yeah some of my favorite quotes in the whole show. And some of the most memorable over all. "snow always melts" is just stuck in my brain 24/7 and it's only the first of many.
James Purefoy sell his threats so well performance wise. Everytime I see him I think of his performance as Joe Carroll in The Following in that regard. He was so good in that role. It would be interesting to see the crew of Blindwave react to that series since there are only three seasons.
James Purefoy as Antony in this show was amazing. Its a great performance, adding personality to someone we know little about, and how Antony being a volatile and ambitious "battle-junkie" makes for interesting scenes.
8:13 Those are fasces. An axe bound with a bundle of rods. The symbol of the king's power. Since Rome had no king, it's a symbol that the power of a king was with the people. Here in the U.S., at the Lincoln Memorial, Lincoln's hands rest on fasces, you can see two on either side of the American flag in the House of Representatives chamber, a few at various Washington memorials as well. Being that you all are from Ohio, there's a statue of Cincinnatus which depicts him returning the fasces to the people. He had been a dictator who, after taking extreme steps to restore the Republic, actually stepped down. Also, the fasces is also where fascism comes from.
08:13 The bundle of sticks with an axe bound in it is a Fasces, a symbol of authority in ancient Rome. Benito Mussolini also used the Fasces as the symbol of his authoritarian political party in the 1920s and 30s, leading them to being called 'Fascists', a term that persists to this day.
It's slightly more complicated. The fasces were usually just a bundle of sticks, symbolizing unity and authority, and were carried by the lictors (a combination of heralds and bodyguards for Roman magistrates). The number of lictors depended on the rank of the magistrate, e.g. 6 for a praetor, 12 for a consul and 24 for a dictator. The axe only was included for magistrates whose "imperium" (the powers and authority were given to them by the SPQR) included the power over life and death (which, given that the Roman law had no death penalty for citizens, was rather rare) or for magistrates leading armies on campaign which was far more common.
@@MS-io6kl Rome did have capital offences for citizens - incestum, acts which violated religious purity and patricide both were capital offences, as was treason.
The throwing the birds overboard is from the First Punic War. Consul Publius Claudius Pulcher got angry when the ceremonial chickens would not eat, so he declared, "if they will not eat, then let them drink!" He then proceeded to lose the Battle of Drepana against the Carthaginians, then was tried for incompetence and impiety. As a result, he was fined 120,000 asses (or 12,000 denarii or 48,000 sestersii), 1,000 per ship lost in the battle. He died shortly afterwards.
Regarding Atia and Caesar - Atia is not jealous because she has feelings for Caesar. She’s jealous of the power that comes from being close to Caesar. Her power and standing in society comes directly from her relationship to him. Both women’s husbands died long ago and Caesar is the male figure for them to garner support, money and power. She also really hates Servilia and cant stand to see her happy and succeeding. Regarding Antony being scraped - this was a form of bathing. Similar to an Arab Hammam they combine oil and sand and scrub the skin. Then they scrape it off with that tool to reveal smooth washed skin. Regarding the orcas - Calvin, they aren’t eating anyone 😂. Take that back.
Hammams are directly descended from the Roman baths, so that's an excellent example. It's a continuing tradition. FYI, it actually works really well. The Romans knew what they were doing.
@@willsofer3679 I live in Spain where we have many Hammams to this day 😊. I also go to Morocco often to enjoy a nice Hammam! But the locals might not be toi happy about giving all the credit to Rome rather than their Arab ancestors - who arguably added a lot of the flare to the experience.
15:35 it’s definitely not to eat people haha. The original orca was hit by a boat so after that she decided the best défense is a good offense and other orcas picked it up too. It’s unusual behaviour for sure, but it’s not about the people on the boats PS so glad you guys are doing this series, it’s definitely very underappreciated so it’s fun to watch you enjoy it!
You guys asked Mark Antony's getting scraped: That was a form of waterless and soapless bath that Romans did, where they'd get oiled up and then get the grime and grit scraped off of them.
The set for Rome still exists at Cinecita in Italy, I think it is one of the oldest movie lots in the world at this point, lots of classics were filmed there. They built that main senate palazzo full size-ish for the show and never took it down. Not sure if it still used for other productions but I have heard that you can tour it if you go there. That is sort of a bucket list thing for me, especially now that Ray Stevenson died, it would be cool to go see the place where he did probably the most significant role of his career and one of my favorite characters ever.
5:10 Yes, that is a set they built. I could be wrong but I believe this show had one of the largest sets ever built for it. It's part of the reason they were cancelled by HBO, the massive costs from their insanely large and detailed sets and costumes.
Yeah, their Roman Forum set was roughly 60% of the real Forum, if I remember correctly... then several villas, a huge slum area, some extra streets, etc. Incredibly expensive set, and large portions of it burnt down shortly after they finished filming season two. Many of the background extras are also people who actually had that job in real life (bakers, butchers, etc). They also imported the material for the 4000+ costumes from India, Tunisia, Morocco, etc so that it would be authentic, aged the material, made the bottom of many cloaks, togas and other such outfit items darker since they'd be closer to the ground and therefore get more street dirt/grime on them, etc.
Or Borgia (I like both, The Borgias and Borgia but Borgia is way better). + Da Vinci's Demons, Marco Polo, Merlin, Legend of the Seeker, Wolf Hall (or The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, White Queen, White Princess, Spanish Princess), El Cid, TVD/The Originals, Charmed (1998), Spartacus, Buffy/Angel, Chuck, Medici: Masters of Florence,
Antony does not take rejection well and honestly the offer he was giving Vorenus was actually a damn good one. Vorenus is a good soldier and leader and Antony knows it, so he sees some wasted potential with his refusal of the offer. Atia has no physical attraction to Caeser, she just wants to have his favor in her pocket. She's jealous of the attention Servillia gets from him and fears he'll give her more than herself. Julius is more or less exposing the priest for how crooked he is and using it to his advantage. A "divine sign" by the Gods is meant to show that Caeser is acting in a way they(The Gods) deem appropriate thus the people will see Caeser as a hero and not a usurper. Pullo is indeed a rascal, but Caeser and Antony love him for it. Of course they'd reward Pullo for delivering Quintis and finding the treasury gold XD. I mean of course it was Vorenus who pushed Pullo to do the right thing, but all the same, he did so as a friend; took no credit and Pullo looks good in their eyes for owning his own mistake.
Antony's offer to Vorenus was good in terms of money but it didn't include an increase in rank and, in context, a Roman soldier who retired in Lucius' position would already be way ahead of the game compared to 99% of his fellows. Married for a while (long enough to have an adolescent child) and at a fairly substantial enough rank to have acquired a good chunk of war spoils from the Gallic campaigns to buy some land and join the low rungs of Rome's propertied classes. To someone like that, Antony's basically just offering him a signing bonus for reenlisting for another 10-15 years.
@@knightheaven8992 An evocatus is just a soldier who reenlists at the formal request of the highest ranking officials. It's considered an honor to be evocati, but that's all. It's not a rank. And there were a fair number of them. While it would increase his social standing to some extent, I suspect Vorenus doesn't think re-enlisting for another decade is worth it.
@@knightheaven8992 Veteran legionaries, veteran Centurions, were what won the civil war here. Caesar had less men but his were battle hardened while Pompey and the Senate had a bunch of fresh recruits.
It burned down after season two finished filming too. They'd already cancelled it by then, but after that there was definitely no chance of any more getting made.
@@TheOriginalHairyDave Only part of it burned down, the slum part. The forum section is still fine. I visited the set 10 years ago at Cinecitta Studios and it still stands AFAIK.
17:50 that wasn't a scam. There is two windows and two ways they can go. If they flew by that certain window, that is like the decision they made "augeries are good or bad"
Oh dam Rome, Rome is one of the best shows. This show came out before its time really. Came out before social media and youtube were big. Be interesting if came out now to see how popular it would be
That they did. While the augurs were the highest college of divination, I particularly like the one that divined portents by watching chickens eat. They would literally just throw grain on the ground, and watch how they ate it.
The ship story you talked about. Are you referring to Publius Claudius Pulcher? The story is that the sacred chickens wouldn't eat and give a good omen. He said, "So let them drink!" and threw them into the sea. Afterward he horribly lost the sea battle of Drepana with the Carthaginians, was fined by the Senate for losing and for sacrilege and then died... Don't Eff with the sacred omen chickens man!
Yeah they probably were not full ones because he apparently had plenty of time to get somewhere private. One account had him have a episode right before a battle and was able to get to his tent in time
Before watching reactions, I had no idea how prevalent "face blindness" is, or how badly some people have it. Completely the opposite of my experience (I remember and recognize virtually everyone), so it's hard to wrap my mind around it.
They're saying "Orcus", not "orcas". Orcus is an red-skinned, slightly demonic underworld deity that we don't fully understand. The ruler of the underworld is Dis Pater ("Father of Spirits"), also known as Pluto ("wealth", referring to the dead as his wealth, like cattle). Orcus, like Charon (the boatman who ferries souls across the river Styx), was below him.
I know others have answered Eric's question about whether they built the entire Rome set or not. But, I don't know if anyone mentioned yet that they actually also used it for the Doctor Who Season 4 episode, "The Fires of Pompeii" too. I know there was a massive fire there at some point too.
Romans bathed with oil before they submerged in water, similar to the way that Japanese bathing customs scrub all the dirt off with soap and water first before immersing. Romans had a flat brass disc on a handle that they would use to scrape all of the dirty oil off of their bodies before they would then go for a soak if they had baths nearby to use. In the formal baths there were rooms for the oil scraping stage for everyone, same as in Japanese bath houses having the individual benches for the pre-bath cleaning. American-style bathing where you immerse your body without cleaning it first is one reason why other cultures without this practice wrinkle their noses at us and look askance. How can you get clean when you're essentially soaking in Funk Soup?
See the statue 'the Croatian Apoxyomenos' for an example of one of these scrapers ('strigils') captured in bronze (the actual strigil is not part of the bronze any more). The bespoke Croatian is an athlete or warrior who is depicted cleaning himself with his strigil before bathing. Although earlier (Greek) in origin, it's a practice the Romans 'borrowed' or inherited as part of Mediterranean culture. The Etruscans were thought to be the originators of the practice, and they had everyone using it, but by later Roman times only athletes, warriors, the wealthy, and what we'd call male 'beefcakes' or bodybuilders would use it.
Just a note: strigils are not disc shaped. They're dull hooks, shaped sort of like giant curved knives, with a convex side on the interior. I'm not sure where you got the "disc" imagery.
@@ЯАга-я4л I never heard anything about this. There is 100% still a set there, but perhaps it was reconstructed? All I heard about the lack of a third season was budget concerns.
The sticks are the "fasces" (Latin: fascis). They symbolized a magistrate's power and jurisdiction - in this case, Caesar. The Romans appropriated them from the Etruscans, and then Mussolini appropriated them from the Romans. It also symbolizes the "collective unity" of the "fascist" state. In order to break the state, you must break all its figs (i.e. citizens).
Correct. There's no right way of believing, and indeed, Romans had a wide variety of theological beliefs. Roman religion (all ancient religion, really) was orthopraxic ("right practice"), rather than orthodoxic ("right belief") like nearly all monotheistic religions today. They had no concept of heresy, or anything like that. And they distrusted excessively religious people, even (excessive religiosity was called "superstitio", from where we get the term and concept "superstition", though it doesn't mean exactly the same thing). In fact, a fair number of educated Romans, including the priests, were agnostic or atheist. Doing the ritual correctly was what was important, not how you felt about it. And it was contractual; prayers to the gods are usually accompanied by a vow ("votum", where we get the word "votive" from). Like, "if you do this for me, Apollo, I'll build you a spiffy altar."
My favorite historical fact about Caesar (well in recorded history anyway) When he was young and got caught by pirates and held hostage for ransom, he wined and dined and laughed with them. Telling them that he would come back and slaughter them all. They all laughed along with him... Cut to some time later, Caesar returns and true to his word slaughters them all.
He also told them he was offended by how low a ransom they were asking for and demanded they ask for more. So they would not tarnish his reputation by being some sort of "discount" noble.
As long as you took part in the state religion by participating in sacrifices ("religio publica"), they didn't care what you believed. And it was generally only people of high status, in official positions, that were expected to participate. Philosophy guided what most people "believed", not religion, back then. Anything in the private sphere wasn't seen as anyone else's business, including religion ("religio privata"), unless it was significantly disrupting society in some way.
"Where do you get these from?" at the end had me giggling. If those pills did work, with no weird side there would giant ads in times square and some nascar sponsorships. Just sayin. Love watching Rome with y'all, always entertaining.
"good to have the pope on your side" Funny you said that, since Caesar was actually Pontifex Maximus and thus one of Romes highest priests himself. (though not necessarily THE highest). With Octavian it would become a title of the Emperors and later it was take by the Catholic church for their Pope.
The Pontifex Maximus was indeed the highest priesthood in Rome, and oversaw all of the other state priesthoods; the name itself literally translates, loosely, to "Greatest Priest".
Honestly alien force is definelty worth the watch it’s so much more detailed for people our age i rewatched it and was actually shocked how much was in it the haters probably didn’t like it when they were young cos it would have been hard to understand but fr you’ll get views on it and you’ll enjoy it I enjoyed rewatching
Wtf?? The Fasces were a bundle of rods and a single axe which were carried as a symbol of magisterial and priestly authority in ancient Rome. They featured prominently in important administrative ceremonies and public processions such as triumphs. Fasces were typically carried over the left shoulder of magisterial attendants known as lictors (lictores) as symbols of judicial authority. "Fasces" was the origin of the name of the National Fascist Party in Italy (from which the term fascism is derived).
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Antony's threats are half the fun of this show.
The best part is that they just get better and better.
Especially the nailing the soft sweet hands threat. 😂
yeah some of my favorite quotes in the whole show. And some of the most memorable over all. "snow always melts" is just stuck in my brain 24/7 and it's only the first of many.
James Purefoy sell his threats so well performance wise. Everytime I see him I think of his performance as Joe Carroll in The Following in that regard. He was so good in that role. It would be interesting to see the crew of Blindwave react to that series since there are only three seasons.
James Purefoy as Antony in this show was amazing. Its a great performance, adding personality to someone we know little about, and how Antony being a volatile and ambitious "battle-junkie" makes for interesting scenes.
@@melkor3496yeah episode 6. Meeting with the Pompey messenger
Why have you not left for Greece?
Do not smile at me.
Quintus (Pompeys son/torturer) is played by Rick Warden, who also played Harry Welsh in Band of Brothers
Yeah surprised they didn't pick this up. Guess he never got to marry kitty afterall.
8:13 Those are fasces. An axe bound with a bundle of rods. The symbol of the king's power. Since Rome had no king, it's a symbol that the power of a king was with the people. Here in the U.S., at the Lincoln Memorial, Lincoln's hands rest on fasces, you can see two on either side of the American flag in the House of Representatives chamber, a few at various Washington memorials as well. Being that you all are from Ohio, there's a statue of Cincinnatus which depicts him returning the fasces to the people. He had been a dictator who, after taking extreme steps to restore the Republic, actually stepped down. Also, the fasces is also where fascism comes from.
08:13 The bundle of sticks with an axe bound in it is a Fasces, a symbol of authority in ancient Rome. Benito Mussolini also used the Fasces as the symbol of his authoritarian political party in the 1920s and 30s, leading them to being called 'Fascists', a term that persists to this day.
The fasces stands for unity
A term that is misleading and wrongly used
It's slightly more complicated. The fasces were usually just a bundle of sticks, symbolizing unity and authority, and were carried by the lictors (a combination of heralds and bodyguards for Roman magistrates). The number of lictors depended on the rank of the magistrate, e.g. 6 for a praetor, 12 for a consul and 24 for a dictator. The axe only was included for magistrates whose "imperium" (the powers and authority were given to them by the SPQR) included the power over life and death (which, given that the Roman law had no death penalty for citizens, was rather rare) or for magistrates leading armies on campaign which was far more common.
@@MS-io6kl Rome did have capital offences for citizens - incestum, acts which violated religious purity and patricide both were capital offences, as was treason.
@@TheCaesarion Fascists like to muddy the definition of the word. And so when the term comes up, they can pull the "you're using it wrong" argument
The throwing the birds overboard is from the First Punic War. Consul Publius Claudius Pulcher got angry when the ceremonial chickens would not eat, so he declared, "if they will not eat, then let them drink!" He then proceeded to lose the Battle of Drepana against the Carthaginians, then was tried for incompetence and impiety. As a result, he was fined 120,000 asses (or 12,000 denarii or 48,000 sestersii), 1,000 per ship lost in the battle. He died shortly afterwards.
Regarding Atia and Caesar - Atia is not jealous because she has feelings for Caesar. She’s jealous of the power that comes from being close to Caesar. Her power and standing in society comes directly from her relationship to him. Both women’s husbands died long ago and Caesar is the male figure for them to garner support, money and power. She also really hates Servilia and cant stand to see her happy and succeeding.
Regarding Antony being scraped - this was a form of bathing. Similar to an Arab Hammam they combine oil and sand and scrub the skin. Then they scrape it off with that tool to reveal smooth washed skin.
Regarding the orcas - Calvin, they aren’t eating anyone 😂. Take that back.
As they will see in the next episode she was totally willing to pimp out her own son to him
Hammams are directly descended from the Roman baths, so that's an excellent example. It's a continuing tradition. FYI, it actually works really well. The Romans knew what they were doing.
@@willsofer3679 I live in Spain where we have many Hammams to this day 😊. I also go to Morocco often to enjoy a nice Hammam! But the locals might not be toi happy about giving all the credit to Rome rather than their Arab ancestors - who arguably added a lot of the flare to the experience.
@@jackj9816 well now why would we talk about things in an episode they haven’t posted yet?
Rome walked so Game of Thrones could run, and then fall on it's head.
15:35 it’s definitely not to eat people haha. The original orca was hit by a boat so after that she decided the best défense is a good offense and other orcas picked it up too. It’s unusual behaviour for sure, but it’s not about the people on the boats
PS so glad you guys are doing this series, it’s definitely very underappreciated so it’s fun to watch you enjoy it!
You guys asked Mark Antony's getting scraped: That was a form of waterless and soapless bath that Romans did, where they'd get oiled up and then get the grime and grit scraped off of them.
The set for Rome still exists at Cinecita in Italy, I think it is one of the oldest movie lots in the world at this point, lots of classics were filmed there. They built that main senate palazzo full size-ish for the show and never took it down. Not sure if it still used for other productions but I have heard that you can tour it if you go there. That is sort of a bucket list thing for me, especially now that Ray Stevenson died, it would be cool to go see the place where he did probably the most significant role of his career and one of my favorite characters ever.
5:10 Yes, that is a set they built. I could be wrong but I believe this show had one of the largest sets ever built for it. It's part of the reason they were cancelled by HBO, the massive costs from their insanely large and detailed sets and costumes.
Yeah, their Roman Forum set was roughly 60% of the real Forum, if I remember correctly... then several villas, a huge slum area, some extra streets, etc. Incredibly expensive set, and large portions of it burnt down shortly after they finished filming season two.
Many of the background extras are also people who actually had that job in real life (bakers, butchers, etc).
They also imported the material for the 4000+ costumes from India, Tunisia, Morocco, etc so that it would be authentic, aged the material, made the bottom of many cloaks, togas and other such outfit items darker since they'd be closer to the ground and therefore get more street dirt/grime on them, etc.
I'm so pleased you're doing this. Would you guys ever consider reacting to shows like, The Tudors or The Borgia
Or Borgia (I like both, The Borgias and Borgia but Borgia is way better).
+ Da Vinci's Demons, Marco Polo, Merlin, Legend of the Seeker, Wolf Hall (or The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, White Queen, White Princess, Spanish Princess), El Cid, TVD/The Originals, Charmed (1998), Spartacus, Buffy/Angel, Chuck, Medici: Masters of Florence,
@@niketesambrosiosdelagrece2266 I would like for them to watch Sharpe that would be interesting, with an young Sean Bean
@@knightheaven8992 in that category I would prefer Hornblower. ;) :D
Atia isnt romatically jelous of Servilla. Shes jelous of the influence Sevilla has over the man.
Antony does not take rejection well and honestly the offer he was giving Vorenus was actually a damn good one. Vorenus is a good soldier and leader and Antony knows it, so he sees some wasted potential with his refusal of the offer.
Atia has no physical attraction to Caeser, she just wants to have his favor in her pocket. She's jealous of the attention Servillia gets from him and fears he'll give her more than herself.
Julius is more or less exposing the priest for how crooked he is and using it to his advantage. A "divine sign" by the Gods is meant to show that Caeser is acting in a way they(The Gods) deem appropriate thus the people will see Caeser as a hero and not a usurper.
Pullo is indeed a rascal, but Caeser and Antony love him for it. Of course they'd reward Pullo for delivering Quintis and finding the treasury gold XD. I mean of course it was Vorenus who pushed Pullo to do the right thing, but all the same, he did so as a friend; took no credit and Pullo looks good in their eyes for owning his own mistake.
Antony's offer to Vorenus was good in terms of money but it didn't include an increase in rank and, in context, a Roman soldier who retired in Lucius' position would already be way ahead of the game compared to 99% of his fellows. Married for a while (long enough to have an adolescent child) and at a fairly substantial enough rank to have acquired a good chunk of war spoils from the Gallic campaigns to buy some land and join the low rungs of Rome's propertied classes. To someone like that, Antony's basically just offering him a signing bonus for reenlisting for another 10-15 years.
Well said.
@@NYSly Wasnt he offered here to be part of Evocatti? isnt that an increase in rank? or at least standing?
@@knightheaven8992 An evocatus is just a soldier who reenlists at the formal request of the highest ranking officials. It's considered an honor to be evocati, but that's all. It's not a rank. And there were a fair number of them. While it would increase his social standing to some extent, I suspect Vorenus doesn't think re-enlisting for another decade is worth it.
@@knightheaven8992 Veteran legionaries, veteran Centurions, were what won the civil war here. Caesar had less men but his were battle hardened while Pompey and the Senate had a bunch of fresh recruits.
Antony is the best part of the show seriously :)
LIONS! who RUN!! i agree James Purefoy is great in this, but the whole cast is very good in the roles.
05:10 it is a set a very big set, built in Italy. It was also used by Dr Who for the Fires of Pompeii.
It burned down after season two finished filming too. They'd already cancelled it by then, but after that there was definitely no chance of any more getting made.
@@TheOriginalHairyDave Only part of it burned down, the slum part. The forum section is still fine. I visited the set 10 years ago at Cinecitta Studios and it still stands AFAIK.
love the lawnmower sounds in the background lol - ahh summer
I connected with Aaron so much in this reaction! LOL
17:50 that wasn't a scam.
There is two windows and two ways they can go.
If they flew by that certain window, that is like the decision they made "augeries are good or bad"
The goddess Athena was said to have sprung fully formed from the head of Zeus (1:04)
Oh dam Rome, Rome is one of the best shows. This show came out before its time really. Came out before social media and youtube were big. Be interesting if came out now to see how popular it would be
Fun facts: Auguries are a form of divination. They are the telling of fortunes and futures based on the movement of birds.
Rome fucking loved birds.
That they did. While the augurs were the highest college of divination, I particularly like the one that divined portents by watching chickens eat. They would literally just throw grain on the ground, and watch how they ate it.
If I recall the sacred geese alerted the Romans to Brennus's Gauls trying to storm Rome when the guard dogs were sleeping.
The ship story you talked about. Are you referring to Publius Claudius Pulcher? The story is that the sacred chickens wouldn't eat and give a good omen. He said, "So let them drink!" and threw them into the sea. Afterward he horribly lost the sea battle of Drepana with the Carthaginians, was fined by the Senate for losing and for sacrilege and then died... Don't Eff with the sacred omen chickens man!
Caesar is apparently more recently believed to have suffered small strokes, rather than seizures.
Yeah they probably were not full ones because he apparently had plenty of time to get somewhere private. One account had him have a episode right before a battle and was able to get to his tent in time
>Aaron has to pick someone out of a lineup
"They're all the same person, right?"
Before watching reactions, I had no idea how prevalent "face blindness" is, or how badly some people have it. Completely the opposite of my experience (I remember and recognize virtually everyone), so it's hard to wrap my mind around it.
They're saying "Orcus", not "orcas". Orcus is an red-skinned, slightly demonic underworld deity that we don't fully understand. The ruler of the underworld is Dis Pater ("Father of Spirits"), also known as Pluto ("wealth", referring to the dead as his wealth, like cattle). Orcus, like Charon (the boatman who ferries souls across the river Styx), was below him.
Drama & Intensity! ROME! 🤘🤘🤘
I know others have answered Eric's question about whether they built the entire Rome set or not. But, I don't know if anyone mentioned yet that they actually also used it for the Doctor Who Season 4 episode, "The Fires of Pompeii" too. I know there was a massive fire there at some point too.
Romans bathed with oil before they submerged in water, similar to the way that Japanese bathing customs scrub all the dirt off with soap and water first before immersing. Romans had a flat brass disc on a handle that they would use to scrape all of the dirty oil off of their bodies before they would then go for a soak if they had baths nearby to use. In the formal baths there were rooms for the oil scraping stage for everyone, same as in Japanese bath houses having the individual benches for the pre-bath cleaning.
American-style bathing where you immerse your body without cleaning it first is one reason why other cultures without this practice wrinkle their noses at us and look askance. How can you get clean when you're essentially soaking in Funk Soup?
See the statue 'the Croatian Apoxyomenos' for an example of one of these scrapers ('strigils') captured in bronze (the actual strigil is not part of the bronze any more). The bespoke Croatian is an athlete or warrior who is depicted cleaning himself with his strigil before bathing. Although earlier (Greek) in origin, it's a practice the Romans 'borrowed' or inherited as part of Mediterranean culture. The Etruscans were thought to be the originators of the practice, and they had everyone using it, but by later Roman times only athletes, warriors, the wealthy, and what we'd call male 'beefcakes' or bodybuilders would use it.
Just a note: strigils are not disc shaped. They're dull hooks, shaped sort of like giant curved knives, with a convex side on the interior. I'm not sure where you got the "disc" imagery.
Hilarious how the post show commentary ended 😂😂😂
Another amazing video
Justice action is on your side.
Great work gentlemen. Need to do some Deadwood after you finish Rome. HBO in the early 2000s was great.
Would love them to watch the sopranos
15:32 I don't think they're doing it to "eat people", but their behavior is certainly odd.
The last time I saw 'Evander', Groot was throwing him out of the prison block control tower in Guardians of the Galaxy.
The city is indeed a set, but an open air one. You can actually visit the set it in the Cinecitià studios, in Italy.
I thought it burned and that's partly the reason why we didn't get third season?
@@ЯАга-я4л I never heard anything about this. There is 100% still a set there, but perhaps it was reconstructed?
All I heard about the lack of a third season was budget concerns.
@@ЯАга-я4л It was only the slum portion that burned down. The rest of it survived.
First Punic War ... the Roman admiral got owned by the Carthaginians ;-( Got nickname of "Asinus".
US congress is in the podium, behind the speech
Look at Cato "I gotta have the last word."
The sticks are the "fasces" (Latin: fascis). They symbolized a magistrate's power and jurisdiction - in this case, Caesar. The Romans appropriated them from the Etruscans, and then Mussolini appropriated them from the Romans. It also symbolizes the "collective unity" of the "fascist" state. In order to break the state, you must break all its figs (i.e. citizens).
I think if I recall correctly it was more like contractual obligations when it came to the roman religion
Correct. There's no right way of believing, and indeed, Romans had a wide variety of theological beliefs. Roman religion (all ancient religion, really) was orthopraxic ("right practice"), rather than orthodoxic ("right belief") like nearly all monotheistic religions today. They had no concept of heresy, or anything like that. And they distrusted excessively religious people, even (excessive religiosity was called "superstitio", from where we get the term and concept "superstition", though it doesn't mean exactly the same thing). In fact, a fair number of educated Romans, including the priests, were agnostic or atheist. Doing the ritual correctly was what was important, not how you felt about it. And it was contractual; prayers to the gods are usually accompanied by a vow ("votum", where we get the word "votive" from). Like, "if you do this for me, Apollo, I'll build you a spiffy altar."
Son of Pompey played Harry in Bob
So… what’s up Calvin?
Based on his reaction to the butcher shop scene I’m assuming some crotch related trauma lol
@ck5071 the wang
My favorite historical fact about Caesar (well in recorded history anyway) When he was young and got caught by pirates and held hostage for ransom, he wined and dined and laughed with them. Telling them that he would come back and slaughter them all. They all laughed along with him... Cut to some time later, Caesar returns and true to his word slaughters them all.
He also told them he was offended by how low a ransom they were asking for and demanded they ask for more.
So they would not tarnish his reputation by being some sort of "discount" noble.
Did you recognise Rick Warden aka "Harry Welsh" from Band of Brothers as Pompey's son?
There actually is a killer whale horror movie. LOL you guys should totally watch it.
is there a plane flying over the room the whole time? there is a constant buzzing in the audio
Lawn mower
TIL: Caesar had killer whales. Thanks BlindWave!
About the religion the Roman’s didn’t actually mind if you didn’t follow the gods or even had your own religion.
As long as you took part in the state religion by participating in sacrifices ("religio publica"), they didn't care what you believed. And it was generally only people of high status, in official positions, that were expected to participate. Philosophy guided what most people "believed", not religion, back then. Anything in the private sphere wasn't seen as anyone else's business, including religion ("religio privata"), unless it was significantly disrupting society in some way.
@@willsofer3679 they also claimed that a lot of other gods like Celtic gods and Roman gods were sometimes the same just interpreted differently
Sticks and axe is stick punish, axe execution "the fascist "
Yeah they built the whole evantide everyone gave their all for this, ray stevenson lost his marriage for this.
No, quintus and his crew would not have killed them . Even alone, vorerenus is a serious forrce to be reckoned with
Whats wrong with Calvin??😂😂😂
Kidney stones.
Augurs not orcas. Doh!
No one knows what fasces are?
"Where do you get these from?" at the end had me giggling. If those pills did work, with no weird side there would giant ads in times square and some nascar sponsorships. Just sayin.
Love watching Rome with y'all, always entertaining.
"good to have the pope on your side"
Funny you said that, since Caesar was actually Pontifex Maximus and thus one of Romes highest priests himself. (though not necessarily THE highest).
With Octavian it would become a title of the Emperors and later it was take by the Catholic church for their Pope.
The Pontifex Maximus was indeed the highest priesthood in Rome, and oversaw all of the other state priesthoods; the name itself literally translates, loosely, to "Greatest Priest".
The guy on the right should keep his mouth shut, really annoying.
Honestly alien force is definelty worth the watch it’s so much more detailed for people our age i rewatched it and was actually shocked how much was in it the haters probably didn’t like it when they were young cos it would have been hard to understand but fr you’ll get views on it and you’ll enjoy it I enjoyed rewatching
Where’s the ahsoka reaction??
they aren't doing it, they said on twitter they want to go into the series blind
Wtf?? The Fasces were a bundle of rods and a single axe which were carried as a symbol of magisterial and priestly authority in ancient Rome. They featured prominently in important administrative ceremonies and public processions such as triumphs. Fasces were typically carried over the left shoulder of magisterial attendants known as lictors (lictores) as symbols of judicial authority.
"Fasces" was the origin of the name of the National Fascist Party in Italy (from which the term fascism is derived).