I believe the real quote is “For those about to rock, we salute you.” 😉

@Leo_ofRedKeep

6 ай бұрын

That's the one.

An important thing to remember about colluseums is that Romans made the same criticisms about it as we make for television. Which author complained that boxing matches brought much larger crowds than classical plays?

@RPe-jk6dv

6 ай бұрын

there were never "collusseums". the collosseum is only the modern popular name for the theatrum flavianum in rome. the theatrum flavianum is just a extremely big amphitheatrum, i.e. greek for a "doubled" theatrum.

@samsonsoturian6013

6 ай бұрын

@@RPe-jk6dv no one makes that distinction

@samsonsoturian6013

6 ай бұрын

@@costamz3440 what?

@RPe-jk6dv

6 ай бұрын

@@samsonsoturian6013 why you then wrote of "collusseums"?

@samsonsoturian6013

6 ай бұрын

@RPe-jk6dv No one makes the distinction between the terms "colluseum" and "Roman Amphitheater. "

You guys should google "Fucine Lake" and look at what became of it. They drained it in 1878 and now its highly productive farmland. It makes you wonder if the farmers plows pull up the occasional Roman artifact. This was the third largest lake in Italy.

It wasn't supposed to be a death match, any more than a modern football game is, and for similar reasons. These guys were EXPENSIVE, costly to buy, train and feed. They were popular celebrities too, and important tools for pacifying (or at least distracting) the masses. You don't waste assets like that for a whim.

Thank you very much for all your videos! You are one of my favourite history KZreadrs for your careful analytical content :)

@vvwvvwvv

6 ай бұрын

This

Say it every day to your boss when you first get to work.

In Thucideis he mentions haveing Masinians sing paions so that the spartans would think them spartans in the dark I thought for those about to die we salute you was a latin paion

Love your video man. Are you still going to continue both your Lotharingia series and Qing/ Russian border conflict series? I really enjoyed them!

I remember reading that only Roman legionnaires were allowed there, the "gladiators" could be legionnaires in disguise or condemned.

Most of history is a little fact and a LOT of "theater".

@HavocHerseim

6 ай бұрын

Oh yeah... a look at Scottish history proves that. People still think Clan tartans were a thing.

@nevisysbryd7450

6 ай бұрын

@@HavocHerseim I mean, they were. From the 19th century onwards.

Historicaly inacurate, but it makes for an impressive movie scene.

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I know who said the actual salute (not the bastardised one the Romans stole), it was the chelonauts, with "Morituri Nolumus Mori".