here i am again thinking about the Roman Empire. fabulous

Great history lesson. Thanks!

Been looking a while for a video as detailed as this. Thank you for making this!❤

@historywaitsfornoone2784

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

They were called insulae because each building was freestanding, with street space around all sides, just like an island.

Thanks for this video! I am writing a book based between 47-62 AD in Rome and am gathering information about the insulae. I would particularly like to know more about individual apartment layouts. I have heard they may have comprised only 2 rooms, but I've had trouble finding out how the rooms were used. Also, were any apartment larger than that? Did any include kitchens of any kind (even if they did not have fires/ovens or actually cook)? Anyway, I found your video informative and will add the details I learned to my research.

Thank you the video! Very interesting.

It's difficult to work out the floor plans at a glance but as they're numbered how about mentioning what some of the rooms are and also how many people would have lived in each apartment.

@historywaitsfornoone2784

10 күн бұрын

The problem stems from my sources. But that's a great suggestion for a revised video.

Enjoyed the information greatly. I did mute it and read close captions because the music was distracting. You are entertaining enough without it IMO. Looking forward to searching more of your videos.

After the introduction you have a picture there with the floor plans. Witch book has these floor plans, or where can I find them?

@historywaitsfornoone2784

3 ай бұрын

I'm not entirely sure. I've had many of these pictures for years and years, as all these videos started as lectures in my ancient civ. classes. I found that one on the web.

@gailcurl8663

3 ай бұрын

Witch?? It's WHICH!!

Wow new channel

Just like modern Naples - or maybe better said that Naples looks like nearby Pompeii

How did they get in? Were there rental agreements? Would there be squatters who would movie in when someone died ?

@historywaitsfornoone2784

7 ай бұрын

That's a good question. I'll take that up in the revision.

@LordDirus007

7 ай бұрын

Probably some kind of Leasing agreement and a Squatter would probably be beat up and thrown out. I believe they had local court systems.

@muscledavis5434

5 ай бұрын

Yes it was basically a lot like today: private businessmen buying/building the houses and owning them, taking rent from the inhabitants. And just like today, there were some who actually cared for the houses and others who only wanted the money and thought of nothing else, creating desastrous living conditions and deadly incidents (like a building collapsing because it's not being maintained in ANY way). Empires come and go, but no one escaped the landlord!

Interesting. --- I knew about wealthier tenants occupying lower floors of Insulae, thus having easier access to water, and why that mentioned reversal of today: no elevators and the fire danger! --- For those who did not even have the necessity-pot in their cramp-quarters, and may have also been elderly or disabled, _what a hardship,_ income-consigned to _higher-floors!_ --- Even for a fit person, having to descend cold-dark stairs, lamp in hand, multiple-flights both ways _in middle of the night!_ --- Well, another thing to be thankful for in our modern age! I wondered about _glass._ Must have been hard, and or _cold_ in winter! --- _No central heating!_ --- Burr.

Great, as always

@historywaitsfornoone2784

8 ай бұрын

Thanks again!

Very interesting, thank you!

@historywaitsfornoone2784

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I think Tacitus was lucky he never lived in one lol

Wow, living in rome sounds awful! Thank you!

@historywaitsfornoone2784

2 ай бұрын

Compared to living in a modern industrialized city, most places in the past would be pretty awful, more like visiting a developing country that hasn't really even been touched by any kind of development, no power, no air conditioning, no phone service, folk "medicine", more like visiting some isolated tribe in Borneo or the Amazon rain forest. I would love to visit---as long as I couldn't possibly be harmed or come down with some disease or illness, but I would never want to live there, not even as a very wealthy Roman.

I appreciate your efforts to educate viewers on sort of housing that the majority of Romans lived in in Ancient Rome, but I must tell you that I get very annoyed when the presenter fails to know his/her facts correctly and, if dealing with a foreign subject, checking out with those in the know about how to correctly pronounced names. You, I have to say, failed on these two points: some of your "facts" and some of your pronunciations. (1) You correctly pronounced 'insula' and the plural 'insulae', but you failed in pronouncing 'domus'. You assumed it's a masculine noun, but it isn't; it's actually feminine. Moreover, its plural is irregular: 'domus' is singular, and 'domūs' is plural. The macron over the u in the plural noun implies that the vowel should be held a bit longer than in the singular noun. In short, there is no 'domi' as you assumed would be the plural of 'domus'. And even if there were, the final vowel would be pronounced 'ee' (doh-mee), not 'eye' (doh-meye). (2) Next, I'd like to point out that nowadays, educated people don't use the terms 'BC' and 'AD' anymore when discussing a year. Now we say 'BCE' (before the Common Era) and 'CE' (in the Common Era). This is to leave religion out of dealing with years. (3) As for 'taberna', you're right in saying that the word simply meant 'shop' to the Ancient Romans, but you neglected to mention that the shops which sold food and drink were called 'popinae'. You'll sometimes hear them referred to as 'thermopolia', but that's a misconception. 'Thermopolium' was used for a very short period of time by the Romans, and most Romans wouldn't have understood what this meant. The common word was 'popina' (the plural being 'popinae'). (4) Another point: Those tenants who lived on the upper floors of an insula used chamber pots to do their business, and these were emptied in the most unsanitary, unhygienic of ways, namely out the window. I don't even want to imagine how the streets of Ancient Rome must have smelled. Please make sure in any future videos you create that you've thoroughly checked out your facts with experts and any pronunciations foreign to you. It's such a shame to come across a video on KZread with an interesting subject and then have it turned into something mediocre at best because of a lack of professional preparation before the video is made. As an Ancient Roman scholar might have said to you, "Debes pudere."

@historywaitsfornoone2784

3 ай бұрын

Yes, I don't know how I made the domus mistake. I know how to correctly pronounce the names. I've tried using the BCE and CE in classes, but it simply confuses students who are used to the old ways, so I stopped trying to change the world. Its a personal preference on my part. I'm not a Latinist, but I am a historian, though my specialty is not Roman architecture. I have to rely upon my sources.

@mcrae9999

27 күн бұрын

I know he's trying to be helpful and try to advise on "mistakes," but richardfirsten2364 comes across as rude. I, and many others, thought the video was very informative, and I thought it was very well put together. I appreciate your work.

Sorry, didn’t like or subscribe because the graphics are poor and the presentation boring and slow!

@historywaitsfornoone2784

7 ай бұрын

Sorry.

@Colin-Fenix

7 ай бұрын

@@historywaitsfornoone2784 - Feedback is feedback. I get tired of the environment, especially on YT where everyone is a winner, no one tells people the truth... Like when every baby is the moooost beautiful. They aren't! Sometimes we just have to shout out to the crowd that the emperor is naked. The graphics could be much better and the narration more direct and to the point.

@mcrae9999

27 күн бұрын

Wow. Tough crowd. Picky af.

You take too long to et to the point.

@historywaitsfornoone2784

6 ай бұрын

Sorry.

@gailcurl8663

3 ай бұрын

Most Narraters Do!!