The Oldest Building in Rome

[@davek7706]

I think more disputes should be resolved with competitive bird watching.

[@Sp4mMe]

Especially if it works so well that to truly resolve the dispute you gotta murder your opponent.

[@rickrandom6734]

Which escalated soon to fratricide. Bird watchers are violent bunch.

[@tindekappa9047]

Yeah for real, like for instance I once got in argument with this guy over who could count the most birds, we just ended up breaking each other's noses. In retrospect we should have just done that instead.

[@Misses-Hippy]

@@rickrandom6734 lol

[@Misses-Hippy]

It was a gateway to murder.

[@muszyn.]

"i left a good teaching job for this" i feel you brother

[@darkhalo153]

aww yeah babe wake up there's a new toldinstone

[@nintalespaw]

3pm wake up must be nice

[@jarneNiL]

​@@nintalespaw wake up 10pm must be nice

[@darkhalo153]

@@nintalespaw as if other time zones don't exist lol

[@Naval_Monkey]

​@ElementSilver 1 PM woke up from a nap, it was nice

[@AJWRAJWR]

What a simp

[@TetsuShima]

For those interested in the foundation of Rome. There's an italian tv show called "Romulus", which tells the creation of Rome in a realistic way. Also, the creator of the show directed a movie called "The First King", which tells a more faithful depiction of the myth. Both the movie and the show were filmed in archaic latin, by the way. Pretty recomended

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Cheers

[@bronson4574]

First King is so good, if not as a Roman story but as a movie itself.

[@jimbendtsen8841]

"pretty" recommended? WTH does that mean? Slightly recommended? How about very recommended, or recommended, period.

[@smellyfella5077]

@@jimbendtsen8841 Show me on the doll where his use of "pretty" touched you. And by the way, perhaps you ought to buy a dictionary then you would know he is using "pretty" as an adverb (I:E to a moderately high degree). Then you wouldn't have to ask a stupid question such as; " "pretty" recommended? WTH does that mean? Slightly recommended?"

[@spindoctor6385]

@@jimbendtsen8841 You seem "pretty" triggered by that comment. Not very triggered or triggered period.

[@Yezpahr]

That ghost phallus must've been a scary sight to behold.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

That's why they had to fortify their villages (6:49) - don't want that thing wandering around outside your house at night.

[@zacharyfindlay-maddox171]

Man I laughed out loud when I saw that

[@jennismith2]

It was obviously a very “friendly” ghost!

[@adambomb30]

It could've been a lot of fun too!

[@weethree2070]

the penis is just about the most soft and vulnerable organ the human being posesses. THAT is the real reason men are so obsessed with it.

[@feywild1758]

"...I left a good teaching job for this" incredibly worth it, I'd say 😄thank you for another wonderful video!

[@farmered4232]

“…I left a good teaching job for this” genuinely laughed out loud at this 😂

[@zapfanzapfan]

Well, he is just teaching a much larger class now 🙂

[@sheltr9735]

Thank you! I knew bits and pieces of the mythology of Rome, but had never been able to put together a cohesive picture of all of the parts. Really enjoyed the video!

[@toldinstone]

Deeply appreciated!

[@Howtoisfun]

I like the way that he told us about the old building

[@lewisgilbertson7506]

man, toldinstone, your videos make me so incredibly interested in stuff ive never even thought i would have any interest in

[@umavidalongedecasa]

Dude! I am addicted to your content. It's awesome!

[@orion7763]

Preserving the house of Romulus among the buildings of Rome seems sort of like the United States preserving Mount Vernon, or Monticello into modern times. I find this parallel desire to preserve a certain aspect of the past to be interesting.

[@baloneybrain55]

Monkey see monkey do.

[@tribunateSPQR]

Excellent video - Little wonder that the Hut of Romulus burned so often since it was used as a temple and burnt offerings were devoted there. Not the best idea to do that in a building with a thatched roof!

[@_D_P_]

Maybe whenever they needed to make a BIG ask from the gods, they offered the building itself as a sacrifice. Or it was just old and busted with fire being the easiest demolition method.

[@sebastianolmsted2867]

@@_D_P_That’s actually a super interesting theory

[@maxasaurus3008]

A fine point indeed. Just let your hair grow and nobody should notice.

[@ChefEarthenware]

I think we'd all like to see an episode about the phantom phallus.

[@SynthwaveDuck]

A&E, History, et al move over. Toldinstone's got this!!!

[@gilmour6754]

Who would have thought a video about old buildings would have a story about a flaming ghost dick? God I love history.

[@CroweCreates]

“I left a good teaching job for this” and we thank you every day for your service

[@MarvelSixable]

These videos make every week better

[@kevb3047]

I'm fascinated how the Hut is right next to the former shrine at the end of the Circus- I'd love to learn more about the part of Roman culture where war spoils were paraded into the Circus by returning legions

[@whosaidthat5236]

Immediately liked the video! I’ve been going threw your playlists again binge watching them.

[@cr4ckp1dgeon]

"I left a good teaching job for this" 1:23 Had me cackling

[@kotaowens6978]

I love that Rome was founded via competitive birdwatching lol

[@doublem1975x]

Augury was a serious part of their religion.

[@Young.Supernovas]

In this video, you mention the earliest reference to Romulus and Remus as 4th century BC, i.e., the 300s BC. However, I was just in the Capitoline Museum last week, and they date the capitoline wolf to the 5th century BC. I also recall some other artifacts which reference other figures from the story of the Aeneid, such as Aeneas, as early as the 7th century BC, if not Romulus himself. I will have to look back at my photos to recall specifics, but I remember it very specifically as it certainly was of surprise to me to see the myth or aspects of it attested so far back. I can say with absolute clarity though that the capitoline wolf is definitely labelled 5th century in the Capitoline Museum.

[@matthewmisener7759]

This was the first episode of the history of Rome in 15 buildings. Are we getting all 15!? I hope so. Keep up the good work!

[@rylandrc]

15 factorial is a lot.

[@sgkfilms]

In the myth of Rome's founding there are echoes of the Indo-European creation myth: two brothers, *Manu- ('Man') and *Yemo- ('Twin'), who are suckled by, in their case, the primordial cow. Manu kills his brother and forms the world from his body. Indeed, the name of the slain, or sacrificed, brother, Remus is said to derive from from Proto-Latin *Yemos.

[@the_mowron]

Have you been watching the Crecganford channel?

[@ezzovonachalm9815]

Sk Romulus and *Yemo ,that is Scemo Italian for idiot or imbecile. Rome was founded by Rom- ulus and Scemo.Nothing to be pride about !.

[@sgkfilms]

@@the_mowron I've seen some of his vids, but no - I've been deep in research of PIE for a while now.

[@jadedequeljoe3283]

Very interesting information. Thanks. Ancient India. The beginnings of the Indo European race and culture. Then on to Greece,Rome, and so much more. Fascinating. Sanskrit. The Vedas. So much information is still preserved in obscure very ancient languages and writing. Our link to remote antiquity if only we could read it.

[@ryanmbira3968]

Glad to see this topic again, the first video you made on this was also great.

[@maxcasteel2141]

Love this channel sm

[@mcm4088]

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[@urrrr]

Its crazy how advanced yet primitive Roman beliefs are. Livy explains competitive bird watching like it's some be all end all method that's just accepted.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

Roman law is just bizarre in some points like how the punishment for murder before the Imperial Times is to stuff the convicted in a burlap sack with a snake, a monkey, and a rooster before chucking it to the nearest lake and watching it sink down...

[@JoKaR80-d5r]

Awesome content!

[@dhm7815]

I always assumed that Romulus died of natural causes and someone poetically described his funeral pyre on the Field of Mars something like "It was on the Field of Mars where the soldiers trained that he went back to his father, the God Mars, in a pillar of smoke." Over centuries this was supernaturalized into Romulus was training or reviewing the troops and suddenly a pillar of smoke surrounded him and he was gathered up to the Gods.

[@TetsuShima]

Remus: "How was your visit to the Oracle of Delphi, brother? Did you see the future of our newly created city?" Romulus: "Well, according to what the oracle told me, our city will expand, not only beyond the Seven Hills and the other tribes, but it will also occupy the entire peninsula and even vast territories that we hardly know about now. Each new enemy that challenges the city will be more terrible and foreign than the previous one, but in the end they will all bite the dust. Then, a kind of government called "Imperi" or something like that will be formed, and will unify all the different cultures and religions of the world, although ours will be the most important. Also, the vast majority of the city's rulers will be pretty phony types: one who sleeps with his three sisters and makes his horse second in command, a fat man who believes himself an artist and burns the whole city down just to find inspiration, one who believes he is Hercules, another who literally wants to become a woman, a boy who only thinks about feeding pigeons, etc. Logically, the government will gradually decline, to the point of being divided into two and replacing the gods who have watched over us for countless generations by an executed carpenter from the farthest corner of the world that doesn't even exist yet. Finally, the part of the Empire in which our city is located will fall, not to mention that the last ruler will have the same name as me" Remus: "..." Romulus: "..." Remus: "...We definitely should have just raised pigs for the rest of our lifes" Romulus: "Yep"

[@obsidianjane4413]

Notice that he also forgot to tell him that he was going to murder his brother...

[@williamchamberlain2263]

@@obsidianjane4413 that'd be kind of an awkward conversation though, especially after laying it on heavy with the whole "This might have been a bad idea" thing

[@richtintera5524]

Remus: "I got one last question. What's a peninsula?"

[@Yezpahr]

Romulus: "But the oracle said it was **that** hill after all, so I was ri-" Remus: "The field will be covered red with the blood of your belly you fat liar!" Romulus: "This she did not foresee...."

[@jamesabestos2800]

Carpetas, my favorite side side character.

[@josephrizzoiii]

I'd be curious to hear your findings on the Etrurians /Hetrurians / Etruscans?...

[@CarthagoMike]

Leaving your teaching job to make videos on gigantic phantom phalli seems like a worthy trade-off to me.

[@HurricaneOK1]

If your teaching job did not allow you to teach about giant phantom phalluses, it was not actually a good teaching job.

[@tdpay9015]

So at least two of the world's great capital cities were created using augury. The migrating Aztecs founded what would later become Mexico City when they saw an eagle on a cactus devouring a rattlesnake, as depicted on the Mexican flag.

[@DarkMatterX1]

This was excellent. Thank you for it.

[@KlaunVI]

Love this. Content is cool and your voice is ace.

[@thurayya8905]

I have read your book and it is excellent! It really cleared up basic Roman history for me in a very readable form. Thank you.

[@nsbd90now]

That was really interesting. Never heard of Romulus' house before.

[@irofirelord]

Thank you!

[@Michelle-Eden]

At a time when exposing infants was common, people loved stories about rescued babies who went on to have illustrious careers. Such myths presumably made certain folks feel less guilty.

[@mohamed-fb9vt]

Even Cyrus the Great the finder of Achaemenid empire had been thrown to the river when he was baby

[@Michelle-Eden]

@@mohamed-fb9vt It happens all the time, although emergence from water (in a box or basket) is also a birth/rebirth symbol.

[@thehypest6118]

I'm an orphan and I can tell you it gives you a unique life path and I can see how the simultaneous disconnect from any culture and peoples that already exist twinned with a deep desire for culture and people really pushes someone to start something new

[@iHusk]

1:18 Can I get away with two Biggus Dickus jokes sort of in a row?

[@dfgyuhdd]

Damn. That thing looks like it was built in a day.

[@randommemebean686]

YO More videos on the giant dong please. We need lore.

[@Chicken-Emperor]

I really enjoyed learning the fact about the term for wolf and prostitute being the same. Great video. Thank you!

[@maxasaurus3008]

Finally a good sponsor (I hope). Doc we have to try to keep you away from garbage like Masterworks and Established Titles and their ilk. Great vid as always ❤.

[@TheAdeybob]

Have heard the founding myths of rome a few times, but yo made it seem fresh...pretty cool sponsorship, btw.

[@johnroddy8756]

Amazing how the human mind comes up with such stories .Speaking about the Ancients.

[@Ie1222_]

I'm very interested in the early days of Rome, they may have lived in round huts but they were still a very sophisticated society much like the Mayans or Aztecs. It's a contrast you don't see in any society today. There's actually a rebuilt hut from around the same period in Fidene in Rome.

[@ninny65]

🐒🫀⚜💀

[@Vercingetorix.Rising]

The first year or so i followed this dude i thought the channels name was " Todd Linstone "

[@s0nnyburnett]

lmao

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

That's the most naturally-sounding fake name I have ever heard...

[@kiely4561]

Garrett does have a very unique speech pattern that I’ve come to enjoy lol

[@johnspizziri1919]

Eternity Tours!!

[@jairassaad6019]

@toldinstone what is the name or source of the painting or the name of the artist at 2:46 ?

[@Uncle_Jun]

May i suggest (for every italian speaking reader/viewer here) a conference held by Andrea Carandini a few years back, explaining what his team discovered in the Palatine hill and what the archeologists actively working on the site, think happened in those remote centuries. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5fbp3h-p51naLM (PS: cheers from Italy, keep on with your nice work here, i love your videos!)

[@JaneAustenAteMyCat]

I'm learning Italian. I doubt I'll be able to follow anything at a fluent native academic level, but I will give it a try. Thanks for the recommendation :)

[@gbenanderson]

What happened to the hut? When did they stop rebuilding it? Is it there today?

[@scallopohare9431]

Narration say "...until the end of Roman history, a wooden hut stood..." by the palace.

[@floydoroid]

your comment as phallus-man floats around on screen is... priceless.

[@phoule76]

I think the lupa = prostitute hypothesis is more likely than the more accepted version of the story.

[@darkhalo153]

I think his point in including that is because Romans weren't keen on having the adoptive mother of their demigod founders be a prostitute.

[@sandrojones8068]

And yet is no less fascinating

[@madgevanness4011]

Mythical history.

[@brutusthebear9050]

I also think i remember hearing that lupa was the wife of the shepherd, I think from livy.

[@oolooo]

Thinking of this Hut as the Birthing Place of the Latin Ethnicity and Culture , of our Civilization and Identity .Where Pater Romvlvs made the first Foundation of the Vrbs Æterna ... it makes me feel tingly inside .A yearning to be there .

[@Chuckles..]

Very well done!. How bird watching divination day turns into fratricide day, not surprising for the times. I have a feeling while strolling up their respective hills, swords were being sharpened.

[@marcuscicero9587]

always had a fasciantion with the Latin language and Roman history. tibi gratias mi amice!

[@penguindrum264]

I can't get over "the licc" being played in the intro lmao.

[@jintygibson4876]

Goated

[@atomic_wait]

Kind of reminds me of Ise shrine in Japan, rebuilt every couple of decades on the other side of its plot of land whether or not it's damaged.

[@Qurosia]

I saw this last week when I was there, sad I missed out on the promo code xD

[@hkehk7811]

i never bothered to read into this story so this video is amazing for me

[@JuliusCaesar888]

NEW BOOK, NEW BOOK, NEW BOOK

[@bhopcsgo7172]

5% discount lol you gotta renegotiate that for us brother

[@jmjcjo55]

Finally

[@shulamitebeautifulbride]

When I was young and full of vitriol I would laugh and say My siblings and I were raised by wolves. My parents were not amused.

[@obsidianjane4413]

You should make sure of the meaning of words before you use them.

[@CorollaLvr2000]

I can't be the only one who would love to hear a discussion about all things Roman between Garrett and Mary Beard.

[@faithlesshound5621]

I have a dim memory that she said Rome was originally an Etruscan city, and that all of the seven kings were mythical, though I may have misunderstood.

[@KozmicKarmaKoala]

Romulus and Remus, Cain and Abel and on down the line.

[@Zephyriia]

"i left a good teaching job for this" is hilarious my man. feels bad XD

[@tindekappa9047]

Omg, really?? She wolf was slang for lady of the night? And everyone ran with the literal wolf interpretation. Every single person in ancient Rome was literally Joe Rogan. I mean I can't be too mad cause we got the best movie ever, the Jungle Book out of it.

[@swissmilitischristilxxii3691]

Rogan, the judeo freemason with his podcast? The guy who sh1ts on Christianity and support migratory subversion in Europe and US.

[@scallopohare9431]

How would The Jungle Book come into this? It was written by an Englishman about (subcontinental) India.

[@madgevanness4011]

That’s how Mowgli survived. And I’m willing to bet that Englishman Kipling was required to study Roman history.

[@scallopohare9431]

@@madgevanness4011 So? He spent years in India. He's the guy who declared that "only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun." There's more, but he wrote volumes about India. He is identified with Anglo-Indian history, not Roman.

[@tindekappa9047]

@@madgevanness4011 Jesus Christ this guy is such a racist. It's two stories about children being brought up by wolves. But to this guy it's a story about a Roman and a story about an Indian written by a Brit and that's the number 1 thing about them. I mean how could you be so racist. When I was watching the Jungle Book every other week as a kid I imagined myself in that situation , I never once thought this couldn't be me, I'm white.

[@theolewell7535]

I like it :)

[@joe_bidnass]

Cool

[@rundbaum]

i'm going w/the 'raised by wolves' version, here!! being that no one was there who's walking the planet today, i often fall on the side of 'fable' or 'folk.' WHO KNOWS!! i kind of 'like' the story of a childless she-wolf who nursed two infant humans . . .

[@simon2493]

Re-upload? I sewar I've seen this topic covered by you some time ago.

[@toldinstone]

Yes, this was the first video in my old "Rome in 15 Buildings" series

[@TexanSupremacy]

I went to the grocery store this morning and bought some guacamole. It was really good.

[@johnladuke6475]

"...I left a good teaching job for this." Prof, if your classes weren't free, I might think about complaining to the dean about that. Where's the dean's office, anyway?

[@bombfog1]

Why does my boy Titus Tatius always get left out of the whole first king of Rome discussion?

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Tater Tot deserves more respect in the literature

[@Tjalve70]

What is going on with subtitles lately? Both this and other channels have messed up subtitles, and it started a few weeks ago, I think. But not all channels have this, so it's obviously not all of KZbin. But on this channel, all of the subtitles for the entire video comes immediately when the video starts, and when they disappear after a few seconds, there are no subtitles for the rest of the video. What is up with that?

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Curse of the Oracle of Delphi

[@paul6925]

I burst out laughing at that phallus animation 😂

[@MartinCHorowitz]

SHould you have started a told in wood channel for this content?

[@trharrington22]

I love you videos, but for some reason, Yat always suggests them when i yakked out and super drunk lmao

[@williamchamberlain2263]

There's a lot of kink in Rome's various backstories.

[@Joanna-il2ur]

Oh and the wolf rescuing and sucking Romulus and Remus derives from the myth of Parrhasius and his brother Lycastus in Arcadia. The two myths are almost identical. The myths of Moses, Paris and Oedipus are also very similar and there is a Persian one too. The Gauls also claimed that they were descended from Remus, who had somehow survived.

[@mattward5010]

Will you do a video on drug of Rome?

[@brianmccarthy5557]

When did they stop rebuilding the House of Romulus? Do we know exactly where it was sited? Are there any remains? Has it ever been excavated? Is there any museum devoted to this and primitive Rome? There are ancient buildings in Japan which are preserved by the same methods of careful rebuilding. NHK has done several programs on how the restoration is accomplished. I imagine the Romans weren't that different in how they went about it.

[@NullStaticVoid]

got a little "ship of Theseus" going on with that hut.

[@FunwithChainsaw]

Livy also speculated that Romulus killed Remus by accident during the brawl rather than straight-up murdering him.

[@garyfrancis6193]

I can think of a few politicians that deserve to be translated to Heaven.

[@nathanrohde3292]

Personally I saw 24 vultures flying in a line.

[@Misses-Hippy]

Sounds like something Trump would claim.

[@therealhellkitty5388]

It helps if you have someone with a bunch of caged birds down near the Tiber…

[@SubTroppo]

Competitive Bird Watching: An old bird-watcher friend of mine said that if he saw any unusual birds he would certainly not inform the pillars of the bird society of which he was a member. He'd seen too many members who reported unusual sightings "shot down". [I myself have may have seen birds which are extinct, but ...[continued page 94]

[@tamed4171]

I'm new here, but is your intro music the fucking lick played on a lute?

[@multipletanksyndrome]

Imagine being alive for the foundation of Rome. That'd be cool.

[@obsidianjane4413]

It would have been underwhelming. Just another squalid little village surrounded by swamps. Rome didn't become what we think of it today until centuries later.

[@johnshipley1389]

I would have put a bag of sugar in the cement for the foundations if I was there

[@lewisgilbertson7506]

i was there, mid

[@maggiemae7539]

Ancient Rome comes from Babylon!

[@boredgrass]

Love the "vulture math"!

[@aboxoftentacles1395]

I like how curvy they made their female statues, I haven't been to rome, is the backside curvy too or is it just the waistline?

[@thomasjamison2050]

It has been suggested that the hut of Romulus had semi religious usages, but I wonder if the gardener kept his equipment in there.....

[@glovesforsocks4603]

you should spend a bit of every day for a year to make like a full movie length video about something in roman history

[@Literarydilettante]

I also think infanticide is over my pay grade.