Tony Robinson's documentaries are incredible and fascinating. He truly brings these ancient Roman characters back to life. Although astonishingly cruel at the time, amazing how human nature hasn't changed in 2000 years!
These documentaries are truly awesome, and Tony Robinson is a great host, just as good at making people learn as he is at making people laugh. I only wish there were more of these, and would have loved to see him cover both competent rulers such as Augustus, Trajan and Diocletian as well as batshit insane tyrants like Commodus.
I really enjoy Tony Robinson's documentaries. Whenever I see him presenting something I have to check it out and I must say, I am never disappointed with his delivery. The dude is an awesome historian.
The Romans had a curse which they reserved for their most hated enemies: “May your path be strewn with scorpions, your mattress with fleas, and your household filled with Greeks...”
I really appreciate that these documentaries show the true accurate history to the best of our knowledge but the best part is you don't leave out that juicy juicy ancient Roman gossip that people just love to hear (and always will)
Thank you so much! I was wondering where I knew his face and voice from. And here I thought my faint associations with Blackadder stemmed from the fact that most of his documentaries are about British history 🤦♀️
@@ria1636 it is a figure of speech in my home country 'of course they did that' means 'they 100% did it I'm not suprised'. My comment basically means yeah Agrippina did think her son would listen to her cause she was a Karen. She overestimated her power.
Thank you @Timeline for publishing all these Documentaries, I know I and people like me really appreciate you for it. Especially these with Tony Robinson (Baldrick) in it!!! ;-D
This whole story had me feeling so empathetic. History is written by the victors. When I was in Rome someone told me the line “Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned” and I’m so glad I know more now then I did then.
Tony R has always been our go-to person for historical narratives -- his humor and captivating, riveting, well-organized story-telling prowess have our family and friends in his palms.
"Fiddled" was never a reference to a violin in this story. Fiddle: 2. touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way. It meant that he didn't do anything productive or helpful as Rome burnt, he just mucked about ineffectually.
What a fantastic, insightful video! I didn't know that Nero went through all of that, due to his upbringing, and that many of the stories surrounding were over dramatized. I really thought him playing the fiddle was true - thank you for this!
"The evil men do live after them, the good oft entered with their bones..." Marc Antony's speech over Caesar's corpse from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
I love the Italian landscape and the magnificent architecture , I have been there three times . Tony , who we usually think of as a comedian , gives a very scholarly presentation which I love , plus his bit of dry humour is appreciated . I love these documentaries , learning many things that I was not aware of .Watching from Canada .
@Eric Taylor At the beginning Tony mentions the popular myth but immediately dismisses it. Later on he mentions that Nero played the lyre and sang on tour. But that it was only an attempt by his enemies to besmirch his reputation that conflated the two. If you hadn't been so pedantic and in a hurry to show off and had watched the whole thing you'd likely have noticed it.
And here I was thinking that it was some kind of funky gyroscope. After all they figured out how to have hot and cold baths and plumbing as well as ice for their drinks and aqueducts.
Well you definitely showed me that the "myth of the tyrant Nero" is in fact not a myth at all. He killed his mother, he killed his loyal and faithful wife, he killed Christians as spectacle, he spent an entire year doing nothing but being an artist. Yeah he gave stuff to people and let the Senate take charge, helped put out a fire...still... he is definitely remember for the right stuff... how horrible he was.
"...spent a year doing nothing but being an artist." Ok. Although I agree it is not cool to abandon your responsibilities or duties you agreed to and signed up for but........ pssSHH!! Art isn't "nothing", my friend!!
@@kmdn1 mean compare it to the lives and welfare of a whole empire. Plus his "Art" wasn't special. I would have argued a bit otherwise if it was. If it wasn't for his birth into a prestigious family we or no one would have known about his art.
@@Easy-xk5cethe quality of his art is not important at all. The fact that the Roman Culture was of warfare, and he defied the status quo by being an artist emperor and not a warlord emperor is what is interesting. Leaders shapes the public view of what is important and whats not. His love for life for sure shaped a lot of what the public view as important. And I do agree with him, war is survival but art is what makes one want to survive.
Not anywhere close to as widespread as Tacitus later claimed, though Seneca did say the fire lasted six days, as Tacitus stated. As to Nero's reaction to the fire, the first and biggest flaw in the fiddling story is that the fiddle, or violin, didn't actually exist in Nero's time.
There are inaccuracies in the documentary which I am surprised no-one double checked. For instance, Messalina did not kill herself as stated at min. 8.00 ; she tried to escape from the pretorians guards that Claudius (reluctantly) sent to kill her, and hid in the Gardens of Lucullus. She was eventually found but did not have the courage to kill herself, so was executed by a pretorians guard. Claudius, for his part, was actually not the sadistic emperor pictured by the presenter - he was a great emperor and made some extraordinary reforms. These inaccuracies (there are more of them) make one wonder about the quality of this documentary.
I wonder where he gets his info from, but I also wonder where you get yours from. No one will ever know what all truly happened at any time in history before video recording was invented.
@Celto Loco You are right and must play nice. What a life to have, sounds like punishment to me. Anyway, thanks for the reply and Best of luck and remember Shamrock can beat a snake, just ask St Patrick.
There is nothing that compares to real life. These stories are wild and can tell now that they inspired many fiction authors. I see many similarities that GoT takes after. History is so amazing. So much to learn about.
Nero should never have become emperor, it was his over- ambitious and murderous mother Agrippina who forced him into an office he was neither interested in nor talented for. He was an artist and musician by heart and soul, caught up in the bloody power game that ruled Rome's empire. One could actually feel sorry for him if there were not the hideous crimes he commited during his reign.
Queen Eleanor 92% of those in prison in the US come from single mother households. 98% of serial killers come from single mother households. Not single parent, but single mother households.
“Nero was too colorful a character to be forgotten” You’re right, now he’s one of the most popular waifus due to his reimagining in the Fate/ Franchise.
No mention here of Nero supposedly kicking Poppaea to death and then having a boy who looked like her castrated and forcing him to pretend to be his dead wife? No? Okay.
The story of Nero suppossedly kicking his wife to death doesnt show up until nearly a century after he died, and it is almost certainly just political propaganda based on rumors long after his death.
I think it's hilarious that Nero had to turn to the Greek populations of Naples [short for= Neapolitea] to gain popularity and love; Then to guarantee it he declared Greece a tax free Roman occupied territory. And how did he do it? AS A ROCK STAR!!!! I wonder if the slave who recommended suicide was Greek. Greeks weren't too happy being occupied by Rome or anyone. I must say binge watching w/Tony Robinson as narrator makes it much more interesting and fun and he makes you say: "Just one more..."
Even though Nero did some evil things (his mother, the Christians), there's SO many others in history who had done FAR FAR WORSE! His damning reputation was due to the fire tax - full stop. I'm so glad to hear a true factual account of this ruler's life. ~Well done & thank you Mr. Robinson!
@@AaronJohnson-qg3fr I agree with you! Eventually the true facts prevail *( _usually_) sets the record straight. Look at hi+ler & his propaganda machine. Well done campaigns that worked, unfortunately. Easy to see in retrospect. ... Hmm.. 🤔 reminds me of what is going on in the US - particularly when 'you-know-who' lost & the 1/6 debacle
@@AaronJohnson-qg3fr propaganda how? You're saying he didn't light the streets with the bodies of burning Christians like street lamps and fed entire christian families to lions? Which part was propaganda?
Christianity has done more evil in this world than Nero could do in a hundred lifetimes, it is really rich of them in my opinion to get into their victim complex over this considering what has been done in the name of Jesus throughout the centuries.
At 17:11 I thought he was narrating in a pub but seconds later he thanked the waitress by saying 'grazie" and I realized he was in an Italian restaurant.
The line of succession shown at 3:30 has shaded the name across from Julius Caesar. I probably should know this, or at least be able to guess at it by now, but what is that name? Thanks....great videos, by the way. I am thoroughly enjoying each and every one.
Do you realize how incongruous is the description of the death of Agrippina. You have her last words after she's been clubbed on the head: " Strike me here!" she said pointing her womb.. As being said to... her murderer? . Boy! It's not history, it's an unbelievable Tragedy!
@7:50...only an historian could call the tale of two assassins going to murder a seven year old child, who has a presumably venomous snake in his bed, "a lovely story"
@alanrtment porter Let documentary maker and actual member of Monty Python Terry Jones tackle those. Or just watch his series on the crusades. It's really good.
I feel like this is just the truth, and doesn't pander to any one side of history. It's who he actually was and what happened without the propaganda showing favoritism. I never knew Nero was an artist, an actor, and that he actively fought the fires himself until now. My idea of him has changed. He still did horrific things to people that can't be forgiven, but it changed none the less. This is how history should be told: the truth - no matter how beautiful or ugly.
The apostel Peter was never in Rome, he was a simple man, a fisherman that didn't speak foreign languages, he wrote his 2 biblebooks from Babylon, a jewish diaspora. Paulus of the other hand was roman citicen, he was also a jewish scholar, he went to Rome as a prisoner , wrote his letters from rome and died in rome unter the emperor Nero
lol. Skilled administrators.... Administrator 1: Will this toga get me assassinated? Administrator 2: Maybe... Administrator 3: Lets have a vote in the forum.
Poor Nero. I feel for this man and feel his pain. When you are forced by circumstance to become a hat doesn't suit you. Nero was a tragic figure who was pushed into history against his will
Ya know what's funny?..... I was raised by my step dad just like nero, I can sing and entertain pretty well, the two women I was in a relationship with were named Christina and patricia her last name literally starts with an S no joke! P.S in her name stands for poppaena sabina!! And nero's other woman was named Christina Octavia! Imagine that!!!😮😮😮
Hope you guys can also make a documentary about the Batavi and the Batavian Revolt against the Romans wich was directly caused by the Year of the Four Emperors.
I don't like saying negative things, but an ad every six minutes with my connection, sad, yet I know it must be advertising that pays for this. I remember before the originator of UA-cam sold it to some big company and he never had ads.
mwj5368 totally agree the number of ads in this is totally over the top. Though unless I'm mistaken it's the poster of a video that sets the ads in it, not UA-cam or Google.
As far as inbred goes, Nero was the great-great grandson of Augustus, the great-great grandson of Augustus’ sister Octavia (and Marc Antony), as well as the great-great grandson of Livia, the wife of Augustus whom bore him no children
I’ve read many books and watched many documentaries on Rome, this is the first one where I heard people liked him and that he had fans.. multiple historians have put out stories that people pretended to die just to be carried out of Nero’s performance. Or that they sat there for hours bored out of their minds because it was illegal to walk out
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Tony Robinson's documentaries are incredible and fascinating. He truly brings these ancient Roman characters back to life. Although astonishingly cruel at the time, amazing how human nature hasn't changed in 2000 years!
I agree 💯👍
For narcissistic humans inebriated by power maybe
I don't think so. We have a lot of cruel "emperors" today and for all time.
Just part of his cunning plan 😅
In all honesty humans have gotten worse- thanks to technology.
Nero entered 1,800 artistic performance competitions and won...1,800. What a talent! I’m sure he won them fair and square…
Kinda like Putin
@@earnthis1 LOL
Or Biden.
Most popular man in history 🤣
@@earnthis1
Exactly like Trump.
I am envious of his talent!!
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I just love Tony Robinson. He brings you back in time and actually makes you feel as if you are actually there. Amazing talent.
All part of his cunning plan 😅
This guy is one of the best narrators in the world Beyond just a narrator
He's also Baldrick.
And time team Tony
He always has a cunning plan.
Nothing will beat his explanation of how the First World War started 😂 poor ostrich 🤣
Because he is an actor
These documentaries are truly awesome, and Tony Robinson is a great host, just as good at making people learn as he is at making people laugh. I only wish there were more of these, and would have loved to see him cover both competent rulers such as Augustus, Trajan and Diocletian as well as batshit insane tyrants like Commodus.
I really enjoy Tony Robinson's documentaries. Whenever I see him presenting something I have to check it out and I must say, I am never disappointed with his delivery. The dude is an awesome historian.
Have come to be quite addicted to Tony's wonderful historical videos. I love his balanced and scrupulous honesty. Thank you Mr Robinson.
@Napoleon Hercules he has travel videos too?
The Romans had a curse which they reserved for their most hated enemies: “May your path be strewn with scorpions, your mattress with fleas, and your household filled with Greeks...”
I really appreciate that these documentaries show the true accurate history to the best of our knowledge but the best part is you don't leave out that juicy juicy ancient Roman gossip that people just love to hear (and always will)
Glad to see Baldrick as a documentary presenter. He's come a long way from being the son of Robin the Dung Gatherer.
I keep expecting him to say 'I have a cunning plan'
@@jamesbarton1969 he slips that line in famously in season 2 some place x
@@shasamonaghan8498 I've got to find that one
Thank you so much! I was wondering where I knew his face and voice from. And here I thought my faint associations with Blackadder stemmed from the fact that most of his documentaries are about British history 🤦♀️
You should check out timeteam one of the longest running programs on uk tv,tony was with it from the start.
"It was the biggest, plushest, most elegant Roman night club in the whole universe."
-Tony Robinson
"we didn't start the fire...it was always burnin' since the world's been turnin'"
Jessica ZED ahhh, the poetry of Bilicus Joelius!
Burning * turning *
I agree with you Misis Joel
Makes onr wonder why Nero blamed
Christians for one of the worst fires
in history
Agrippina had a sixteen year old son, and thought he would do as she said? Ha!!
Karen is that you?
Aggripina was a Karen, of course she did.
@@jamiemohan2049 Coarse?
@@ria1636 As coarse as the hated sand
@@ria1636 it is a figure of speech in my home country 'of course they did that' means 'they 100% did it I'm not suprised'. My comment basically means yeah Agrippina did think her son would listen to her cause she was a Karen. She overestimated her power.
“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.” - Shakespeare
So let it be with Caesar.
Tomorrow,
Tomorrow,
Tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
Basically he said it’s good when folks like that die because all they’ve done is bring bad into the world.
I can not express how much I admire, respect and adore Octavia's maids
She must have been a good person in several ways to inspire such loyalty!
Yes. They really were extraordinary ladies. Octavia must have been a wonderful mistress to inspire such loyalty
Thank you @Timeline for publishing all these Documentaries, I know I and people like me really appreciate you for it. Especially these with Tony Robinson (Baldrick) in it!!! ;-D
This whole story had me feeling so empathetic. History is written by the victors. When I was in Rome someone told me the line “Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned” and I’m so glad I know more now then I did then.
He definitely didn't set fire to Rome. Probably wasn't a great guy regardless tho, lol
@@youdontseeanoldmanhavinatw4904 she is a woman ; they literally gush at violent bad men. Don’t try to reason her out of her empathy .
@@panchopistola8298 You must be an incel
@@panchopistola8298 Lmao dude, go outside and meet some women.
We say fiddle cause when you say lyre, dummies give you a blank stare. He played a lyre while rome burned.
The Romans had a thing fit dramatic ending. Caesar, Agrapina, Nero, etc. "What an artist dies with me."
Just love Tony’s narrations! He never disappoints! 😊
Tony R has always been our go-to person for historical narratives -- his humor and captivating, riveting, well-organized story-telling prowess have our family and friends in his palms.
Brilliant, cant think of anyone who can narrate a History programme quite as well.
"Fiddled" was never a reference to a violin in this story. Fiddle: 2. touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way. It meant that he didn't do anything productive or helpful as Rome burnt, he just mucked about ineffectually.
You sound like an expert with fiddling. You must practice on yourself constantly.
@@terrywrist9204 Woah where did that come from buddy? You need somebody to talk to?
@@terrywrist9204 But he's not wrong, so there?
it was a lyre
but no violin was mentioned
Agrippina was the world's first helicopter mom.
Nero wasn't feeling it, though.🕵️♀️☠
She was just as bad as her brother and son. She needs a documentary in her own right.
Definitely not the first
What a fantastic, insightful video! I didn't know that Nero went through all of that, due to his upbringing, and that many of the stories surrounding were over dramatized. I really thought him playing the fiddle was true - thank you for this!
The new guard... tickleanus... i cant unhear that
It's "Tigellinus", but now I can't unhear it either...
🤣🤣
You love it.
Well it was Greece
It's a joke name sir, like Sillius Sollius, or Bighus Dickhus
30:00 Great Fire of Rome 64
35:00 Nero’s palace
40:00 Greek ideas and culture
The evil men do is long remembered, good.deeds go to the grave and are forgotten.
@Liam Christie Shakespeare
@Liam Christie he made a nasty corpes when Charles the second had him dug up and hanged.
"The evil men do live after them, the good oft entered with their bones..." Marc Antony's speech over Caesar's corpse from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
Thanks!
Amazingly presented.... enjoyed thoroughly
I love the Italian landscape and the magnificent architecture , I have been there three times . Tony , who we usually think of as a comedian , gives a very scholarly presentation which I love , plus his bit of dry humour is appreciated . I love these documentaries , learning many things that I was not aware of .Watching from Canada .
I’m so confused by the spacing in your comment. Lol
Nero MUST have been evil to have the ability to play an instrument that was 1500 years yet to be invented.
Eric Taylor are you talking about the lyre,that was invented by the ancient Greeks,haven't you ever heard of its nearly 5000 years old.
Probably Eric is talking about Guttier! LOL!
At the start they mention the myth about Nero playing the violin when Rome burned, that is probably what is being referred to.
Nero was a time traveler confirmed.
@Eric Taylor At the beginning Tony mentions the popular myth but immediately dismisses it. Later on he mentions that Nero played the lyre and sang on tour. But that it was only an attempt by his enemies to besmirch his reputation that conflated the two.
If you hadn't been so pedantic and in a hurry to show off and had watched the whole thing you'd likely have noticed it.
I have one question... who turned the perpetually rotating floor? Did they have slaves under there? Horses? Clockwork mechanism? How? I MUST KNOW!!!!
And here I was thinking that it was some kind of funky gyroscope. After all they figured out how to have hot and cold baths and plumbing as well as ice for their drinks and aqueducts.
@@JessRodr Interesting! Thanks!
Slide the time bar to the end.
Hit the replay button that pops up.
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You are a god
@@minion2702 enjoy lol. Ive known about this trick for months they dont seem to care to fix it. They have to know about it
@@3John-Bishop why ?? I was looking into a fire stick but talk me out of it
@@3John-Bishop and you just did 😹😹
I love this man's documentaries on historical people.
I love Tony and wonderful videos! I love
History, thank you for these
@ganzi321 Its Sir tony thank you
Well you definitely showed me that the "myth of the tyrant Nero" is in fact not a myth at all. He killed his mother, he killed his loyal and faithful wife, he killed Christians as spectacle, he spent an entire year doing nothing but being an artist.
Yeah he gave stuff to people and let the Senate take charge, helped put out a fire...still... he is definitely remember for the right stuff... how horrible he was.
"...spent a year doing nothing but being an artist." Ok. Although I agree it is not cool to abandon your responsibilities or duties you agreed to and signed up for but........
pssSHH!! Art isn't "nothing", my friend!!
@@kmdn1 mean compare it to the lives and welfare of a whole empire. Plus his "Art" wasn't special. I would have argued a bit otherwise if it was. If it wasn't for his birth into a prestigious family we or no one would have known about his art.
@@Easy-xk5cethe quality of his art is not important at all. The fact that the Roman Culture was of warfare, and he defied the status quo by being an artist emperor and not a warlord emperor is what is interesting. Leaders shapes the public view of what is important and whats not. His love for life for sure shaped a lot of what the public view as important.
And I do agree with him, war is survival but art is what makes one want to survive.
dont forget he also may or may not have killed his second wife, then castrated & married a slave boy to replace her
@@Easy-xk5ce as is the same with today's industry plants
1:13 into this ...... "fiddled " does NOT have to mean he played an instrument....
Tony Robinson makes documentaries so fun and interesting
Not anywhere close to as widespread as Tacitus later claimed, though Seneca did say the fire lasted six days, as Tacitus stated. As to Nero's reaction to the fire, the first and biggest flaw in the fiddling story is that the fiddle, or violin, didn't actually exist in Nero's time.
He played the lyre... ppl say fiddle because modern ppl dont know what a lyre is.
There are inaccuracies in the documentary which I am surprised no-one double checked. For instance, Messalina did not kill herself as stated at min. 8.00 ; she tried to escape from the pretorians guards that Claudius (reluctantly) sent to kill her, and hid in the Gardens of Lucullus. She was eventually found but did not have the courage to kill herself, so was executed by a pretorians guard. Claudius, for his part, was actually not the sadistic emperor pictured by the presenter - he was a great emperor and made some extraordinary reforms. These inaccuracies (there are more of them) make one wonder about the quality of this documentary.
I wonder where he gets his info from, but I also wonder where you get yours from. No one will ever know what all truly happened at any time in history before video recording was invented.
I’m a simple wo-man. I see Tony Robinson, I click.
I like your taste in videos!
into history and pretty....I like
Yeah that seems possible
Tony is always eating and drinking and making me hungry. lol. Love these docs.
Just one thought, it seems that when you have power family and friends become enemies, worse than the actual ones that do not know you personally.
@Celto Loco You are right and must play nice. What a life to have, sounds like punishment to me. Anyway, thanks for the reply and Best of luck and remember Shamrock can beat a snake, just ask St Patrick.
There is nothing that compares to real life. These stories are wild and can tell now that they inspired many fiction authors. I see many similarities that GoT takes after. History is so amazing. So much to learn about.
Nero should never have become emperor, it was his over- ambitious and murderous mother Agrippina who forced him into an office he was neither interested in nor talented for. He was an artist and musician by heart and soul, caught up in the bloody power game that ruled Rome's empire. One could actually feel sorry for him if there were not the hideous crimes he commited during his reign.
Thank you. We did watch it.
SNP1999 -Exactly and that’s why I don’t have any sympathy for Agrippina’s death. She created that monster in her son and it cost her her own life.
Queen Eleanor 92% of those in prison in the US come from single mother households. 98% of serial killers come from single mother households. Not single parent, but single mother households.
@@skateboarding118
Fascinating statistics ! Can you tell us your source? I don't doubt what you said, but if true then it really makes one think.🤔
@@cats2537 Ahahaha!!🤣
“Nero was too colorful a character to be forgotten”
You’re right, now he’s one of the most popular waifus due to his reimagining in the Fate/ Franchise.
Colourful
Who also resembles the other one that is based on king arthur
You know when he was handed the original script for the line at 27:47 he's demanded it be rewritten to that instead.
Killing his mother was the beginning of his downfall. Respect your mother and father.
Baldrick , you’ve done so well for yourself.
I'm sure he had a very cunning plan that led him to where he is now.
no one or etched in marzepan
no 0 do it in the same manner then wise guy
Sir Tony Robinson didn't get his knighthood for playing Baldrick. He got it for services to history and archaeology.
7 words and you still had to edit it.
Fuckstick.
Thanks, I always enjoy watching Tony Robinson.
No mention here of Nero supposedly kicking Poppaea to death and then having a boy who looked like her castrated and forcing him to pretend to be his dead wife? No? Okay.
Ah he was just misunderstood and really a nice guy,just got stuck with a bad crowd
I think the documentary made clear that a lot of those stories were propaganda written after his death.
The story of Nero suppossedly kicking his wife to death doesnt show up until nearly a century after he died, and it is almost certainly just political propaganda based on rumors long after his death.
@@strafe155 So what it was a hundred years after. Still does not prove it was made up.
@@lilacsunshine3044 plonker
I think it's hilarious that Nero had to turn to the Greek populations of Naples [short for= Neapolitea] to gain popularity and love; Then to guarantee it he declared Greece a tax free Roman occupied territory. And how did he do it? AS A ROCK STAR!!!! I wonder if the slave who recommended suicide was Greek. Greeks weren't too happy being occupied by Rome or anyone. I must say binge watching w/Tony Robinson as narrator makes it much more interesting and fun and he makes you say: "Just one more..."
Even though Nero did some evil things (his mother, the Christians), there's SO many others in history who had done FAR FAR WORSE! His damning reputation was due to the fire tax - full stop. I'm so glad to hear a true factual account of this ruler's life. ~Well done & thank you Mr. Robinson!
Caligula
A lot of it was propaganda.
@@AaronJohnson-qg3fr I agree with you! Eventually the true facts prevail *( _usually_) sets the record straight.
Look at hi+ler & his propaganda machine. Well done campaigns that worked, unfortunately. Easy to see in retrospect. ...
Hmm.. 🤔 reminds me of what is going on in the US - particularly when 'you-know-who' lost & the 1/6 debacle
@@AaronJohnson-qg3fr propaganda how? You're saying he didn't light the streets with the bodies of burning Christians like street lamps and fed entire christian families to lions? Which part was propaganda?
Christianity has done more evil in this world than Nero could do in a hundred lifetimes, it is really rich of them in my opinion to get into their victim complex over this considering what has been done in the name of Jesus throughout the centuries.
Can we rename this channel to "Tony Robinson's World History Documentaries"? He's too awesome. :^)
How about 'Baldrick Knows Stuff'
agree with ShadowNetBG. his name does hold two folds of imagination and modernism.
NO! But Baldrick's World History is another thing... LOL
That is enough to shut it off
ShadowNetBG l0””
Excellent documentary. Absolutely A+
At 17:11 I thought he was narrating in a pub but seconds later he thanked the waitress by saying 'grazie" and I realized he was in an Italian restaurant.
Why when history is full of amazing story’s, movies an tv shows change so much that there not accurate to the past?
Thank you! What a brilliant narrator! Such an excellent exposee! Merci encore!
28:30 Steward would go crazy in this landscape haha
Please make Documentaries about Emperor Claudius, Galba, Otho, Vitellius Etc. There is so much more after the Julio-Claudian Dynasty
@Celto Loco wish they made documentaries this good still
What I have learn: Don't impose a fire-taxe on people who wrote history, they will accuse you to have put on the fire
Did you learn English during Roman times too?
Thy coldeth, taketh away thy badeth.
This guy is the best narrator and guide ever
Superb documentary.
So good to know the truth.
Congratulations on an excellent documentary!🌟🌟🌟
I love the Timeline series. Not to crazy about the style of the artist doing the portraits, tho.
9:37 those soldiers were so unorganized
Looking every direction and not lined up just bumping into each other 😂
WHY has no one still made a TV series about this man? So much drama here!
The line of succession shown at 3:30 has shaded the name across from Julius Caesar. I probably should know this, or at least be able to guess at it by now, but what is that name? Thanks....great videos, by the way. I am thoroughly enjoying each and every one.
Cornelia, Julius' wife?
@@smacpost3 ....see, I told you I should have known that.
well done! Thanks!
I love the guy who did these videos! You got to be a rockstar to cover Rockstar history!
Do you realize how incongruous is the description of the death of Agrippina. You have her last words after she's been clubbed on the head: " Strike me here!" she said pointing her womb.. As being said to... her murderer? . Boy! It's not history, it's an unbelievable Tragedy!
Tony Robison should have made more documents about Cleopatra, Titus, Vespasian, Spartacus........
Nero is painted as an artist but he killed his own mother, wife, Paul the apostle and countless others early Christians.
No such thing as Christian that time. Think about it. Those "Christians" were probably rebel or terrorist to the roman empire.
And Peter
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO ❤😍❤
Love the series .... the 4,312 commercials ... not so much ...
@7:50...only an historian could call the tale of two assassins going to murder a seven year old child, who has a presumably venomous snake in his bed, "a lovely story"
When will Tony do a documentary on Biggus Dickus?
@alanrtment porter Let documentary maker and actual member of Monty Python Terry Jones tackle those. Or just watch his series on the crusades. It's really good.
Big Tony saying "Grazie" is amazing
Was Nero a good Caesar? No. But if he were alive today he would be king of Tik Tok
Lol😂❤😂
Baldrick delivers an excellent documentary.
I feel like this is just the truth, and doesn't pander to any one side of history. It's who he actually was and what happened without the propaganda showing favoritism. I never knew Nero was an artist, an actor, and that he actively fought the fires himself until now. My idea of him has changed. He still did horrific things to people that can't be forgiven, but it changed none the less.
This is how history should be told: the truth - no matter how beautiful or ugly.
The apostel Peter was never in Rome, he was a simple man, a fisherman that didn't speak foreign languages, he wrote his 2 biblebooks from Babylon, a jewish diaspora.
Paulus of the other hand was roman citicen, he was also a jewish scholar, he went to Rome as a prisoner , wrote his letters from rome and died in rome unter the emperor Nero
You did Claudius a disservice with that description.
lol. Skilled administrators....
Administrator 1: Will this toga get me assassinated?
Administrator 2: Maybe...
Administrator 3: Lets have a vote in the forum.
Nero=Joffrey Baratheon
Aggripina=Cersei Lannister
Claudius=Robert Baratheon
Octavia=Sansa Stark
Poppea=Margaery Tyrell
Nero in 2021 - "What an Influencer the world loses with me"
Why has no one ever written a Rock opera based on Nero's life?
I'm pretty sure everyone ever would watch that rock opera.
Thay tried to write a musical here in Italy last year. Didn't turn out that well.
@@bambinauga because it was bad or because it didnt catch on?
@@LiveErrors it was so bad I'm still appalled and, as an archeologist myself, a little bit insulted by the whole thing
@@bambinauga ohh dear
Thank you
Very interesting and entertaining. I listen at work. I really want to travel to these places....
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Do that! I did. Words can't do it, you must see it!
To ancient Rome?
Rome is amazing and affordable. We went last summer but I suggest you go in the fall when it isn't so crowded.
Wait. Agrippina could just marry her uncle, but she had to change the law so that Nero could marry his cousin? How does that make sense?
His cousin became his sister after his mother's marriage.
It was challenged when it was first suggested. But they manage to persuade the Senate. To avoid it happening again, they did that.
Poor Nero. I feel for this man and feel his pain. When you are forced by circumstance to become a hat doesn't suit you. Nero was a tragic figure who was pushed into history against his will
It would have been horrible..there is no amount of power. I guess I would rather be a peasant.
Complete drivel ! !
Nero holds no sympathy for me
Not really. He was cruel, he wanted power and fun, but he didn't care about his responsibilities. He acted like spoiled child.
He could have way better with all the power that he had.
He was just another North Korean leader... based in Rome.
I'm reading Seneca's Tragedies. So I need to know about his political background.
Ya know what's funny?..... I was raised by my step dad just like nero, I can sing and entertain pretty well, the two women I was in a relationship with were named Christina and patricia her last name literally starts with an S no joke! P.S in her name stands for poppaena sabina!! And nero's other woman was named Christina Octavia! Imagine that!!!😮😮😮
love this.
Hope you guys can also make a documentary about the Batavi and the Batavian Revolt against the Romans wich was directly caused by the Year of the Four Emperors.
I don't like saying negative things, but an ad every six minutes with my connection, sad, yet I know it must be advertising that pays for this. I remember before the originator of UA-cam sold it to some big company and he never had ads.
Get an ad-blocker then.
mwj5368 totally agree the number of ads in this is totally over the top. Though unless I'm mistaken it's the poster of a video that sets the ads in it, not UA-cam or Google.
use ublock origin, no ads, promise
Adblockers don't work with the mobile app.
It seems this channel actually pays the licensing fees. Which makes the interruptions for me bearable.
Anyone knows what's the name of the fountain at 40:56 ?
As far as inbred goes, Nero was the great-great grandson of Augustus, the great-great grandson of Augustus’ sister Octavia (and Marc Antony), as well as the great-great grandson of Livia, the wife of Augustus whom bore him no children
I’ve read many books and watched many documentaries on Rome, this is the first one where I heard people liked him and that he had fans.. multiple historians have put out stories that people pretended to die just to be carried out of Nero’s performance. Or that they sat there for hours bored out of their minds because it was illegal to walk out
There's really no such thing as a good and powerful man. You can never be both.
You would know, since you're neither.
@@terrywrist9204 damn terry
@@terrywrist9204 oh Terry, the irony is palpable. Idiots as you sure do entertain