A Day in the Life of a Roman Legionary | Struggles, Envy, and Promotion

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Step back in time and experience the daily life of Valerius as he goes from a city dweller to a professional soldier of the 14th Legion. From the trumpet call at dawn to night watch duty, we shed light on the intricacies of Roman military life along the frontier with a fun animation!

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  • @HistoriaMilitum
    @HistoriaMilitumАй бұрын

    For this video, we decided to go for a different animation style than usual. It was the best way to go over the day-to-day events and feelings of promotion, envy, and wanting to visit your family and friends. Stay tuned for 2 more videos this month!

  • @RENATVS_IV

    @RENATVS_IV

    Ай бұрын

    The new style Is very cool. I approve

  • @noneofyourbusiness43

    @noneofyourbusiness43

    Ай бұрын

    Much prefer your art style in your earlier videos. Too many videos use this sort of silly corporatized "south park" stick figure sort of art and it really detracts from the seriousness of and trivializes historical content. The information in your video is as always top notch.

  • @HistoriaMilitum

    @HistoriaMilitum

    Ай бұрын

    @@noneofyourbusiness43 Thanks for the input. We will always retain our original animation, don't worry. It just have been too hard to use it for a "day in the life" video. Cheers!

  • @FlaviusRed23

    @FlaviusRed23

    Ай бұрын

    ​@HistoriaMilitum what happens to old walls of Roman sellmeants

  • @TravisBrady-wn8fr

    @TravisBrady-wn8fr

    Ай бұрын

    Great show. You are a great teacher

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254Ай бұрын

    I ship Rufus and his cook-wife.

  • @benm5913
    @benm5913Ай бұрын

    A Day in the Life sounds like a great series. Every day stuff is sorely lacking in popular history.

  • @RoniiNN

    @RoniiNN

    Ай бұрын

    There is like 6 channels that does it already…

  • @benm5913

    @benm5913

    Ай бұрын

    @RoniiNN Other than SandHRoman I've not seen channels do daily life stuff. Being loose with definitions there's several food history channels, but, as much as I like food it's not every day stuff.

  • @Pan_Z

    @Pan_Z

    Ай бұрын

    Emperors, generals, and politics make up most Roman historical works. These views really help ground these times, making it easier to insert one's self in the Roman world.

  • @Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger

    @Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger

    Ай бұрын

    A hard part regarding every day life is much of it requires conjecture, analysis of various loosely tied sources, and a LOT of archaeological record which we wouldnt have standard (reputable) access to. It's kind of like how most cuneiform tablets we have are receipts, religious texts, or ledgers - what gets written down is what literate society at the time viewed as important to note, and standard daily life isnt really worth recording to most people (the past is much like the present in this way. When is the last time you wrote down the events of a normal day in a physical journal? Or personally knew someone who did?). That being said, with enough access to historic texts, artwork, mythos, overlapping accounts: im sure a relatively stable narrative could be put together with time.

  • @Spencer_232
    @Spencer_232Ай бұрын

    Exploring the life of a Roman sailor would be a good idea. Just like always you guys bless us with great videos about history. Thank you.

  • @graham5716

    @graham5716

    Ай бұрын

    Mare mare mare

  • @tappajaav

    @tappajaav

    Ай бұрын

    @@graham5716 Yare yare daze

  • @philly83

    @philly83

    Ай бұрын

    Here's another vote for a day in the life of a Roman sailor

  • @StuartAnderson-xl4bo

    @StuartAnderson-xl4bo

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@tappajaavno Roman sailors there were slave rowers and Roman soldiers no Navy in Rome Ghay was Ghay without the Navy

  • @liamkisbee8117

    @liamkisbee8117

    Ай бұрын

    Rome had a navy and won a few battles, it wasn't a big navy and nothing compared to the likes of the greek navy but it had a navy.

  • @3numa3llis
    @3numa3llisАй бұрын

    I can't stretch this enough - you have a high-quality informationly animated video about the slice of life of an otherwise war-driven historical major power. This is breathtaking.

  • @ZimBeckler
    @ZimBecklerАй бұрын

    Our granaries are FULL m'lord! Triggered a core memory with that stronghold music

  • @thari7429

    @thari7429

    13 күн бұрын

    Haha i knew this music sounds familiar

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254Ай бұрын

    Your day in the life and logistic videos give me life. Romans were some of the smartest people to live, and even the ordinary things they got up to were fascinating.

  • @user-on3zi9fo2g

    @user-on3zi9fo2g

    Ай бұрын

    Most of their administrative and military tactics were invented long before by civilizations in ancient Africa.

  • @EJobuu
    @EJobuuАй бұрын

    This is an amazing video which I didn’t want it to ever end. It gives so much information and portraits a great account of how the massive cogwheel that was the Roman Empire lived in another time. I would love to see more videos like it for other types of soldiers or sailors as to how they start from the ground up and even what it took to go from their mid careers to get to the upper echelons of the military or society. I liked the way the information was presented spending more detail on the information provided than spend excess time & money into fancy graphics & sounds.

  • @Rohv
    @RohvАй бұрын

    A little detail correction. People who can't read know when their names are written down, if they have seen it many times previously. In my line of work, I've had occasions to know people who can't read and write, except their own names. So Valerius would probably not ask his fellow soldier where his name is, but what he should do. However, if the written words are repetitive, Valerius would recognize the task, by familiarizing himself with the block of words.

  • @Pan_Z
    @Pan_ZАй бұрын

    We often have a fantastical view of the Roman military, with its hard discipline and impressive scale. It's easy to forget it was composed of ordinary men; men who's days were often filled with simple, ordinary, monotonous tasks. Can't imagine a solider back then would be any more or less enthusiastic for nightly watch duty as soldiers are now.

  • @tappajaav

    @tappajaav

    Ай бұрын

    Technology and culture changes but people stay the same

  • @shortscreator7981
    @shortscreator7981Ай бұрын

    This is Amazing! Thats a really good video and very Happy to see this channel now use Animations to show us History❤❤❤❤

  • @josephpe90
    @josephpe90Ай бұрын

    It’s crazy how our modern languages haven’t changed much from Latin. I speak both English and Spanish and I can understand a lot of Latin since a lot of words are similar if not technically the same.

  • @tappajaav

    @tappajaav

    Ай бұрын

    Modern or ancient Latin?

  • @allonzehe9135
    @allonzehe9135Ай бұрын

    More "day in the life" vids please. These are great!

  • @juanzayas3844
    @juanzayas3844Ай бұрын

    I’m looking forward to more documentaries like this one, especially the like of a Roman sailor.

  • @schafholt
    @schafholtАй бұрын

    How the Praetorians and Stronghold vibes are kicking in... maybe i played it too much back in the days 😅

  • @josecandidoferraz562
    @josecandidoferraz562Ай бұрын

    Day in the life of a Military tribune, please. Great vid!!

  • @enlighten92
    @enlighten92Ай бұрын

    Damn. This is a good video and sheds light on the ordinary life of Roman Empire.

  • @ProbusVerus
    @ProbusVerusАй бұрын

    Thank you! Love your videos! Seeing a day of a roman governor would be wonderful

  • @juliopaveif
    @juliopaveifАй бұрын

    I really enjoy these day in a life of videos

  • @MahmoudMoussa-tx7kh
    @MahmoudMoussa-tx7kh27 күн бұрын

    Really liked the video format cant wait for the others

  • @markp44288
    @markp44288Ай бұрын

    This was one of your best videos. I love personal "common person" narrative.

  • @geralsonwithrow2205
    @geralsonwithrow2205Ай бұрын

    Just subscribed but been watching you videos for some time. Great video!! Would like to see other videos like this. Roman Sailor, messengers, and so on. Keep up the good work!!

  • @chrisbrocknc
    @chrisbrockncАй бұрын

    Loved the video and hope to see more

  • @GarfieldRex
    @GarfieldRexАй бұрын

    Amazing video 👌🏼 would love more routine videos

  • @MomentsInTrading
    @MomentsInTradingАй бұрын

    I enjoyed this and would enjoy the other videos you mentioned possibly making. Cheers

  • @BluffyMoo
    @BluffyMooАй бұрын

    Valerius' daily life is still indicative of all E3 and below in the modern day US military where every Enlisted starts. (Exception being the literacy rate is much higger.) Great video!

  • @eMkaAce
    @eMkaAceАй бұрын

    Please more of these. Epic :)

  • @LiveinReykjavik
    @LiveinReykjavikАй бұрын

    Wonderful and thorough as always! Would be amazing if you could do a day in the life of a Centurion, be it just a regular Joe or a Primus Pilus! Also, hearing about a life of a Cavalry office is compelling as well!

  • @petrmisek3681
    @petrmisek3681Ай бұрын

    Great video and animation

  • @DerceinArt
    @DerceinArtАй бұрын

    THIS IS AWESOOME, really, learning about the daily life of soldiers *or sailors, or people in general in ancient Rome is absolutely great. Please More !!! xD

  • @TheGodCold
    @TheGodColdАй бұрын

    Your videos are like warm mint tea. Comfy and always enjoyable

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_Ай бұрын

    Wonderful! I love these "day in the life" videos. While the 'Great Men' are celebrated by history it's the average folks that are moving the world along.

  • @pharsianimation954
    @pharsianimation954Ай бұрын

    Great Explaination Video❤

  • @catherineladd5300
    @catherineladd5300Ай бұрын

    Great video! More please!

  • @gw7120
    @gw7120Ай бұрын

    Great video , the writing made it feel even more alive , what day I dont think i could manage , I would be a literate solider haha

  • @jordany9807
    @jordany980724 күн бұрын

    Fantastic video.

  • @andychap6283
    @andychap6283Ай бұрын

    Love this channel, the video makes you appreciate that ancient people were real

  • @silveryuno
    @silveryunoАй бұрын

    Yes! More please.

  • @micahistory
    @micahistoryАй бұрын

    super interesting, please make more videos in this style

  • @davidhughes8357
    @davidhughes8357Ай бұрын

    Excellent presentation friend.

  • @LupercusArchanus
    @LupercusArchanusАй бұрын

    I enjoyed this and I would love to see a day in the classis

  • @fozzy1004
    @fozzy1004Ай бұрын

    One of the best advantages to have when in the Roman army was being able to read and write, this alone would make you stand out, and potentially to be promoted to even Centurion. Putting it simply if you cant read and write orders or write important reports then you were useless as a centurion or leadership role in the legion. I remember watching a documentary about a Roman soldier who got promoted very quickly to centurion because not only was he a good soldier, fighter and leader but was very proficient in reading, writing and even basic book keeping. When he got promoted their was several other legionnaires who could of taken up the position even with more military experience but because he could read, write and had basic math skills, that sealed the deal for him to the senior commanders. Even being able to write your own name back in these times was seen as impressive to most, imagine being able to read and write where most others around you cant, really makes you think.

  • @Zeruel3
    @Zeruel3Ай бұрын

    Absolutely fascinating video

  • @HistoriaMilitum

    @HistoriaMilitum

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @travisfinx5185
    @travisfinx5185Ай бұрын

    It's a wonderful video. Others like this are good ideas

  • @matawie

    @matawie

    Ай бұрын

    Great game and music

  • @tex1797
    @tex1797Ай бұрын

    This was a great video it was very interesting 😁

  • @odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347
    @odd-ysseusdoesstuff634716 күн бұрын

    More please! Pretty pleassssseeeee

  • @MarcusAgrippa390
    @MarcusAgrippa390Ай бұрын

    Sailors would be interesting, if for no other reason than they get so little coverage. Anyway, excellent job as always on these little details that so often go overlooked!

  • @carlv8415
    @carlv8415Ай бұрын

    Backing audio track brings back some good memories.

  • @g0dofimmortality

    @g0dofimmortality

    Ай бұрын

    Sounds like Stronghold

  • @Imperator-SPQR
    @Imperator-SPQR2 күн бұрын

    I noticed the stronghold music

  • @MrRandomSuperhero
    @MrRandomSuperheroАй бұрын

    "Surely this must make his mother very proud" Did you guys just cheekily snuck in a Tommy Tallerico HBomber reference haha

  • @bohemiancasanova5538
    @bohemiancasanova553827 күн бұрын

    Amazing video! I dont even mind you mispronouncing the letter C in words such as Principales.

  • @VinnieG-
    @VinnieG-Ай бұрын

    A long, difficult boring life with the occasional pure horror in the form of battle

  • @andezong9565
    @andezong9565Ай бұрын

    Crazy how there’s still a ton of similarities with the Legion and modern militaries

  • @richardvaldes3959
    @richardvaldes3959Ай бұрын

    Would love to see a cavalier scouts life in rome

  • @mideon13
    @mideon13Ай бұрын

    Hanc fabulam inveni valde interesting. plus habere vellem. Gratias tibi

  • @qetiogusliriope7436
    @qetiogusliriope7436Ай бұрын

    As an ex-army infantryman, lemme tell you this goes hard.

  • @deanmartin995
    @deanmartin9959 күн бұрын

    Could you also do the the life of the centurions of caesar.

  • @mikemurphy9960
    @mikemurphy9960Ай бұрын

    Dacian wars part 3 please!!!!

  • @nikolahavaic759
    @nikolahavaic759Ай бұрын

    Greetings from a fellow Pannonian! Castrum Iovia Botivo and Aquae Iasae salute you!

  • @ramonruijgt4532
    @ramonruijgt4532Ай бұрын

    not be able too read is intresting to me on how simple things would work in life.

  • @danol.8595
    @danol.8595Ай бұрын

    good video

  • @LordPrinceIV
    @LordPrinceIVАй бұрын

    Well done, Valerius. Enjoy your retirement.

  • @georgecristiancripcia4819
    @georgecristiancripcia4819Ай бұрын

    Very nice video. I wonder if the soldiers who receive double pay had a separat tent.Or where the slaves will sleep.I wonder if they share the food with their camarades. I dont think the immunes had a easy life either.All soldiers with special skills were granted the rank of immunes or it was a reward? A video about the boot camp will be nice.

  • @Rosskie-Annie
    @Rosskie-AnnieАй бұрын

    More Video like this

  • @TheRealKiRBEY
    @TheRealKiRBEY28 күн бұрын

    yea

  • @samym1694
    @samym1694Ай бұрын

    I thought this month your going to talk about the Greek fighting styles like the use of Hoplites like the Phalanx even by the Romans before the Maniple Reforms. I've also wanna to know how the use of Macedonian Phalanx & their Sarissas Pike protects the whole unit of Pikemen which doesn't make even sense with such a thin protection

  • @thomasthetanderloin
    @thomasthetanderloin25 күн бұрын

    why am I hearing stronghold 2 music in the background?

  • @Holsp
    @HolspАй бұрын

    Can I ask how long was the nigthwatch interval?

  • @stevecarnduff6444
    @stevecarnduff644410 күн бұрын

    Stronghold music lol

  • @ver93
    @ver93Ай бұрын

    when will dacian wars part 3 be uploaded? is the series discontinued?

  • @HistoriaMilitum

    @HistoriaMilitum

    Ай бұрын

    Not at all! Part 3 is scheduled for early-mid May.

  • @oliver5403
    @oliver5403Ай бұрын

    Awesome!!! Pick the Governor!!

  • @ramonruijgt4532
    @ramonruijgt4532Ай бұрын

    how did housing market work in roman times?

  • @jeffreymyles38
    @jeffreymyles38Ай бұрын

    i bet his boot camp was way more difficult than mine

  • @thespartan8476
    @thespartan8476Ай бұрын

    History of Europe is way more clear with a Hellenic classical education, and someone who speaks like a native Greek and not as an outsider/foreigner who learned Greek. Dionysius Pyrrhus requests the exclusive use of Hellene in his Cheiragogy: "Never desire to call yourselves Romans, but Hellenes, for the Romans from ancient Rome enslaved and destroyed Hellas." And George Gemistus Plethon pointed out to Constantine Palaeologus that the people he leads are "Hellenes, as their race and language and education testifies". Ducas Vatatzes, wrote in a letter to Pope Gregory IX about the wisdom that "rains upon the Hellenic nation". He maintained that the transfer of the imperial authority from Rome to Constantinople was national and not geographic, and therefore did not belong to the Latins occupying Constantinople: Constantine's heritage was passed on to the Hellenes, so he argued, and they alone were its inheritors and successors. His son, Theodore II Lascaris, was eager to project the name of the Greeks with true nationalistic zeal. He made it a point that "the Hellenic race looms over all other languages" and that "every kind of philosophy and form of knowledge is a discovery of Hellenes […]. What do you, O Rome, have to display?" A time when Romans thought of war. Greeks thought of philosophy in Alexandria, they thought of thought itself. The ancient Greeks used the name "Italia" In addition to the "Greek Italy" and it was Ulfilas, a Greek Who Created the Early German Alphabet. The Greeks created it, the Romans & Germans copy it, and the English exploit it. 😅 In the beginning... God created the Earth, and in the light blue waters, put a small ship to travel forever, in order not only to give birth but also to transfer great ideas all over the world ... He called that ship...HELLAS! 🐬 The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus. No other small country can compare with Greece in terms of impact on human benefit.

  • @CubeInspector
    @CubeInspectorАй бұрын

    Me, watching this while playing bannerlord with serve as a soldier and eagle rising mods

  • @RosierJulio
    @RosierJulioАй бұрын

    Mas,mas,mas😊

  • @Techibos
    @TechibosАй бұрын

    I am now a legionary.

  • @majidb6266
    @majidb6266Ай бұрын

    Know i am invested, will he get his promotion or will he loss his cool and stab the consul 😅

  • @LiamTheOne
    @LiamTheOneАй бұрын

    anyone know a game where i can experience this?

  • @SidheKnight

    @SidheKnight

    Ай бұрын

    The Forgotten City

  • @JuliusCaesar888
    @JuliusCaesar888Ай бұрын

    The soil in Pannonia is terrible for farming!!

  • @sebastiantovarmarquez1902
    @sebastiantovarmarquez1902Ай бұрын

    Primus pilus

  • @noneofyourbusiness43
    @noneofyourbusiness43Ай бұрын

    Much prefer your art style in your earlier videos. Too many videos use this sort of silly corporatized "south park" stick figure sort of art and it really detracts from the seriousness of historical content. The information in your video is as always top notch.

  • @OdinsVikingr
    @OdinsVikingrАй бұрын

    Roma Invicta

  • @jasonpaz
    @jasonpaz10 күн бұрын

    Sounds like every town outside of US Army bases

  • @juanibuscaglia3239
    @juanibuscaglia3239Ай бұрын

    Great video, but if I can be a little nitpicky I don't think being illiterate means you can't read your own name. I'm illiterate in Cyrillic but I can "read" (more like recognize?) plenty of names and words. Surely even an illiterate Roman would've been able to recognize his own name.

  • @NelsonDiscovery
    @NelsonDiscoveryАй бұрын

    THE THEOMAS AMERICAN!

  • @darientertainment2615
    @darientertainment2615Ай бұрын

    14 = XIV not XIIII

  • @michaelscarn5625
    @michaelscarn5625Ай бұрын

    Ig I'm the second

  • @travisruiz5205
    @travisruiz5205Ай бұрын

    Hmm weird

  • @elshebactm6769
    @elshebactm676913 күн бұрын

    🗿👍

  • @CmdrSoCal
    @CmdrSoCalАй бұрын

    stole music from Stronghold video game.

  • @michaelhawkins7701
    @michaelhawkins7701Ай бұрын

    Day in life of a salor

  • @pranikislive
    @pranikisliveАй бұрын

    ig i'm the first.

  • @user-on3zi9fo2g
    @user-on3zi9fo2gАй бұрын

    The imperial legion was largely based off the military structure of ancient african armies

  • @decem_sagittae
    @decem_sagittaeАй бұрын

    What's with this animation style? It looks bad, like Simple History or what that channel is called. I hope this doesn't signify a decline in the quality of your content.

  • @Enolagay1945
    @Enolagay1945Ай бұрын

    Sooo...this is just a made up story....as in fake. Not what I wanted..

  • @tappajaav

    @tappajaav

    Ай бұрын

    You completely missed the educational purpose?

  • @HeliodromusScorpio
    @HeliodromusScorpioАй бұрын

    The main art is almost of laughable quality.

  • @optio256
    @optio256Ай бұрын

    Day in the life of Auxiliary, Centurion, Cavalry, or an OPTIO. Did the Optio share a tent with just Principales, like Sesquiplicarii (1.5* pay) or Duplicarii (2x pay)? ⚔🎪

  • @ThishandlefeatureISdumb
    @ThishandlefeatureISdumbАй бұрын

    I gotta ask, is that music from Stronghold the game? It sounds so familiar but I can’t quite place it.

  • @HistoriaMilitum

    @HistoriaMilitum

    Ай бұрын

    Yes, it is :)

  • @SasoriZert
    @SasoriZertАй бұрын

    Life of a daily Gladiator in the Roman Empire...

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