The Largest Temple Of The Roman Empire That You've Never Heard About !

[@Maiorianus_Sebastian]

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[@kumpelcreepf7766]

can you pls send me the link for the website of university of caen sol invictus temple?

[@kumpelcreepf7766]

and also the map of rome at 13:19 if you can

[@RhetoricaRhamnusia]

One must imagine a Greek architect of temples beholding these Roman McMansions, and shedding a single tear.

[@someoneno-one7672]

What a great video! Always wondered why popes did not bother to re-use these spaces for Christian prayer as they did with Pantheon. Might be too difficult to maintain in the early Middle Ages, then out of fashion (Gothic era), then beyond repair plus other plans. And, likely, population simply shifted out of those areas for few hundred years - Pantheon happened to be in the right place.

[@ASIRIDesigns]

The temple of Serapis complex is really intriguing to me. There are still some ruins on the Quirinal that you can see, and the largest piece of carved marble from (i think) the pediment of the temple around there. If you go onto the Vatican's free online database, you can find old sketches and etchings of the Quirinal and what the ruins looked like ca. 1400-1600.

[@transluxlyceum3236]

Another awesome Maiorianus video... & the nifty vampire-accented narration puts it over the top... this channel is one of the best on YT.

[@thevisitor1012]

I love and hate how I can't exactly pin what kind of accent he has lol.

[@transluxlyceum3236]

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[@brober]

There is a legend the four golden columns in the Basilica of St John Lateran are spolia from Temple of Jupiter.

[@cliffhoelzer6895]

Fantastic video!! Thanks so much for your incredible work. As an Architect, I love Rome and the influence it has had in our culture! Thanks once more for keeping it alive!!!

[@ThomasSchutt]

Love your videos! I want more videos like this one! Roman Architecture is where it’s at. A history of when things are built and rebuilt and destroyed is hard to determine a lot of the time. More buildings I’d love to hear you talk about: Baths of Agrippa (connected behind the Pantheon) Various Roman Senate Houses Basilicas Julia & Aemilia Basilica Ulpia Basilica Nova (Maxentius/Constantine) And so much more

[@valentinsn-ostalgiemodellbahn]

Enlightning sunday morning history lesson. Thanks a lot for this amazing video!

[@furrybear57]

Thank you so much for this video....however, with regards to so many temples and buildings falling down due to earthquakes. I recall reading somewhere that Roman engineers used brass or bronze brackets in all the joints of their projects to keep their buildings stable in the event of an earthquake but some Emperor in the 4th or 5th century, after having moved his administration to Constantinople, came back to Rome and had all the brackets removed so he could use them at his new location, thereby depriving the older temples of surviving any earthquakes. Can you confirm that? Thanks.

[@septimiusseverus343]

That was Constans II, during his infamous visit to Rome in 663.

[@Zebred2001]

Unstable ruins must be very hard if not impossible to properly conserve. Where possible I'd like to see a long term series of projects to completely restore many of these structures.

[@harborist]

Always fascinating!

[@liberatumtaiwanae3580]

Love from Taipei. Dang! Those earthquakes! Dang those armies and that sucked away funds to rebuild the spirit of Rome!!😢

[@micha2909]

You guys are building impressive skyscrapers just to show earthquakes the middle finger. Taiwan rocks! Much love to your brave country from Vienna!

[@ale_s45]

I didn't know about the last one

[@dyinggaul8365]

Really enjoyed this video

[@nancydelu4061]

Mr Todor, please tell us more about your studies! Sorry, I'm your granny, 75, not a prospective date. Just interested in your quest of history. Been there.

[@LordTelperion]

Lord Jupiter at Heliopolis!

[@nathanimes4041]

How exactly do these stone temples "burn down?" Why couldn't they replace the wood parts? or does the fire cause the stone to give way and collapse? Just curious as to exactly how they were vulnerable to fire, as opposed to ziggurats and pyramids.

[@ecurewitz]

The flammable parts of the building burn, and the heat from the fires damage the stone, making it more brittle

[@CTCDetroit]

The roof structures are the primary flammable portions.

[@kaloarepo288]

The great crystal palace in London burnt down - how does glass and cast iron burn?

[@e.anderson2545]

Good point! Rome is a total fiction of Eurocentrics, Rome never built but pillaged and destroyed.

[@harrybalsagne616]

It’s the roof. Only wooden rafters could span that far and when they collapsed they (along with all the tiles on top of them) brought columns and walls down with them due to their weight.

[@haditawbe9617]

Absolutely love this channel, great work!!! Also glad this video uses your pre-AI style, it's the best!

[@belialord]

The largest temple wasn't in the city of Rome, it was the temple of Jupiter at Baalbek (in modern day Lebanon). It was so large that Graham Hancock and the History Channel will tell you it couldn't have been built by the Romans.

[@alessandrogrossi6888]

No it wasn’t. The Temple of Venus and Roma in Rome was bigger.

[@Lord_Merterus]

No, the largest Temple in the Roman Empire was the Artemision at Ephesus, and the largest built by Romans was either the Temple of Venus and Roma or the Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus

[@Alexq79-]

this video is talking about the largest temples in the city of Rome itself, not throughout the Empire

[@henghistbluetooth7882]

Ah yes, Graham Hancock - the guy who appeared in ‘around the world in up days’ as a local reporter in Ethiopia 30 years ago. The guy with literally zero knowledge about the ancient world other than what he’s picked up through 4chan.

[@haditawbe9617]

The temple of Jupiter in Baalbek is the largest Roman temple OUTSIDE of Italy

[@EmperorCaligula_EC]

You have such a soothing and pleasant to hear voice. :)

[@dr.carlpatrasso3847]

Very well explained. Fascinating. Thank you for such interesting history.

[@matthewwright8995]

Really fascinating, thanks for putting this quality video together. The sheer scale of these buildings still blows my mind. Also the fact they were built so quickly, medieval cathedrals often took decades to build. I'd love to understand more about how these temples were used. Could anyone enter, what were the ceremonies, how did people worship?? Truly fascinating

[@LordTelperion]

Long may the memory of the Capitoline Triad live on.

[@TWOCOWS1]

Like the Capitoline Hill, the Quirnal Hill also collapsed during that infamaous earthquake, destroying much of the buildings set above them. In case of the Temple of Serapis/Sol, it was already built on a platform, appened to the slope of the hill. The quake brought down almost the enitre temple when the platform underneath it slided down. At the Capitoline, the remains of columns and stones of the Temple of Jupiter has been found at the both of the hill, near Forum Romanum. So, these great temples were pulled down by the quakes, and then people just carried off the broken marbles for reuse.

[@VladisRed]

You are nice dude Sebastian. Keep doing this videos

[@thevisitor1012]

it sucks that these temples couldn't survive, but at least they were replaced by other magnificent constructs like the Vatican.

[@ambiguousUndertones-]

The West somehow picked the wrong God in the end. Thus goes all that ancient greatness.

[@nancydelu4061]

I again thank you!

[@jstantongood5474]

after so many years, it is so good to see your face Majoranus.!!

[@davidhughes8357]

So interesting friend! Thank you.

[@urbanfalk4398]

Wow ! another wellcrafted video full of insight . I love theese moments Thanks a lot !

[@chanaheszter168]

Very, very interesting. I am sure that these temples inspired Herod when he did his 2nd Temple reconstruction in Jerusalem, something which I had never considered. We know from finds that the colored stoned floor tiling in Jerusalem was similar to the Forum Romanum. Also, Herod greatly expanded the hilltop platform, and created a structure which could be seen from afar. Thanks for this fascinating video.

[@alphonsobutlakiv789]

I want one of these pillar temples with god in middle with glass walls, but like the glass frame fits style, and now marble by orange in snow. Can see why the north didn't build mega porch, the like a glass one too.

[@Buckshot9796]

Will future tourists wander thru the ruins of Saint Peters and wonder why the faith that built it faded away and died?

[@klink33]

Thank you so much for this video, specially the high quality 3D reconstruction. Much better suited than the ai generated pictures for this topic. It’s always nice to mention the CIREVE team from Caen university.

[@kayharker712]

Brilliant - thank you.

[@ΒασιλικηΚαζαντζη-θ8φ]

Once i read that one of the capitals of this temple was used in Renaissance to carve a second marble same as the one found on the Bovine gate ...and possibly a copy of a hellenistic original.Have you any clue on this?

[@dariusghodsi2570]

I would like to see a series with dedicated episodes to Late Rome's greatest individual enemies, starting with Shapur the Great and how much ass he kicked to spark off the Late Antique era. Then followed by Shapur II, and Khosrow Anushirvan

[@peterasp1968]

If only one of those great padishah's had been alive in the 640s.

[@carlosfilho3402]

A Fascinating Video

[@jeanfricke3485]

Hello, Thanks for the informative and entertaining videos. Have a question that keeps coming up when I see them. You say most temples was destroyed to fire. How can that be, when all temples are all made in stone, marble other non flamble material?

[@lesliea7394]

I have the same question!

[@baarbacoa]

Castles have suffered severe fires that resulted from the burning of flammable paints used on surfaces, plus flammable objects in the castle (wall hangings, furniture, art, etc.). I believe the intense heat may also damage the stone, leading to structural integrity issues. Similar catastrophes have occurred with ships

[@AntonioDellElceUK]

There was still lots of wood in the roofs for example.

[@oiausdlkasuldhflaksjdhoiausydo]

Everyday I am more and more sure that, with the exception of science and technology, everything has been going downhill since 1 century BC

[@theguyof360]

Kali Yuga

[@micha2909]

Nah, many things are better today. I wouldn't trade my Döner Kebab fast food for this smelly Garum stuff the Romans loved so much.

[@oiausdlkasuldhflaksjdhoiausydo]

@@micha2909 technically yes. Scientific knowledge and technically capability are redeeming qualities but there is so little beauty, honour and grandeur... sad

[@justinbarion2269]

1 AD

[@justinbarion2269]

​@micha2909 it's rome you could just have both

[@TWOCOWS1]

Thank you Sebastian for finally covering the temple of Jupiter. One observations though: the columns could not have been "80 meters" high, making them three times higher than the tallest in Baalbek. That would have been unstable and too heavy to stand. Saying the entire structure was "160 meters" high, is even more impossible in stone. Do you mean "feels" by any chance? I think you do. (You make that mishap about other buildings as well, mixing meters with feet). Also, when you show Temple of Venus and Roma, you only show that of Venus (which is less preserved), not that of Roma (on the other side), which is a lot better preserved by being turned into a church

[@kaloarepo288]

Baalbek was probably built by the same gang of masons who built Herod's vast temple in Jerusalem -both date from the same era and have similar giant blocks at their base

[@juwebles4352]

Most of the marble on the temple would be painted so the white marble might not shine brightly in the sun but all the paint ontop of that marble would

[@benketengu]

Thank you so much really interesting. I learned a lot. I just wish my dog would be interested in it as well but she's a dachshund . Perhaps if you did something on the bridge Caesar built to bring his army into Germany she might watch.

[@napoleonfeanor]

I always wonder why they weren't turned into churches

[@erawanpencil]

I still don't understand how these stone temples keep burning down. With hindsight, I as emperor would have made my temples in granite of the largest blocks possible, so even if my civilisation collapsed, the hordes would have little incentive to rip it down for scrap.

[@HighWealder]

Full of plunder

[@micha2909]

The roof construction was made of wood. It's exactly what happened to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris a couple of years ago.

[@michaelfisher7170]

It’s kind of mind bending when you consider how much we lost as antiquity gave way to the Middle Ages. Im not crying you’re crying.

[@nicolascavadini3570]

Jupiter - Venus - Osiris the Father - Love - the Resurrected It's more or less the three divinities christians adopted in a sense. mixing them their own ways

[@Sheboobellach]

When did Maiorianus start doing face reveals??

[@АндрейЛисичкин-б7р]

What about the Temple of Peace by Vespasian?

[@prince_cyprus]

Wow!

[@e.anderson2545]

Never learned their lesson: Don’t build with marble, that stuff just burns right up!

[@Mrrossj01]

The largest temple in the ancient world was the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, which is in modern day Turkey. This presentation covers only the temples in Rome, not the Roman Empire.

[@volkerr.]

Does that mean Turkey shouldn’t be where it nowadays is..?! 😂

[@cpt191021]

So much to learn about late Rome if only we had as many records and it wasn't ignored by ugh "academics"

[@LaurenceDay-d2p]

Alas, too bad these beautiful classic structures were not preserved.

[@kaloarepo288]

Earthquakes played a major part and ironically if a temple got converted into a church it had a greater chance of being preserved or being reconstructed after a quake or flood etc

[@Papatier]

What if the reason we almost don't know anything about the last temple is that christians tried to damnatio memoriae it out of existence? :o

[@ambiguousUndertones-]

All done with primitive tools and technology, and without electricity. Well, we have state of the art tools and tech with electricity, and we can't match what the ancients did. And we've just got the remains of something much more splendid, so imagine back then on what it was like.

[@vincenthaegebaert1854]

❤❤❤❤

[@spunicunifait2697]

Do you think the Romans created the Baalbek Trilithons?

[@volkerr.]

Hallo Sebastian. Gruß aus stuttgart. Salve 😊 irgendwie hat Dein Englisch einen dänischen Akzent.. 🤔 oder kommt mir das nur so vor..?

[@lipingrahman6648]

These temples are impressive, but I think they also show the technical limits of Roman architecture. This may be a strange thing to say but I think that the gothic architecture of the high Middle Ages is technologically more impressive.

[@josemuzquiz7146]

It was built by Mexican Romans

[@ale_s45]

WOw

[@kingjoe3rd]

What's an Ass-PQR store? 😉

[@KR72534]

This guy thinks that the columns were 80 meters high. He obviously doesn’t know what a meter is. No column in the history of the world has ever been 80 m high. That would make it approximately the height of a 25 story building. Perhaps he just misspoke.

[@volkerr.]

Maybe he said 18? And you’ve understood 80..?

[@jakegarvin7634]

4:50 Like if you can find the capitoline insula

[@ChineseApricot69]

still cant imagine the great loss of such beautiful culture because of destruction christians did by pulling down the statues of gods and burning down temples and converting them into cathedrals and church 💔

[@ldubt4494]

? Late roman churches and cathedrals were just as beautiful and magnificent. Only the religion changed, not the culture. The destruction came later and has nothing to do with religion.

[@ChineseApricot69]

@@ldubt4494 they destroyed the religion of romans and greeks by destruction and with that they lost the values that created rome once but not anymore, hence soon after rome collapsed

[@davestevenson9080]

Same here in the UK. All of the celtic traditions, herbalism & alchemy. prehistory, mythology & culture utterly wiped out by barbaric christians.

[@ldubt4494]

@@ChineseApricot69 yeah? Animal sacrifices and belief in magic is oh so sophisticated, of course. When i compare christianity or paganism to today, its clear that paganism was much much more absurd, unnecessary and cruel. Thats also why christians had it so easy converting them.

[@constantinexi6489]

Common pagan L