It’s always struck me as odd that Nero, who was obviously obsessed with art and aesthetic beauty, would allow himself to be depicted as a bloated degenerate. One would have imagined that his artistic sensibilities would not permit his own image to be associated with such ugliness

Tom Holland is so good

This is all very offensive to the religion of the country.

Few Classicists are as fluent and authoritative in delivery as Paul Cartledge, and I've heard many over 45 years of studying and teaching.

Interesting discussion

There were no middle east before, but persia

Is the book historically accurate or heavily ad libbed?

Tut mir leid für alle, die sich mit Krieg beschäftigen, real world is really wonderfull

Since they removed the statue from Reghin to Tg.-Mureș with the woolfmom and Remus and Romulus, allways wondered, how is this? The woolf is our symbol, and other symbols also, how is it, romans conquered-yeh!-but they ,,suck" from us, the woolfmom. Love, my love to you, Corina

ROMA ETERNA.

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Her writing is supreme

Absolutely superb book. Written with the pathos and the air for the dramatic of a (previously) fiction writer. Cheers!

Wonderful! I am a big fan of Tom Holland's work.

I just finished the book and it was amazing.

0:15 Those old Greek sure had some big big books back in the day.

This lady ACTS and SPEAKS like she KNOWS.... Nero was a real monster. He insisted that we lay on our faces and worship him as a god. She slanders the valuable messages from the past. Helping to pave the way for new Tyrants. History, forgotten.

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1:50 Was it not representative in a way because the franchise was so restricted that relatively small number of citizens acclaimed or rejected motions which affected the whole populace?

Wonderful stuff, great scholarship

This was such an amazing book and Natalie is such an amazing writer!

The lady is so excited😂😂😂

Please read Tom Holland's Rubicon!!!!!!!! not having read it is like not having seen Goodfellas or Shawshanke Redemption, you'll be the better for it!!!

Yay, I’m planning a trip to Aphrodisias

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This is incredible

Outstanding lesson, thank you sir , you are the best in this galaxy.

Two years up and two comments, I'm commenting for year number three! Lol. "Particular 'ify' personality", I love it! When I was a kid I watched the King of Kings on TV once every five years or so. I always wondered if he wasn't a victim of people's hates for homosexuals sissies. This is back in the late 70's/early 80's with me so, there were no terms about it back then like now, and most people agreed with that hate then, at least in the small town I was from. So in the film... When they took Jesus there to have him killed and Nero does not kill him, but only was fascinated by him and was amused at him sending him to Pilate did in fact make me wonder if he wasn't an okay cat... Just saying...

Not everyone can pull off the pink shirt / purple cravatt combo....esp a cravatt of that length ! Audacious .!

Anyone here from TikTok?

4:12 Reading the Oedipus Tyrannus, I see! :)

Listening to this author has helped get me through the pandemic, read one book, waiting for two more...

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Thank you for sharing, ✊❤️

Is this civilia historia?

Great talk and +1 for mentioning beer inside 3 minutes :) - Interesting lecture that was well seasoned with humour as well as insight.

thank you for your clarity and the images that follow your words.

Remarkably interesting-I’m so happy I saw this because I was intending to check out the old edition without being aware of these contemporary developments.

With no doubt my most favourite book of all time

When a tornado is blowing in your town, furnish your long term storm shelter well. Wise Pliny.

I thought this was a fabulous lecture and its delivery by the eminent Professor Rathbone is great.

Nice discovery and excavation of the Roman Asia Minor city of Aphrodisias.

Wonderful presentation. Thank you all , sincerely.

Thank you for sharing! Very interesting, enjoyed it very much!

Thx for putting history lectures on YT! Greetings from germany. <3

On the arrow testing part: Yeah that level of protection is quite good for the times they were made, as Archers weren't as common as they were later on. Slingers and Javelin-throwers were quite common themselves at this time, and if this armor protects from an arrow then its safe to say that it will protect from a slinger's stone. But i am far more skeptical about it defending from a skirmisher's Javelin, given that they are heavier and carry a bit more force despite its shorter range. Did you ever test that? Im curious as to how it would hold up.

I wonder if the Samnite triple disk armor was to immitate the warriors body ("Beer Belly") or if the outward sloping means early people understood that slopes could cause wouldbe heavy blows to be deflected?

you can get thick leather from just about any part of the animal. You can buy front shoulders at a 1/4 in thick all day long.

Concern about the sharpness debate; What about flint or stone arrowheads? I'm no expert on the Classical Period but surely some tribes used stone arrowheads at least occasionally. I know stone tools were used around the viking age. Stone arrows can be sharpened to surgical tool level.

This is very cool. I have been working on a book with a medieval country with little metal armor who wears largely cloth and leather and this taught me a lot.