How Roman Emperors Fooled Everyone Into Worshiping Them

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@AbbyWulf-bw1kg 3 ай бұрын

Great channel! You got me with the trial of Socrates

@TheLegendaryLore 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, brother :-)

@davidhoffman6980 3 ай бұрын

Same here. I hardly ever subscribe to a channel after seeing just one video, but I made an exception for this channel.

@CodyCEngdahl 3 ай бұрын

I just subscribed and this is the first video that's shown up in my subscriptions. I love this channel! Thanks for the good work!

@TheLegendaryLore 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words, brother. It really means a lot!

@davidhoffman6980 3 ай бұрын

Was deification ever for sale?

@WildMen4444 3 ай бұрын

@@davidhoffman6980 No. Deification was never offered as a commercial service. For starters, it's a terrible business model. Deification in Rome was only ever for members of the imperial family that died. You literally would never get to enjoy it in this life. Not to mention, considering that the Romans practiced ancestor worship, it would be a gigantic waste of money to pay for something that you would have already gotten for free from your family. A part of the reason people started worshipping the Emperors to begin with is because of their belief in ancestor worship (with the emperors essentially becoming divine communal ancestors). So no, for that and other reasons I could go into, they never sold deification. No one in their right mind would buy it.

@csics5627 3 ай бұрын

Thank you

@TheLegendaryLore 3 ай бұрын

Thank *you* :-)

@ha.alamin 2 ай бұрын

“Shortly after Caesar's death, a bright comet appeared in the sky for seven days; many Romans interpreted this as a sign of [his] ascension to the heavens.” Wow, this reminded me of the eclipse that happened when Prophet Muhammad's son died, and his followers took it as a condolence from God, to which he responded: “The sun and the moon are two of God’s signs; they are not eclipsed on account of anyone’s death or on account of anyone's birth, so when you see that, supplicate God, declare His greatness, pray, and give alms.”

@WildMen4444 2 ай бұрын

Ave Divus Julius!

@WildMen4444 3 ай бұрын

Hail to the Roman Imperial Divii and Divae! As someone that actually includes the deified emperors and Their family in my devotion to the Roman Gods, I always find this topic fascinating

@TheLegendaryLore 3 ай бұрын

I thought about you a lot while writing this script 👊🏻

@WildMen4444 3 ай бұрын

@@TheLegendaryLore Lol that's funny. I'm surprised though you didn't really go into the background of the practice. The imperial cult has a bit of an interesting pedigree in that it essentially is a combination of Roman and Hellenistic traditions. It's also interesting to note that it was practiced differently depending on whether or not you were in Rome or in the Greek East

@TheLegendaryLore 3 ай бұрын

@@WildMen4444 The original script was twice as long, but I'm learning the difficult art of "to kill your darlings."

@WildMen4444 3 ай бұрын

@@TheLegendaryLore I'd be fascinated to see the original script.

@TheLegendaryLore 3 ай бұрын

@@WildMen4444 Unfortunately, the edits are gone. As far as I remember, it was mostly lots of little (boring, to some) details related to the content in the video.

@kcpauz 3 ай бұрын

hello mate I need your suggestion, I'm thinking of naming my son after Marcus Aurelius, should I name him 1) Auri 2) Aure. Do you have any other names from the old roman/greek that are one syllable and easy to pronounce?

@TheLegendaryLore 3 ай бұрын

Why not Marcus? Congratulations by the way!

@kcpauz 3 ай бұрын

@@TheLegendaryLore Marcus is too common.

@WildMen4444 3 ай бұрын

@@kcpauz Greek and Latin names tend to be pretty long. The short ones tend to be pretty out there. Could you imagine being named Ion? Or Otho? I certainly wouldn't recommend Geta unless you don't mind if he hates his middle school years. Ajax might work though!

@simon330 3 ай бұрын

More discussions of ancient Christianity wanted

@TheLegendaryLore 3 ай бұрын

I do have a nearly finished script on how Christianity conquered the West somewhere.

@AlexanderosD 3 ай бұрын

Julius Caesar: Gets poked to death and Ronans think "he was a cool guy, let's start calling him a god..." Jesus of Nazareth: Crucified by those Romans and literally resurrected because He IS God; "Ha . . . That's cute..."

@WildMen4444 3 ай бұрын

@@AlexanderosD Ave Divus Julius!

@nverburg 3 ай бұрын

Jesus was deified by the church

@19ate4 3 ай бұрын

How a human becomes a god? That human god is the man that can make Roman concrete and use it to build a statue of his Godlike self and tell no one how to make Roman concrete

@WildMen4444 3 ай бұрын

@@19ate4 Actually the statues were usually either of marble, gold, or silver