The Legacy Of Rome's Greatest Ruler | Julius Caesar with Mary Beard | Real Royalty

Julius Caesar is the most famous Roman of them all: brutal conqueror, dictator and victim of a gruesome assassination on the Ides of March 44 BC. 2,000 years on, he still shapes the world.
Mary Beard is on a mission to uncover the real Caesar, and to challenge public perception. She seeks the answers to some big questions. How did he become a one-man ruler of Rome? How did he use spin and PR on his way to the top? Why was he killed?
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[@RealRoyalty]

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[@roxannetinch5552]

Dr. Mary Beard is an international treasure. I try to binge on any of her programs any chance I can. Thank you, Doctor..

[@gabsie7224]

Can you imagine visiting Roman remains and finding Mary Beard beside you commenting what you are seeing?

[@michaelbatarick9617]

I'm definitely requesting a selfie

[@elise2914]

Can you imagine having her at your c-section lol?

[@maryphillipps9889]

This is made more interesting by Mary Beard driving off in her sports car. Very interesting, informative and entertaining.

[@peterreston6478]

Mary Beard does it again. Like all great historians she makes history come alive.

[@Fuego958]

Imagine bringing a film crew into the birth of your grandchild to talk about the history of Rome.

[@Freddex4LYF]

Magical

[@facelessqueenie8873]

I love Mary, so much passion, so much heart. This is so interesting. I like how she goes over everything from the comb-over to the might he had over his people

[@jayneratz]

I love the way she teaches for the average person to understand. Thanks Mary.

[@DJL78]

I ❤️ Mary Beard!

[@DJL78]

@Lagertha Bass 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻scam bot troll.

[@mustango2045]

calling Julius Caesar´s campaign in Gaul a genocide is unheard of

[@theasianinvasionmma]

Thank you so much for such inspiring documentary! ❤‍🔥

[@thunder.gun.cheese]

Brilliant Doc!!

[@etiennenobel5028]

Lovely stuff, as always.

[@Broskii1993]

Can you imagine trying to do your job when shes all excited. Im sure id mess up

[@davelauerman6865]

Mary Beard is awesome. Dunno if we can call Caesar Romes greatest ruler, though. Greatest soldier, good case. Greatest politician, again, he may well have been. Greatest ruler….hmmmm. I would say Augustus, and Julius Caesar didn’t rule all that long.Makes a cool title, though.

[@LokiLivewire]

I greatly admire & respect Mary Beard. Not least of all for her colourful footwear. 🤔

[@LenGebase]

Even an historian as brilliant as Mary Beard cannot provide an objective assessment of a figure she hates, and Julius Caesar is a figure she hates.

[@lillianmcgrew217]

History ❤❤

[@giorgius5]

Dr Mary Beard is just like a Pele of history documentaries.

[@mandykeane196]

shame they can't keep his statue clean!

[@petersclafani4370]

Didn't those senators take into account that caesars legions were very attach to him. There loyalty had no bounds.

[@lesliecarr312]

The statue of Alexander of Macedonia wasn't the only turning point for Julius Caesar. Some years before, Lucius Cornelius Sulla proscribed hundreds of his potential enemies. Gaius Julius Caesar was on Sulla 's hit list. Some of the injuries, especially to the head, are really creepy. A man got his face hacked off with a sword. Oh!

[@angeloargentieri5605]

AVE GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR, DIVINO E IMMORTALE, LA SUA GLORIA EST AETERNA 💪💯

[@isthatrubble]

I can't believe they just let her into a birth surgery to film a few seconds of footage 😂

[@DASDmiser]

I hate to take issue with Professor Beard, but I thought the Senate was actually meeting at Pompey's theatre on the Ides of March (the foundations of which are under the curved SE corner of today's Campo d'Fiori).

[@BonanzaRoad]

I am shocked that someone with as much knowledge and experience as Professor Beard would make such a mistake…somewhat undermining her credibility. Every historian and scholar understands that he was assassinated in Pompey’s Theatre not the Senate House. But I think in other videos she corrects this error.

[@Boddah.]

Fairly sure most Roman history buffs acknowledges Augustus as Rome's greatest ruler.

[@Boddah.]

@Lagertha Bass That has nothing to do with my comment or video.

[@gerritpeacock3571]

@@Boddah. I think you are right. But it was Julius Caesar that made the most distance in the shift from republic to empire. Augustus had his emperor status practically dropped into his lap, and he happened to make great moves by working the potential he was given. But it was JC that was able to neuter the power of the senate and gain approval of the people and the troops to have a single leader who dictated Rome's future. The shift into empire would arguably be impossible without Julius, AND he had the wisdom to spot octavian's shrewdness.

[@irishcream9004]

Hadrian

[@coryhebert4091]

I'm thinking Trajan. Because of the saying "luckier than Augustus and Greater than Trajan"

[@andrewminnich5106]

There would be no Augustus without Ceaser you plodding knob

[@crystalharris7394]

WOW 👏👏👏

[@timmeyspankey]

Sulla was a dictator perpetuity as well if I'm not mistaken. However, Sulla stepped down from power eventually.

[@lesliecarr312]

The conquest of Gaul was not genocide. It was "pay back" for the Gallic invasion of Rome some time before, and Rome was saved by Camilus.

[@isthatrubble]

it being for revenge doesn't mean it can't still be genocide

[@terranrepublic7023]

Why isn't paying for a glass of wine with Roman coins an option? I'm sure those Caesar heads would be valued far more than whatever French coins are currently in circulation.

[@ghost3990]

gh ost desert storm 🎹🎹🎹

[@melanie7781]

He is famous he because the people loved him. That is what the senate was jealous over and they hated for him it. He actually cared about the state of the people and Rome it's self where the greedy senate not unlike today only cares about it's own personal wealth and power.

[@lucygharibian1425]

On 10:43 minute I see Turkey on your map, but there was no Turkey on 69 BC.

[@robertbohnaker9898]

We’ll , in contrast look at all the hopelessly corrupt and useless leaders The Roman Empire suffered thru. Caesar starts to look a lot better…

[@555pontifex]

She was my tutor at Cambridge. She would have been horrified at the time if I had suggested that she would one day be dressed up in surgical garb to illustrate to camera that C-sections are named after Julius Caesar. Talk about dumbing down!

[@DJL78]

I bet YOU are fun at parties…… said nobody, ever….

[@judiesuh6858]

How interesting! That must of been good class..👍👏🙏

[@gic8849]

“ci” in written Italian is pronounced “chee” .. (chi in written Italian is pronounced key, anyway,) Veni (vehnee) Vidi (veedee) Vici (veechee) We came We saw We won (conquered )

[@isthatrubble]

but it's not italian, it's classical latin - they don't necessarily follow the same letter pronunciation rules. but she's still wrong, because it seems classical latin had V pronounced the way english pronounces W.

[@gic8849]

@@isthatrubble I’m first generation American. The only person in my family who went to school in America. I understand Italian very well.

[@gic8849]

@@isthatrubble my family immigrated here from Italy in the 80s.

[@isthatrubble]

@@gic8849 okay? I'm not doubting your knowledge of italian. I'm pointing out that classical latin is not italian, so you can't use italian pronunciation rules for classical latin.

[@rondyreeves4772]

I prefer “Vici, veni, veni, reliquit me” myself. Edit: maybe “ego vici et reliquit”? My Latin is lousy.

[@kingozzy7075]

When caesar landed in britannia, was he talking about the picts tribe?

[@spatrk6634]

he encountered several Celtic tribes who inhabited Britain at the time, such as the Britons, the Catuvellauni, and the Trinovantes. He didnt encounter Picts when he landed. He wrote about his encounters with these tribes in his book "Commentarii de Bello Gallico" (Commentaries on the Gallic War). Romans encountered Picts much later in like 3rd century.

[@autumncortez6254]

I wanna pull the plug on the system!

[@thedukeofswellington1827]

1:09 looks like he knows what crayons are the tastiest

[@Synathidy]

I can't believe what a delinquent Mary Beard is, writing "veni vidi vici" graffiti on a wall. I'll bet she went and skateboarded on someone's private property next.

[@Ripleycat]

Just watched your 2023 University of Chicago Part 2 in which you said that today we cannot agree on concepts of morality or justice but that some ideas are better than others. That seems like a pretty lightweight comment from a classicist. As well as your comments about the right wing co-opting classical ideas. Now that you are retired from teaching, perhaps you can take all your erudition and consider Western classical liberal thought vis a vis Western culture and the good it has brought this world: the ideas of freedom (that make it possible for you as a woman to be who you are today) , justice (fairness *and* punishment for wrongdoing), morality (do as you would be done by), courage, moderation and common sense. Take a stand for Western culture.

[@dhanyzaffry4829]

If he's the Greatest Ruler of all time, then, who's the Greatest Pencil ??....🤣🤣🤣😴😴👻 *living in Malaysia , sometimes difficult, when trying to differentiate between American or British English ..* 👆👆👆👆ONLy for that reason, else, it's seems to be BLESSED living in MALAYSIA 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾💥💥

[@pixibelle3282]

Australia here. I find your remark funny because we use rulers for drawing etc. :). Who would be the greatest pencil? The one who made the most marks, of course, lol.

[@dhanyzaffry4829]

@@pixibelle3282 and the Prophecy was true indeed...imma told by an old man to marry whoever answers my question. I'm coming.. !! Wait there, neighbor...

[@pixibelle3282]

@@dhanyzaffry4829 lol.

[@borisstefanovic4387]

A lot of talk, not much said

[@jamesburke6078]

Give me Caligula!... that's good to his mother, loved by all, hated by historians... like Trump 😂

[@michael2974]

Well Mary, this is the 3rd documentary that you have stated that the Caesarean section is named after Julius Caesar. That is patently false. 'Caesarean' is derived from the Latin word 'caedare', meaning 'to cut'. Also the Caesarean Section was a postmortem surgery, performed to remove the baby whether still alive or not. This is because Roman law required that the child must be separated from the mother before burial. Anyone with even a small amount of knowledge of Roman law, surgical procedures or the Latin language would know this. It's highly disappointing that someone in your position, not to mention the resources available front three documentaries would continue to push a false narrative. This reflects poorly on you as an educator, and indirectly on others that attempt to teach classical history correctly.

[@matthewstagg9786]

Playing by the rules is five moves for white? I suspect not.

[@kittyfoster7779]

Too bad she had to put her modern political views on this..

[@johnmaxwell1750]

Mary Beard is a woke leftist. Which is to say that she is out of touch with modern political truths.

[@Wayzor_]

@@johnmaxwell1750 Much like the angry-worthless-right, out of touch with modern political truths; because they're still stuck in the past and prefer to keep their heads firmly in the sand.

[@johnmaxwell1750]

@@Wayzor_ - Folks on the right are far from worthless, as you will discover when election results come in this fall. We are not out of touch with modern political truths....despite the vigorous efforts of authoritarian elites in the Democrat party to turn the US into a socialist one-party state. Our political beliefs are solidly grounded in fundamental rights and in notions of limited government set forth by the US Constitution. Conservatives and MANY independents are fed up by the out-of-control spending, the out-of-control inflation, the out-of-control illegal immigration, and authoritarian dictates which Democrata have imposed on us, along with their extreme governmental incompetence. A political tidal wave will soon hit you leftist idiots.

[@Wayzor_]

@@johnmaxwell1750 Okay, so you're anti-socialisim? Then you give up your access to social-security and Medicare/caid. Fking idiot. And don't think for a second that Frump will be re-elected. The 14th Amendment will take care of that for us eventually.

[@johnmaxwell1750]

@@Wayzor_ - Apparently you are not aware that social security and Medicare are financed by automatic deductions from the paychecks of workers, and therefore are not strictly wealth redistribution mechanisms that constitute pure socialism. Like so many leftists, you very dimly grasp what socialism actually is. One thing I am sure about -- the Democrats will suffer major losses in Congressional and state elections this November. As to the next presidential election, I will vote for Ron DeSantis or another Republican alternative to Trump, if such choice is available. In any case if you think the 14th Amendment could be used to bar Trump from the presidency again, then you are totally delusional. You, Wayzor, are a bonafide cukoo bird!

[@mikesmicroshop4385]

Shouldn't Julies Cesar be pronounced " Yoo-lius Kai - sar, and Veni, Vidi, Vici be said " Weni, Widi, Wici? Peoples names like Cicero is actually said "kee-kerr-oh", and funny enough means "chickpea". I am always a little let down when programs like this do not do better with teaching how to say things as they were said. Then I am pleasantly surprised when I find that someone took the time to do research and used the correct pronunciations in places I would not have expected, Like some TV shows and a few Video Games.

[@pixibelle3282]

More like Chi-che-ro.

[@mikesmicroshop4385]

@@pixibelle3282 Nope, Cs had a hard K sound.

[@DJL78]

@@mikesmicroshop4385 Confirmed by your time machine no doubt.

[@mikesmicroshop4385]

@@DJL78 Funny! It is through hundrids of years of the Laten language that is still in use by the way, being studied and used from the very beginning. Based on contextual readings and spellings from many different languages making reference to the Use of Latin through out history. Based on current reading and context from languages still in existence! For the most part no exotic condescending Time Machines Needed! :)

[@DJL78]

@@mikesmicroshop4385 I get it now you are a comic. Valde ridiculam! Tu es Corydon! 😂

[@mandykeane196]

Mary Beard!!!!!!!!!!!!🤢

[@bromleysimon7414]

At 29:00 they compare Caesar being a jerk to Trump being a jerk. This is very interesting to me, how studying jerks of the past can help us identify our own jerks of the present and to confidently condemn and defeat them when they dare to appear.

[@methosimortal]

sort of ... there is a strange similarity between Caesar and Trump in that they both play to the common man, they are populists inside a political oligarchy system that is running amok. the problem with "defeating" populists is that in doing so, the system that is defeating them is only hasting its own demise. it's certainly what happened when the senators killed Caesar. they essentially ushered in the age of the Emperors. it's easy to look at one man and ascribing to him the root of what is wrong with the world. but the reality is men like Trump and Caesar only show up in times when the existing political system is failing its people and, by doing that, signing their own expiration date.

[@JaneDoe-sz3jp]

That man wasn't great he actually wanted people to believe he was God almighty which is sheer evil.

[@JaneDoe-sz3jp]

@Lagertha Bass crypto is not stable or certain enough for me.

[@JaneDoe-sz3jp]

@Lagertha Bass no thanks

[@laurids2007]

I am a Broker working with banks and stock markets for more than 22 years of my life. DON'T get involved with such "trading" offers in the internet. Majority of these clowns don't have an idea of the concept of "trading" or private placement programs, for real. These are scam artists ready for a financial plot or new scam scheme to steal your $$.

[@dutchplanderlinde8883]

There is no god.

[@proofnewtestamentistrue2948]

This lady who wastes so much time on a few sub-saharan Africans who may have lived in Roman Britain and basically she ignores the way larger and far more important element of Italian-peninsula descendants who made their way to the British Isles during 43 AD to 407 AD! : (

[@JaneDoe-sz3jp]

Yes true but these Italians in history were conquered many times by nubians and middle easterners so those bloodlines are there.

[@proofnewtestamentistrue2948]

@@JaneDoe-sz3jp Forget it. You are all wrong! The ancient Romans from the Italian peninsula of AD 43-407 were largely of white Celtic, Asia Minor (Etruscan) and Greek. They were just about all white. The Nubians were in a minority in the Muslim era in the 600s AD on.. Most muslims (even North African ones) were white. That was only the conquest by a group partially Nubians. Cathaginians were Syrian white and North African berber white. Besides they did not leave that many descendants. Phoenicians in Siciliy were white like Danny Thomas. This lady is wrong! She is all wrong!

[@proofnewtestamentistrue2948]

@@JaneDoe-sz3jp Bahh to your comment!

[@proofnewtestamentistrue2948]

@Lagertha Bass What in blazes are u getting at!

[@JaneDoe-sz3jp]

@@proofnewtestamentistrue2948 well proof I am Italian and that's why many white Italians just like me have olive color skin tones the same as those from the middle east . But I dont want to debate about it . Lol !

[@avigilR]

Trump is not Caesar, he is Catiline.

[@THomAs.H.P.76]

She walks like she is 90 years old, it is unhealthy just to watch her. Isn't she embarassed?

[@jacquigriffin5973]

She has arthritis in her knees but can probably walk up more steps that most of us.

[@JB-lm5xt]

Hail trump