.
No blame the Christians for burning all the things especially the destruction of the Sarepaion in Alexandria & the 4th crusade in 1204
Hmm Interesting video, but doesn’t add anything new to what was already said about Nero. I wonder what you think of the new view that scholars are taking about Nero the past years (which puts him in a more favourable light, and that his bad reputation was mainly due to the fact that the Flavian dynasty used him as a scapegoat to justify their power), like, for example, expressed by professor John Drinkwater’s “Nero: Emperor and Court”.
I've watched everyone else. Now its time for NERO 🔥🔥🔥👍🏽🍻
Maybe you will also make videos about different Roman Pope's? I'm a church man interested in church history.
Maybe, there will at least be more chruch history as time goes on - since it was a huge part of the history of the Roman Empire
Would you like to see the pope on the end of a rope, do you think he's a fool ?
The name of the villa was "sidrone"? Sydron? Could you spell it out please?
Make sure to check out our previous video on Claudius: ua-cam.com/video/khD-Zwsim0w/v-deo.html
I have to commend you for improving so much over the course of this series. Your early videos like this are so poorly enunciated that I struggle sometimes to understand you...but the later ones that brought me to the series - I think the first were Aurelian and Gallienus - I don't recall having any such issue.
Wait a minute, You said he fancied the wife of his friend Otho, but I learnt that he told Otho to take Poppea as a wife for safekeeping purposes so that Nero himself could later marry her.
Nero the original neckbeard
For a wonderful novel about the era of Nero, read The Roman by Finnish author Mika Waltari.
so ends the Julio Claudius dynasty an interesting assortment if nothing else and 3 out of 5 emperors being decent to excellent is not bad I wonder how caesar would view his line
I like Nero
Claudians were all crazy 🤣🤣
Are you Swedish ?
Pity you didn't mention Petronius.
I agree. I'm considering redoing my video on the Julio-Claudian dynasty. They deserve deeper coverage, especially since we have decent sources during that period.
@@TheSPQRHistorianthanks for the response! My fave story about the pair, is how Petronius had his prized, priceless carved wine dipper broken in two, rather than let Nero have it after his suicide.
Sorry, historian here - why are you using a current map of Europe? The Benelux (or Geographic Netherlands, or Gallia Belgica and Germania Inferior combined, if you like) are looking as they've had been since 1970 AD, not 1900 years before that...
You sure that's how it went ?
The Parthians won at the battle of Rhandeia and inflicted a heavy defeat on the Romans (the numbers are debatable but it's said that a force of 10,000 Parthians and Armenians defeated a Roman army of 35,000)
Even made Romans pass under their spears, which was the most humiliating thing for Roman legions
They also won at the battle of Urumia 36 BC
You sure Romans weren't the ones who had to come to Armenia ?
The book of revelation was written during the reign of Domitian, so the christians wouldn't have reason to do it.
Yeah his whole "Christians might have done it because fire and brimstone and all that" made no sense and felt like a reach. It's obvious that the damage was more due to inept fire control either due to poor building structure, lack of competent fire fighters (or whatever the Romans called them) or the fact the city had grown too large and stayed too wooden for most of it's buildings to the point it was inevitable to happen.
For the algo!
Several times in this video you refer to Nero's mother as Agrippina, I thought Neros mother was Agrippinella? I'm new here
Aggrippina the Younger. His Grandma was Aggrippina the Elder (his Mom's & Mom of his Uncle Caligula)...
Umu.
Nero was very cruel
I object to your calling the Christians an "extremist faction".
Religious extremist faction then.
Well how was it not extreme in comparison to the Roman world view?
For you to object to that, you have to believe there are truly such a thing as "extremists" to begin with. Which'd only seem like you're brainwashed by the modern world.
🤣😂😅
The Worst Emperor. He did create the Gladiators tho.
Nah, Honorius deserve title of worst Emperor.
Another largely competent emperor tarred by Senatorial historiography.
Didn’t he leave his advisors to rule the state?
@@hiddenperson3696 Naw, very hands-on.
Idk why but I always end up sympathising Nero despite knowing that he was horrible emperor and person in general.
Just evil.
Nero was great ! He'd dress as a common man and hide in the crowd at the gladiator games. When someone in the crowd would ridicule the bravery of any of the gladiators, he'd have the Pretorian throw that man in the arena to fight. Lol. Then he burned the Christians after they started the fire in Rome and thus their flames lite up his garden. Ahahaha hail Nero !!!
thing is tho, Nero is a competent emperor, we just dont think he is due to both the Christians and Senate fucking despising him (for valid reasons, considering he had no love for them either) and they are the ones who wrote the history. It's taken a long time for historians to piece together what his reign was more like. He was not great not bad, but he was competent. As a person tho...yeah, not good.
he destroyed the roman empire
no honorius, a "christian" emperor was, along with germanic general of the roman army ricimer, actually responsible for destroying rome
I wonder if what we know about him has been distorted by later Christians.
Burning any positive record of him & highlighting salty senatorial views.
Nero and Trump... Same thing.
You and tin foil hat, perfect together 🤭
Lol... I'm laughing hard...
@@jamellfoster6029 Bots can't laugh, they aren't human enough to.
Man you TDS bots must have been bored with shilling yourselves on Twatter that you had to come here just to spam your off topic seething over a dude who has long been out of office already.
@@rorschach1985ify I know so up I definitely can't laugh nor do you have you critical thinking skills.
Congrats the guy who made this video. You have decided to join yourself to the murders who set innocent people on fire to light the streets. BTW the way your videos are terrible. The very recent ones are different and fairly good
I quote from the above narration "Nero's new advisers realised Nero loved the attention of the people and their applause, their own power was linked to their ability to provide those applause." Yeah sounds exactly like Trump. Trump is the Evil tyrant Nero reincarnated.
So True!!!!!
Cringe what a stupid comparison
Oh shut the hell up you obnoxious twat. You people elected a senile neanderthal who has done more damage to this country economically and agriculturally than any President prior whereas we were saving money and barely paying half the price of gas under Trump compared to where we are now. Your vapid old boomer has literally got the elites and the MSM hopping on his nuts defending every error he slurs out of his mouth and every garbage law and order he signs into office, and yet you want to pretend Trump was the Tyrant. Pathetic drones.
@@jamellfoster6029 Life must be easy when you think as little as you do, if you even think at all.
@@rorschach1985ify oh I think unlike Trump or his supporters. Your heads are stuck up his huge, orange, smelly butt...
OG neck beard