The Truth About Rome's Black Emperor Macrinus

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[@Briefed_Mythology]

thank you 🥹 what beautiful praise, that made my day haha

[@helmetfire5973]

Woke up this morning. Put on my slippers. Poured me a coffee and lit a smoke. Oh look! A briefed video dropped 8 min ago! Well well well, good morning comment section!

[@Briefed_Mythology]

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[@slingosl]

So let me get this right. Maximus was a all fictional person and we praise that. Marcrinus depicted as a african American..... african is just way too much too handle

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[@Briefed_Mythology]

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[@ragstyler]

Excelente vídeo, como siempre ❤

[@Briefed_Mythology]

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[@MissRuth_605]

I think the fascination with skin color is because so much of the history with people of color was erased or denied not taught in schools. That is why videos like this are important because it sheds light to people of color who were rulers powerful good or bad. So many Black inventor scientists that have contributed with things that have changed our world but never credited. I thought I saw somewhere that Caracalla wore make up to lighten his skin which is reflected in the movie not sure if there is truth to that. As always excellent video I knew you was going to slay this one. Thank You.

[@TinaGipson-q4s]

Unfortunately every color has been enslaved by others since time began. The rich and powerful always flexed

[@JRTexx]

@@TinaGipson-q4s She didn't mention slavery 🤷‍♂

[@MissRuth_605]

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[@Briefed_Mythology]

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[@sarahbak8129]

Cesarea, modern cherchell has nothing to do with desert, it is a very green area, one of the most fertile region in north Africa, the metija valley

[@bobbisparks53]

What the shit, there's a "Gladiator 2"?!?! Um.....ok! Happy Sunday buddy!! 108K already?! I TOLD you that ur shit is kick ass AF!!!❤❤❤❤ Woooooooooooo!

[@Briefed_Mythology]

Came a long way haha

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[@Briefed_Mythology]

thank you, thank you

[@OneoftheCaesars]

I love history so much. And your presentation of it is DOOOOOOOOPE

[@Briefed_Mythology]

thank you, thank you 🥹

[@Morbid_Cynic]

In all honesty, I've never stomached history (read or viewed) until I found your channel. I'm thankful for all the effort you put in your videos. PS. Can't believe you missed the chance of adding Denzel's clip from Training day "I'M PUTTING CASES ON ALL YOU B***S" in the part mentioning Macrinus was a lawyer

[@Briefed_Mythology]

noooooo how could I not have put that in there 😭 and thats one of my all time favorite scenes too. damn it haha

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[@Briefed_Mythology]

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[@MarcelPirosca]

Superb, thanks for telling the story. Please do a video on Elagabalus, Rome’s trans emperor, next!

[@Briefed_Mythology]

definitely planning to cover him too

[@rachelburnell9532]

Excellent video B ❤

[@Briefed_Mythology]

thanks B

[@BimRen246]

I will watch Gladiator 2 eventually but I appreciate this brief on Macrinus & Caracalla. Taxes are just can be just as violent or worse. Look how Macrinus's administrative actions led to the death of others and his own death.

[@hgriff14]

i thought he was called the black emperor because he was a bad person. i didnt know ancient rome went off of societal descriptions that were made up in the 1600s in virginia. i thank hollywood for reminding me that i am wrong for thinking it didnt matter what people looked like to romans, it only mattered if they were born in the roman empire, greece or egypt instead of the barbarian world. and if they paid taxes or tribute. cant forget that part.

[@derrickkirkman595]

Ok, so.. what if he Did just Happen to be black.. Why would that be a problem? If not, why is That what everyone Wants to dissect?

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[@TinaGipson-q4s]

I love your humor.... The praetorian gaurd was plain blood, guts, and thirsty.

[@charlene9651]

Also, I could listen to you talk all freakin day. 😎❤️

[@KroiAlbanoiArbanon]

Tbh Denzel is good at playing pure evil arses. Just look at training day.

[@Briefed_Mythology]

agreed, but tbh... Denzel is pretty much good at playing anything

[@Titantro]

History can be so floppy with things. Like the "Black Prince" Edward of Woodstock. No one knows why he is called that

[@tatianaoliveira2191]

Some historians think he was called ''Black Prince'' because of the black armour that he wore.

[@Heikkiman]

I’ve heard that it was the armor. For Alexander the Greats general Kleitos the Black it was because there was another dude named Kleitos as well and then he was called the white. Sometimes it was hair color and often I think it was if someone was evil but I don’t remember any actual examples. One bishop was Black because I think he was Ethiopian so it the reasons were all over the place for sure.

[@PariahThistledowne]

Nothing with an Agenda is accurate, unless that agenda is full accuracy...and that very rarely is the case.

[@Akeche]

I would be willing to actually bet that Macrinus was not subsaharan black. And his moniker was likely in relation to his horrific cruelty.

[@cracksmoker1506]

He was a North African Berber and looked like us North African Berbers today, but we wuz instead

[@joshhoffman5233]

Anyone would be willing to bet on anything provided here’s no way to lose. Bc we will never know. I hear you though. It’s actually not at all impossible. Odds are against it. Not as against it if we were still in the first century though.

[@tatianaoliveira2191]

Most sources say that Macrinus was an Algerian Berber. He could have had sub-saharan black ancestry, who knows... but the sources I've seen so far say that he was a North African Berber (Amazigh)

[@johnathanfindlay9112]

Given that Algeria is North of Sahara that’s the odds. That said though are we really calling out Gladiator II for historical inaccuracy? Did you see the first one? I would also point out that when you have an actor like Denzel and you can cast him you give the man the gig because he will bring it. I am white and younger than him, and if Denzel wants to star in my hypothetical biopic as myself give that man the role. Edit: Given the region and the historical records quality in general you would still just be playing odds.

[@MedjayCommander]

It's sad that you would need the ancient entire world to be white, even in Afrika where if you knew anything about the place there is really no such thing as Sub-Sahara, let alone a Sub-Saharan Black (as you call it), the Sahara comes and goes every 25K+ years and Afrikans are over 300k years old, where as Europeans only paled in NORTH WESTERN EUROPE 6-7K years ago, meaning North Afrika (as ancient Historians (you know the Greek and Roman kind) has said at nosism that the people there were Ethiopian, not be confused with the modern state of Ethiopia). So the WESTERNIZED foolishness of North Afrika being white (let alone Arab) is western racists non-sense.

[@NicklePickle-w6t]

W videos recently!!

[@Briefed_Mythology]

thank you 😊

[@lordodium3872]

I think Caracalla & Macrinus deserve their own videos but I see why you went this route

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fav notification tbh ❤

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[@Briefed_Mythology]

You know what - always wanted to golf haha

[@geoffsullivan7902]

Love your history lessons. The first Gladiator movie- did you cover that? ❤😊

[@Jeff_ThatIsAll]

I intend to watch both Briefed and Gladiator II with equal amount of zeal 💯

[@Briefed_Mythology]

I'm honored to inspire the same zeal 🥹

[@TinaGipson-q4s]

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[@davidrokkfeller57]

Gladiator 2 is accurate as a Netflix documentary.

[@Briefed_Mythology]

wait, you're telling me those Netflix documentaries aren't accurate? damn it.

[@richardscanlan3419]

Macrinus was a Berber - an arab.So,technically not black,probably not outright white either. My guess is somewhere in between.

[@apogeelord7013]

There are black Berbers too

[@richardscanlan3419]

@@apogeelord7013 are there?

[@apogeelord7013]

@@richardscanlan3419 Yes, there are Berbers with quite similar skin colour as Denzel Washington.

[@richardscanlan3419]

@@apogeelord7013 ok

[@motionpictures6629]

You know that Arabs conquered North Africa 400 years after Macrinus death. He was definitely not an Arab. North Africa was colonized first by Greek, then by Phoenicians, then by Romans, then by Germans... It would be closer to reality to call Macrinus German. At least the Germans (Vandals) came just 100 years after Macrinus and not 400 years.

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Hello Mr Briefed love the video as alway! But bring the beard back it suits you way better you get me bruv! Love from your UK fam.

[@Briefed_Mythology]

I get u bruv. Just wanted to switch it up for a while, since the long beard is a bit tedious to maintain. It will come back soon though

[@Dabayare]

Watching this drinking my 10th coffee and I feel lazy as fk.

[@charlene9651]

Denzel is ALWAYS just EPIC. That said I’m confused about why there’s a Gladiator 2…but I am interested in this movie regardless

[@Briefed_Mythology]

Denzel never disappoints tbh, but I also thought it was odd that they did a sequel to that movie

[@tatianaoliveira2191]

That movie's Caracalla doesn’t even look like real-life Caracalla (totally different from his statues...) ▪︎ The actor looks more like Elagabalus (than with Caracalla) ... Anyway, love your videos

[@Briefed_Mythology]

yeah very odd choice in how they depicted Caracalla in my opinion

[@tatianaoliveira2191]

​@@Briefed_Mythology Indeed. It's a strange movie with questionable decisions... I would say that it's a unnecessary sequel.

[@bobthyw0rlord129]

Im glad everyone enjoys these video's as much as I do! Hell yeah history buffs! Wooo haha

[@Jblaze024]

caught you within the first minute, yes!

[@GoogleUserOne]

Berbers are hard af. And still recognized as such in Morocco. Not much different than Cossacks. Also hard Af

[@kingcecil7126]

It's a MOVIE! Funny how nobody cared about an actors ethnicity (it is acting after all), until Black actors started to play white heroes even if most Black homes hung a picture of a blond hair, blue eye Jesus on their wall at home and Church.

[@Briefed_Mythology]

I just happened to not make videos back then

[@thamsanqabuthelezi8460]

Great video. Thanks bro. Eh, can u make an aura tier for historical figures. Don't include Jesus, though... Put genghis khan and Alexander in there and napoleon.

[@slingosl]

First of all. Black is not a race. African just say that.

[@tla2119]

I'm scared. I saw the facial reconstruction of Caracalla. How did they get my photo back then?

[@Briefed_Mythology]

google is everywhere

[@MrMojado78]

And its denzel your always loved Denzel no matter who he plays

[@Briefed_Mythology]

Fully agreed haha

[@welhungyongmancitywok8189]

2:25 it's about 300 years before they got introduced to the vandals before that they looked like you more then me, great choice though smart 😉

[@cracksmoker1506]

The vandals had 0 impact on us genetically stop trying to change our people

[@slingosl]

Geta & Carcalla are historically correct to you guys is funny. Their father who you said was for another video was considered the first african emperor of rome. 😅

[@jaicruz8148]

Marcrinus i can forgive. They did caracalla so wrong. Literally looked nothing like him. Like, Scott didnt do any study into the emperors. He probably studied marcrinus a bit, saw the brothers caracalla and Geta mentioned, and then proceeded to make up stuff about them

[@zacharycox1563]

I havent seen one on your channel yet, if there is lemme know and ill watch it. But I think itd be cool to hear you cover the Greco-Persian War. Leonidas has always been one of my favorite military heroes, and the movie 300 does a terrible job at showing what happened. Yeah this is sparta was cool, but otherwise that movie is like 90 percent fiction. I see you've done a couple videos showing movies compared to reality so i thought that might be a good one if you need any ideas lol and like i said i just think Leonidas was one of the original gangster of warfare.

[@chadroberts6344]

Need a video about elagabalus. He was another crazy ruler of rome

[@Briefed_Mythology]

yup, absolutely. probably gonna cover him soon-ish

[@chadroberts6344]

@Briefed_Mythology i read he had couches with sacks of air under them that made fart sounds when ppl sat down. He was the inventor of whoopy cushions

[@UoomieKuzoomie]

I remember in the movie 300 at the end they became 300,000 and I'm just saying at the end of this movie if we put this puzzle together in time frame it seemed so this was after the Leonidas era thereafter the end pov

[@jeromebychowski7006]

All North Africans are mixed race. In the 2nd century, the North Africans were predominantly Caucasian. There were several statues made of Macrinus during this period. He was clearly, a Caucasian man of some mixed ancestry. Basically, he was similar to many lighter skinned North Africans, that are about 80% Caucasian. This Movie Gladiator ll completely misrepresents the likeliness of Macrinus. He was a Caucasian man of some mixed ancestry.

[@DaniG._.German]

20:35 Hell hath no fury like a dead woman scorned.

[@Briefed_Mythology]

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[@jenny_potter]

16:28 Augustus callback 🗣️

[@Briefed_Mythology]

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[@darthstarone3532]

That’s why it’s movie and not a documentary 😂

[@Briefed_Mythology]

haha yes fair enough

[@andregonzalez1496]

❤❤❤❤the enemy of Carthage is my enemy, Rome is my enemy !!!!!

[@CLAROSCURO-uu7vs]

I am back here; yahoooo

[@samuelg.4014]

I liked the movie, was a fun time

[@Scotland_the_Brave1984_McCabe]

Poor Macrinus 😢

[@simbriant]

Those poor bulls...

[@Briefed_Mythology]

Agreed. What did they ever do to anyone…

[@anubhutibanerjee6666]

Stopped watch after the unnecessary gender of mother comment. Grow up.

[@slingosl]

Name me one ancient powerful white African 😅

[@TheAncestors1738]

For what?

[@KGTiberius]

Got up to walk out 4 times. Wanted to walk out 20 more times. Money grab. Terrible movie. Save you money. Save your mind.

[@robinlue2008]

My dude. How are you a history buff and not know that the MOORS seated ancient civilization itself? Look up Moorish coat of arms or books like the GOLDEN AGE OF THE MOORS or the book MOORS IN SPAIN etc.

[@shotarokaneda7525]

What do you mean "seated". If you mean created than no...if you mean "ancient" than no again (their exploits were pretty recent relatively speaking. Mainly 7th century onward). There is this trend of mythologizing of actual history being popularized mainly by the "we was kangs" American types. It is very weird. I hope it doesn't spread and I say this as an African and not some white American right wing racist ...stop it😂😂😂

[@Mr.KaganbYaltrk]

Isnt macrinsu the dude lik 2metre tall guy

[@AbdallaAbdi-i4c]

I was 21st 😭 but once again amazing work brother ❤️

[@Alysthyr]

It's just an action movie, not accurate at all, I enjoyed the movie, all the action, and Joseph Quinn as Geta 😍

[@arielaleman4280]

Juess is king brother's and sisters

[@kngbusy548]

What would happen if the subject were depicted as Black?

[@cryp4life509]

So he never sat in the Colosseum with a wreath on his head giving the thumbs down to some poor doomed gladiator? Well that right there shows he was never a true Roman emperor. Fail!

[@Briefed_Mythology]

Nope after he became emperor he never set foot in Rome again

[@derrickkirkman595]

J2S, if it Didnt Matter to the Romans, and everyone wants to say, it Shouldnt Matter. Why the emphasis on his skin? Why is That ehat everyone Wants to dissect? If it Didnt or Doesnt Matter. Then why even bother calling them out on it?! Seems to matter to Y'all apparently.. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@Actually_Woke_6277]

He wasn’t black

[@slingosl]

He was african so he wasn't white either

[@slingosl]

He was african

[@TheAncestors1738]

“Black” is a modern concept that did not exist at that time. He is simply African.

[@marvellousbernard]

Hello, briefed please do a video on Hitler 😁😊😊😊

[@Briefed_Mythology]

I’m actually planning that. It will be a while, but definitely eventually

[@IshtheStomach]

Of course... it's a sequel to a fictional film. But (and I'm gonna copy paste from my reaction i posted on facebook) And... I'm gonna keep it vague. If you've seen it you will understand the warning. I think, if after the historical Marcus Arellius... if the alternate history displayed by this movie were the timeline we would have traveled down... If in that incredibly unlikely set of circumstances we still found ourselves in the divisive politics of today, if we would have come down the time line from this sequel (cause it sure as shit ain't a reboot, but a generational sequel) then, there would be no room for a would be tyrant like Donald fucking Trump.

[@petebyron1957]

My problem so far with this movie is that it looks too feminine. Where are the real men here??

[@JamilaJibril-e8h]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 too many people too many people damn i never see story plot full of characters

[@SHORTFILMSANIMATION]

2nd!!

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You're first in my book ❤

[@Briefed_Mythology]

that's the love I want to see on my channel ❤️

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1st!

[@ThatHereticalGamer]

Great video again, i saw the movie friday and i thought it was great. Thank you for your hard work. 🦾

[@Briefed_Mythology]

thank you for watching 😊

[@rogerazzopardi6822]

Who the fuck cares???!!!! The movie is great!!!! No movie based on actual history were loyal!!!!

[@Briefed_Mythology]

I agree. The movie is awesome. Just trying to tell the historical tale

[@alphagerudo]

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