Link to the original video ua-cam.com/video/5cPk3RzEKOs/v-deo.html All the good links: Come watch me live stream on Twitch! Almost every night 9pm CST www.twitch.tv/metatrongemini Join this channel to get access to more old school Metatron videos the algorithm wouldn't prioritize! ua-cam.com/channels/IjGKyrdT4Gja0VLO40RlOw.htmljoin I have a Patreon page with extra content! www.patreon.com/themetatron My second channel about languages www.youtube.com/@metatronacademy My third channel about gaming www.youtube.com/@TheProtectorate-yq7vi My Twitter/X x.com/pureMetatron
The blood puddle, if you look at it, it is mostly water. There is just enough blood in the water to turn the color. I know this cause I've seen similar things while hunting.
Hi there Metatron. Those columns are really weird at 27:45 . That's most definitely not corinthian. It's a weird mixture of tuscan and doric. It has that extra line of decoration under the capital which suggests a tuscan order, but the gap between them is way too big. On the other hand tuscan order should have un-fluted columns, whereas this is fluted until the decorative line which suggests a doric origin. I don't really know what's going on there. OR, the video quality of the movie shown was so bad that I couldn't see the acanthus leaves. Anyway, thanks for the video!
When I was a in middle school history class in Missouri in the 90’s, we covered Pompeii. I wrote a paper about Herculaneum and my history teacher told me that was just a hick town in Missouri and I was confused. She gave me an F for “making things up” and my dad had to go to the administration about it to correct her. Thanks for the nod!
Hey Metatron, you should interview some of the historians that you review (that you like of course). It would be awesome to see further discussions or other cool questions with some of these people.
It would be even more interesting to see an interview where he doesn't necessarily like the interviewee. See if bridges can be crossed where disagreement has been noted.
@@0num4 If you want to see something about that Miniminuteman did a series breaking down Graham Hancock and ancient apocalypse. Including one of the archaeologists who was interviewed on the show, basically telling them this was bs. He was talking about how interesting it was to meet Hancock even if he disagreed with well pretty much everything he said
@@0num4 A lot of academics, even the ones who are comfortable with media, usually can't cite references quickly. Academia tends to favour people who are cautious and check every detail. This makes contentious interviews tricky because someone may know their material well but be unable to pivot quickly or explain it, making them look like they're losing the argument.
The fact that the people were turned in to living statues was always fascinating to me. The fact you can really feel their terror/acceptance of their fates is very emotional.
My 10th grade World History teacher like the David Macaulay video series and kept them on hand for days when a Sub was on site to teach. The episode on Pompeii was the first that taught me these were casts and not actual mummified human remains.
Sometimes in the military, we ate 10k calories a day and we were still skinny as hell, fit for fight. The fact that some historians say that professional gladiators would have been fat, tells me they have no understanding of strenous exercise, and probably does not exercise themselves.
I think when she said fat she meant like how the world strongest men and women look. They tend to don't have abs and look quite "tubby", but there are a looot of muscles underneath. As a Norwegian that is how I grew up seeing portralays of the god Tor, he would always be a tubby red head with a lot of huge muscles, he never looked like Chris Hemsworth.
Metatron point is you can't generalize an information, especially when you already know from the start it's some kind of exception. Il you discover what was eating gladiators, at some time, in one school of a far away province, you only know that. And from here, you can assume, but your sentence should start with "i think"
I went to Herculaneum and Pompeii, and I have to admit I loved the former over the later as it seemed better preserved, and it created for me more of a sense of 'place'.
Yeah they're both absolutely amazing places to visit but I also remember enjoying Herculaneum more. We'd been to Pompeii a day or two before and I guess I just didn't expect Herculaneum to compare because it's nowhere near as well known, it was definitely a nice surprise to find it even more interesting.
From Naples to Pompeii you'll also experience the marvellous Circumvesuviana line, which has repeatedly and proudly won the award of the worst local public transport line in Italy.
I liked this video and learned something. I got a recommendation under this video for "The Hakkapeliittas - brutally infamous Finnish cavalry" by Anttimation. It is a good video from a small finnish channel. Heartily recommend it! I doubt metatron ever stumbles upon it but would be epic to get his input on parts of it.
I visited Pompeii two years ago and it was amazing. I spent 8 hours walking the city. It was dark when I left. Well, they kicked me out 😂. I love the colour of the ancient world. Egypt, Greece, Rome…
I just thought I would chime in about the issue of gladiators and weight. I haven't read any sources, but I think there is confusion between body fat and fitness. When I did my Arctic Commando course, I was probably the fittest I have ever been, but because we were going to be surviving on the Arctic tundra including swimming through ice, we also needed to increase our body fat %. We did this through being fed a very carb heavy diet. If gladiators had a carb heavy diet, they would have increased body fat. We only need to look at the inverse, body builders and athletes who want to be 'shredded' eat a very high protein diet with nearly no carbs. So the gladiator's body shape wasn't an indicator of fitness. You can't really diet yourself fit or exercise yourself thin. Each helps the other but diet controls weight and exercise controls.fitness, not the other way around.
I am glad you are reviewing history hit. I’ve watched some of their documentaries and they are interesting and I’ve also started watching their free live stream channel on Pluto TV.
If I remember correctly, it was a series of eruptions, not just one blow. First two were stopped by city walls, only 3rd or 4th followed by rain of ashes was deadly for the people of Pompei. That's why it's hard to give a certain date of eruption, bc it didn't happen in one day. At least that's what they said on Discovery Channel
Everyone who hasn't already seen it should look up that Mt. Vesuvius eruption simulation video. "A Day in Pompeii" It's chilling stuff. Closest you'll get to seeing what it was like.
As a Greco-Roman Polytheist myself, I always find this stuff fascinating. However, it's interesting how she calls the Festival of the Vinalia, a Festival of the God Bacchus (Liber). But is wasn't really. Yes, is was a festival of the wine harvest and wine vintage. But actually, it was held in honour of the God Jupiter and the Goddess Venus. Since the God Bacchus is the God of Wine, I can appreciate how people can get confused with this. The Vinalia prima, also known as the Vinalia urbana was held on 23rd April to bless and sample last year's wine and ask for good weather until the next harvest. The Vinalia rustica was on 19th August, before the harvest and grape pressing (THIS is the one she mentions)...
i think i heard markus junkelmann ( a german or austrian not shure at the moment expert ) say that legionarys and gladiators should try to be fat and fit he compared them to the modern bodybuilder type and said well they should be trained shure but not as ripped and without ANY bodyfat as modern bodybuilders they would need some "reserves" and also that a modest layer of fat can be protective
Has anybody told Metatron's missus what's really going on when he tells her, "Just going to watch some posh english bint waffle on about Rome! It'll be boring, honest!" 😄
I haven't seen the movie but one thing lots of representations of Pompei miss is the repairs that were still underway due to an earthquake twelve years before the erruption. It is thought that the people of Pompei had become accustomed to earthquakes which is why they didn't flee when the tremors proceding the erruption started.
Trains are always late in Italy, flashback to the time a "direct" train from Florence to Venice that was meant to be maybe 4 hours took all day. Including a fun several hour stopover in Siena where they just put us onto the next train that didn't leave. It would have been nice to get out and explore the city a bit
bread is definitely not as old as mankind. we didn't even start eating grains in significant quantity until after the agrarian revolution 8-12k years ago (likely as a famine response to our main food source, the megafauna, going extinct) also it does track that gladiators would be eating almost entirely plants. plants were (and still are) slave food. even on naval ships as recently as the 1800s, officers would get salted meats while the crew ate hard tack (and it was invariably the crew that would get scurvy as a result)
there were never enough ancient humans to have any effect on the megafauna. That was a planetary climate change cause. There are debates as to what caused it. Humans followed the vast grainfields of central Asia along with the other mammals and birds they hunted and some coastal places and rivers for fish (and fish sauce). At some point some early scientist discovered that you could collect and manage the seed and germ of grains and plant them next to your hut. The god Saturn made sure everything happened at the right time. Fermentation happened accidentally and then purposefully making cheeses, fermented cabbage, wine etc., civilization. Thats where we got the vitamin K2 when meat wasn't as available.
What also needs to be mentioned when it comes to how gladiators bodies would have looked, they don’t take into account the body types such as mesomorph, endomorph and ectomorph all of which would define how lean or fat a gladiator looks especially when physical fitness is involved so a good example of Kit (actor in this scene) is he would be an mesomorph or ectomorph due to his moderate muscle mass and low body fat.
It feels she is describing the size based on todays standards. Fat = barely visible abs which is considered fat or as she says "tubby" by todays standards. She might be saying that they weren't "shredded" as we would say. Still even today very healthy and fit, just less aesthetically favoured/pleasing by current standards.
@@OCFHS that is what I think she meant too. I think when she said fat she meant like how the world strongest people look, they look "tubby" with a loooot of muscles underneath. As a Norwegian that is how I grew up seeing the Norse god Tor be portrayed. He would always be a tubby redhead with anger issues and a lot of muscles, he never looked like Chris Hemsworth.🤷
A curious aside, but while watching this, I noticed that it's actually easier for me to understand you with your Italian accent than it is to understand her, a native English speaker. Your enunciation has always been very sharp and precise whereas hers is a bit soft and mushy. Two of my favorite things about your videos are that you present evidence clearly and that you speak so clearly with a rational, easy to follow chain of logic. Your presentation skills are excellent.
3:00 i don't mind this too much. for the sake of a general audience and theatricality it makes sense to just have the date of the event rather than the quote
20:19 I have to disagree. At this time, Vesuvius was very much an active volcano and had erupted many times prior to the 79 AD eruption. In fact, the Avellino eruption in 1995 BC is estimated to have been even more catastrophic than the 79 AD one, and buried settlements in the same manner. So it would've definitely had a large caldera opening on top. And I think it's different enough than its current state to be as historically accurate as you can expect, without having an actual image of it. Definitely more pointed than it stands today.
all things given, the gladiators would have likely looked somewhat like bodybuilders/wrestlers from the 1950s and 60s. Google Bruno Sanmartino in that era for a good idea.
Don't have to. Went to school with a wrestler whom was 5'6", 200lbs and could throw his opponents like dolls. Had the KY high school record for pin time with 3 seconds. This was back around 1975.
Clarifying question about the ash corpse cases - you see the bodies decomposed, but did the bones also decompose? Wouldn’t the bones still remain when the casts were made?
The hollows after people in Pompei are so cool. They must be some of the only fossiles-in-the-making we have ever found. The inbetween time when the biological tissue has dissolved, but nothing has replaced it yet.
I would prefer to see history as it was as accurate as possible.we get to see how far we have come and it would instill in us how important it is to not let all of our achievements be erased.
you should do a reaction to Call of Duty: Ghosts Masked Warriors Teaser Trailer. It is full of masks and armors including roman, greek, medieval and was curious how accurate they were. The trailer is really, really old but is probably one of the best teaser trailers for a game out there.
Can we get Metatron Merch that reads "Pom-pEE!" And only true Metatron fans will know. If fans recognize each other in public we can say "Pom-pEE!" as a salutation.
I got feeling that the history department of this movie IS a single 14y.o. trainee, who done his work half from ChatGPT, half from 6 min vid "10 crazy facts about Pompeiii". Tho, art department really rocks, too bad they must to listen that kid.
I remember vacationing in Bath back in the 80s. It rained almost every day. Later, I found out that Bath and Norman, Oklahoma had just about the same annual rainfall. In Oklahoma, however, the stuff came down in buckets at a time.
Not all gladiatorial fights were by professionals - they were also and originally sacrificial events better they became a WWE event. In this case the expense is a feature but a bug, you show your veneration for the deceased by the amount spent on slaves to be sacrificedl in ritual combat. POW brought to Rome in a triumph may also be sacrificed in the arena if not strangled. The son of Arminius was killed in the arena.
There wasn't a battle. There were multiple "events" that happened during a gladiatorial show. Criminals being executed happened *before* the main gladiatorial combat happened. It usually happened before the animal or themed combat events. The criminals were not provided weapons to defend themselves. If you're asking what if like a criminal slave who *was* a gladiator won, the answer is nothing. They don't earn their freedom from a single match. They keep fighting until they can pay off their contract.
Link to the original video
ua-cam.com/video/5cPk3RzEKOs/v-deo.html
All the good links:
Come watch me live stream on Twitch! Almost every night 9pm CST
www.twitch.tv/metatrongemini
Join this channel to get access to more old school Metatron videos the algorithm wouldn't prioritize!
ua-cam.com/channels/IjGKyrdT4Gja0VLO40RlOw.htmljoin
I have a Patreon page with extra content!
www.patreon.com/themetatron
My second channel about languages
www.youtube.com/@metatronacademy
My third channel about gaming
www.youtube.com/@TheProtectorate-yq7vi
My Twitter/X
x.com/pureMetatron
The blood puddle, if you look at it, it is mostly water. There is just enough blood in the water to turn the color. I know this cause I've seen similar things while hunting.
Hi there Metatron. Those columns are really weird at 27:45 . That's most definitely not corinthian. It's a weird mixture of tuscan and doric. It has that extra line of decoration under the capital which suggests a tuscan order, but the gap between them is way too big. On the other hand tuscan order should have un-fluted columns, whereas this is fluted until the decorative line which suggests a doric origin.
I don't really know what's going on there.
OR, the video quality of the movie shown was so bad that I couldn't see the acanthus leaves.
Anyway, thanks for the video!
Not only is Nicole Kidman a talented actress but she also knows a hell of a lot about Ancient Rome.
Lol
Kinda looks like her!!😂😂
Honestly she is better looking than kidman
😂😂😂
Took a few decades' worth of a swim in the Fountain of Youth as well.
In Memory of the forgotten victims in Herculaneum.
No one ever remembers herculanium
@@captaintoyota3171oplontis be Like 🤡
Herculaneum, the Bielefeld of antiquity!
We can’t forget towns of Oplontis and Stabiae that was also buried under ashes
When I was a in middle school history class in Missouri in the 90’s, we covered Pompeii. I wrote a paper about Herculaneum and my history teacher told me that was just a hick town in Missouri and I was confused. She gave me an F for “making things up” and my dad had to go to the administration about it to correct her. Thanks for the nod!
Hey Metatron, you should interview some of the historians that you review (that you like of course). It would be awesome to see further discussions or other cool questions with some of these people.
It would be even more interesting to see an interview where he doesn't necessarily like the interviewee. See if bridges can be crossed where disagreement has been noted.
@@0num4 If you want to see something about that Miniminuteman did a series breaking down Graham Hancock and ancient apocalypse. Including one of the archaeologists who was interviewed on the show, basically telling them this was bs. He was talking about how interesting it was to meet Hancock even if he disagreed with well pretty much everything he said
@@0num4 A lot of academics, even the ones who are comfortable with media, usually can't cite references quickly. Academia tends to favour people who are cautious and check every detail. This makes contentious interviews tricky because someone may know their material well but be unable to pivot quickly or explain it, making them look like they're losing the argument.
"Oh I disagree with her... wait a minute, Never mind. She's just polite." Metatron.
That armor needs an to be over lapping, not checkerboarding.
Just a bit of information to make you giggle: Pompey is actually the nickname of Portsmouth Football Club in the UK.
Correct, didn’t know it had been covered in volcanic ash in 79AD !
I’ve always found Pompis’ artifacts and ruins fascinating. It’s horrible that it happened but to discover and find what’s left really is amazing.
The fact that the people were turned in to living statues was always fascinating to me. The fact you can really feel their terror/acceptance of their fates is very emotional.
My 10th grade World History teacher like the David Macaulay video series and kept them on hand for days when a Sub was on site to teach. The episode on Pompeii was the first that taught me these were casts and not actual mummified human remains.
There was a time you actually though they where mummies?
she's is really good! glad ur covering it
Part 2 please.. this is great stuff
Sometimes in the military, we ate 10k calories a day and we were still skinny as hell, fit for fight. The fact that some historians say that professional gladiators would have been fat, tells me they have no understanding of strenous exercise, and probably does not exercise themselves.
I think when she said fat she meant like how the world strongest men and women look. They tend to don't have abs and look quite "tubby", but there are a looot of muscles underneath. As a Norwegian that is how I grew up seeing portralays of the god Tor, he would always be a tubby red head with a lot of huge muscles, he never looked like Chris Hemsworth.
A lot of modern academics like to read one new paper or book and say, "We now know X." just to appear well read and up to date.
Did you conduct a study or did you read that in one new paper or book?
@@Rabbithole8 Is "pulled out of own ass" considered an archaeological evidence?
The comment is about how people don't articulate all the information. Not that articles are wrong.
It's so nice seeing you agreeing that much with someone.😃
Praise be upon the honorable Pompi
I mean she did say "Mainly vegan/vegetarian" so she's not saying they didn't eat meat
There's a LOT of difference between vegan and vegetarian.
@@aselliofacchiovegan is idiotic diet. Not eating an entire food group is not healthy.
Metatron point is you can't generalize an information, especially when you already know from the start it's some kind of exception.
Il you discover what was eating gladiators, at some time, in one school of a far away province, you only know that.
And from here, you can assume, but your sentence should start with "i think"
"she's got class, unlike me" 😂
Cant wait for part two!
POMPI
Here is the usual full support for channel growth.
I've been waiting for this video!! Luv u Metatron!
Ha, I just watched the video earlier today and was thinking, "I wonder when Metatron will react to it😂"
Saw this last week and my wife and I really liked her review as well
Did you just call pomegranates "palm grenades"? I love it! I'm going to start saying that ALL THE TIME!
"A palm grenade is what the uncivilized call a slap." -me lol
We call them that in Afrikaans as well. I knew them by the name "grenades"
I went to Herculaneum and Pompeii, and I have to admit I loved the former over the later as it seemed better preserved, and it created for me more of a sense of 'place'.
Yeah they're both absolutely amazing places to visit but I also remember enjoying Herculaneum more. We'd been to Pompeii a day or two before and I guess I just didn't expect Herculaneum to compare because it's nowhere near as well known, it was definitely a nice surprise to find it even more interesting.
From Naples to Pompeii you'll also experience the marvellous Circumvesuviana line, which has repeatedly and proudly won the award of the worst local public transport line in Italy.
I liked this video and learned something.
I got a recommendation under this video for "The Hakkapeliittas - brutally infamous Finnish cavalry" by Anttimation. It is a good video from a small finnish channel. Heartily recommend it! I doubt metatron ever stumbles upon it but would be epic to get his input on parts of it.
I was looking forward to you reacting to this one!!
Nice to see you satisfied
I visited Pompeii two years ago and it was amazing. I spent 8 hours walking the city. It was dark when I left. Well, they kicked me out 😂. I love the colour of the ancient world. Egypt, Greece, Rome…
I just thought I would chime in about the issue of gladiators and weight. I haven't read any sources, but I think there is confusion between body fat and fitness. When I did my Arctic Commando course, I was probably the fittest I have ever been, but because we were going to be surviving on the Arctic tundra including swimming through ice, we also needed to increase our body fat %. We did this through being fed a very carb heavy diet. If gladiators had a carb heavy diet, they would have increased body fat. We only need to look at the inverse, body builders and athletes who want to be 'shredded' eat a very high protein diet with nearly no carbs.
So the gladiator's body shape wasn't an indicator of fitness. You can't really diet yourself fit or exercise yourself thin. Each helps the other but diet controls weight and exercise controls.fitness, not the other way around.
Spread your wings brother...
Keep up the excellent work...
I appreciate it, thanks.
I absolutely love your videos! The information you provide is a refreshing change! It does, however, show me just how little I know! Lol😅
I am glad you are reviewing history hit. I’ve watched some of their documentaries and they are interesting and I’ve also started watching their free live stream channel on Pluto TV.
The image shown at 27:30, I’ve actually been there at that exact room! I was wondering what it was used for, now I know. That’s awesome
If I remember correctly, it was a series of eruptions, not just one blow. First two were stopped by city walls, only 3rd or 4th followed by rain of ashes was deadly for the people of Pompei. That's why it's hard to give a certain date of eruption, bc it didn't happen in one day. At least that's what they said on Discovery Channel
Everyone who hasn't already seen it should look up that Mt. Vesuvius eruption simulation video. "A Day in Pompeii" It's chilling stuff. Closest you'll get to seeing what it was like.
This is such a fun channel ❤
Great work
Want to find out where the bones went in these casts.
So interesting
"They are definitely not missing leg day." Ha!
As a Greco-Roman Polytheist myself, I always find this stuff fascinating. However, it's interesting how she calls the Festival of the Vinalia, a Festival of the God Bacchus (Liber). But is wasn't really. Yes, is was a festival of the wine harvest and wine vintage. But actually, it was held in honour of the God Jupiter and the Goddess Venus. Since the God Bacchus is the God of Wine, I can appreciate how people can get confused with this. The Vinalia prima, also known as the Vinalia urbana was held on 23rd April to bless and sample last year's wine and ask for good weather until the next harvest. The Vinalia rustica was on 19th August, before the harvest and grape pressing (THIS is the one she mentions)...
27:46 Metatron says "Corinthian" and I suddenly want fine leather seats in my Chrysler
The mountain is missing the top because of the trebuchets using it for ammo. That's what triggered the eruption 🌋
i think i heard markus junkelmann ( a german or austrian not shure at the moment expert ) say that legionarys and gladiators should try to be fat and fit he compared them to the modern bodybuilder type and said well they should be trained shure but not as ripped and without ANY bodyfat as modern bodybuilders they would need some "reserves" and also that a modest layer of fat can be protective
Has anybody told Metatron's missus what's really going on when he tells her, "Just going to watch some posh english bint waffle on about Rome! It'll be boring, honest!" 😄
Also it would be great to see a long-form discussion between Metatron and this Lovely lady.
I haven't seen the movie but one thing lots of representations of Pompei miss is the repairs that were still underway due to an earthquake twelve years before the erruption. It is thought that the people of Pompei had become accustomed to earthquakes which is why they didn't flee when the tremors proceding the erruption started.
Trains are always late in Italy, flashback to the time a "direct" train from Florence to Venice that was meant to be maybe 4 hours took all day. Including a fun several hour stopover in Siena where they just put us onto the next train that didn't leave. It would have been nice to get out and explore the city a bit
bread is definitely not as old as mankind. we didn't even start eating grains in significant quantity until after the agrarian revolution 8-12k years ago (likely as a famine response to our main food source, the megafauna, going extinct)
also it does track that gladiators would be eating almost entirely plants. plants were (and still are) slave food. even on naval ships as recently as the 1800s, officers would get salted meats while the crew ate hard tack (and it was invariably the crew that would get scurvy as a result)
there were never enough ancient humans to have any effect on the megafauna. That was a planetary climate change cause. There are debates as to what caused it. Humans followed the vast grainfields of central Asia along with the other mammals and birds they hunted and some coastal places and rivers for fish (and fish sauce). At some point some early scientist discovered that you could collect and manage the seed and germ of grains and plant them next to your hut. The god Saturn made sure everything happened at the right time. Fermentation happened accidentally and then purposefully making cheeses, fermented cabbage, wine etc., civilization. Thats where we got the vitamin K2 when meat wasn't as available.
Thanks for answering my request
Those victim casts remind me of the shadows left behind in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Metatron: The mountain is wrong! Historian: The mountain is wrong. Metatron: 😍😍😍
I live near Mt St Helens… I’m imagining a movie set in the 70s showing its post may 1980 truncated appearance.
"They're representing the last pockets of rebellion in the north of Britania maybe?" Asterix is that you?????
What also needs to be mentioned when it comes to how gladiators bodies would have looked, they don’t take into account the body types such as mesomorph, endomorph and ectomorph all of which would define how lean or fat a gladiator looks especially when physical fitness is involved so a good example of Kit (actor in this scene) is he would be an mesomorph or ectomorph due to his moderate muscle mass and low body fat.
It feels she is describing the size based on todays standards. Fat = barely visible abs which is considered fat or as she says "tubby" by todays standards. She might be saying that they weren't "shredded" as we would say. Still even today very healthy and fit, just less aesthetically favoured/pleasing by current standards.
@@OCFHS that is what I think she meant too. I think when she said fat she meant like how the world strongest people look, they look "tubby" with a loooot of muscles underneath.
As a Norwegian that is how I grew up seeing the Norse god Tor be portrayed. He would always be a tubby redhead with anger issues and a lot of muscles, he never looked like Chris Hemsworth.🤷
great content. thank you.
9:42 She is just british.
Been revisiting older content and the age of the content can be estimated by comparing hair lengths, it's awesome. Long hair bros for life.
she is stunning
A curious aside, but while watching this, I noticed that it's actually easier for me to understand you with your Italian accent than it is to understand her, a native English speaker. Your enunciation has always been very sharp and precise whereas hers is a bit soft and mushy. Two of my favorite things about your videos are that you present evidence clearly and that you speak so clearly with a rational, easy to follow chain of logic. Your presentation skills are excellent.
She makes history fun,
I wished a teacher like her.
It's only a matter of time before Metatron starts saying Pompey unironically
I like the part in the film where Eret, son of Erit, captures the dragon from Drago 😊
The crush deepens...
We do have some nice weather in the UK, I can remember the last one .........5 years ago 😂
In regards to the accuracy of londinium well it's Hollywood. Everything that happened between 600BC and 600AD happened in the same year
I live in Lazio we get twice the rain of London. Admittedly about ten times as many sunny days.
Just a note on the raining bit, London is one of the driest cities in Europe and has lower rainfall than Paris and Rome.
3:00 i don't mind this too much. for the sake of a general audience and theatricality it makes sense to just have the date of the event rather than the quote
I love that she's a fantastic historian and her name is Daisy. I don't know why I love that so much.
Fossilles like missiles 😂
Maybe the stones was used to not walk on dirt/waste.
The way they are shaped could be for hand carts, a kind of pedestrian crossing?
I was meant to visit Italy and Pompeii back in 2020 but then the pandemic happened, I'm hoping to visit eventually in a few years
Looks like the filmmakers all missed the “importance of historical accuracy” day at university. lol
20:19 I have to disagree. At this time, Vesuvius was very much an active volcano and had erupted many times prior to the 79 AD eruption. In fact, the Avellino eruption in 1995 BC is estimated to have been even more catastrophic than the 79 AD one, and buried settlements in the same manner. So it would've definitely had a large caldera opening on top. And I think it's different enough than its current state to be as historically accurate as you can expect, without having an actual image of it. Definitely more pointed than it stands today.
i would love top see both of you do a livestream
I did read a written account of the day it was amazing, I would suggest reading if you would like to get a feel of that day.
all things given, the gladiators would have likely looked somewhat like bodybuilders/wrestlers from the 1950s and 60s. Google Bruno Sanmartino in that era for a good idea.
Don't have to. Went to school with a wrestler whom was 5'6", 200lbs and could throw his opponents like dolls. Had the KY high school record for pin time with 3 seconds. This was back around 1975.
@@terrylandess6072 the visual was for those who were not familiar with the functional strongman physique
Clarifying question about the ash corpse cases - you see the bodies decomposed, but did the bones also decompose? Wouldn’t the bones still remain when the casts were made?
The hollows after people in Pompei are so cool. They must be some of the only fossiles-in-the-making we have ever found.
The inbetween time when the biological tissue has dissolved, but nothing has replaced it yet.
9:43 "Class vs. no class" - Tito Ortiz
I would prefer to see history as it was as accurate as possible.we get to see how far we have come and it would instill in us how important it is to not let all of our achievements be erased.
Let's just call it now....Metatron is in love ❤❤
I would love to see your reaction on the channel oversimplified and his videos on the punic wars. Hope you read this comment.
She's right about gladiators. She said mainly vegan, then corrected it to vegetarian. Mainly makes it correct.
Metatron you should do a video on the Ancient Historian Breaks Down 'Troy' Movie I Deep Dives. On history hit.
Damn, i could talk to her all day about rome every day. Our children will be roman experts as well.
you should do a reaction to Call of Duty: Ghosts Masked Warriors Teaser Trailer. It is full of masks and armors including roman, greek, medieval and was curious how accurate they were. The trailer is really, really old but is probably one of the best teaser trailers for a game out there.
Raff... You definitely should have named your cute little fluff ball doggo..
POMMMPI... LOL
POMPI is so cute and funny😂
Can we get Metatron Merch that reads "Pom-pEE!" And only true Metatron fans will know. If fans recognize each other in public we can say "Pom-pEE!" as a salutation.
All remember Camaladunon for it's memory remains
Fun fact: the trains situation in italy has only gotten worse
Let's get Pompy all the way
I got feeling that the history department of this movie IS a single 14y.o. trainee, who done his work half from ChatGPT, half from 6 min vid "10 crazy facts about Pompeiii".
Tho, art department really rocks, too bad they must to listen that kid.
I remember vacationing in Bath back in the 80s. It rained almost every day. Later, I found out that Bath and Norman, Oklahoma had just about the same annual rainfall. In Oklahoma, however, the stuff came down in buckets at a time.
Hail to Great Pompi!
Not all gladiatorial fights were by professionals - they were also and originally sacrificial events better they became a WWE event. In this case the expense is a feature but a bug, you show your veneration for the deceased by the amount spent on slaves to be sacrificedl in ritual combat. POW brought to Rome in a triumph may also be sacrificed in the arena if not strangled. The son of Arminius was killed in the arena.
Any mention of what happens if a criminal meant to be executed won their battle?
There wasn't a battle. There were multiple "events" that happened during a gladiatorial show. Criminals being executed happened *before* the main gladiatorial combat happened. It usually happened before the animal or themed combat events. The criminals were not provided weapons to defend themselves.
If you're asking what if like a criminal slave who *was* a gladiator won, the answer is nothing. They don't earn their freedom from a single match. They keep fighting until they can pay off their contract.
I admit that I thought those were the actual corpses. Show why we keep studying to learn new things.
The twelve month calendar was relatively new at the time, is it possible that that is the reason for the august-october discrepancy?
No
I like Daisy Dunn,, she looks so innocent and young..