Rome's Biggest Construction Projects
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
3:06 Domitian's Temple of Jupiter
4:45 Aura
5:48 The Forum of Trajan
7:16 Nero's Golden House
Here I was almost getting through my morning without once thinking about Rome.
What??? It's not morning. Where do you live? Is it really morning there?
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And the you heard toldins tone or wat
@@ElliotCarson time zones???? What colour is a "time zone"? How much does a "time zone" weigh? I'm so confused.
@@stephenwerner1662 Don't mind him, a "time zone" as he calls it is simply an area in which time can be controlled - stopped, started, reversed, the whole lot.
You, your two books(i got them on audible.) and your channel, made me take italian lessons. And now ive invited my old mother to Rome, as she always wanted to go. - ive been there once, more than a decade ago. And i cant wait to go back in april. thank you for all your work.
Say Ciao to the Ladies for me and more importantly : Enjoy your trip, sounds fantastic ! 😊
Hey I’ll be there in April as well. I can’t wait either. I hope you enjoy your trip!
Quest’uomo ha imparato l’italiano
I hope its gonna be. the trip itself includes a planned tour and a guide. so my mother will get the most of it.@@YeeSoest
Awesome! I’ve been there twice. It truly is an unforgettable experience
Seeing the temple of Jupiter in its heyday, must have been breathtaking.
Once I saw you actually have a P.hd. In Roman and Greek history and are an author of several books, I had time to subscribe. You aren’t just some UA-camr Googling information for your videos. Awesome! You remind me of Rick Steves as he has an education in European history and travels while educating his viewers.
I highly recommend the two books about ancient rome and greece that he mentions. they work really well in audio book form.
can we get the biggest projects a consul ever made too?
emperors had decades and power to make them happend but consuls (pre-emperial era) had only a year or less. i'm taling about the Pompey, the Sulla, the Cicero. surely many projects were made by consuls.
The very end of this makes me curious about these Roman "offices." Great video!!
I'm sure they were occupied by "professionals". 😉
Been watching this channel on, and off since lockdown in 2020, and it has always represented to me what's best about UA-cam, and the Internet. Thank you.
Love your content. Please expand on these.
Thank you for all the high-quality content and greets from the Nationalpark Eifel near cologne. The whole region here is full with amazing roman relics. And through you I learnt to understand them better.👍👍👍
This channel is brilliant
Were there passenger carriages going from city to city in the Roman Empire?
Yes they had a mail carrier system or you could pay someone to walk it or have a slave/ servant walk the package/mail to whomever you wished
Think OP meant the movement of people between cities and not a courier system.
@@StewBurtTheRed haha you can't read
There was a form of imperial transport service in the empire,
but it was for a select few..Even Pliny (as a senator and governor
of Bithynia) had to get approval direct from Trajan for his wife to
use it to go visit a sick close relative.
For POWs
You are one of the greats!! Thank you for your book signing in Chicago - your content is beyond inspiring
Keep it up DR Ryan
You have cut a rod for your own back, Mr Ryan. The standard you have set for your work, I mean.
Really very interesting and often borders on the poetical, and now ya has to keep it up, for the foreseeable future. ")
One of the writers I never miss watching the same day you post for us. Thank you.
What an interesting saying. Never heard that before!
Shakespeare, like 20% of the sayings in English. :)@@Skibbityboo0580
You read my mind, i was just wondering about this topic
Dr. Ryan, you're the best, thank you!
Love this channel!
I think gilded bronze might be a whole new way to describe decadent opulence.
I wonder how many of these monuments were actually meant to last. Because using the most expensive materials seems to guarantee that they won't.
Rome existed for 1000 years. Anybody living in that probably thought it was for ever.
@@Art-is-craft Yes,USA is just 250 years old and people think there will last forever
Oh, those can and did. Look at the Parthenon, they got that look not because of a thousand years of decay but a 1668 explosion of the gunpowder magazine that the building was used at the time. Look at the Tomb of King Ramses II: despite being made from less expensive limestone and being in the desert the details of its statuary are still legible...
Love that i found this channel!!
Another informative, educational, and entertaining video, thank you. Question, how did the stone Temple of Jupiter burn so easily and often?
Everytime Jupiter would go steppin' out with a nymph, or a swan, or a cow, or what have you - Juno would get pissy. With the help of Vulcan (such a mommas boy) they would light it up. Just guessing, but it makes logical sense.
Materially, it could burn the same way Notre Dame in Paris did: the roof was supported by timber beams, and the roof structure could catch fire. If the roof collapsed, other parts of the building would then be liable to collapse, too.
Wow. This was great!
And new book add to the collection 😂 thanks excellent job
I wonder how well builders and masons were paid during the Roman Empire, not to mention there was probably no margin for error
I wonder what tools they used to cut not only fine details but multi ton blocks of granite. These artisans must have been highly skilled.
I know most were slaves. Greeks were where the real artists came from.
Slaves.
Hadrian's Villa deserves a video!
That was a good one, cheers :)
Can you do a detailed video of the Domus Area, Portus and Circus Maximus and then biggest Villa of Rome?
Thank you for the content. :)
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Audio quality seems better somehow!
I wish i could see the awesomeness of the ancient world. From the stone age to the modern there are just so many cool things in this world
Great Video
Just quick thank you, for using metric system in your descriptions
as well as "Roman feet"
Considering the everyday brutality of the ancient world, I wonder if "100 roman feet" is a statement of composition rather than of dimension.
Two halls in the Forum of Trajan that were "formerly thought to be the Greek and Latin Libraries'? Can i ask what the thinking is on this? What's changed in the evidence (or lack of it)?
Thank you, again and again.
Wait you should do a comparison between Roman projects and Chinese such as the grand canal
Things to watch while playing Imperator: Rome
"Biggest" would surely have to include Aurelian's Wall
which would dwarf Ryans top three picks.
video subject is clearly buildings in the CITY of Rome
@@silverado9104
The Aurelian walls are a significant part of construction in Rome,
to argue otherwise is plain foolish.
@@r0ky_M Thanks for the correction -- I did a mental dyslex and imaged the Aurelian Walls as the Antonine Wall !
Garrett, how do you feel about metal detectorists. I was wondering why people don’t go to the original Roman roads. Like the Appian way or here in England, Ermin street or Watling St. We know the Romans erected buildings along these routes for different purposes. We could metal detect promising lumps in the landscape. Pointing local archaeologists to some new Roman sites. It’s not that easy I’m sure but it’s a start.
must get in my daily rome history video
I think someone needs to commission a marble sculpture of Dr. Ryan. He's earned it. 🙂
I'm interested in a video of how Romans delt with winter.
Fires and fur skins probably
Next year in February/March we're going to rent an apartment for a month and truly see everything in Rome. That is the plan anyway.
I never stop thinking of Rome
0:33 What about Constantinople? I felt like it also deserved a mention.
1:03 In actual fact it's an extreme exaggeration,
for the bulk of Rome was not redeveloped in marble
by Augustus.
But politicians have always favoured a snappy line or slogan over actual facts. It was just as true 2000 years ago as it is now.
@@Dave_SissonRyan is a historian not politician, so why support
a false narrative from Suetonius?..in addition; Augustus did not
build 82 temples from scratch , the 'Res Gestae Divi Augusti' actually tells that he ~restored~ 82 Temples.
@@r0ky_MBecause that line is so very much something Augustus would say if he was alive. Just as the other commentator said, Augustus is a politician with a talent of making narratives that makes him look good. And he cast a long shadow over successive emperors due to those.
Yes, you are correct that Suetonius may not be the most reliable dude to talk about Early Imperial Roman history but he is one of the few that did... Even if it's the "politically correct" version. That is history, you know people because of what was left behind to study. Imagine trying to imagine Caligula other than a perverted monster his ultimately victorious enemies depicted of him after his death. That is what people knew of him later on because his enemies' depiction of him survive...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131
Nothing wrong with Historians quoting Suetonius,
but what Suetonius wrote regarding Augustus's building
projects is clearly an exaggeration which is at odds with
what Ryan said.
@@r0ky_MAs I said, it is in line with Augustus being a PR genius. Besides, Augustus' Second Man Marcus Agrippa did a stellar job giving Rome that facelift. It may not be much but he did civic improvements better than those before him at the time which led to that contentious line by Suetonius...
Would like to see a video about the 7-11 stores in Rome.
They were called VII-XI back then.
Considering how much trade surplus India* and China maintained with Rome, shouldn't their capitals be wealthier?
And considering their population was basically 2x times larger as well, they should also have highly populated cities?
If not then could you get into why (i understand that's not exactly your specialty but maybe close enough)
8Ik other than Mauryan, Mughal and Maratha Empires no Indian empire (well you could include British Raj too ig) reached a territorial extent similar to today but the largest Empire/Kingdom in India at any given time still controlled about 1/3 of India, which is still massive and probably similar to Rome in population.
Would you care to weigh in on where the Temple of the Divine Trajan and Plotina was located?
[mention of Napoleon III] -spins football rattle
wooh
Wonderful. QUESTION: How is it that a building of stone, concrete, and marble, like the Temple of Jupiter, "burns down" ? My knowledge of pyrotechnics is limited, but saying that it was later rebuilt
suggests that "burn down" is meant literally. Or not ?
OMG several people already asked this !
The wooden structures would have been burned and some of the stone would have collapsed.
Think about what might have happened to Notre Dame in Paris a few years ago if there hadn't been a fire department. The timber roof structure (and flammable materials like fabrics and wooden furniture in the temple) would have burned, and the collapse of the roof could cause collapse of walls. Also, if the fire is hot enough, some types of stone can undergo chemical changes that weaken them. (I know this is true of limestone, but I am not sure about marble.) So while the stone itself doesn't contribute to the flames, the stones can be caused to collapse because of a roof fire.
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I am a simple Man, I see Told in Stone , video I watch it
Tales of these grand projects really capture your imagination.
Why oh why, I’m out sailing around the world connected by Starlink and I’m getting schooled about Roman construction
My dude loves aura so much he emulates ai speaking about it. It was not scripted at all - William shatner
The ancient architecture always surpasses in beauty the modern one. I wonder what went wrong 🤷🤷🤷
Can we get all the UA-cam videos on Spotify please!!😊
Without power tools 😮
Ancient Rome was greater than any modern city.
...Say idiots.
Agreed
Unless you're in the poorer sections. Great cities will always have that unsightly lower class side to it...
Nero really lost his power, because he thought himself a golden-throated diva, and when he performed, people openly ridiculed him. Then senators and others in power encouraged Nero to go on tour, during which they replaced him and he died.
it was more straight forward, the military wasnt paid enough and the senate supported a general who declared himself emperor. he thought they would kill him so he killed himself instead, then the general got killed by another general who wanted to be emperor and this repeated once every 3 months causing it to be the year of 4 emperors.
So the artificial lake in the Coliseum is Nero's. Never knew that. Did it actually function during the coliseums time or was the entire coliseum's history after the lake?
The lake was filled in with earth to make level ground for the Colosseum...
Wasn't the Coliseum more expensive than all three buildings mentioned in this video?
Interesting you dont mention the trilithon stones in the foundation pad of the temple of jupiter (the largest stones ever moved in ancient times, the biggest being estimated at 1200 tonnes) Do you believe the romans didnt place them or did you just leave it out because noone can explain how they could possibly have placed them?
Hadrian's Wall was a far bigger project than those in Rome.
who
The video is talking about structures built in Rome tho… it’s literally in the title
@@MrKudipanhama
Actually the Title is ambiguous/not specific
to the actual city of Rome.
To all those asking, "How does a building made of stone burn down?"
A "stone building" isn't made of stone as in one solid stone block. It's made of many blocks of stone being held together. You ever knock down a model structure built from blocks as a kid? Your blocks are all still intact but what you built is now just a pile of blocks.
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0:13 I'd say there's at least one other city that assumed such splendor and influence in human history, and that's Babylon, the Rome before there was a Rome.
Still not as huge. Rome had 1.5 to million inhabitants
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Wow.
I haven't been subbed for long, and was wondering- have you ever looked into the Mud Floods? I've seen many still photos (from around the world) of standing buildings being excavated at the street level, and finding many levels of the buildings below. Just curious.. 🤔
"At last I can live like a human being" - Nero said after the completion of the Domus Aurea.
Roman engineering and ingenuity is one of their greatest legacy
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I don’t understand how buildings made of stone can completely burn.
organic contents such as wood and ivory etc etc. The heat destroys the structure of the stone.
Wait wait I've been following this channel for like 2 years and I always pronounced it "todlinstone" in my head wtf
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Someone reply to this so I remember to watch this video in the morning please
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@@T-qx74 thanks man
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This is probably a dumb question but how does a temple or stone building burn down exactly? And how does a fire spread over stone?
curtains, furniture, oil, clothing/vestments, etc. can catch fire and damage the structure
And especially the wooden roof beams.
Just check what happened to Notre Dame de Paris few years ago...
@ 3:57 How can it burn and do so much damage if it was made of stones? Maybe there was no fire. It just collapsed due to shoddy work.
Or the materials in the building such as flooring, walls, draperies, roof all burned.
I don't know why that neck beard startles me every time I see that statue
I find it interesting to compare Rome and Luoyang, I wonder if there is any content describing the capital of the Han, Chang'An and Luoyang spent much more time as the capital of China than Beijing has.
Any truth to the rumour that Nero started the Great Fire in order to clear the ground for the Domus Aurea?
Nero's own palace burnt down in the fire which he then replaced, so hard to say if it was deliberate
He may have been mad but I doubt he was organised enough to achieve that.
When's the next Forehead Fables visit
Thanks, toldinstone. Gonna go play minecraft now.
imagine going back to one of the guys who built the aqueducts and showing them how a pipe along the ground or buried can do the same work as an aqueduct, right after they are done building one
You need pressurization most of the time.
@@klapsigaarenbasgitaar1931. Indeed. Aside from routine maintenance, the aqueducts required no outside energy source. Gravity alone moved the thousands of gallons flowing into the city.
Aqueduct builders actually did a lot of underground sections of conduit
IIRC the above ground sections of Aqueducts don't form the bulk of Roman aqueduct construction...They are simply the most dramatic and thus get the most attention.
Why did a city made of brick and marble keep burning down? Did they insist on drapes and rugs everywhere or something?
Nearly all the furniture would have been flammable, but there was more timber support than you might imagine even in mostly brick or marble buildings. Many roofs were supported by timber trusses, and most tenement buildings had a story or two of wooden shacks on top of them.
Baghdad had population of a million before London
Rome is the wealthiest city in the world. I wonder how that compare to Luayang in China (probably Han when Augustus was in power but I'm never good with historical date juggling).
Rome was more impressive and more consistent.
Great video but with all due respect, the illustration of the temple of Jupiter is not really accurate in terms of size. I have recently visited The Capitoline Museum and they have a big section to explain the temple of Jupiter and they even have a model of it with people in relation and the temple is 3 times bigger than your illustration
It certainly must have helped the construction budget when the two biggest expenses in terms of labor were likely food and chains. Not necessarily in that order.
There is myth that Rome was built by slaves.
Wow, talk about ambition! This video blew my mind with the scale and engineering genius of ancient Rome's construction projects. The Colosseum still leaves me speechless, but that Domitian's Temple... Any history buffs out there - what project surprised you the most?
I wish the good prof didn’t have to do tours and books and aura just to get by.
Your voice sounds very weird in this video
Garrett sounds sick
Good content, but the voice sounds AI generated / sampled, which is a bit distracting.
I think this guy just makes all this stuff up.
And 21 century Wakandian still live in mud house
So much propaganda about Nero, the way they described his palace is comical.