Cleopatra - Hail Caesar! - Egyptian History - Extra History - Part 2
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- 📜 Cleopatra: Hail Caesar! - What's a girl to do when your brother-husband is trying to murder you? Well, cozy up to one of the world's largest military powers of course. But while Cleopatra knew that she had to get to Caesar if she stood any chance of reclaiming the throne, there were a few complications in the way. Namely, that whole... brosband sending assassins and guarding the city with military force thing. But Cleopatra was nothing if not resourceful and clever. And if she's going to get smuggled into Caesar's bedchambers... she's going to do it with the kind of dramatic style that will ignite romantic imaginations for centuries to come.
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Extra History: "What could possibly go wrong?"
Caesar: "Brutus, stop playing with that knife! You'll hurt somebody!"
I'd never thought I'd see that reference anywhere, but here I am
Oh shit, is that an Asterix reference?!
Caesar: No! You can't kill me! I am the emperor
Brutus: Haha knife go stab stab
@@Nytemare2all Yes, yes it is. XD
I have feeling Ceasar had a great March 15th.
In the words of HBO's rome on the death of Pompey: "He was your enemy." Said one of Ptolomy's counselors. "HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!" Cesear bellows in anger. Such a good scene. Great episode and good to hear people talking about how it wasn't just sex for them, it was a mean to an end that many have done in history.
“Shame on the house of Ptolemies for such barbarity, Shame”
Incorrect, Caesar spins around multiple times, Historia Civilis viewer
@@mr.beauregard8419
And he was a red ■ when doing it.😂
@@mr.beauregard8419 I miss that charming red square and its fued with tribune Aquila
TomIHodet Where is Aquila anyway?
I appreciate the use of the term “Brusband”
Bruhsband
Lol
Husbro could also work
What are you doing step bro
Soviet Tube it took us 4 comments before it came to this
"Caesar installed a gold statue of Cleopatra in the temple of Venus." Get you a man who worships you like that.
Well, he was convinced that he was descended from Venus, so he kinda worshiped himself too
So a simp? ;)
She is there with other femenine legends like sporus.....
@@zeroburn315 I think simping is sucking up without benefit, just for the erotic or gendered appeal. Ceasar as was said benefited from this alliance
Zero Burn The original simp
Ah, the Ides of March. What could possibly go wrong?
A few days later:
"I come to bury Caesar not praise him!" - Marc Anthony
But brutus... is an honorable man
He was my friend...
Cleopatra: What can possibly go worng?
Augustus: Allow me to introduce myself
@Sopheak Seng well... you are not wrong....
@Sopheak Seng And after mutch of that Antony: Let me introduce myself and lets give our toddler children basically all of Eastern Mediterranean , also fuck Augustus
Caesar was actually exceedingly merciful to his Roman enemies. Especially for the standards at the time.
no proscriptions either largely due to him being old enough to remember the horror of sullas proscriptions.
@Offworlder1 That was intentional by him as a political strategy.
Yeah I don't get why they called him a murderer of his enemies, at least his Roman enemies he spared. Sure he genocided some of the Gauls and was partially responsible for a bloody civil war but he forgave and pardoned many of his political enemies, some of whom participated in his murder
Think of it as his gamble, he pardoned his political enemy to make himself look better in the eye of his soldiers and common people, and to hopefully convert some of his enemy to be his ally instead. It was a decent move but sadly it still didnt work well for him.
As much as this is true, the standards of the time were set by Sulla.
Not the highest of bars to cross 😛
Caesar was actually well known for being crazily forgiving of his enemies during the civil wars. He was still a megalomaniac but he didn’t kill everybody.
Caesar is one of the only megalomaniacs in history who a) knew what he was doing and b) actually bothered to keep the population happy under his dictatorship, which is why his death failed to prevent the collapse of the Republic and why his legacy kept on going afterwards.
I would love to see the campaigns of Caesar while we are talking about him or maybe the Spanish Civil war
la benis iz fieting 4 de rebublik :DDDDDDD
Haven’t found Dad yet Mapping Dovahhatty ?
Go watch historia civilis.
I really want to see the Spanish Civil War
Yes the Spanish civil war
I love this channel. The amount of topics they cover is amazing. Being a 15 yr old history buff, it’s so great, in fact, this is the thing that got me to love history
Try reading "Conquest of Gaul", by Julies Caesar. He was also a good writer, crisp and clear prose.
Always read and watch by different channels about the same topics or people.
@@SquidsAgainstChickens yea that really helps with learning new facts and perspectives but also knowing if they got their stuff right
“Your Enemies”
Caesar: *HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME*
Cleopatra: oh heck yeah he was
You beat me to it.
A consul of Rome... To die in this sordid way, quartered like some low thief... Shaaaaame!!!
Shame on the House of Ptolemy for such barbarity, shame.
I shall return tomorrow at which time you will give me the man that took Pompei's life
Hope your all okay
Egypt: You are enemies
Caesar: He was a CONSUL OF ROME!
A man of culture
8:25 - THAT is one of the reasons why I LOVE Extra History! I had no idea about Cleopatra's achievements! Compared to many other rulers' actions, I cannot help being in awe by what she acomplished in less than a year!
"they found common political interests and probably a common bed" LMAO
205 likes and no replies? Let me fix that
This week: What could possibly go wrong?
Next week: Cleopatra - Everything Goes Wrong - Extra History #3
How do you cut ancient Rome in half?
With a pair of Caesars
You’ve ever heard of decimation? Usually ten guys would partake, but in this case, it’s just you...
Dear Leader. Please Restore the Roman Empire with your godly powers
Get out
@@pyrrhusofepirus8491 Decimation is killing 1 out of 10, not...whatever you're trying to express.
roguishpaladin I know what decimation is, what I was trying to infer is that if we had ten guys you’d have a chance of surviving, but we don’t so he’ll just be killed. I didn’t wanna just make a “I’m gonna kill you” line, I wanted to make a topical spin on it.
"What could possibly go wrong?"
Brutus and the other conspirators: Hold our wine.
Caesar is such a badass, seriously go watch Invicta’s video on when Caesar’s Legions attempted to rebel, it’s incredible, he was also big on clemency, if you tried to oppose him, but then surrendered or submitted, he’d be cool with you. Caesar also wasn’t attracted to Cleopatra by her beauty, (which from what I’ve heard wasn’t even that spectacular) Caesar had sex with whatever women laid eye contact on him, but because of her antics, intelligence and wit
Although I doubt she was ugly.
@@theresahall1591 From what I've heard about Roman tastes in those days she wasn't ugly, merely plain looking.
@@hunterg24 beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Besides beauty standards might have very different back then.
@@theresahall1591 I did mention that I was talking about Roman tastes in those days, not comparing to today's standards. Also I never said anything about whether she was or wasn't ugly or beautiful, only that she would have been considered plain.
@@hunterg24 i meant by today's standard she might be plain but back then she might have been consider quite pretty.
Caesar really hadn't made a history of killing his enemies. His whole thing was pardoning them whenever they surrendered.
Roman enemies, yes. But non-Romans, especially Gauls, he treated ruthlessly and without mercy. By some estimates his campaigns killed millions of Gauls
Unless they were pirates, in which case he made good on his threats to crucify them all.
One slight detail: Cleopatra was from a macedonian family that had either intermarried with other macedonian families OR had incestuous marriages. Indeed, her name is greek and her first language was macedonian greek as well, although she, quite unusually, learned Coptic later on.
This means that Cleopratra and people from her dynasty are amonst the few egyptian historical rulers to be no more tan than the Romans they interacted with. Indeed, her hair was apparently stunningly red, as contemporary frescos reveal.
Media has a tendency to "whitewash" ancient egypt and egyptian rulers, but the ptolomaic dynasty are likely the ones where it is the most appropriate to depict them as relatively pale-skinned people.
media realy likes to fuck up history.
She still would be a little more tanned than the romans. We all knew the Ptolmeys were Majority white. When people refer to white washing Egypt, they mean during the bronze age, and before Macedonian control.
Did you see episode one? They covered all of that.
Old Coptic dates back to the 1st century AD. Cleopatra spoke just Egyptian.
@@kevinconrad6156 I did. Some of these details were touched on, sure, but it does nothing to demonstrate how alien and elitist the hellenic succesor states often were.
Cleopatra was unusual for even learning coptic, and Egyptian customs were usually only references in religious contexts. Most other statues were made in greek fashion, and soldiers were usually taken from an elite cast of heriditary soldiers that had macedonian origin, and fought with macedonian armour and in phalanx-style.
The point here is that the ptolomaics were not a "native" kingdom, but in turn themselves represented a fairly exclutionary, elitist occupying force, that were almost as foreign to egyptian lands as the romans were.
As impressive as the anecdote with a pearl in vinegar is, it is also a frightening example of the excesses of settler-colonialism, considering the blood and sweat of native workers went to waste with that squandering of wealth.
4:43 "He was a CONSUL OF ROME"
Shame upon the House of Ptolemy. Shame.
@@davididiart5934 you forgot "for such barbarity"
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 _glares in Vorenus at you_
send word to Julius Caesar that he who brough his message is he who killed Pompey
"He was a consul or Rome!" Awesome scene from bbc's rome tv show highly recommended
HBO*
9:03 Little Caesarion playing with a toy snake! Clever reference, there!
Cleopatra's appearance before Caesar really is one of the most iconic moments in history. First time I ever saw it was in the Elizabeth Taylor movie.
Omg your “Bruhsband” 🤣🤣🤣 best mashup!!! Dying!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"So there is no doubt who the father was..."
Titus Pullo smirks "Damned good orders."
Yeeeeeeeey
My body is ready...
For 1500 comments saying 'HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!'
Shame on the House of Ptolomey, Shame
@@Jakob_Herzog a consu?
*HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!!!*
@@Mitaka.Kotsuka To die in such a way, like some low thief, Shame!
HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!
What could go wrong?
20 senators with knives: “Nothing to see here.”
Actually it was more about 60 senators......though the point remains the same.
@@justinian-the-great 60 conspirators, yes. But *most* of them didn't do shit
Cleopatra deserves far more recognition than her pop culture depictions usually give her 😊
So do a lot of people this channel hasn't and might not show.
Such as Machiavelli, shown by pop culture as a scheming scumbag (which he wasn't), he Actually loved the Florentine republic, and the one thing he loved more was the Roman Republic, he wasn't power hungry or kaniving, he just wrote down books which were basically telling the Medici how to rule terribly so they'd be revolted against by the people of florence
Well her blunders later on really don t paint her in a good light.
"Brusband." XD
Ptolemy was a definite bruh moment for all of his life
*(Egyptian sounding Banjo music in the distance)*
Sweet home Alexandria!
This term needs to be added to historical records. Particularly when it comes to Egypt.
The Ptolemies make the Habsburgs look non-pure😂
Oh man, finally knowing the backstory to the 'rolled up in a rug' tale makes it make a LOT more sense
Egiptian: But you were enemies
Caesar: HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROMEEEEE!!!!!
9:20
_"What could possibly go wrong?"_
*WALPOLE*
That's what happened
Caesar did not murder all his enemies, he actually pardoned them. This is one of the things that got him killed. Cleopatra didn't do much better than her brother, she just managed to have all her protector's killed, her son killed and her country taken over by Rome. So much for being so smart
oh I forgot, she got herself killed too, so very smart!
Yea but she did great things at age 21, you're just on youtube commenting with a passive aggresive tone lol. You've done nothing for your country, have you even been in the military?
@@teromickel3804 what would you know what i have done ? probably a lot more than what you have, passive aggressive or not.
@@teromickel3804 what should I do according to your brain, go back to 50 BC and confront her?? weirdo
The narrator “what could go wrong” Brutus and Cassius 😏 “Caesar be sus”
They made him into a Ceasar salad.
When you realize Egypt was the Alabama of the Mediterranean
Sorry but I think the hapsburgs take that horrifically deformed crown
@@mme.veronica735
Their brows don't fit the crown, nor do their necks support its weight
A little weird to say that Ceasar was out to kill all his political enemies when far as I can recall he had plans to pardon Pompei upon his capture. Ceasar was kind of famous for his clemency towards his enemies and that is basically what got him killed. Had he been as cold blooded as the Ptolemies there would have been no conspirators to assassinate him, a lesson his successor, Augustus, learned well.
History: Cleopatra was a shrewd politician
Historians: She was also sexy
History: Cleopatra knew 7 languages
Historians: And so sexy
History : She was one of the most competent Pharaohs is entire Egyptian history
Historians: Sooo sexxyyyy....
Ur statement would be more accurate if u replace the historians perspective with Caesar :)
True
Agathon Christianto lol true honesty isn’t it more of a joke that cleopatra was sexy nowadays most people just knew her as a masterful politician
Aside: Why does Pompeii look younger than Caesar here? P Magnus is like 20 years older than JC.
Pompey was only 6 years older than Caesar, and his depiction here is based on Roman statues like this one: www.ancient.eu/uploads/images/3349.jpg?v=1600389913
Giving Caesar gray hair and making Pompey younger was visually weird. Pompey was more Caesar's mentor despite being his son-in-law for a time.
6 years older. But still
@@MichaelSmith-ij2ut Yes, I think the moral of the stories is that Pompeii was still very much Big C's Older Sempai, and this is the culmination of his NOTICE ME! Arc not the other way around XD.
@@mjbull5156 Well Caesar was bald or going bold, so accuracy wasn't the priority
The "What could possibly go wrong?" gave me chills cause i just finished binge watching, again, the Julius Caesar life videos from Historia Civilis channel
HBO ROME: "HE WAS A COUNSEL OF ROME!!
Caesar continuously forgave all his political enemies, but ok.
Except all the ones he murdered.
Or had proscribed, wich meant the person could be killed by everyone without legal repercussions.
This case is exceptional, because Pompey was both a friend and a consul. Attacking a Consul wss basically blasphemy.
@@christopherg2347 caesar never proscribed nobody.
Caesar forgave his political enemies in the ROMAN ELITE (Probably because he remembered how brutal Sulla's purges were.)
For people outside of the Roman elite? Not so much. He basically exterminated at least one Gallic tribe over a diplomatic insult.
@@scottdick296 caesar was merciful towards his roman citizens, not much towards barbarians.
Christopher G Caesar literally was known for his clemency. There were political purges (‘proscriptions’) in Rome but they were carried out by different men at different times (the two that defined Caesar’s generation were the purges of Sulla before Caesar came to power and of the Second Triumvirate after his assassination).
Too bad there's no mention of Arsinoe. She wasn't a big part of Cleopatra's story, but her story is interesting. There's a Drunken History segment on her, but the summary is that she was Cleo's younger half-sister, declared herself queen, fought and won against Caesar at the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Caesar was forced to dive into the Nile and swim to a Roman ship. The Egyptians then negotiated to give Arsinoe to Caesar in exchange for Ptolemy, whom the Romans captured, and Caesar then defeated Ptolemy, who drowned in the Nile. Caesar then paraded Arsinoe in front of a burning effigy of the Lighthouse during a triumph, sent her to a Temple of Artemis (to be fair, she'd normally be strangled), but then Cleopatra had Marc Antony kill her.
The kicker? Her birth year isn't known, but she wouldn't have been older than 21 when she beat Caesar, and could have been as young as 16.
I think the reason for caesar clemency (other than to build his own image) might be because he think she is just being used as a tool to rally against him under one banner by the real conspirator.
And the reason cleopatra kill her own sister was to prevent the same thing from happening again to her
0:35 truly Cleopatra knows a mans 3 main weak points
His stomach, his heart and the Junk
@@weldonwin Not exactly by order of importance.
@@weldonwin Uuum.....I don't believe that dagger was pointed at his stomach, but to something that is.....lower, if you get what I mean.
@@justinian-the-great they were jeluse that cesar boing there wives hehe
I feel like the horrifying little tidbit that her brother-husband was, like, 10 when they became sibling-spouses really merits more acknowledgment of how horrifying that is.
I don't feel saying that Caesar had a tendency to kill his enemies in a similar vein as the Ptolomies is fair to the man.
While he certainly could be ruthless, especially towards non-romans, during and after the civil war he made a point of showing leniency towards defeated republican leaders and soldiers alike.
Yeah, a well calculated move to earn admiration and devotion from ur soldier and common people
@@agathonchristianto9580
Its an age old tactic, be nice to your defeated enemies and they will be more willing to surrender.
I believe that Caesar thought that he would have an easier time dealing with the machinations of a bunch of defeated senators without any soldiers than with the backlash and resource drain of a costly and unpopular civil war.
And while it didn't really work out for him in the end I don't think he was really wrong.
Ptolemy XV Caesar "Theos Philopator Philometor” was the boy's name. Caesarion (Little Caesar) was his nickname.
Veni Vidi Vici
I loved this video! I would love if you made a series about Caesar or Alexander the great!
Yes
If you want a channel that's covered both, Historian Civilis is 10/10.
They almost did but they, chose to do the south sea bubble
shweitz98 true
HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!!!
7:35 No lie, I almost choked on my lunch from laughing at this point.
Okay “brusband” is god-tier wordsmithery
Matt: Ceasar is one of the best generals of Rome
Jack Rackam: hold my tie
Can't wait to hear about Mark Anthony
This is such a great series & is recontextualizing how I see Cleopatra's history
The story I heard was Cleopatra was clad only in a fine rug.
Might be a translation issue if rugs of the time were also used as bedsheets.
The one thing we got from that is that she was petite. Had to fit into the rug.
Whoof, this summary of Caesar is SUPER glossing over a *ton* details...
That will be in another series, probably 2.
Because is not about Caesar but about Cleopatra.
@CommandoDude last time I cut Ceasar with my knife he looked green and chopped up like any salad should. Did they make one on Napoleon? I love cakes too.
"You've fled Alexandria because your husband, the Pharaoh, who is also your brother, is trying to kill you."
There's a LOT to unpack in that one sentence.
I love these! Informative, wildly entertaining, and usually focused on "the rest of the story!"
This is one of my favorite channels and if this doesn't get buried and if you havent already done it could you do the myth of icarus and daedalus
Julius Caesar did NOT have have a habbit of killing his enemies, save for the notable exception of the pirates that took him hostage, his habbit was to cow his enemies then pardon them.
Oh Cleopatra, intelligent, ambitious and powerful, yet historians really did her dirty. One of those things you gotta love about the subject of history.
Largely influenced by her being an obstacle in Octavian's establishment of the Empire.
You can HEAR the respect you guys hold for Cleopatra.
Wow! Vous avez très bien représenté physiquement Cléopâtre! Vos dessins ressemblent beaucoup à l'image reconnue par les archéologues. Bon travail!
0:14 That knife...
Another way to phrase that ending situation: "She was in the capital of a hostile empire under the protection of a man who was about to be assassinated. What could possibly go right?"
Ah the famous "What could possibly go wrong" quote. Shit's about to go down!
Why does everyone always skip the fighting in Alexandria for this story? Caesar swimming in the harbor is always funny.
"What could go wrong?"
A lot. A lot can go wrong.
7:17 - Ptolemy XVI: "Eww! Outcest!"
Ptolemy: "I am the rightful Pharaoh of Egypyt!"
Caesar: "Do you feel in charge?"
Hi ! Small mistake at 3:03 : "[Caesar] take sole control over the empire" : Rome would not be an empire till 27 BC at that time (and good ol' JC never was emperor, which could have been made clearer at 3:21).
BTW, Historia Civils video on the topic of Roman history are pretty cool : would you consider a collab ? It could be pretty cool.
ua-cam.com/video/s9qlNBBoFG4/v-deo.html&ab_channel=HistoriaCivilis
Well for their provinces it was an empire, controled by a republic..
@@Sordatos No, it wasn't.
I love how everyone talks more about Caesar than of Cleopatra
0:15 Sometimes my siblings and I don't get along super well but that's just another level entirely.
Looking forward to seeing how you handle Octavian (not Augustus yet), because depending on the sources, dude seemed cold and ruthless. Very good stuff as always!
About Caesar, look up Historia Civilis.
It's honestly the best documentary on youtube.
"the fact that Caesar summoned the pharaoh rather than going to him showed exactly who was in charge"
"your husband who is also your brother"
Sweet Home Alabama starts playing
Cleopatra: "your husband who is also your brother"
Sweet home Alexandria starts playing
Osp's video on this dynasty is fun to listen to, especially his freak outs regarding this family pretzel (yes, the incest is that intense).
*Ra, ra, Cleopatra! Famous beauty coming at ya! Ra ra, patra Cleo! Guys all go gaga for me-o!* I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought of Horrible Histories
Married another brother hes an ok geezer, but never told of my love for Julius Caesar!
Dick Turpin is my favorite song. Magna Carta is pretty good too.
@@nathanielleack4842 Had Caesar's child,
and hoped that he would be crowned king.
My bro said no, and I said oh.
And then I murdered him.
@@poilboiler cos I am Cleopatra egypt royalty, the ruling Pharoh dont you dare-oh mess with meeee
Ec: “Caesar was just a blip on her rise to power”
Augustus: “which Caesar?”
Mark Antony: The OG Simp.
Such a simp he become Egyptian and started to lose his roman culture 😂😂😂
i love these videos, keep up with the great content :)
I really hope they don’t forget princess arinoe, she beat Caesar in a battle
9:05 baby Caesarian and the snek ❤️
HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!
Cleopatra is honestly one of the greatest people in history, if not the greatest
Why does Pompey look so young? He’s 6 years older than Caesar😂
Cleopatra is one of my favorite lol
"What could bossibly go wrong?" Ah yes a classic.
Even tho you probably wont see this but thank you for making videos I love how you draw them!
"Your brusband's soldiers"
The fact that's a word that makes sense in this situation just makes it so much wierder.
The Cleopatra bed sheets anecdote might be the best anecdote in history (short of maybe the Walpole shenanigans)
Suppertimepuss2
Walpolius Maximus Felix
Suppertimepuss2
Oh crap I confused him with Walpolius of the Bluntius Family. Similar names. Gotta love Rome
My favourite moments in the Asterix comics are when Cleopatra shows up with JC's son to tell him off for some misdemeanor
What a nose!
You're wrong! Caesarion was Pullo's haha
Admittedly not necessary for the video but another point in Cleopatra having a child -it added points on her "Divine ruler" score card with the Egyptians, who very much valued a fertile goddess.
5:19 HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!
I appreciate they showed how pompey's hair is trying to emulate Alexander's hairstyle
0:20, nice, brusband late circumcision
I've seen enough of this channel to know that no amount of Japanese material can prepare us for what's sbout to come next
Always appreciate the history and information.
For the thousandth time here "He was a consul of Rome!"
0:18 brsband 😂😂😂😂😂