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@MariaMartinez-researcher

6 ай бұрын

I presume this is the winner title...

@CAP198462

6 ай бұрын

You really started something with that “thinking about Ancient Rome”, video. Congratulations, you’ve got a meme!

@Mr.Death101

6 ай бұрын

Can you do a video on the later years of gladiator battles and how it ended or when it stopped or who stopped it and why. Thank you

It's funny that almost all of these career-options still hold true for former athletes nowadays.

@bossman5370

6 ай бұрын

i reckon if i had a time machine i would establish some kind of punditry career for myself. every wednesday and sunday at sunset in the forum.

@QuantumHistorian

6 ай бұрын

@@bossman5370 You'd have stiff competition. Gossiping about public life seem to be the de facto career of all the Roman elite.

@jakegarvin7634

6 ай бұрын

Sports are exactly the same between then and now the only difference is nowadays athletes don't specifically die on purpose

@grant.5345

6 ай бұрын

@@bossman5370 If I had a time machine, I would probably die of a wound highly common in the Roman Empire but is easily treatable in the modern day.

@BleachDemon707

6 ай бұрын

SILENCE CHECKMARK 🙄

While I think about ancient Rome daily, like any normal man, I did not know until now that there were referees in gladiatorial combat.

@thatoneguy5856

6 ай бұрын

Same. I thought sport referees were a more modern thing

@TheDevice9

6 ай бұрын

@@thatoneguy5856 Yeah... now I'm curious just what the rules were.

@micshaz

6 ай бұрын

Though the concept of a referee (in the modern sense) is quite wild to imagine, remember that pankration (greek olympic wrestling) pre-dates the roman empire by a day or two, was practiced in a competitive setting with a scoring system. Of course there were rules for most combat sports; people don't want to literally coin toss their lives every single time and i'd imagine there were plenty of career "gladiators" (and similar professions) who had good careers and never actually risked their life

@josephpercente8377

6 ай бұрын

Hourly

@toastedt140

6 ай бұрын

​@micshaz Yeah the olympics are widely recognized as the beginning of professional sporting standards. Long Jump, Wrestling, and Pankration have rules carved into older temples. There were even diplomatic incidents between some city states because of disagreements over rules.

Last time I was this early, Augustus was still Octavian

"or duelled in the Sacred Grove of Aricia for the crown of the priest-king of Nemi." I had to check this as it really sounded like a line straight out of a fantasy novel. Turns out to be a fascinating bit of history I had never heard of. Thank you for that.

@disrespectthemwomensubjuga5471

5 ай бұрын

LOL same! For a second I almost thought I was listening to a fantasy audiobook.

Sounds like the best analogy would be that they were like the adult film stars of their day -- often desired, often famous and even at times rich, but also highly stigmatized!

@ewetn1

3 ай бұрын

Thats a really great analogy.

Id like to know more about these duels to become "priest king" and the cult it refers to... another great vid like always!

@CountSpiffula

6 ай бұрын

Thats one of the grand mysteries of the period. JG Frazer wound up writing an eighteen volume encyclopedia of magic and superstition from research he did trying to get to the bottom of the myths surrounding the Rex Nemorensis.

@LCfreeze

6 ай бұрын

@@CountSpiffula I was trying to find what you were referring to - did you mean The Golden Bough? According to Wikipedia it’s up to 12 volumes in some editions, so not exactly eighteen but still very voluminous. Thanks for the pointer 🙂

That painting of the gladiator and his fam got me!

“See you later, Gladiator - after a while Aedile” - Caligula and the Comets.

Living until 99 in the ancient world is quite a long lifespan I would imagine

3:14 This mosaic is amazing! A video about famous or especially well preserved mosaics would be cool!

Gladiators died in the arena as a result of injury or rarely fight to the dead if they were condemmed . Gladiators did not die on daily basis as they were expensive to train and maintain and were more of an investment.

It's a really depressing fate. First, you fight and fail to defend your home, losing friends and family and becoming enslaved. Then, you are forced to fight countless battles against other slaves like yourself, possibly even former comrades who were enslaved alongside you. The likelihood of you dying or getting seriously wounded is high if you slip up even once, and if not, you're still doing it to other undeserving slaves. But even if you're really, really good and lucky, you may be released... but now you're at the bottom of the social hierarchy, possibly too crippled to work, poor, and a lot of your few opportunities entail going back into the arena.

@RustyShakleford1

4 ай бұрын

Basically likke modern day contact sports most sports leave men crippled depressed and addicted to alcohol

Thanks for plugging your book. I ordered a copy, and I look forward to reading about Elagabalus, hes my favorite

@ToldInStone, you make my favorite historical videos. Your books are fantastic as well.

Lol i like how at 7:03, you put “demonetized” to censor the private parts of the gladiators in the relief 😂

Excited to watch this one, loved the content for years

Subscribed immediately after seeing this video. Well done sir!

love your content ive learned so much from this channel!!

damn, so many things are speculated about marcus aurelius that are completely outside his usual character

Perhaps Juvenal referred to "the sons of gladiators" in the equestrian order as an aspersion on the morals of their mothers?

Thank you Garrett

Keep up the wonderful work, Garrett 👍

Also love your books, wish you voiced them on audible!

Buying the farm is a euphemism for dying but getting a farm so you won't need money anymore was a thing until very recently. I'm sure gladiators and ex-slaves would find a small estate with farming land a good place to retire.

Four fifths into your new book and I am much enjoying it. Highly recommended. Thank you

a video on graffiti in ancient Rome would be absolutely fascinating!

@Frisbieinstein

5 ай бұрын

Easy to find.

@mysteryY2K

5 ай бұрын

@@Frisbieinstein well of course because now he has a video on it. the video did not exist when i made this comment. and even though there are videos about ancient graffiti, i wanted to hear TIS' take on it

Apart from the always interesting and informative content of your channel, I really appreciate that you don't use those cheap AI images like so many other YT channels do: you always use high quality illustrations.

@LongFatJohnston

6 ай бұрын

dude, I saw I at least one cheap AI image. Eagle eyed viewers probably noticed more.

@crazydave247

6 ай бұрын

The voice is AI

@bodawei425

6 ай бұрын

@@crazydave247Don't think so

@LauraS1

6 ай бұрын

@@crazydave247 No, that's actually Dr. Garrett Ryan's real voice. I think the reason it might come across as AI generated is because of the phrasing he uses, the way he pauses and where he pauses in sentences, and other vocal modulations one learns when one becomes a public speaker (such as politician, professor, news anchor, or other career in which public speaking plays a prominent role).

Thank you toldinstone! Here here! For he is the great scribe and orator! He quenches us lay men that thirst for knowledge from ancient rome. God speed noble man godspeed

Thanks!

1:40 You did it again. These visuals are hilarious

The new thumbnail is a huge improvement over the AI-looking thing that came before. Thank you. Aesthetics matter.

@captain531

6 ай бұрын

get over it

@TheRealForgetfulElephant

6 ай бұрын

@@captain531dam captain he is just giving his opinion

@roelin360

4 ай бұрын

​@@TheRealForgetfulElephantopinions aren't worth of respect just because they're opinions, it matters what they are. However, I do not agree with the person you responded to either.

Imagine petitioning the Emperor to nerf an armatore class because say the retarius spear is too long for PVP balance and they keep dominating the meta.

There's a very funny example of gladiator training in the movie "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". One master was showing how to swing a mace (?) and brain the other fighter. Bad result? Next! More slaves were lined up awaiting their turn as target.

I love these videos, very interesting! I started cracking up at the "Demonitized" labels 😂 great work, i appreciate you putting this content out 👌

I'm surprised to learn that even freeborn retired Roman gladiators were infame?! I though they continued to be celebrated like how modern athletes are today!? Why would Roman gladiators be so celebrated while active gladiators then looked down upon once they're retired? Great upload.

@machirim2805

2 ай бұрын

The best modern analogy for gladiators I think would be adult film stars. Celebrated and popular, and they can get rich, but their line of work is stigmatized (to the point that many say that they wouldn’t date an adult film star). So stigmatized that they cannot escape from its stigma even when they get into new careers. The fact that it’s scandalous if a teacher is revealed to be an ex adult film star proves this.

@coolandgood1010

2 ай бұрын

@@machirim2805 Interesting perspective! Thanks for answering..

The Romans did not have movies, special effects and CGI to depict violence, they only had the real thing. How many movies and video games of today feature people meeting violent death? We are really no different. Question: if a "wild beast" won its match, what happened to it? I'm sure there were some pretty good lions, tigers and bears ("oh my") that survived their matches.

Original voice, original pictures. Nice storyline. Well-done 👍👍👍

Your channel is the best history channel on KZread, in fact it's a lot better than even the documentaries on TV, your content is award-winning stuff!

There are many excellent paintings used in many different videos depicting Gladiators. A works(book) showing as many of these paintings as possible would be very interesting to myself.Is anybody aware if any author has put a collection of these works of art together??

were any gladiators so good looking they'd be consistently put in low risk matches? or were they too far away from the audiences to be seen in detail (and would have done better if there had been television)

@mememan2344

6 ай бұрын

There has probably been corruption all throughout history. That's exactly how it works with favorites in boxing even now.

@RustyShakleford1

4 ай бұрын

Ofcourse they would probably pick a crowd favorite and purposefully let him keep winning to keep the people happy

Did anyone else see "Freed Alligator" at a glance? 😂 AND I clicked on it because I wanted to see how freed alligators live😂

That's a lot of Jean Leon Gerome paintings.

Literally just finished watching gladiator. Serendipity at its best

You should do more longer form content please, alot of your video titles sound interesting but too interesting for just a 10 minute video!

In many ways, their career options are those of retired Special Forces

This video has changed it’s title and thumbnail so many times it’s making my god damn head spin

A minute long ad on curiosity stream? k sure

My ex wife calls mine demonetized too...

I know this has nothing to do with this video, but I have a sugestion: the restoration on the sistine chapel done in the 1980s and '90s

After visiting the arena at Nimes, France, which has a great museum dedicated to the gladiators, the exhibits there state that the gladiatorial contests eventually died out. Was this due to the bloody nature of the events, or perhaps due to the rise of christianity in the west, or the cost of sponsoring these events. I don't know. But, according to the exhibits, gladiatorial combat died out way before the end of the western empire.

@copperlemon1

6 ай бұрын

Christianity was a major factor, though I'm sure the costs also played a role, in the west especially. Major Christian figures strongly condemned the games for the gratuitous violence and pagan elements. Other spectacles, like chariot races, would continue even under Ostrogothic rule and for much longer in the east.

@Nadia1989

6 ай бұрын

Definitely Christianity, but it also could've become too expensive to organize. Even though gladiators were from the lowest tiers of the empire, you need housing, food, training and fighting gear and coaches.

Almost poetic commentary. Rare, today.

If anyone's interested in Traditional Roman warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

2:20 ... and ACTORS?

Was that the lick?

Early bird gets the knowledge

Would it be possible to do a video on stereotypes in Rome and their neighbours as well as derogatory terms used for people from different cultures?

@williamharris8367

6 ай бұрын

I would think that such a video would draw much criticism from the cultures being negatively depicted. My ancestors, for example, were Germanic but not necessarily uncivilized barbarians -- even were they so described/considered by the Romans.

@olsaaan

6 ай бұрын

@@williamharris8367 Yeah but that's the point of the video. It's history, not the videomaker's opinion.

It's interesting that Gladiators could be awarded mansions by Emperors but were not allowed to be elected to office or enlist as legionnaires.

Me who collects coins: 100,000 sestertii? Dang I could retire 3 times over on that!

"Demonetized" instead of the word "Censored" is a fine, but depressing, touch.

Commodus looked like Markus too much to be not his true offspring

toldnstones getting into them ai pics now. not sure what i think about it

I'm not gonna watch the video but I assume they gladiate.

Infame (one who commits infamia) is still an extremely typical insult of Rome to this day!

They changed the thumbnail and title about 5-6 times. :P

Gladiators then were much more interesting than ones of today.

@nowhereman6019

6 ай бұрын

Idk, Mike Tyson is an incredibly interesting person.

They gladiated

Please Garrett, try not to use AI. I think it detracts from the otherwise superb quality of your videos.

And now we have the UFC

We are appreciating the new visual style!!!

I wish Ridley Scott had used the actual Roman categories of Gladiators instead of dressing his like characters from Road Warrior!

@fonziebulldog5786

6 ай бұрын

Great movie. 👍

Imagine freeing a mass killer onto the streets. No wonder Rome became extinct.

What is the title of the painting in the thumbnail?

@InterestingFindings

6 ай бұрын

Gladiator Fight During Meal At Pompeii by Francesco Netti 1880

dziękuję

This guy could do " Rick Steves Europe " with a minimum of practice !

@10:27 You really go demonetized for showing that drawing?

Ryan, you scared me. I thought that was the other R word 😅

👍

1:00 Every time I hear this bro, it's always wholesome episodes. (Except for what he did to the Jews.)

How did they do childbirth?

Now I want to watch some MMA.

@CHETinnit

6 ай бұрын

Freakin pumped bro!

@factsoverfiction7826

6 ай бұрын

@@CHETinnit 😝

If I was a rich roman, I'd hire a couple gladiators as personal bodyguards. Just the reputation alone of them would be enough to stop most from attacking, and the idea of basically having two champion heavyweight boxers hanging out with me all the time would be icing on the cake!

I clicked this wondering about wolf and jet

I'm sure it was like being a retired football player

Video interaction

I thought they retired to Romania 😮

LOL - DeMONITIZED bars, hilarious.

1:23 no nosew

SPQR

Executioners, undertakers, gladiators, and those dirty liars known as 'actors'

subarutus crosstrekus

How about Russell Crowe who became emperor

Do we know what percentage of gladiators was freeborn? Or rather, gladiator by choice?

2:15 I had to laugh here, actors?! I guess artists being treated like crap is not some modern phenomena.

Product endorsements

Allotta boinga.

Lose the AI thumbnail

@chrisderidder4087

4 ай бұрын

Who cares lol

'rumor alleged' this sounds like gossip feeding on insecurities.

Oh man I would have loved being a gladiator. I am uniquely skilled in both fighting and looking really good while doing it. I wouldn't want to live to retire. I would want to die for the crowd. Who better to die in front of, and where could be better to die? Alone as a sick old man, or young and good looking, a fine weapon in your hand, hearing 100,000 people screaming your name in excitement?

@lauraarcher1730

6 ай бұрын

Well, no one is stopping you!🤪

Lived through death matches and survived to the age of 99? Is that possible without modern medicine and vaccines?