The Complete History of Rome, Summarized
What if KZhead video... but documentary?????? Join Blue on a feature-length journey through all of Roman history: from its origins, through the Republic, up and down the Empire, and out into the medieval world of Catholicism in the Latin West and the Byzantine Empire in the Greek East. It's a BIG tale, so Let's Do Some History!
SOURCES & Further Reading:
BOOKS
"SPQR" by Mary Beard
"Rome: A History in Seven Sackings" by Matthew Kneale
"The Roman Way" by Edith Hamilton
"The Aeneid" by Virgil
"Histories" by Polybius
"Ab Urbe Condita" by Livy
"De Bello Gallico" by Julius Caesar
"Odes" by Horace
"Parallel Lives" by Plutarch
"Rubicon" by Tom Holland
"The Storm Before the Storm" by Mike Duncan
"The Enemies of Rome" by Stephen P. Kershaw
"The Age of Augustus" by Werner Eck
"Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire" by Ronald Mellor
"Cleopatra: A Life" by Stacy Schiff
"Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants" By Garrett Ryan
"The Classical World" by Robin Lane Fox
"Ravenna" by Judith Herrin
National Geographic "Ultimate Visual History of the World" by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
"Byzantium" I, II, and III by John Julius Norwich
"The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome" by Anthony Kaldellis
"The Alexiad" by Anna Komnene
"Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire" by Caroline Finkel
"Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History" by John Julius Norwich
"A History of Venice" by John Julius Norwich.
ONLINE
Ara Pacis Augustae" by Mark Cartwright on World History Encyclopedia www.worldhistory.org/article/...
"Ara Pacis Augustae" by Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker on Smarthistory smarthistory.org/ara-pacis/.
GREAT COURSES LECTURES
"Piazza Farnese to the Ara Pacis" from "The Essential Guide to Italy" by Dr. Kenneth R. Bartlett
"The Pax Romana", "Rome's Golden and Silver Ages" & "Late Antiquity - Crisis and Response" & "Barbarians and Emperors" from "Foundations of Western Civilization" by Thomas F.X. Noble
"Roman Art and Architecte" & "From Commodus to Caracalla" & "The Crisis of the Third Century" & "Diocletian and Late Third-Century Reforms" from "The Roman Empire: From Augustus to The Fall of Rome" by Gregory Aldrete.
VIDEOS
"Ecclesiastical Latin vs Classical Pronunciation History | Latin: The Immortal Language" & "How Latin became Italian 🇮🇹" by polýMATHY, • Ecclesiastical Latin v... , • How Latin became Itali...
UNIVERSITY
I have a bachelor's degree in Classical Studies.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
1:26 - The Birth of Rome
10:25 - The Roman Republic
15:59 - The Punic Wars
24:28 - Rome's First Assassination (uh oh)
35:38 - Julius Caesar
50:12 - Octavian vs the Assassins
57:45 - Octavian vs Antony
1:07:38 - Augustus as Emperor
1:25:26 - The Roman Empire
1:36:11 - The Crisis of the Third Century
1:46:58 - The Fall of Rome
1:58:08 - Rome After Empire
2:10:12 - The Byzantine Empire
2:24:26 - The Byzantine Golden Age
2:37:57 - The Decline and Fall of Byzantium
2:53:05 - Conclusion
MUSIC:
Courtesy of composer Austin Wintory / @awintory
austinwintory.bandcamp.com/
I Know How It Feels To Be Lost, Mount Olympus, Reclamation, Welcome to the Real Underworld, Threshold, The Decision, Temptations, The Reliquary - from the Stray Gods Pantheon Edition and Journey scores.
Also, "Scheming Weasel" & "Local Forecast" & "Sneaky Snitch" & Marty Gots A Plan" & "Pippin the Hunchback" by Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Also Also, "Slaysenflite" from Age of Mythology, "Phoebe the Orphan" & "The Sacred Land of Artemis" & "Naxos Island" & "Kephallonia Island" from Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
Additional thanks to our the members of our discord community who kindly checked over my video draft and helped me pick out video thumbnails: Jonny, Catia, Chehrazad, and Billy. Thank you for all your help across multiple videos and your endless commitment to sharing cool facts about Mediterranean civilizations, Rome and otherwise.
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When you want to stop thinking about rome and then this comes along.
The average history major experience.
Blue never wants to stop thinking about rome.
Why would you want to stop thinking about Rome?
This comes along when I'm rewatching hbos Rome .
No brother! Never stop thinking about the glory of Rome!!
3 hours of blue talking about the classical world?! This is the dream!!
ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY
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Well, I know what I’ll be doing tonight
2 hours of classical Rome. 1 hour of medieval Rome.
Oh snap. I didn't even realize it was that long when I clicked. Worth it!
Today I realized: If you had no familiarity with elephants, you’d probably assume that these two-speared, snake-faced, gigantic *WAR MONSTERS* were probably carnivorous.
This adds a whole new layer of terrifying
The tusks are wild looking
"Hannibal's got elephants!" "What's an elephant?" "Well it's like a big upside down squirrel, Centurion." "Quad the fuck?"
“It doesn’t take a lot of elephants to have a scary amount of elephant on the battlefield!” Never really thought about it that way, but yeah.
Less than 3 hours to summarize one of the largest, longest lasting, and most enfluential empires the world has ever seen. If anyone can do it, Blue can. Your content never disappoints. Thank you for this.
Agreed
Blue is the best.
There are entire college courses that study individual parts of this and Blue just speedrun all of it.
@@alyssafitzgerald83yes summaries are shorter then indepth courses
@@basicpigeonbee he provides a summary of EVERY MAJOR EVENT IN ROMAN HISTORY. a summary of FUCKING ROME. IN JUST THREE HOURS, GOING BEYOND JUST "HE DIED".
Oh yes blue has joined the 2 hour video essay crew!
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He finally complete his evaluation now he is invincible
3 hour*
😢😢
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Every channel has its 'big' project - the video that's pretty much a feature film, combining all of the skills the creators have acquired as they talk about their very own passion project. Sometimes, they have more than one. Some have no such project. We now witness the glory that is the OSP feature - Blue talking about the Roman Empire for almost 3 hours. You did it, Blue - you magnificent bastard! ^^
Timing wise it’s smart to release an essay like this post Halloween, ballpark full holiday season to get through the slog of traveling to visit friends and family during this time if not get through actually visiting friends and family. While creators take a break during the same time. Win/win/win 👍
And then there's MauLer, who has big projects and an occasional small video.
Imagine a thousand years later, somebody makes a similar video about the history of the fallen USA
And then they proceeded to skim over the first 100 years of its history moving to the reconstruction after the civil war after just taking a test on the different English colonies.¹ Still brought to you by skillshare. 😂 ------ ¹ this video skipped/skimmed over the Roman Kingdom and the early Roman Republic periods, jumping straight to Pyrrhus and then Carthage. Not even 15 minutes in a 3 hour long movie and 753bc jumps to 270bc.
@Kaede-Sasaki Part of that is the fact we don't have much history From the Kingdom era and an earlier Sack in around 653 BC. Due to that and a lack of historical writing till the start of the early republic Where the Picture Comes back into focus.
@@Kaede-Sasaki Well... to be fair - the Roman Kingdoms are more legend than history.
i do
@@RazorsharpLT and balanced
It was at this point that I realized that the average OSP subscriber has a better grasp of Roman history than pretty much any historical Roman did.
Most people do nowadays, not just subscribers
The benefit of hindsight, no doubt. 😉
@@wargriffin5Was coming here to comment exactly this. Hindsight is 20/20, and enhanced further when talked through by someone who knows what they're talking about.
@@Landis963 People certainly understand 2007-2009 better than they did in 2007-2009.
@@Landis963hindsight partially, but also information is drastically more available nowadays. If you were an average person in the Roman empire, you'd live in a small village, where almost nobody had ever traveled further than 20 miles. You would be illiterate, and the only knowledge of the "outside world" would come from rare government announcements or travellers. Such knowledge would be mostly useless too, since a war breaking out or political assassinations wouldn't impact your village unless it was close by. People really underestimate just how much things like widespread literacy and vehicular transportation has changed human societies. Before these, you had no means of recording or learning information except by word of mouth, and 95% of the population never went further than 30-40 miles from where they were born. Combine these two realities, and you had a world where the vast majority of the population knew nothing about the outside world. There are even stories of towns in a region that got conquered who never even realized they were part of a different empire until years later.
Remember a couple of weeks ago when Red said that we would get back to our normal programming? And then Blue decided to make this absolutely unhinged and glorious video essay?
I mean, absolutely unhinged videos about whatever they want to talk about sounds pretty normal
@@itz_ringlot9168definitely a return to their roots
This has been surprisingly emotional. I will be sure to think about the roman empire, the truly disastrous fumbling perpetually self-sabotaging old thing that it truly was
Your mom slurping me was very emotional too 😅
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="127">2:07</a>:35 - _"For the average pilgrim arriving in Rome at the turn of the millennium, they might be surprised to encounter not one city, but seemingly three. The old core among the hills had become largely uninhabited, as the population clustered by the Campus Martius"_ That must've been so amazing to see. To see all the buildings of Ancient/Classical Rome before they were built over. To see exactly where so many of the greatest events of the past ~1500 years had exactly occurred, but were no longer inhabited; The Theatre of Pompey, the Temple of Caesar, the Roman Forum. To see the majesty of Rome in all it's glory, it must've been so amazing, yet so saddening to see them empty and in disrepair.
Populated by goats and shepards patrolling for wild dogs.
The Detail Diatribe wasn't kidding, Blue is on his Symbiote arc ....and the Symbiote wants to talk about Rome just as much as he does So, 5 hour deep dive on all the nuances of Venice next week?
Dont give him the idea!
@@jacktaylor6253ABSOLUTELY give him the idea!
unnecessarily detailed and long venice video released on critically acclaimed youtube channel OSP is a lifelong dream of mine
@@anyasvt well Blue is married to the Immortal Spirit of Venice, so we can only hope!
@@jacktaylor6253 huh so that's why Cyan has eldritch energy.
Ah, the history of Rome. I expected an Empire of your reputation to be a little more... definitive. My applause to you Blue for concocting such an excellent and thorough culmination of Roman history! But I must say, given your fondness of the subject matter (even with it being 3 hours long!) this video... it's shorter than I expected.
I had to deal with this Imperial slime myself. -B
@@OverlySarcasticProductionsI don't even know what this is just the best reply to a comment I have ever seen I cannot put this into words
General Kenobi!!!
@@superjumpbros64 hello there that’s that’s obi
I HATE YOU!!! XD jk.... But seriously... Obi-wan was a prick I still actually like him, and him and Anakin coordinating was a thing of glory that they nailed... but F Obi-Wank Empire poppin, rebel droppin 4 lyfe! For the Republic!.... Er.... The Empire! XD
This is why men can not stop watching videos about the Roman Empire. It is just so damn cool. Wars, assassinations, people larger than life, dirty politics, violent politics, and on and on and on. How could a man with a shred of intellect not be interested in learning the history of this? It's like the second world war, its history, and it is important.
It ain’t just men dawg
Listening to this whole thing while deep cleaning a work kitchen is brilliant. If I am in a certain spot and I look in a certain direction, a period of Roman history will flash back to me. The entire cooking line is mentally smeared all over with byzantine history, and if I ever go behind the grills and clean again, the Byzantine reconquests will start recalling.
Ok…. In general we kind of understand that Blue really likes Rome, but then you watch this and realize just how much, and just how much he can eagerly talk about Rome. Bravo Blue. Good job.
Personally I have come to appreciate such moments when you thought you knew about something, and then someone comes along to remind you how little you know, really. It's just inspiring to think of the amount of hours it must have taken to not only learn all of this information, but to make the connections and see the bigger picture and summarize it all in such an efficient and entertaining way. It boggles the mind.
"I'm sorry I've summarized Greece and Rome so much that it goes beyond summary and enters into the realm of synopsis. Our channel is supposed to be summaries, and I've betrayed that".
The prophecies foretold this moment -B
@@OverlySarcasticProductions Hope we get more of these for other histories
Interesting thing about Caesar's first co-consul, he spent basically the entire year saying that there were bad omens and thus business couldn't be done. Since Caesar was the high priest of Jupiter, he knew better and knew a delaying tactic when he saw it, so he went on to work. The Senate, including his Optimate enemies did the same thing. As a result, the Romans called it the Year of Julius and Caesar, instead of Caesar and Bibulus, due to Bibulus doing absolutely nothing. Pompey had been married, quite happily to one of Caesar's daughters, but when she died in childbirth, the alliance was broken. Caesar, before starting his march on Rome, offered several compromises, but Cato the Younger absolutely refused them all, so he sent Mark Antony down and got him elected Tribune. The Optimates then did the worst thing possible, and attacked Antony while he was Tribune. That was a BIG no-no in Rome, so they literally handed Caesar his excuse to march on Rome. Lepidus, far from being unimportant, actually had what could have easily been one of the most important provinces. Roman Africa was the biggest grower of grain, and supplied much of the city's food. The problem was that darn Pompey in Sicily playing at being a pirate. The Colosseum, as a side note, was funded by the loot that the Romans took from their conquest of Judea.
As a history major, I like how you explain the origin of Rome while using a source you know is flawed. Nice.
Ships o ions for the masses
Before the earthquake
Every Latin student who watches your channel thanks you for this, including me. I’m gonna find a way to make my teacher watch this in our class!
SAME Gonna send this to my fellow students at uni xD
Pp
@Die_Hard_Historian have you succeeded so far?
@@phoenixblued9625 well my new latin teacher’s really silly and I might see if we can!! My class will hate me though. Currently, whenever I watch history videos on youtube they always lead back to this specific OSP video. It can be anything: napoleon, william the conqueror, etc. It WILL be 3am somewhere and I WILL wake up to blue talking about roman politics.
Three hours of Rome. The classics majors are going to have a field day watching this.
Blue, I've watched this video a bunch of times. Sometimes curiously, and sometimes because I needed something comfy in the background to help in tough times or to sleep. Thank you for making something so delightfully educationally entertaining that it can help me deal with the mess inside.
Everyone: "YOU ATTACKED US!" Role: "No, i self defensed you!"
Blue wasn’t lying, Rome really is the substrate of his conscience
I am Italian and I live in Italy and in my opinion you have done a fantastic job at representing, describing and always with a pinch of comedy to mix it all up. It's always a pleasure to see you. Thank you 💘💘💘💘💘
Grazie a lei -B
@@OverlySarcasticProductions Non c'è di che 🥰😍😘
Who cares if you're Italian? doesn't make your opinion worth more.
@@chase5298you’re quite bitter dude. He appreciates it because he’s from Italy. Is he not allowed to appreciate a video about part of Italy’s history? Do you feel the need to be rude?
@@chase5298 ... Are you mad that you're not italian?
"Alexander the Short Sighted." I laughed for 10 minutes.
I fell asleep listening to this and I was reliving through all of what you were saying for an hour and a half dream 🙃
that happened to me a couple nights ago, woke up with rome on the brain xD
This is a small note but I love how in the Description, there’s a list of all the sources used, both book and online. There’s a lot of other sources cited in the description but the last thing ever said is the “I have a degree in classical studies”. All in all, there’s something pretty humble about Blue (I presume having written the description) giving more importance to the accumulation of all the research into Rome’s history done by people before him before giving himself credit.
I love it, too. Considering the way we tend to view credits as a top-down list of who did what with the most important people at the top.
I saw the title and the first words out of my mouth were “Dear God Blue”
I'm a high school science teacher; my hobbies include storm-chasing and birdwatching and I've rarely, if ever, had any special interest in history. But I watched every second of this video and DANG it was fascinating and informative. Great job, Blue, taking a subject I would have never given a second thought to and making it so cool and relevant! You would make an excellent teacher.
I would listen to Blue describe the chronological bowel movements of the Hapsburgs for 4 hours, with Red interjecting with which ones would win in a fistfight. I would pay for it. I love these guys.
Blue, you’ve done more to promote interest in the continued study of history than nearly any teacher or professor I’ve ever had. Great job! Thank you so much for all of your hard work over the last decade or so. 🤙🏽❤️
This man. This absolute legend of a man. Homie made an End Game length video about Rome, and we get it for FREE. What a fucking guy.
Strangely, the takeaway from this video for me is that I really want to see Blue go over Charlemange, who in my corner of the world is remembered as a pretty big emperor, despite no one really knowing how he got to that point.
I mean he was a pretty big radio DJ at one point, so it kinda makes sense...
@@aw2584 Caesar: "He copied my whole fucking FLOW"
Thank you for pointing out the carthage "salted the earth" myth. That's one that I find in a lot of otherwise reputable history books written by otherwise reputable historians, but it's so damn easy to disprove and the idea didn't start getting around until centuries later as a biblical reference.
I wonder a bit if it was a rumor the Romans spread to discourage resettlement.
Hundreds of years summerised in 3 hours. Yeah, seems about right Btw good job Blue 🎉
Don't you mean thousands of years?
Blue is real proud of that "Reme" joke, and for good reason 😂
I took two years of Latin in high school, studying not just the language but also some of the history as well. It paid off by instilling a love of languages as well as expanding my vocabulary by recognizing the Latin roots of so many English words. In college I took a few semesters of German, two semesters of Russian, and for the past decade I've been learning Japanese. All because a dedicated teacher of Latin opened my eyes to more than just my tiny Appalachian hometown, and triggered a drive to learn more. Thank you for this video lesson, you've filled in quite a few gaps in a story that I only had a patchwork understanding of! Very well done, thanks to you for helping to keep Rome eternal!
This was just lovely, and I once again have a deep appreciation for Blue's enthusiasm and yes even his sentimentality about Rome. It's damn inspiring, really, not just for the history but for the real life, personal lessons one can take away from this "big picture" look at such an incredible culture. To adapt, to do your best no matter what, to endure far beyond what ANYONE would expect. Defeated but never vanquished. Coming from someone going through some shit right now - these phrases in particular were a surprising amount of comfort. Not what you set out to do, I know. But thank you anyway.
I love OSP. I wasn't sure about watching this one because of its' length, but three hours and three bottles of wine later; I'm glad that I did.
In vino, veritas. -B
@@OverlySarcasticProductions nell'acqua c'è il buon senso
@@ghostblade5954ego cacas ego et foetet
Real
@@OverlySarcasticProductions In amethyst, there is meth
nearly 2000 years of history in three hours. Guess I know what I'm doing while i eat all my thanksgiving leftovers.
2206 years, 753 BCE-1453 AD
Imagine hearing this video as a first introduction to this channel. Then, I Imagine you fell asleep listening to YT, but this guy’s persistent narration wakes you up with a crazy good capsule classics classroom. That’s where I am right now - mind blown. 😅
Can't wait for the inevitable 10 hour essay on domes, that'll be a dream.
I cannot express how well timed this is. I’m taking a Greek and Roman history class and this is great for studying for the class.
... I have an assignment due about this exact topic in 2 weeks. Draft plan complete but forced to have a sleepy day in after burning myself out on 3 assignments at once over the past week after binge-studying post-recovery from a chest infection. Bless you for this I can simply enjoy happily whilst getting my brain back from the comfort of 10+ blankets, you people are gods-be-damned angels.
My interest in the Roman Empire is probably less than the average person, but this was such a great video. It's hard to resist Blue's enthusiasm.
OSP saving my audhd ass from failing world history yet again!!! Y’all the goat!!!
My adhd self can't sit for 3 hours, especially since the old Republic (500bc-300bc) part that I wanted lasted about 10 minutes in a 3 hour video. 😂 Imagine if 300 years was skipped/skimmed over in less than 10 minutes of the whole school year. 😂
Congrats on finally compiling all the videos on Rome with new information sprinkled in. Just as I said before on the Geography Now USA video, I consider this video the magnum opus of Blue’s work on this channel.
I just opened this video without looking at the runtime and only realized it was running longer than usual after 17 minutes LMAO. Wasn't expecting such a wealth of content this week. thank you blue.
I know what an elephant is, and I'd still be pretty scared if I had to fight one.
I gotta thank Blue, the effort he puts into “doing history” is astounding. You rock Blue!!
An almost 3 hour episode? Yes, please!
The 4 hour long Complete History of the Most Serenene Republic of Venice, when? 😆
bold of you to assume Blue wouldn't be the first 12 hour video essay
12 hours of thalassocratic goodness? My body is even more ready than in 1204 🦁🪽
I've watched this like 12 times already. Not as background noise, but actually watched it.
Rome has been one of the most important cities for so long it's crazy to think about.
"Everything else is just Livy's filler arcs." - ... I'm now imagining Romulus and Remus taking an episode to get their flying car driver's licenses.
MY AUTISM IS FED, MY EMPIRE IS ROMAN, MY HISTORY IS BLUE. LETS. FUCKING. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Edit: Thanks for the heart, OSP! you guys are really cool!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="682">11:22</a> I finally understand how all of my peaceful attempts at grand strategy games end with me conquering everyone around me
Lowkey wanted this video to never end and Rome to never die. Like this was a movie and i was rooting for the hero. Haunted as all the things of our modern society that was shaped by Rome crosses my mind.
I actually thought Caesar's Gallic Wars was a good read. There's some really patriotic speeches and moments sprinkled throughout, like how the first time the Romans beached on Britain everyone was too scared to press against the naked, screaming, British barbarians, and a standard bearer basically called them a bunch of pushovers and led the charge wielding nothing but a stick with an eagle statue on the end of it.
Is there anywhere to read it for free do you know?
Sorry, I have very strong opinions on anything Roman and I HATE Caesar. Sure it's an easy read, but urgh. The language is just boring and it's always the same. The Britain episode was interesting though I must agree. Cicero on the other end is my hero. I know his speeches was revised sometimes but the Latin rhethoric is just PEAK. Caesar's Latin is... well, read any modern history book and you know what his books are like. How did you come to read the whole of Bellum Gallicum? I'm studying Latin, so that's why I read it. Just interested in someone else who's maybe a bit as crazy ;)
@@Vgn1701 I've read a translation and it was a pretty cool read. Boasting about cutting Gallic heads and arms, explaining the way he thought through his pardons and what not. Caesar is about the greatest person Rome has produced once you stop living a fairy tale of "politics can be honest and all disney marvel avengers like". Same with Octavian, ya he used propaganda, it's effective. Hate the game not the player.
@@TurboImperator completely agree. I think Caesar & Octavian are super interesting people and analyzing their politics is fun. I'm just very emotionally invested in the Republic, so I'm more on Cicero and Cato's side of things. xD
Show them the good weather man
How often to do you think about The Roman Empire? Blue: I'm trying okay
Many a moon ago I took a course entitled "The Fall of the Roman Empire". At the beginning of the class, the professor stated, "by the end of this class you are probably not going to be certain what the word 'Fall' means, and you definitely will be confused over the terms 'Roman' and 'Empire'; if I do my job well, you will also be confused by the words 'The' and 'Of'." One of the best history classes I ever took 🙂
"Golden ages can come along when you least expect it" This is truly the encouragement I needed right now, and I will continue to admire the tenacity of the Byzantines as I deal with my own ouch times.
30 minutes ago, and already christmas/saturnalia has come early! I thought it was impossible to surpass the Byzantine History video, but you guys have outdone yourselves again
Sol Invictus is the reason for the season.
Goddamn you finally did it didn’t you? All that practice, all that time to making the other things, just to get this one mega vid done, to finally make a documentary long history vid. . . Good job, blue. I hope cyan and red are fine.
Blue still needs to do a video on the Sultanate of Rûm. Severely underrated Rome successor
This was an great summary. Ancient Rome is fascinating. The fact that they would flood the colosseum to have ship battles is amazing. It’s too bad they didn’t think to video them. That would be amazing to see.
I can't imagine the insane amount of work this took... Great job Blue and thanks
'Rome was a mess!' Roll credits
That was your best video ever. Congratulations.
"And the kind of people the Romans would one day be... Crafty Bastards." This killed me xD I was expecting something poignant, or along the serious lines he was following, only to hit us with Crafty Bastards xD
And he's absolutely not wrong. Lovable disasters and crafty bastards.
Blue you are insane. I can only imagine how much work this whole thing was.
Can't wait to rewatch this a few times over the course of 3 years until the 4hr version comes out👀
At first I thought this was a compilation video of previously released Rome videos. Now I know that it's a summary of sufficient detail to be considered the coursework of a history course on the ENTIRETY of Roman history
It's both, actually.
The idea that every man is always thinking about the Roman Empire is a misconception. Blue from OSP Georg who thinks about the Roman Empire 24/7 is an outlier and should not be counted
Could this perhaps be uploaded to the OSPod Spotify? Because while I dont exactly have the time or attention span to watch all of this in one sitting, I would LOVE to be able to listen to it at work.
"A particularly salty period of Roman history..." when discussing Carthage. I see what you did there!
This is an incredible video because it's sometimes so hard to keep track of the order certain things have happened. This makes it super easy!
Jesus H. Christ, I remember you saying in the New Years podcast that this video was getting a lot of views really quickly but good god, a million views in a month is insane
*Grabs popcorn* This will genuinely keep me entertained for years to come. Thank you for everything you do, Blue💙
I know people were saying how often do men think of the Roman Empire I can't speak for everybody but me myself I don't think about it often. I have read about it but to me it's just like any other civilization.
I've read De Bello Gallico and the Aeneid in Latin, and I totally agree with Blue's opinion of them. De Bello Gallico is so boring and dry, while the Aeneid is a masterpiece. If you can, I wholeheartedly recommend reading the Aeneid in Latin instead of a translation. Virgil is a genius, and he uses many literary devices that enhance the story. For example, in a long sentence about many scared people being scattered in a storm, the words "many," "scared," and "people" are scattered in the sentence with one word being at the beginning, one word in the middle, and one word at the end of the sentence so that the sentence structure itself illustrates the sentence's content.
This is a good overview of Roman history and a good starting point to further investigate certain points of its history Thanks for not overcomplicating it
Thinking about Rome is like loosing The Game. You just did both
Congrats, Blue! On getting this big thing together and out! Please go make big sleepy! We will watch from here!
Gotta say, Blue. Your tempo in this marathon is quite captivating. My favourite line in the whole thing is when you talk about the first coup d'etat and exclaim "Very exciting!" That line has perfect timing. :)
Just wanted to say a huge thank you!! I go to Rome tomorrow and wanted a nerdy (ie, lengthy) but concise overview of the millennium long history. This was by far my favourite video that I listed to (also helped keep me motivated at work so win-win). I laughed in so many places and such great food for thought. Will be recommending this video to many! Really appreciated the immense amount of time you spent putting all of this together!
Holy cow Blue 3 hrs?? Even for an edit this is beyond ambitious!
Babe wake up, blue had uploaded another Rome video for us to watch.
*CATAPHRACTOS* Playing RimWorld while listening to this made hearing about Cataphracts while making cataphract armor a nice little serendipity.
Can't make a Cataphract without RRRRRRRRRRRRRR-
I’d like to offer my laudation of Blue, who not only compiled the scripts of previous videos, but clearly rewrote them with tweaks AND re-recorded the movie-length compilation of historical videos! Bravo you magnificent bastard! Cheers to Rome!
Really appreciate how you list all your references. I always love reading additional material
What about he maids
Almost 3 hours of rome! HELL YES! 🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Nice one
One of my favorite videos ever!! Thank you so much for the countless hours if research, summarizing, compiling, and editting that mustve gone into this project!!
holy hell i did not expect this at all as someone who started watching OSP only within the last couple years, not sure if it was a project that started long ago or if the pieces were released when i was watching but i never noticed it, but either way this was honestly amazing. brilliantly done!
History Re-Summarized Re-Summarized! Amazing job blue! You're amazing! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
I just ordered MANY pins and can't wait for them to arrive! Waited a long time for these
Well, it took 11 days of on and off watching, but I finally managed to get through the whole thing. Good job Blue! Now do a Re-Summarized series for Venice! It feels like forever since I've heard you gushing about Venice. :P