The Arch of Septimius Severus, portal to ancient Rome

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  • Опубліковано 19 тра 2020
  • Triumphal Arch of Septimius Severus, 203 C.E., marble above a travertine base, roughly 23 x 25 m, Roman Forum
    speakers: Dr. Darius Arya, executive director of the American Institute for Roman Culture and Dr. Beth Harris
    This video was made in collaboration with the American Institute for Roman Culture. To learn more about their important work visit:
    American Institute for Roman Culture www.romanculture.org/
    Their UA-cam channel / wedigrome
    and Ancient Rome Live ancientromelive.org/

КОМЕНТАРІ • 83

  • @nathanielscreativecollecti6392
    @nathanielscreativecollecti6392 4 роки тому +26

    Always a good day when you can see another one of these!

  • @user-vu8nf5cf6q
    @user-vu8nf5cf6q 3 роки тому +11

    Likewise, there is the Arc de Triomphe in Libya, specifically in Liptis, the birthplace of the great Septimius

  • @thekejofglory
    @thekejofglory 4 роки тому +33

    It's 1:30 am here in the Philippines, and I was about to sleep! A very lovely video to end my day!

  • @CreativeWorldPH
    @CreativeWorldPH 4 роки тому +9

    I love Roman Architecture ♥️♥️♥️

  • @fadelaelzalet8674
    @fadelaelzalet8674 3 роки тому +13

    Sptemus Severus is Berber from Libya 🇱🇾 and we proud of him he was very brave ,intelligent,awesome man

    • @truthhitman7473
      @truthhitman7473 2 роки тому +5

      He was a black man.

    • @realshitdawg1
      @realshitdawg1 2 роки тому

      @@truthhitman7473 And ?

    • @truthhitman7473
      @truthhitman7473 2 роки тому +2

      @@realshitdawg1
      You don't like it that's why you responded like a disgruntled racist.

    • @abdulelmeshi7215
      @abdulelmeshi7215 2 роки тому +4

      @@truthhitman7473 he wasn’t 😂

    • @jth6587
      @jth6587 2 роки тому +5

      No, he is an Arab and he is proud of that.. It was written on the Triumphal arch in Rome that he is ARABICO .

  • @CreativeWorldPH
    @CreativeWorldPH 3 роки тому +5

    I really love roman architecture

  • @FortressmasoN
    @FortressmasoN 3 роки тому

    So great to match the voices to the faces! Thanks for bringing so much immersive commentary to us!

  • @Insectoid_
    @Insectoid_ 4 роки тому +7

    Brilliant work. Love the recreations

  • @marthavillegas6250
    @marthavillegas6250 3 роки тому +5

    Love it! Thanks for the lesson ❤️

  • @aidangatter2395
    @aidangatter2395 4 роки тому +13

    Love you Smarthistory! You make the world better :)

  • @uriahheep8470
    @uriahheep8470 3 роки тому +5

    What a thoughtful and informative presentation. Caracalla certainly had a Geta complex.

    • @user-lq7qj8ue1x
      @user-lq7qj8ue1x Рік тому +2

      Fun fact: Caracalla means The Fortress of GOD in Arabic

  • @martinfernandez882
    @martinfernandez882 4 роки тому +8

    Yay! I was hoping y'all would make a video on this monument. It might be my favorite thing in the forum.

  • @Sasha0927
    @Sasha0927 Рік тому +1

    The photos at the start were sweet and really helped to appreciate the scale of this arch! It's so much bigger than I expected.
    "Damnatio memoriae" is the ultimate shade - the original cancel culture, except it sounds a lot cooler.
    And I can't handle way Dr Arya said "smurf hats." He certainly has a way of expressing himself.

  • @5217tuber
    @5217tuber 4 роки тому +2

    NIcely done!

  • @stephenpmurphy591
    @stephenpmurphy591 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for posting another fine video.

  • @simplearchaeology1242
    @simplearchaeology1242 4 роки тому +7

    Good video and interesting biography of the Arch.

  • @fadelaelzalet8674
    @fadelaelzalet8674 3 роки тому +4

    Septimus Severus is 🇱🇾 Libyan from leptic magna

  • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
    @WouldntULikeToKnow. 4 роки тому +3

    Beautiful and informative. Thank you!

  • @peroz1000
    @peroz1000 4 роки тому +4

    Very informative, thank you!

  • @L-mo
    @L-mo 2 роки тому

    If it wasn’t still standing you would never believe they had created so much outstanding art, technology and splendor a thousand years _before_ the Middle Ages.

    • @johna.4334
      @johna.4334 2 роки тому +2

      There would be more art and technology to behold if the catholic church hadn't destroyed so much of the splendors of ancient Rome.

    • @alanalan2732
      @alanalan2732 2 роки тому +3

      @@johna.4334 what baseless thing you just said. Rome is the city with the most Roman monuments thanks to the Popes who often stopped citizens from dismantling the monuments by transforming them into churches. (exemples: the Colosseum, Pantheon) If you go to see all the other Italian cities of Roman there is nothing left. the few things left are some temples transformed into churches or some theaters, amphitheaters and bridges. The latter survived because they were used for the same purposes for the following centuries. Then you will discover that Rome thanks to the Papal State has been one of the least conquered and destroyed Italian cities over the centuries. And it must be remembered that all over the world cities have lived through different periods, different rulers, different architectural tastes and different urban plans, in which things in ruins were demolished to make room for the new. Just think of Paris, Milan, Vienna, Berlin, London and all the cities in the world. So we should thank the Popes who over the centuries have found interest in ancient art and buildings so as to maintain or transform them. Because being a religion they could have said it's all pagan let's throw it all down. And today you wouldn't have all the Roman statues in museums, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the baths, the triumphal arches, the cerimonial columns, the Egyptian obelisks in Rome and much more. So I don't know what history you studied at school but before shooting sentences one should inquire more

    • @danielracovitan9779
      @danielracovitan9779 2 роки тому +3

      @@johna.4334 it was not because of the Catholic Church, but because.. people. The Roman cities were used as stone/marble quarries by the locals EVERYWHERE, including in places where the Catholic Church never existed

  • @EfnysYersina
    @EfnysYersina 4 роки тому +10

    Eternal glory to Rome

  • @richsw
    @richsw 4 роки тому +6

    Where's Dr Zucker?

  • @ALEJANDROARANDARICKERT
    @ALEJANDROARANDARICKERT Рік тому

    VERY INTERESTING . AND WHY ARE THE RELIEFS SO BADLY DAMAGED COMPARED TO THOSE ON TRAJAN´S COLUMN?

  • @gregorythomas2674
    @gregorythomas2674 4 роки тому +1

    👍

  • @mooingAlong
    @mooingAlong 4 роки тому +3

    Is it true that the rectangle hole at the top of the arch was because a barbershop was built at the middle arch and the barber built the hole so no one can steal his spot? That would be a very interesting story though.

    • @miranda9691
      @miranda9691 4 роки тому

      Waiting for someone whit this Full story

  • @Kueytwo
    @Kueytwo 2 роки тому +6

    He was the African Emperor that shaped the London square mile.

    • @Endgame707
      @Endgame707 Рік тому

      Septimius Severus Was a Spaniard 🇪🇸

    • @ffhh4991
      @ffhh4991 Рік тому

      @@Endgame707 what r u talking about he is north african

    • @ffhh4991
      @ffhh4991 Рік тому +4

      Yes but north african not sub Saharan african so he isn't black

    • @user-lq7qj8ue1x
      @user-lq7qj8ue1x Рік тому +1

      @@Endgame707 He was Arab, Septimius Severus ARABICUS

  • @abdurhmanmohamedabusnina7484
    @abdurhmanmohamedabusnina7484 2 роки тому

    Septimus was libya in lubta

  • @productionzonenyc
    @productionzonenyc 3 роки тому +6

    One of the greatest Mediterranean warriors in History

    • @mahdimehdi445
      @mahdimehdi445 2 роки тому

      @Za Warudo man ,the pheonicians are from middle east

    • @mahdimehdi445
      @mahdimehdi445 2 роки тому

      @Za Warudo smal tribe LMAO ;they were a kingdom ,and majority of them fleed to the maghreb cuz of the assyrian invasio, read history ,berber

    • @terryharris1291
      @terryharris1291 2 роки тому +1

      @Za Warudo The Phoenicians you mean.

    • @terryharris1291
      @terryharris1291 2 роки тому +2

      @Za Warudo In the UK they call him a Black African for Black history month.

    • @terryharris1291
      @terryharris1291 2 роки тому +2

      @Za Warudo It is what they seem to do.Go well.I enjoy learning real history.

  • @Micro-Nova
    @Micro-Nova 4 роки тому +1

    Probably far to controversial to talk about the Titus Arch. Very important history there.

    • @smarthistory-art-history
      @smarthistory-art-history  4 роки тому +10

      Did you look? We have videos on both the arch of Titus and the arch of Constantine.

    • @Micro-Nova
      @Micro-Nova 4 роки тому +2

      Smarthistory thank you, will sure do! 👍🏻

  • @Silvertestrun
    @Silvertestrun 2 роки тому +3

    Ty

  • @paxie_1778
    @paxie_1778 Рік тому

    Of Libyan origin and a great leader

  • @maktub3688
    @maktub3688 Рік тому +1

    The first African Emperor of Rome!!!!!

    • @user-lq7qj8ue1x
      @user-lq7qj8ue1x Рік тому +1

      Arab, first Arab emperor

    • @dmitrybelorusov7274
      @dmitrybelorusov7274 3 місяці тому

      @@user-lq7qj8ue1x The Arabs came from their Arabian desert to Libya only 500 years later during the Islamic conquests.
      This territory was inhabited by the ancestors of the Berbers and the natives of Rome and Greece. Libya had almost no black sub-Saharan or Arab population

  • @susanpower9265
    @susanpower9265 2 роки тому

    NEVER KNEW IT WAS VICTORY OVER PARTHIA/I HOPE YOU SEE THIS ONE DAY SIAMAK

  • @65alef
    @65alef 3 роки тому +4

    SPQR
    Sono Pazzi Questi Romani
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @mattjohnson7198
    @mattjohnson7198 2 роки тому +1

    What a massive arch for such a mediocre "triumph". He basically beat the Parthians because he just declared he did.