A very interesting video and a great topic. Although, there should be just a slight adjustment to a misconception about cats. Not for Caesar, but for Napoleon, since it wasn't the NAPOLEON Napoleon, you know the first and great one, but actually Napoleon III, former Napoleon's nephew and also Emperor of France, that was afraid of cats. That's a common misconception, since the two guys were the same name. Napoleon I however, on the other hand, didn't really like dogs and there are many funny stories about him in "dogs situations", like for example when, during his first wedding night with Josephine, when they came to bed, they found her Labrador retriever lying in it, which prompted Napoleon to try to remove him from the bed, which then ended with him getting bitten in the ass.
Pompey intended to not only have caesar executed but also planned a massive purge of both caesars allies but likely the enter populares faction post war. Caesar was on the outside of Sullas dictatorship and purge, he had been traumatised by it Pompey was in its upper echelons and saw it as more then just a guideline but a necessary step (which given caesars fate is likely right). Caesar winning was by far the best situation for the senate being alive-wise if not power-wise and he got killed for it.
@@ultra-papasmurfYou are absolutely right! There are too many people who whine the oligarchic late republic was dismantled. It was just a coterie of the optimates and Cato with his intransigence brought it down. If Caesar could have gotten immunity from prosecution there would have been no civil war. And Cato was biased towards the intimates, he did not prosecute optimates who committed extrajudicial killings after Sulla's death, like Pompey murdering Brutus' father or even supported the killing of Catilina's supporters without a trial during Cicero's consulship. How he managed to pose as a paragon of virtue even 1900 years after his death is beyond me. He was a scoundrel and I feel like vomiting whenever I think about him.
The best story is when Caesar was holding his fourth triumph some guy decided to sit down and not celebrate and Caesar through a Temper tantrum for days
Every UA-cam comment I’ve ever seen which belittles or mocks Caesar has a few things in common. 1) The criticism is always based on a topic covered by Histora Civilis 2) The criticism is always something that Histora Civilis goes out of his way to mention, and joke about. 3) The person making the criticism is always subscribed to Histora Civilis.
Whatever else you think of him, Caesar certainly made his mark. He is even now, more famous than just about any of the Emperors who followed in his wake and his influence can still be felt on society today (like how the modern Gregorian calendar is an update to the Julian calendar he devised). To this day, we still go through the month of July every year, a month named for him as part of his new calendar. Considering he died over 40 years before Jesus' birth reset the year to zero, Julius Caesar is literally older than our current year count and we're still talking about him today.
@@evanw.5211 In popularity? Not really, even though Augustus was a genius he didn't had the impact that Julius Caesar did, if you go to the street and ask around for the first Roman Emperor for example most people will answer Caesar, not augustus, if you ask for the greatest roman they're likely to answer the same
2,000 years after Caesar’s lifetime, a bloody war broke out. The bloodiest war in human history up to that point, in fact. We call it World War 1 today. The two largest land powers in that war were Imperial Germany (ruled by a Kaiser), and Imperial Russia (ruled by a Czar). Both titles are based on Caesar’s name, and both ruled over a landmass that Rome never did. Imagine it’s year 4,000 AD, and a war breaks out between two planets colonized by humans. Now imagine both planets are ruled by someone whose title is simply a different way to say your last name. That level of influence and notoriety is fucking mind boggling.
Remember that in the ancient times mythical heroes were always depicted having long and beautiful hair (e.g. Heracles, Achilles). So to have bald hair was seen as being lesser for a military leader. Akin to dick measurement contest in this day and age.
Given his lifelong poor health, it's amazing Augustus lived as long as he did; passing away just a few weeks shy of his 76th birthday. Conversely, Marcus Agrippa, who was known for being of far more robust health, was just 52 when he died. Looking at Augustus' successors over the next 462 years, not counting those who were murdered, the only one to live a longer life was Tiberius, who died age 77. The only other to live into his seventies, that also died of natural causes (hence why I don't count Galba or Gordian I), was Antoninus, who reached 74 . Vespasian, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Severus, Diocletian, and Constantine, were all in their 60s. Marcus Aurelius, who we often think of as an old man, probably due to Richard Harris' splendid portrayal of him in Gladiator, was just 58 (Sir Alec Guinness was actually about the right age when he depicted him in The Fall of the Roman Empire).
@@theadmiral6891 The pirates in question are the Cilician pirates, famously ultimately defeated by Pompey. So quite convenient by Caesar to go "look, they are no big deal, I dealt with them easily in the past, it's no real achievement, I managed to defeat a bunch of them between breakfast and lunch."
@@Sp4mMe What? What are you on about? "The pirates in question are the Cicilian pirates" the pirates were not a single army, there were small bands of pirates all over the Mediterranean sea, the band that captured Caesar was an entirely different band of pirates from the ones which were defeated by Pompey (I don't remember Pompey ever doing that), so, no, it wasn't propaganda.
@@Sp4mMe I see your point, he did pretty much the same after battle of Zela with his " Veni, vidi, vici, trying to downgrade Pompeys past victories over Pontus. I do however belive there is a high chance he was actually captured by pirates, it seems rare for people like Ceasar to completely lie, but common to exaggerate.
Fun fact, after finally winning against a northen tribe in Gaul that had shown great resistance known as the veneti, Ceaser ordered the entire slaughter of the aristocracy and sold the population as slaves. Kinda brutal if you ask me
Also, the money received from the sale of slaves went into the hands of the general, not the Roman Treasury. The sale of gallic slaves made Caesar incredibly rich.
Sadly (well, Total War taught me it is the only wah) it was the way of things. Just like cities that didn't surrender were free razing state. Alexander the Great enslaved the populations of the cities he stormed
@@safwanshuhaib9968 imperator is the etymological root of emperor and dictator was a completely different position in latin so you’re literally just wrong. happy holidays
Being a really big Roman history fan, I watch videos not expecting to really learn anything new, but I'd never heard anything about the elephants and his name or that he was afraid of cats. Good job!
The naming system in ancient Rome was this. The first name was the common name and the name that most people would refer to you as. The second name was the family name. And the third was the clan name basically a name that someone within the family would give themselves and pass onto their children. So a name like Gaius Julius Caesar would be read as Gaius (the common name) Julius ( the family name) and Caesar (the clan name). Julius Caesar (the famous one) came from a line of Caesar’s I’m not sure exactly why they added on the cognomen but apparently it meant hair or having good hair.
I know that this comment is 6 months old, but I honestly don't think it was intentional whatsoever. The meeting place changed all the time, and the senators had to really push the murder ahead of schedule because Caesar would be leaving Rome only days after the Ides, which was when he was murdered. If anything it was simply a twist of fate that their rushed murder plan ended up killing Caesar in the most poetic way possible
Caesar was amazing at everything thing he did. He won Rome's highest award for bravery as a young man. But he attracted great envy and his enemies sought any insult or lie to bring him down. They said amongst other things that "he was every man's woman and every woman's man". By that they meant not only was he gay but worse, he assumed the woman's role in his gay relationships by being the receiver rather than the giver. This all started when he was sent to the King Nicomedes of Bithynia to get some boats for a siege of a Greek island. They suggested that he and the king had had an affair and he was referred to as the "Queen of Bithynia" thereafter. And if that wasn't bad enough, he was also a sex maniac when it came to women, presumably as the giver this time. In other words, he couldn't win. But unfortunately that's what lesser men do when confronted by a truly amazing man. And if insults don't work, there are always daggers.
My favorite thing about Caesar is the way his enemies would talk about him. They would call him a tyrant, a liar, a thief, a maniac, a traitor, and a sinner. But even amongst those who hated him the most, he was universally referred to as a genius.
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Could you please do a video ranking every eastern Roman emperor from when the western Roman Empire began in 395 A.D. to when it ended in 476 A.D.? I know the idea of a video like this may seem a bit redundant considering all of those emperors where listed in your eastern Roman Empire video but considering that the western Roman Empire got its own video, I think it would only be fair. After all you would only have to rank six emperors from Arcadius to Zeno and since you would probably need a different title for your video, it could be something along the lines of “Ranking Every EARLY Eastern Roman Emperor From Worst To Best.” Even though it would be a pretty short video, at least consider the idea, thanks.
Arcadius didn't do much and died early, Theodosius II spent most of his time doing nothing and fell of a horse, Marcian made some economic reforms, Leo I was decent but was unable to help the West, and Zeno was decent. It's somewhat hard to rank the Eastern empire during that time because Hunnic invasions were not as bad and were mostly bribed away and the east was much more stable, making it much harder for any emperor to stand out as being great or terrible.
Can't belive it was omitted the fact that he would sleep with ANYONE and allegedly even had a relationship with King Mithridates VI of Bythinia (so much so that Suetonius writes that people would call him "every woman's man and every man's woman). The relationship wasn't that controversial per se, except for the fact that Caeser took the uh, passive position during intimate encounters, and being that everything had a power dynamic in rome, it wasn't seen as a good thing since caesar was a Roman citizen.
If my memory is correct, in one story of Julius’ deification, Octavian used a passing comet (or something like it) to say that it was proof he became a god
I surprised you didn't bring up the year of confusion it happen when he made the julian calendar it took around 445 days to get in sync the longest year in history it caused a lot of confusion with dates like when shipments would arrive or rents were due ect.
Interesting that Caesar was (partially) bald. I think all depictions of him - that I've seen - show him having head full of hair. One would think such noticeable thing about someone so well known would not be lost to history. I guess even the 'old' the statues of him were highly romanticized.
What? Go to 0:46. That’s the Tusculum bust, one of the most famous depictions of Caesar. It’s one of the top results when you image search his name, as well as the first thing you see on his Wikipedia page. It’s also shown in the video you just watched. If you have never seen him without a full head of hair, you simply aren’t paying attention.
Caesar: So the Ides of March are come, and nothing has happened to me. Spurrina: The Ides of March are come, but not yet gone. Caesar: (As Tillius Cimber pulls down his toga) Then this is force! (He is stabbed, Brutus approaches him) You too, my son? (Dies)
Deified Emperors (even though Caesar himself wasn't one): Julius Caesar Octavian (Augustus) Claudius Vespasian Titus Elagabalus (he was named after a god) Constantine (Alright, he wasn't called a god, but he did become the thirteenth apostle, which is the closest thing to being a god)
Good question. The only coins I've ever seen of Sulla, Pompey, Aemilius Paulus, and Cornelius Scipio (the two Roman generals at Pydna) came well after their deaths, usually commissioned by their sons or grandsons. Would be interesting to see if any can be found that were contemporary to their lifetimes.
It finally makes sense to me. Caesar's name always annoyed me, because we don't write it that way in Portuguese. In my head Ca e sar sounded nothing like César.
There was an Italian man who was going to write a book stating that Julius Caesar was Ethiopian and Black but they stop him. I am speculating that the name Caesar, Kaiser, Kaye Sar may mean the house of Osiris.
There really is nothing blacks won’t do to make themselves feel better about their utter lack of historical accomplishments. We wuz Dictator for Life an shiet.
The fuck is that idea? The very name "Julius" shows he is part of the Gens Juliii, which was a gens that claimed to trace its origin back to the old days of the roman monarchy. 2ndly, there would be atleast 1 source from the time that depicted caesar as black if this was true. 3rdly. the idea has no ground to begin with. 0 proof he was black. He was born in the mediterannean, he likely had olive colourned skin
Caesar put the senate over his knee and spanked them like disobedient children. Humiliated, they cowardly murdered him. The end result of this was Caesar’s name being so synonymous with royalty that both Germany and Russia were ruled by a monarch whose title was based on Caesar’s name. I can’t imagine being cucked harder than that, both literally and figuratively.
Yeah, that's the point I wanted to make, though I can see why it would be misunderstood. Tiberius' name of Caesar was given to him through adoption, while Caligula was born with the name of Caesar. Because Claudius was neither born a Caesar nor given the name through adoption, he adopted the name by himself (or in other words, gave himself the name), thus tying the name of Caesar directly with Imperial power and with the role of Princeps.
@@spectrum1140 That's what I've thought! Thank you you much! I know it seems silly but that's always been a fact I've been confused about for a while now.
@@spectrum1140 Except Claudius actually was part of the Julian-Claudian dynasty. He assumed the Caesar cognomen exactly to remind people that he was a real descendant of Augustus and Julius Caesar. Galba didn't take the name Caesar. It was Vespasian who was the first emperor that took the name Caesar without any familial claim to it, thus transforming it from a gens cognomen to an imperial title.
@@spectrum1140 Suetonius wrote "it is said that Caesar had black eyes" this is written almost 200 years after Caesar's death. It's certainly entirely possible it was wrong. Not least since Roman historians routinely rewrote history to suck up to the current dynasty in power. Much of Domitians bad reputation is a result of Suetonius smearing for example.
Gaius julius Caesar predated the Augustae. The title of caesar was created after his great nephew established the principate. Also, Augustus went by gaius Julius Caesar even after he became emperor
it was originally used as a last name. See roman names generally tend to go something like 1 first name 1-2 family names accomplishments Caesar was originally part of his family name - "Gaius Julius Caesar" was a member of the "Caesar" branch of the "Julius" family. It wasn't till augustus that it started being used as a title.
great video but he didn't wear a laurel wreath to hide his baldness. it was a civic crown, an honorary award given to romans who did a great deed for the people, it was a very highly respected award which is why caesar wore it, though im sure he didnt mind that it hid his receding hairline. AVE CAESAR
A very interesting video and a great topic. Although, there should be just a slight adjustment to a misconception about cats. Not for Caesar, but for Napoleon, since it wasn't the NAPOLEON Napoleon, you know the first and great one, but actually Napoleon III, former Napoleon's nephew and also Emperor of France, that was afraid of cats. That's a common misconception, since the two guys were the same name. Napoleon I however, on the other hand, didn't really like dogs and there are many funny stories about him in "dogs situations", like for example when, during his first wedding night with Josephine, when they came to bed, they found her Labrador retriever lying in it, which prompted Napoleon to try to remove him from the bed, which then ended with him getting bitten in the ass.
That situation with the wedding sounds like a terrible impression to make
**Pompey’s statue comes to life**
“HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!!!”
Best friends to the end.....sad that Pompey Magnus was murdered in Egypt instead of Caesar going there and bringing him back to Rome.
They were joined in a really and weirdly similar death.
Pompey intended to not only have caesar executed but also planned a massive purge of both caesars allies but likely the enter populares faction post war.
Caesar was on the outside of Sullas dictatorship and purge, he had been traumatised by it
Pompey was in its upper echelons and saw it as more then just a guideline but a necessary step (which given caesars fate is likely right). Caesar winning was by far the best situation for the senate being alive-wise if not power-wise and he got killed for it.
@@ultra-papasmurfYou are absolutely right! There are too many people who whine the oligarchic late republic was dismantled. It was just a coterie of the optimates and Cato with his intransigence brought it down. If Caesar could have gotten immunity from prosecution there would have been no civil war. And Cato was biased towards the intimates, he did not prosecute optimates who committed extrajudicial killings after Sulla's death, like Pompey murdering Brutus' father or even supported the killing of Catilina's supporters without a trial during Cicero's consulship. How he managed to pose as a paragon of virtue even 1900 years after his death is beyond me. He was a scoundrel and I feel like vomiting whenever I think about him.
I bet Caesar is thrilled to now have ten answers when the teacher asks for an interesting fact about yourself
"I have male pattern baldness and am really self conscious about it"
“I once got held for ransom for twenty million dollars and literally did not care”
"I became a God"
"I was assassinated in March. I marched to my own death"
Caesar was a straight up sigma
no he was def an alpha
@@Spoontamer4 Typical beta assumes everybody is an alpha.
@@theadmiral6891 sigmas go out The sociosexual hierarchy, caesar was am alpha because he wasnt outside The hierarchy, he was on top of it
Sigma tip #564: Genocide the Gauls
nah, Hannibal was a sigma though.
The best story is when Caesar was holding his fourth triumph some guy decided to sit down and not celebrate and Caesar through a Temper tantrum for days
“Come Tribune Aquila, take back the republic if you can!”
Better ask tribune aquilla if it's cool to post this first
@@nickcara97 so fucking funny
Every UA-cam comment I’ve ever seen which belittles or mocks Caesar has a few things in common.
1) The criticism is always based on a topic covered by Histora Civilis
2) The criticism is always something that Histora Civilis goes out of his way to mention, and joke about.
3) The person making the criticism is always subscribed to Histora Civilis.
@@N0TYALC You check what channel they're subscribed too?
It was just a remark, no need to prescribe me, for I agree with you!
Pirates : only ask 20 000 coins for Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar : And I took that personnaly
Whatever else you think of him, Caesar certainly made his mark. He is even now, more famous than just about any of the Emperors who followed in his wake and his influence can still be felt on society today (like how the modern Gregorian calendar is an update to the Julian calendar he devised). To this day, we still go through the month of July every year, a month named for him as part of his new calendar.
Considering he died over 40 years before Jesus' birth reset the year to zero, Julius Caesar is literally older than our current year count and we're still talking about him today.
Alleged Jesus birth.
Augustus could give him a run for his money, the guy was a genius
@@evanw.5211 In popularity? Not really, even though Augustus was a genius he didn't had the impact that Julius Caesar did, if you go to the street and ask around for the first Roman Emperor for example most people will answer Caesar, not augustus, if you ask for the greatest roman they're likely to answer the same
2,000 years after Caesar’s lifetime, a bloody war broke out. The bloodiest war in human history up to that point, in fact. We call it World War 1 today. The two largest land powers in that war were Imperial Germany (ruled by a Kaiser), and Imperial Russia (ruled by a Czar). Both titles are based on Caesar’s name, and both ruled over a landmass that Rome never did.
Imagine it’s year 4,000 AD, and a war breaks out between two planets colonized by humans. Now imagine both planets are ruled by someone whose title is simply a different way to say your last name. That level of influence and notoriety is fucking mind boggling.
Piping Cleopatra and Little Caesars definitely helped.
Julius commited more adultery than Honorius committed bad decisions
Implying Honorius ever made a decision
Actually, what Caesar did was not considered adultery. Not even owning Cleopatra's pussy and fertilising it.
@@samg.5165 Yeah common miscopcention
Our great Emperor Honorius bravely defeated Visigotic women and children with little losses
Utilized by his enemies ? What they cried "Bald man bad"
No they made jokes about him
@@admiralkipper4540 yeah.. thats the point
Remember that in the ancient times mythical heroes were always depicted having long and beautiful hair (e.g. Heracles, Achilles). So to have bald hair was seen as being lesser for a military leader. Akin to dick measurement contest in this day and age.
@@jim-hw4ci Me remembering when big pp means dumb: 😤😭😭😭
On the off chance you do one on Octavian, there should be a bonus fact of "this guy was always sick" or something. 😂
Octavian 🤝 Marcus Agrippa
@@Magplar ave! And yes, the biggest power duo of the Ancient world. You chose your successor well.
Given his lifelong poor health, it's amazing Augustus lived as long as he did; passing away just a few weeks shy of his 76th birthday. Conversely, Marcus Agrippa, who was known for being of far more robust health, was just 52 when he died. Looking at Augustus' successors over the next 462 years, not counting those who were murdered, the only one to live a longer life was Tiberius, who died age 77. The only other to live into his seventies, that also died of natural causes (hence why I don't count Galba or Gordian I), was Antoninus, who reached 74 . Vespasian, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Severus, Diocletian, and Constantine, were all in their 60s. Marcus Aurelius, who we often think of as an old man, probably due to Richard Harris' splendid portrayal of him in Gladiator, was just 58 (Sir Alec Guinness was actually about the right age when he depicted him in The Fall of the Roman Empire).
@@randomthoughts9276 I appreciate your kind words and accurate assessment of historical facts.
@@legionarybooks13 58 was considered old back then. Octavian and Tiberius were positively ancient.
How Caesar is pronounced originally is how we pronounce "Kaiser" (german) which means Emperor in english.
No. The "s" in "Kaiser" is pronounced like a "z", and its the "ae", not "ai" diphthong. Not to mention "K" is asphirated
Caeser:I have an army
Rival:we have a cat
Those facts sure were interesting
They still are
Spoiler!!!
@@knazibaz sorry
This channel is destined for greatness!
OH YEA
I just can’t help but think about the internet provider when I see his channel name though.
The pirate history is to some extent credible just because its Ceasar, but I wonder if some parts are exaggerated.
Given that his political enemy was famous for having defeated exactly those pirates this story sounds like 183% propaganda to me.
@@Sp4mMe Misinformation much? Caesar crucified those pirates not his political enemy.
@@theadmiral6891 The pirates in question are the Cilician pirates, famously ultimately defeated by Pompey.
So quite convenient by Caesar to go "look, they are no big deal, I dealt with them easily in the past, it's no real achievement, I managed to defeat a bunch of them between breakfast and lunch."
@@Sp4mMe What? What are you on about? "The pirates in question are the Cicilian pirates" the pirates were not a single army, there were small bands of pirates all over the Mediterranean sea, the band that captured Caesar was an entirely different band of pirates from the ones which were defeated by Pompey (I don't remember Pompey ever doing that), so, no, it wasn't propaganda.
@@Sp4mMe I see your point, he did pretty much the same after battle of Zela with his " Veni, vidi, vici, trying to downgrade Pompeys past victories over Pontus.
I do however belive there is a high chance he was actually captured by pirates, it seems rare for people like Ceasar to completely lie, but common to exaggerate.
Fun fact, after finally winning against a northen tribe in Gaul that had shown great resistance known as the veneti, Ceaser ordered the entire slaughter of the aristocracy and sold the population as slaves. Kinda brutal if you ask me
A true gamer move
Also, the money received from the sale of slaves went into the hands of the general, not the Roman Treasury. The sale of gallic slaves made Caesar incredibly rich.
@@condorboss3339 Actually, the money went to his soldiers ... a part of the money, anyway.
Yes, and it was the right choice. You wanna know why? Slain enemies cannot stab you several dozen times. Forgiven enemies can.
Sadly (well, Total War taught me it is the only wah) it was the way of things. Just like cities that didn't surrender were free razing state.
Alexander the Great enslaved the populations of the cities he stormed
The second you said Caesar was bald, an overwhelming surge of power flowed through me.
Yoo great video, also i happend to know about all but 2 of these of these. Keep up the great work
If this man was an Emperor in name, he'd be my favorite.
I mean…. he _diiiid_ call himself imperator……
You just KNOW he felt like one...
@@dreamofyouandi imperator means dictator... Not emperor.
@@safwanshuhaib9968 imperator is the etymological root of emperor and dictator was a completely different position in latin so you’re literally just wrong. happy holidays
@@safwanshuhaib9968 Read more...
"The next man to adopt the name of Caesar after Octavian was Claudius"
Tiberius Iulius Caesar Augustus would object this statement vehemently )
Also Caligula, who was literally born Gauis Julius Caesar
Fun fact: Julius Caesar followed spectrum and so should you
Loved that Carthage video, I'd love to see more of you debating alternate outcomes to important wars !
Being a really big Roman history fan, I watch videos not expecting to really learn anything new, but I'd never heard anything about the elephants and his name or that he was afraid of cats. Good job!
The GOAT
Vercingetorix should've just assembled an army of 10 000 cats and Caesar would've been crushed
Vercinloser would've been scared himself of the cats so Caeswinner would've won even easier.
The naming system in ancient Rome was this. The first name was the common name and the name that most people would refer to you as. The second name was the family name. And the third was the clan name basically a name that someone within the family would give themselves and pass onto their children. So a name like Gaius Julius Caesar would be read as Gaius (the common name) Julius ( the family name) and Caesar (the clan name). Julius Caesar (the famous one) came from a line of Caesar’s I’m not sure exactly why they added on the cognomen but apparently it meant hair or having good hair.
No. The clan name would be 2nd.
There was that one song that Caesers veterans sung in their Triumph that mentioned his baldness.
I can see this channel going very far.
Truly enjoying your channel.
I’m into this big time. I’m learning more. Thankyou 🌈💫🇦🇺
I wonder if there was an ritual significance to killing Caesar at Pompey's feet, like they were sacrificing Caesar
I know that this comment is 6 months old, but I honestly don't think it was intentional whatsoever. The meeting place changed all the time, and the senators had to really push the murder ahead of schedule because Caesar would be leaving Rome only days after the Ides, which was when he was murdered. If anything it was simply a twist of fate that their rushed murder plan ended up killing Caesar in the most poetic way possible
Muito fixe ver um português a fazer conteúdo sobre Roma. Keep it up
You are so cool Spectrum!!! Thanks for the videos!
😂 the fact I know most of those just from my freshman class I had last year was pretty nice
Caesar was amazing at everything thing he did. He won Rome's highest award for bravery as a young man.
But he attracted great envy and his enemies sought any insult or lie to bring him down. They said amongst other things that "he was every man's woman and every woman's man". By that they meant not only was he gay but worse, he assumed the woman's role in his gay relationships by being the receiver rather than the giver. This all started when he was sent to the King Nicomedes of Bithynia to get some boats for a siege of a Greek island. They suggested that he and the king had had an affair and he was referred to as the "Queen of Bithynia" thereafter. And if that wasn't bad enough, he was also a sex maniac when it came to women, presumably as the giver this time. In other words, he couldn't win.
But unfortunately that's what lesser men do when confronted by a truly amazing man. And if insults don't work, there are always daggers.
A whole 23 daggers.
My favorite thing about Caesar is the way his enemies would talk about him. They would call him a tyrant, a liar, a thief, a maniac, a traitor, and a sinner. But even amongst those who hated him the most, he was universally referred to as a genius.
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Could you please do a video ranking every eastern Roman emperor from when the western Roman Empire began in 395 A.D. to when it ended in 476 A.D.? I know the idea of a video like this may seem a bit redundant considering all of those emperors where listed in your eastern Roman Empire video but considering that the western Roman Empire got its own video, I think it would only be fair. After all you would only have to rank six emperors from Arcadius to Zeno and since you would probably need a different title for your video, it could be something along the lines of “Ranking Every EARLY Eastern Roman Emperor From Worst To Best.” Even though it would be a pretty short video, at least consider the idea, thanks.
Arcadius didn't do much and died early, Theodosius II spent most of his time doing nothing and fell of a horse, Marcian made some economic reforms, Leo I was decent but was unable to help the West, and Zeno was decent. It's somewhat hard to rank the Eastern empire during that time because Hunnic invasions were not as bad and were mostly bribed away and the east was much more stable, making it much harder for any emperor to stand out as being great or terrible.
Always great to learn about the queen of bathinia
The pirate one I thought he slit the throats of the friendly pirates and crucified the mean ones alive.
Can't belive it was omitted the fact that he would sleep with ANYONE and allegedly even had a relationship with King Mithridates VI of Bythinia (so much so that Suetonius writes that people would call him "every woman's man and every man's woman). The relationship wasn't that controversial per se, except for the fact that Caeser took the uh, passive position during intimate encounters, and being that everything had a power dynamic in rome, it wasn't seen as a good thing since caesar was a Roman citizen.
I knew the majority of these, but only a narrow one, I knew 6/10 of these facts.
The ones I didn't know were: 8, 7, 5, 4
Holy shit, last time I was this early the bronze age hadnt even collapsed yet
My favorite fact was the last one. Had no idea that it all went down in a theater built by fucking Pompey
man some things in history are like a fairy tale.Imagine being murdered and the last thing you see is the statue of your archnemesis
If my memory is correct, in one story of Julius’ deification, Octavian used a passing comet (or something like it) to say that it was proof he became a god
Yes. There are statues of Caesar with a comet on his forehead.
I surprised you didn't bring up the year of confusion it happen when he made the julian calendar it took around 445 days to get in sync the longest year in history it caused a lot of confusion with dates like when shipments would arrive or rents were due ect.
Last time I was this early Ceaser was still alive
1 dislike was Brutus who assassinated Caesar
Ave, true to Caesar
Interesting that Caesar was (partially) bald. I think all depictions of him - that I've seen - show him having head full of hair. One would think such noticeable thing about someone so well known would not be lost to history. I guess even the 'old' the statues of him were highly romanticized.
What? Go to 0:46. That’s the Tusculum bust, one of the most famous depictions of Caesar. It’s one of the top results when you image search his name, as well as the first thing you see on his Wikipedia page. It’s also shown in the video you just watched. If you have never seen him without a full head of hair, you simply aren’t paying attention.
@@N0TYALC That's really the only image of him that shows him as balding.
I have one of the caesar dinarius with the elephant on one side and a triumph on the other :)
#10 would be perfect for a sponsor segway to Keeps!
Aw man I wish you get more subs and a better mic. Your vids are going to be a blast.
Caesar was a chad
My man.
A lot of these facts are explained in great detail in one of my favourite books about Caesar . The death of Caesar- by Barry Strauss’s
this was great! cant wait for more
Most interesting man in history
You get a silver talent.
Euh, quick question, where did you find Caesar was afraid of cats? I haven't seen it anywhere.
Caesar: So the Ides of March are come, and nothing has happened to me.
Spurrina: The Ides of March are come, but not yet gone.
Caesar: (As Tillius Cimber pulls down his toga) Then this is force! (He is stabbed, Brutus approaches him) You too, my son? (Dies)
Deified Emperors (even though Caesar himself wasn't one):
Julius Caesar
Octavian (Augustus)
Claudius
Vespasian
Titus
Elagabalus (he was named after a god)
Constantine (Alright, he wasn't called a god, but he did become the thirteenth apostle, which is the closest thing to being a god)
Can you do one about Augustus
Wasn't the victor of Pidna the first to put himself on a coin? Also, Sulla and pompey have i think
Good question. The only coins I've ever seen of Sulla, Pompey, Aemilius Paulus, and Cornelius Scipio (the two Roman generals at Pydna) came well after their deaths, usually commissioned by their sons or grandsons. Would be interesting to see if any can be found that were contemporary to their lifetimes.
Great video
I thought him having epilepsy would be in there somewhere.
I am a simple man I see Julius Caesar in the title; I click
It finally makes sense to me.
Caesar's name always annoyed me, because we don't write it that way in Portuguese. In my head Ca e sar sounded nothing like César.
He was also a lifelong sufferer from epilepsy, one of the first known famous cases.
"Caesar was a bit full of himself" Well, he did have ability to back up his arrogance.
Damn thats cool no lie
If you get one that I don't know you deserve 300x times more subscribers.
Fun fact: The place where Caesar died is now a sanctuary for cats.
I’m at fact number 9 and I already admire this dude so greatly
There was an Italian man who was going to write a book stating that Julius Caesar was Ethiopian and Black but they stop him. I am speculating that the name Caesar, Kaiser, Kaye Sar may mean the house of Osiris.
But that’s just obviously not true
There really is nothing blacks won’t do to make themselves feel better about their utter lack of historical accomplishments. We wuz Dictator for Life an shiet.
The fuck is that idea? The very name "Julius" shows he is part of the Gens Juliii, which was a gens that claimed to trace its origin back to the old days of the roman monarchy. 2ndly, there would be atleast 1 source from the time that depicted caesar as black if this was true. 3rdly. the idea has no ground to begin with. 0 proof he was black. He was born in the mediterannean, he likely had olive colourned skin
the last fact was fckn epic
The fact that he did not adjust the Callander gave him an advantage crossing into Greece, since the Pompeii faction still followed it.
Man is just busy for war that he forgets it
I like Caesar.
I like you too, in fact, I've written in my will that you'll get 1 silver talent in the event of my death. Not that I plan on dying anytime soon.
Great videos but can you please increase your audio levels? I have to turn it up really high just to hear you!
Julius Caesar the greatest Roman you ever lived.
Give this man a silver talent.
Aurelianus and Traianus
"So much so"
Good video tho
He does say it a lot. So much so that I’ve seen 3 comments about it.
Can you make a video on augustus?
Great vid!
Came for the JC. Stayed for the fax.
I almost skipped 10 because I thought it was a keeps ad
He was also related to Marius by marriage.
Julius Caesar the first proprietor of the comb over.
How could you omit that he was philosophically aligned with Epicurus?
i think that cats are not trustworthy like dogs simply because they show no loyalty
Average Cae*ar fan vs Cicero and the Senate enjoyer
Caesar put the senate over his knee and spanked them like disobedient children. Humiliated, they cowardly murdered him. The end result of this was Caesar’s name being so synonymous with royalty that both Germany and Russia were ruled by a monarch whose title was based on Caesar’s name. I can’t imagine being cucked harder than that, both literally and figuratively.
Cicero was neutral tbh
Very cool
I already knew number 10, I visited Ceasar in New Vegas. Also you've been saying he's name wrong the whole video. This is a joke comment don't worry
Ave, true to Caesar
Didn't Tiberius take the name of Caesar first or was that just given to him by default when Augustus adopted him?
Yeah, that's the point I wanted to make, though I can see why it would be misunderstood. Tiberius' name of Caesar was given to him through adoption, while Caligula was born with the name of Caesar. Because Claudius was neither born a Caesar nor given the name through adoption, he adopted the name by himself (or in other words, gave himself the name), thus tying the name of Caesar directly with Imperial power and with the role of Princeps.
@@spectrum1140 That's what I've thought! Thank you you much! I know it seems silly but that's always been a fact I've been confused about for a while now.
@@spectrum1140 Except Claudius actually was part of the Julian-Claudian dynasty. He assumed the Caesar cognomen exactly to remind people that he was a real descendant of Augustus and Julius Caesar. Galba didn't take the name Caesar. It was Vespasian who was the first emperor that took the name Caesar without any familial claim to it, thus transforming it from a gens cognomen to an imperial title.
A true class of roman history
Fun Video
What's with the Charlie Chaplin piano music?
Do a video on Emperor Aurelian
Why do you say he certainly did not have blue eyes?
Utilizing sources we do not have, Suetonius describes Caesar as having "keen black eyes".
@@spectrum1140 Suetonius wrote "it is said that Caesar had black eyes" this is written almost 200 years after Caesar's death. It's certainly entirely possible it was wrong. Not least since Roman historians routinely rewrote history to suck up to the current dynasty in power. Much of Domitians bad reputation is a result of Suetonius smearing for example.
Different opinion: Idgaf about his eyes
The Great Khan Genghis was also afraid of dogs to!
What happened to the EU nations video?
Fun facts about Caesar: #1 He was a Chad, #2 He was a Chad, #3 He was a Chad and so on
Isn't caesar just.. a word for the heir of an augustus? I don't think he was born "Ivlivs Avgvstvs Caesar"
Gaius julius Caesar predated the Augustae. The title of caesar was created after his great nephew established the principate. Also, Augustus went by gaius Julius Caesar even after he became emperor
@@toddster2721 ah, i see , thanks
it was originally used as a last name. See roman names generally tend to go something like
1 first name
1-2 family names
accomplishments
Caesar was originally part of his family name - "Gaius Julius Caesar" was a member of the "Caesar" branch of the "Julius" family. It wasn't till augustus that it started being used as a title.
great video but he didn't wear a laurel wreath to hide his baldness. it was a civic crown, an honorary award given to romans who did a great deed for the people, it was a very highly respected award which is why caesar wore it, though im sure he didnt mind that it hid his receding hairline.
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