Commentaries on the Gallic War, by Gaius Julius Caesar Audio Book
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2017
- Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War), also Bellum Gallicum (English: Gallic War), is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting the Germanic peoples and Celtic peoples in Gaul that opposed Roman conquest.
The "Gaul" that Caesar refers to is ambiguous, as the term had various connotations in Roman writing and discourse during Caesar's time. Generally, Gaul included all of the regions that Romans had not conquered or administer or which were primarily inhabited by Celts; except for the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis (modern-day Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon), which had already been conquered in Caesar's time, therefore encompassing the rest of modern France, Belgium and parts of Switzerland. As the Roman Republic made inroads deeper into Celtic territory and conquered more land, the definition of "Gaul" shifted. Concurrently, "Gaul" was also used in common parlance as a synonym for "uncouth" or "unsophisticated" as Romans saw Celtic peoples as uncivilized compared with Rome.
The work has been a mainstay in Latin instruction because of its simple, direct prose. It begins with the frequently quoted phrase "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres", meaning "Gaul is a whole divided into three parts".[1] The full work is split into eight sections, Book 1 to Book 8, varying in size from approximately 5,000 to 15,000 words. Book 8 was written by Aulus Hirtius, after Caesar's death. Excerpt from Wikipedia.
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Intro ends at 10:00
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2000 years later, the fact that we are sitting by our cozy fires listening to the actual words of Julius Caesar is incredible to me. This is without question the most heavily biased, politically motivated, piece of propaganda ever written, but dammit it’s good.
Well put
If you like this, you should read Winston churchhills series on the history of the English people.
The book DOUBLESPEAK by William luttz mentions this work its now on youtube, and I highly suggest listening to it if you want to understand how wordplay gets into politics and its effects on propaganda
Another good one is PROPAGANDA by EDWARD BERNAY its also on youtube
OK, Are you absolutely certain EVERY word from Caesars words is TRANSLATED CORRECTLY IN ENGLISH? Because THAT has to be the case if your claim is to be valid. Don't get me wrong, it was written to impress, but everyone knows that, because history books tell us without Caesar here to defend himself. Only his words in Latin can.
Apparently It was not considered propaganda until the 1940s. Historically people took it at face value.
This video is going to save my life and grade in my history class. Thank you so so much.
How’d your class end up?
@@MikeB4028 dude it went well i wrote one hell of a paper and made it out of the class without dropping off of deans list
@@doopydoops2064caring about school gradings is for losers
You've a vioce like a cunt
Thank you so damn much. Absolutely fantastic!
It’s very disturbing to me that there’s entire groups of people that we almost exclusively know by their conquerors.
The armour being referred to, lorica laminata is anachronistic, it didn't exist at this time, the actual most common armour was the mail lorica hamata.
The Emperor smiles upon you.
Is that related to the Marion reforms ?
I can't remember the dates for the fuck of me
How come? i thought caesar wrote this shit
@@fredburns6846commentor at the beginning brought up segmentata, not Caesar
@@AnthonyEmmel oh ok
Moral of the story: never trust Gauls, always expect them to backstab you.
Frankly when you're a conquering empire you deserve to get backstabbed
@@tarareid8428 and when you revolt against said empire you deserve a crucifiction😁
@@tarareid8428 deserve deserve deserve
That's racist. I'm going to tell the Gauls you said that.
@@histguy101 where are those gals, where i may partake in conquering them?
thank you so much
Brilliant translation
I believe it was during the Rhine campaign that Caesar stated (about the Germanic tribes) Pedicabo ego et cognosce.
Listening to this with some trepidation as the Introductory Commentator is mispronouncing Gallic as Gaelic. But o well I 'll give it a go. ⚔
The way he's saying Gaulic is going to ruin this for me. Gaylic? Anyway, thank you for uploading this, you are a treasure and an asset to humanity! Thank you!
@Merrick Sean Right on, I haven't heard of Flixzone, I just have curiosity stream, was thinking about getting Magellan, but honestly, youtube has better content.
@Griffin Gavin Thanks for the recommendation, I'm going to check out flixzone
I think it's a tendency due to the gaelic briton language, etc. commonly called gaelic.
Gallic but yeah
It is odd to me that no one has mentioned this yet, but just in case that mispronunciation did put you off listening to this, only the introduction is spoken by that one person, the rest of the book is read by a selection of different people.
We need a redo on book 4
100%. That reader was absolutely horrible, no idea how he passed their test. I demand crucifixion.
The people complaining about the female narrator are odd, especially as she seems to be the best of the bunch.
She is the best reader by a pretty wide margin here.
She Sounds Like a Secretary or the Phone voice " please hold the Line"
I remember watching the series Vikings. There was a scene where they were ransacking an old Roman villa and just burning all the scrolls. That scene just filled me with sadness. How much information and literary works have been lost over the years, how much was lost in the burning of the library of Alexandria?
There is a video on UA-cam explaining how it’s a myth that much was lost is more a romanticism. I watched it earlier
@@sirnunez7923which channel was it?
All of mankind are poorer for such atrocities. Like when the Mongols burned down the House of Wisdom
Well yes, but the library of Alexandria was burned down during the fighting in the city between the forces of the brother of Cleopatra and the forces of Caesar, and the library caught fire, on purpose or an accident? Nobody knows, at least it can't be known as "a fact"
Why does Cesar refer to himself in the third person?
He did that to make it all seem more objective, so that then he could make himself look better.
@@thebattlefieldnick1 yeah, thanks for your reply
I actually checked it out on google and it said basically the same thing as you said, to make it look more like an independent source and for propaganda purposes
These were intended to be read aloud in Rome, in public, as news from Gaul. So it makes more sense to do that.
@shadowmihaiu is correct. @thebattlefieldnick13 is stating a (probably correct) opinion.
Miss you Nick.😢
I wonder why they all demand hostages from one another when hostages don't seem to deter anyone. What happened to the hostages..?
According to Athens Journal proof of diplomatic and military accomplishments
Hostages were also valuable as a form of war booty if people didn't keep to their word.
@Julius Caesar daddy!!!!!
Hey avid reader mostly into psychology and psycho-History books and im looking to expand my library if anybody would have any book suggestions on Weaponology/ strategy and tactics that would be great.😊
On Guerilla Warfare by Moe .
Translated by Thomas rice Holmes
Book 4 and the second half of Book 7 were butchered by the reader. This guy can't pronounce names, places, or words like "prostrate", he actually said "prostate". Ridiculous.
it's a free audiobook... chill
I upvoted both comments because both are kind of true. Although this guys voice is like butter compared to some of the UA-cam audiobook readers.
”End of Book 6, chapters 29-44.”
...
”Book 20, chapters 1-13”
Wait wtf
16k views is beyond my availability of words
Someone needs to have the AI voice of Joshua Graham from Fallout newvegas read this
17:09
Wanted to listen but ads every min spoils the experience I give up
2:38:29
enjoyable but the pronunciation of many words and place names is way off - eg Gironde. it reminds me of the voice on google maps
Ah yes, the unicorn.
It's an actual animal.
2:51:00
Wild, right?
It's so painful to do this through a foreign English accent from Turtle Island, but I am doing my best.
Youre killin it brah
Ads every 5 minutes? This is bullshit.
Why don't you use an ad blocker? They're cost nothing on the play store. I haven't watched an ad in months.....
@@frauleinhohenzollern8442 What do you use?
F the gauls. I said it
its not GAELIC its GALLIC jeez...
Wtf is up with changing narrators? I'm not a fan
... then buy an audiobook.
@@internetdino7188 which one?????
Y pple w speech empediments ...?(
Indeed ...spoils great book.
I know, Caesar managed to conquer Gaul but the guy reading the conquest of Belgica can’t manage to inject an ounce of enthusiasm into what he’s doing. The first girl was pretty good.
Go read twilight
41kils I guess you like the sound of men breathing in your ear and talking through a mouthful of saliva.
@@pmejia727 hot
2 paragraphs 2. Commercials pretty stupid I'll just read it myself
I can't stand an english pronouncing Latin words, it's itching to say the least.
Edit English to english
10 to 12 guys to one woman 🤢🤮 all family as well and the guy invented unicorns too 😅 amazing book
Unicorn is the name of several real animals during ancient and medieval times. One of them is the single horned rhinoceros. Another is a single horned type of bison believed extinct.
I don't want to listen to a woman read this
Why? Are you gay?
@@shadowmihaiu if you do not hate women you are a homosexual
What's wrong with woman reading?
@@reviewgodusa9613 they can provide no meaningful addition to the piece and are frankly a disrespect to this book
@@lowerbackmutilator2987 just don't understand why it matters whether it's a man or women that reads it.
god damn, I need one with a man reading. I don't need to hear some woman to tell me about/ regurgitate accounts of war.
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I agree, to be honest. It just doesn’t fit.
She was bar far the ‘easiest’ to listen too. The other men who spoke with the exception of one was terribly hard to listen to...
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Why? Are you gay?
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