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@chateaumojo9 ай бұрын
Is this just bunches of guy stuff?
@Joedirt33499 ай бұрын
@@chateaumojoyes!
@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe83076 ай бұрын
Yes they know ship battles where done there! 🤦♂🤣
@29outlaw9 ай бұрын
When we lived in Naples in the 1960's, it was common to see 6-7 Italians crammed into a Fiat 500, so I don't see any reason why they couldn't cram 80,000 into the Colosseum.
@m.m.13019 ай бұрын
And you can still see 5 people on a motorcycle
@constantinexi64899 ай бұрын
Personal space is a Germanic invention anyway, just like pants
@rickyspeople9 ай бұрын
Opposite of Big Booty Problems...skinny ass solutions
@riftvallance20879 ай бұрын
@@m.m.1301Try Thailand, 5 is rookie numbers
@shane19489 ай бұрын
9 people on 4 seater tuk tuk
@seattlewa19849 ай бұрын
Was just doing my daily thinking about the Roman Empire when this video dropped. Good timing.
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
and that's good 👍
@johnladuke64759 ай бұрын
That meme is unfair to subscribers of this channel. We _have_ to think about it weekly, we see the videos.
@Man_fay_the_Bru6 ай бұрын
I think about rome daily too,my daughter asked me & I never even realised I thought about it so much, maybe because Antonines wall runs through my back garden
@amarillorica6 ай бұрын
Whatever u fo dont read eric jon phelps book on the vatican. why? im joking its good
@MrSquirrelboy6 ай бұрын
I can’t stop, won’t stop. Every day.
@yorkshirepudding98609 ай бұрын
It's a little known fact that the designer of the Colosseum seating, Clunis Parvus, was the ancestor of the man who designed budget airline seating.
@QuantumHistorian9 ай бұрын
Funnily enough, the mathematical laws of exponential descendants mixed in with a few assumptions about historical migration, means that this has roughly a 70% chance of being true. The other 30% is that this man has no living descendants. So... @yorkshirepudding is actually, against most expectation, probably right.
@johnmcglynn41029 ай бұрын
As well as a few parking garages in San Francisco that have spaces so small you can't get out of your car once parked.
@frankpettinato23249 ай бұрын
😂BRUTAL!
@johnl53169 ай бұрын
fun stuff....it turns out that Ptolemy V Epiphanes is my direct ancestor (75th great grandfather0
@clarencetaylor74559 ай бұрын
That man's name: Ryanairus Boardingpassus Printus
@fredirecko9 ай бұрын
The Colosseum had plumbing, elevators, multiple floors, a removable arena floor and all the modern facilities of a building today. It was built with stone, bricks and concrete. That's amazing.
@andyroo93819 ай бұрын
The pinnacle of Roman engineering.
@QuantumHistorian9 ай бұрын
It didn't have *all* the facilities of a modern building. Electricity is the obvious one, with the associated lighting, signage, and AV system. The elevators, IIRC, were only to bring animals to the arena, not to help spectators reach their seats. A whole raft of security and health & safety measures found in any modern stadium were also missing. That's not to denigrate the Colosseum, only to say that the building doesn't to be falsely compared to modern ones to be appreciated.
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
The Romans were great engineers for their day.
@johnladuke64759 ай бұрын
@@QuantumHistorian I bet it did have sticky floors covered in discarded snacks and really long lines for the bathroom, though. Some things never change.
@fredirecko9 ай бұрын
It's possible that only a small layer of water was used to fill the arena to simulate water and the ships were set in the arena in a predefined stationary manner to facilitate a battle. The battle could have just been people jumping form boat to boat to fight or launching projectiles from boat to boat.
@sgkfilms9 ай бұрын
I was thinking something similar, only, as is sometimes done in theatres, they used cloth to simulate waves.
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
Give me a break.
@daveharden59299 ай бұрын
. . . where? 😂
@skiptoacceptancemdarlin9 ай бұрын
no.
@Cpt.BEARDless9 ай бұрын
@@skiptoacceptancemdarlinyes.
@spankflaps13659 ай бұрын
I’ve been in the Colosseum, and in a few football grounds in England. I just don’t see the Colosseum holding 80k people, unless it was occasionally rammed for one-off events. For example the old Wembley Stadium (official capacity 127k standing) reportedly had 250k people inside for its opening exhibition ceremony in 1923 (this was long before Health and Safety).
@QuantumHistorian9 ай бұрын
80k does seem high. The value of 50k is the more commonly accepted one IIRC. Which is just about believable, considering that I doubt the Romans had any qualms about squeezing in the urban poor as tightly as they could manage.
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
Right!
@fredirecko9 ай бұрын
It's hard to determine without knowing how they designed the seating. With Roman engineering they could have done something quite interesting and outside the box.
@DrPeculiar3129 ай бұрын
Oh YOU can’t picture it? And what makes you qualified at all?
@riftvallance20879 ай бұрын
@@QuantumHistorianThen you could probably factor in dads with kids on thier shoulders and moms with thier kids in thier laps. Wouldn't be real shocked if the poor had standing sections instead of seats
@sam236969 ай бұрын
This building among any others in Rome truly demonstrates the empire's scale and power. Its level of construction way ahead of its time, contrasted with its purpose purely for sport. Whenever I look at this particular ruin it feels less like I'm seeing an ancient world and more like I'm seeing a building from today in 2000 years in the future.
@atlantasailor18 ай бұрын
Today’s stadiums won’t last very long. They will be replaced quickly. Like stadiums in Atlanta for the Olympics or Rio for example. The pyramids of Giza may last longer than anything built today. Perhaps the Hoover dam will be torn up because of lack of rainfall for example…
@QuantumHistorian9 ай бұрын
With 100 ships and 19,000 combatants, I wonder how the _naumachia_ of Nero would rank in the list of largest naval battles of history. Top 100 perhaps? What a unfathomable world it was, where a fake naval battle put on for show, would be larger and cause more deaths than a great many real battles.
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
I read that the battle of Jutland was recreated in the Colosseum. Bwahaha.
@sskspartan9 ай бұрын
Pretty sure he said 1.900 but still an insane number beating many actual battles
@QuantumHistorian9 ай бұрын
@@sskspartan Just doubled checked at 0:51 and it definitely sounds like 19,000 to me. Subtitles agree too.
@tomcollins51129 ай бұрын
Here's a question: If time travel were possible, how much would be the going rate for a ticket to an Ancient Roman naumachia at the Colosseum on Ticketmaster? It would likely greatly depend on the seating section, but I bet even the nosebleed seats would be pretty pricey.
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
@@tomcollins5112 It is my understanding that the tickets were free. The events were paid for by rich Romans, politicians, and military leaders to buy off the public. Just think of all the good will if modern day sporting events would be handled in this manner.
@jstantongood54749 ай бұрын
Love your videos toldinstone i recommend you to all my brainiest clients. Ive been a guide in Rome for 18 years and have done about 700 tours of the colosseum. You still manage to teach this italian speaking dude a thing or two.
@PogeyMane7 ай бұрын
You should retire then
@bonech1p9 ай бұрын
Best time of the day is when Toldinstone drops a new video!
@johnladuke64759 ай бұрын
On the one hand, I was always told that there were naval battles in the colosseum. On the other, I always looked at those tunnels below and figured it couldn't work. I wonder if mock ships could have been used on dry land, movable ship-shaped platforms for fighting.
@neutronalchemist32419 ай бұрын
The Verona Arena had been built around the same time in the same style, and has its seats almost intact. It currently hosts 22.000 spectators, but without the stage for concert and opera performances it's capacity would be 30.000 people. The circumference of the Colosseum is 25% longer, and the area covered 56% larger, so the Colosseum can accomodate, without counting the temporary wooden seats, 47.000 people.
@sid21129 ай бұрын
Imagine a future 1000 years hence where everyone watches a channel called ToldInPlastic.
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
You are assuming that there will be more than cockroaches around.
@ClickClack_Bam9 ай бұрын
In 1,000 years it'll be "Told in graphite".
@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes19994 ай бұрын
😂 first we need Told in Steel, then Told in Fiberglass.... Then Told in Sheetrock....
@wauliepalnuts61349 ай бұрын
Now only if Robertus Stackus could walk out in a toga with the Unsolved Mysteries theme playing in the background, this would be perfect.
@JagerLange9 ай бұрын
Get him on the Great Fire case ASAP.
@johnladuke64759 ай бұрын
Didn't he also how Liberandum IX-I-I as well?
@petermgruhn9 ай бұрын
Why is taking hours to drain a problem? "Thus some scholars have concluded..." See, the thing is : "conclude : arrive at a judgment or opinion by reasoning" whereas what we see too often in history/archaeology/anthropology is "conclude : arrive at a judgement or opionion by making some shit up."
@BeKindToBirds3 ай бұрын
A conclusion of their vision and imagination more often than a conclusion based on archeological evidence! But it is what makes it onto wikipedia.
@Mouritzeen9 ай бұрын
I couldn’t even edge to this, I just exploded immediately! Clean up on aisle MY PANTS!! 😂😂😂😂😂
@jakeeach9 ай бұрын
make this top comment
@smacke29509 ай бұрын
pin this
@asalazar2319 ай бұрын
real
@markbogle47849 ай бұрын
Oh lort
@DefenderOfVirginity9 ай бұрын
every high school history teacher watching this video
@blazeron129 ай бұрын
I highly recommend your new book. Very entertaining just like the first.
@toldinstone9 ай бұрын
I'm very glad that you enjoyed it!
@spindoctor63859 ай бұрын
I don't see that the time it would take to fill or drain the arena would be a big deal breaker. Even some modern events have years of planning and days or weeks of cleanup afterwards. The Olympics, World cup soccer, the Superbowl. Many other regional sports take weeks of organizing and days of cleanup. I have no idea if it was or wasn't used this way, I just don't believe that time was a major issue.
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
It takes 30 minutes to put on a Super Bowl half time show. And most of the recent ones suck.
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
@@paulkoza8652True
@JamesHoffa4208 ай бұрын
Because it contradicts what was written.
@spindoctor63858 ай бұрын
@@JamesHoffa420 Written where? It doesn't contradict anything in the video.
@aesculetum9 ай бұрын
And this makes three times I thought about the Roman Empire today.
@dougmartin71299 ай бұрын
I’ve been to the arena many times over the years and overheard tour guides talking about sea battles. I never could believe that was possible. But you pointed out waterproof concrete. so , maybe in an early life of the building prior to all the below ground infrastructure It was possible. Especially if they used scaled down ships. Something to ponder.
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
So who do you trust? A tour guide or Garrett?
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
Both
@RomeTWguy9 ай бұрын
Who do you trust? Ppl who were actual there when it opened and said they had naval battles, or modern academics
@peppertrout9 ай бұрын
Wasn’t it originally the Flavian Amphitheater?
@optomix39889 ай бұрын
You could probably do a whole book about the mysteries of Ancient Rome. This was good video.
@RizzstrainingOrder669 ай бұрын
Just arrived at the "break" and its already a great video. Always a nice sweet on a friday. Thanks, love it
@doppelwaffen8 ай бұрын
The emperor couldn't issue 87,000 tickets for 50,000 seats. And the source propably would not make claims every Roman knew to be untrue.
@behrensf849 ай бұрын
I bought the new book! It arrived today!
@toldinstone9 ай бұрын
Enjoy!
@ericprates62796 ай бұрын
a friend who works with monuments was recently in a guided tour with a fellow researcher at the Colosseum, and posed the question about the water battles... they also accepted that it was most likely something that did happen, but could only be done a couple times before they properly built the underground of the arena as we know it today.
@jumbo17019 ай бұрын
Another CRACKIN video by Emperor Toldinstone! :D
@stormgeist17669 ай бұрын
So good, I'm going to watch it again because I don't want to miss any details... Thank you for always presenting the ancient world in the most objective perspective possible, and saying we don't know, when we don't know, whilst presenting possible theoretical explanations, as theoretical. Not to mention your gift for illuminating the small details, and thus bringing a sharper image of their daily lives into focus, which also makes it more relatable to modern listeners. One thought came to mind... a potential question for the Q & A's on your Toldinstone Footnotes channel: Was there ever controversy over the moral nature of the more brutal types of events at the Colosseum, and specifically, during the height of it's popularity? And a bit further, did they protest things in general, I know they rioted, but did have they organized forms of protest... It seems absurd to imagine, for example, an animal cruelty march through the streets of ancient Rome, or activists standing in groups outside the Colosseum, trying to convince the people entering, to embrace higher virtues and turn away from their seats. But it also seems absurd to see them all, the whole society at any given moment, as being one-dimensional and unanimously, and entirely onboard with watching blood violence for sport... or were they? I know their views changed later, but what about at the height of the popularity of the games. Just curious.
@christopherevans24459 ай бұрын
Yes the Sun God statue has to be the reason for the name. Even the dark age historian Bede mentions that as long as the statue stands so does Rome
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
I thought it was of Nero as the Sun god ?
@christopherevans24459 ай бұрын
@@optimusprinceps3526 Yes Original was Nero. They changed the head a few times I believe, body was usually Sun God and. radiate crown, but there were times certain emperor's would put there head on important statues like the Colossus. Easy to see one doing so.
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
@@christopherevans2445 That makes sense after Nero's damnation by the Senate and Galba 👍
@christopherevans24459 ай бұрын
@@optimusprinceps3526 I know at least Commodus did change the head. The Contemporary historian Cassius Dio at least tells of that story in his Roman history, as he actually seen this and other things done by Commodus while in the Senate at the Time.
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
@@christopherevans2445 I like Dio
@NetTopsey9 ай бұрын
Videos like this that talk about what we have forgotten of human history remind me of that Latin saying, Sic transit gloria mundi.
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
👍
@MadCat-co3qb9 ай бұрын
Every single of your postings it's an automatic click. Thank you!
@michaelmoorrees35859 ай бұрын
A note on seating capacity. Never been to the Colosseum. At least not the one in Rome, but I have been to the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, CA, many times. I'm a rather thin guy, and the numbers painted on the aluminum benches (at least before 1995) are spaced pretty close together. I find it hard to place two of my skinny asses side by side on the allotted space dictated by those seat numbers, so maybe the Roman amphitheater management was also that optimistic !
@richardglady30096 ай бұрын
Ok, I have to be honest: as a historian visiting Rome in the 1980’s(in the Navy), and you stare up at the Colosseum, you think about none of these questions. You just stand there with your mouth open. Great video. Thank you.
@ivanbarreras94459 ай бұрын
Isnt possible that after a naval battle people didint mind waiting a few weeks or months for it to fully fully drain. Im sure people in the past wouldnt be so impatient
@ohkfilms9 ай бұрын
@toldinstone on a more serious note, can you do a video on the timeline of emperors from unified empire 27bce. Include coruling emperors that war. Up to split in ce395. Touch on 16 emperors of the western empire to ce479 and 104 emperors of the eastern empire ce1453. Highlight major events. Include events prior 27bce that’s directly related and the years after.
@SobekLOTFC9 ай бұрын
Keep up the great work, Garrett 👍
@inspectorrectum21839 ай бұрын
0:18 lightest skinned Sicilian
@TheBillaro9 ай бұрын
Is called the Flavian Amphitheatre, not 'the Colosseum'
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
👍🌿😜🌿
@jileel9 ай бұрын
Ill believe dio before modern historians who werent there.
@blanco77269 ай бұрын
Whats the problem with it taking a day to drain ?? Plus they could just refix the flooring as soon as the water drops below that level if there was such a rush. But presumably you would have a water show one day and a different show the next day.
@lostpony48859 ай бұрын
87 thousand seats sounds the same as 40 thousand to me. Its hard to quantify either number intuitively so im glad somebody is mathing it out.
@fod20119 ай бұрын
You need a day out in Croke Park
@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes19994 ай бұрын
When I study the ancient world I'm just always amazed that some of their designers and planners were as smart and brilliant as they were. Wish I was half that smart. I don't care what empire or civilization you look at, what they built and designed were amazing and in the new world too, throughout mesoamerica, just incredible. To this day I don't know how they did it. I struggle to put together a table so I just wonder at these kinds of minds who can create these other wonders for us to wonder at again and again in 2024. It's a wonder.
@GPutlovis9 ай бұрын
I baked a Walmart brand spinach Alfredo pizza as I listened to this video Dr. Ryan. Thank you for making it. The video that is. Not the pizza.
@RickLowrance9 ай бұрын
Interesting subject. Great video.
@fabiansw88 ай бұрын
Now i dont know the high of the water source, i dont know the diameter of the pipes, and i dont know the pressure. But im a Chemical Production Operator (Hydraulik, termodynamic, Electric) pluss some more. It seriously seems to me that scholars are underestimating the power of water
@spiritualanarchist81629 ай бұрын
The Colosseum, Rome's mega-cinema with constant R-rated Action in 3D.
@huga-t3j20 күн бұрын
there was no tickets, colluseum was free for everybody
@Wuschti8 ай бұрын
Every time I watch those videos about the ancient wonders and mysteries I hope that some day we'll find an answer to all those questions... Perhaps in long-lost papyri waiting to be discovered.
@lt.bagelbites69699 ай бұрын
The way he says Cassius Die-o and Bee-spoke post reminds me of that bubbly commercial with Michael Bubley
@roflnosedlolfin9 ай бұрын
Another great video!
@Kyle_Schaff9 ай бұрын
You blow me away every time
@jacktribble52539 ай бұрын
That one was particularly educational but entertaining as always.
@markthrasher67706 ай бұрын
Did the Colloseum have toilets, baths and changing rooms? It had concessions, markets and deck box suites
@histguy1014 ай бұрын
I believe the naval battles were only staged during the opening games during Titus's reign, or possibly Domitian s reign, so the hypogeum didn't exist yet.
@kuukeli3 ай бұрын
thank you
@steveconkey73629 ай бұрын
Love your content.
@knw-seeker68366 ай бұрын
Could you do a video on how to read more effectively or like a historian including how to take notes?
@Oldwhiteguy9 ай бұрын
Very interesting. Buy his books, you won’t regret it.
@rcrawford429 ай бұрын
Does the amphitheater at Capua still have its original seating? There's reconstructed seating in the nearby museum, but, well, reconstruction.
@dayros20239 ай бұрын
Google Arena Verona. It's another Roman amphitheater in Italy that's almost intact and still used for events and concerts.
@Marco_franceschini9 ай бұрын
@@dayros2023 yes but the stone seating isn't orginal, it's a reconstruction from 1600.
@michaelporzio73849 ай бұрын
"men built this?" - from the movie Gladiator
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
Hollywood lies.
@johnspizziri19199 ай бұрын
Excellent
@l1n5n84 ай бұрын
My understanding of the colosseum, is that the new afl could probably fit their field into it 👀
@iluvgalina9 ай бұрын
i like to believe that naval battles were staged there, it's fun to imagine it.
@johnladuke64759 ай бұрын
Good point. If we can't be sure anyway, might as well believe for the fun of it.
@fromrawn93038 ай бұрын
Does anyone know where the thumbnail image for this video came from?
@bakonax70809 ай бұрын
Nice topic, can you do more about mysteries please? That really makes my imagination go wild with intrigue
@thomashughes_teh9 ай бұрын
tickets? What were they made of? Wasn't papyrus more expensive than copper? I'd have thought this was a cash business.
@In.Darkness9 ай бұрын
Merry Christmas ! Everyone 🔥🔥🔥 : )
@anneteller31289 ай бұрын
1:48 I don't think bulls can swim. Horses were found on the barrier islands in off the East Coast in the SE US. However, the Spanish also carried cows and bulls on their ships to the New World. None were found on the barrier islands. Horses can swim and it has been surmised that the ships that sank close to shore, the horses swam to shore, and the poor cattle drowned. It's also possible the Spanish abandon some of their horses. But still no cattle were found. These hardy mustangs managed to survive by eating whatever greens they could find in this sandy area and by digging holes in the sand to cup fresh water for drinking when it rained. Their descendants are alive today and will continue to survive if the humans will leave them alone.
@billcarrell86229 ай бұрын
Thank you for addressing the problem associated with ships in the amphitheater. I've been arguing this for years with the same logic you proposed.
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
At last, someone with common sense.
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
🌿😆🌿
@dann54808 ай бұрын
We went there in 2015 I took a huge dump right in the basement 😂
@Kourash3 ай бұрын
What I’m wondering is how this many spectators was even seen as a reasonable thing to prepare for. Unless a major fraction of a the population of the capital city attended the games constantly, the arena must have had many empty seats. Also, even if people traveled far and wide to come to the arena, did they all hitch rides in carriages? I can’t imagine they all walked or rode horses to the Flavian, as there wasn’t anything resembling a parking lot.
@tommyguyishere9 ай бұрын
The colosseum was funded by the sac of Jerusalem in 70AD. There is a dedication inscription that was on the colosseum that has been removed and placed inside.
@BuriedFlame9 ай бұрын
*looks at vid title* _"Like why was the beer more expensive in the cheap seats?"_
@zackhawn59448 ай бұрын
Wait so it's possible the Coliseum was never used for naval battles? I always questioned how this was possible
@alphonsobutlakiv7896 ай бұрын
So, who has the seats? I'm sure some are out there, maybe in a wall with a similar curve or holes in a row of them as old toilets. Identifying it's curve in local builds using marble may be the best start, Assuming it was marble.
@lostpony48859 ай бұрын
I have a coliseum candle holder i think its supposed to warm a plate. Coliseums state of ruin is exact shape for that its hilarious
@bofpwet95009 ай бұрын
The most famous and notorious ancient monument? I would say that the pyramids or even the great walls come to my mind first. Just saying, great upload as always.
@atlantasailor18 ай бұрын
Machu Picchu has to be included.
@BeKindToBirds3 ай бұрын
Pyramids are absolutely the most notorious and famous. Alexander the great and Napoleon never talked about the great wall. Pyramids are tied to the history of the world by their central location and participation in so many eras of history, it really is no contest.
@SB-qm5wg9 ай бұрын
70k seats. wow
@lostpony48859 ай бұрын
Why would it be a barrier to water battles for the draining to take a long time? It doesnt matter how long it takes to prepare or clean up after any more than it matters how long a copper saw takes to grind through a sarcophagus
@lostpony48859 ай бұрын
thats modern impatience lens problem
@josefrietveld2199 ай бұрын
primus?
@metalhigh00439 ай бұрын
Primus sucks 🤘🏻
@violentinstincts9 ай бұрын
A1: no, naval battles were staged in Piazza Navona, literally BIG SHIP SQUARE.
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
No way. The only thing that comes close is the daily clean up at Campo de Fiori. It is amazing to watch. If it is any indication of how their ancient ancestors prepped the Colosseum, then all the myths and suppositions are undoubtedly true.
@RyanJohnsonD6 ай бұрын
Where in the timeline is the painting of the Colosseum in your thumbnail?
@Psychol-Snooper9 ай бұрын
Maybe the waves of water were seas of cloth.
@ProvencaLeGaulois9 ай бұрын
Sorry to be that guy but the pyramids are the most ancient and famous ancient artifacts, and it is not even close :)
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
👍 Bonus nuntium
@jstantongood54749 ай бұрын
Marinai better translates as "sailors" not the American idea of "marine corps.
@jokesterthemighty2279 ай бұрын
I got your book on audible but i was lil bit disappointed you are not doing the narration with your tone, the guy is not bad but he doesn't have that "musicality" your voice does
@lostpony48859 ай бұрын
Theres no tickets for Roman spectacles or do i have that wrong?
@toldinstone9 ай бұрын
There were the tokens known as tesserae; check out my old video "Getting good seats at the Colosseum"
@lostpony48859 ай бұрын
@@toldinstone awesome i will thanks!
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
Tokens, raffles and prizes
@truthinesssss9 ай бұрын
👍
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
It is truly a monumental structure. Garrett, you are in a better position than I am to conjecture about its history and use as well as what it was called by the Romans.
@jg900499 ай бұрын
The ground on which the Colosseum stands was a spring-fed marsh originally, witness the presence of two fountains. One is a fountain built under Augustus and called the "Meta Sudans". This fountain structure was destroyed in the fire of 64 A.D. and was rebuilt a short distance away under the Flavian emperors. The ruins of this structure remained visible until the 1930s, when they were destroyed on Mussolini's orders. The foundations of this second Meta Sudans are still visible today. The area was part of the lake Nero had built on the gounds of his palace, the Domus Aurea. It was filled in and replaced by the Colosseum. How was that accomplished to the extent the area became a stable base for a structure as large as the Colosseum?
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
Pilings
@papwithanhatchet9028 ай бұрын
5:05 Could you not do this effect anymore or do it quicker next time? I thought I was having a stroke.
@internettroll76049 ай бұрын
Everybody knows the Roman Colloseum, but about 230 were built and there are better preserved ones left in the world today.
@paulkoza86529 ай бұрын
Where?
@optimusprinceps35269 ай бұрын
@@paulkoza8652Spain and North Africa, as well as Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, and Israel
@internettroll76049 ай бұрын
@@paulkoza8652 Do a google search for colloseum in Arènes De Nîmes, France for the best preserved one. There are also several others that still exist
@m33tballa6 ай бұрын
Wats the painting in thumbnail
@dicebed9 ай бұрын
Well - of course - now that I know that there were entire Roman districts set up to house lakes, so that fleets of criminals could set sail and fight each other - it becomes clear - There were never any naval battles conducted in the Collosiem - the memories of naval battles happened in the artificial lakes in the Roman suburbs - and memory passed them on to happening in the collosieum itself - nuff said 🙂
@truthfilterforyoutube82187 ай бұрын
Hard to take to heart any facts given from someone who spells Coliseum, Colloseum !
@lifesglitch29709 ай бұрын
Just saw the general Sam pod cast you are the best guest on there had a quick question. You see on tv a lot of gladiators fighting a lot of different wild animals tigers bear’s ect how common was that, and do we have any evidence that these fights occurred?
@stanislavkostarnov21579 ай бұрын
he does have a different video mostly about this topic... but basically, it was relatively common. all major festivals had such events with the more exotic animals, whilst, the commoner examples were seen as a warm-up act to the main show... Gladiators fighting animals were generally fairly likely to survive, and in all, it was cheaper than fighter-vs-fighter combat if the animals were not from distant lands.
@lifesglitch29708 ай бұрын
@@stanislavkostarnov2157 thank you for the information! I’ll have to check out his video. It’s all very interesting the gladiatorial stuff, and in most media they make it out to be ultra violent with constant death and killing, when in reality it was kinda just a job
@stanislavkostarnov21578 ай бұрын
@@lifesglitch2970 yeah, violence was part of the Job, but actual death was rather rare... killing gladiators was expensive... the movies get that part rather wrong. also, generally, as a higher up slave, many of the jobs you might have would involve violence since the driver slaves would be expected to physically punish the slaves of their working band, team, on behalf of managing their masters estate, and those punishments, were regular and occasionally involved even very serious whippings and other more gruesome punishments.
@lifesglitch29708 ай бұрын
@@stanislavkostarnov2157 appreciate all the information man it’s super interesting time period to learn about just recently started getting into. Do you know if there was kinda like an average time period in where a slave would buy there freedom? Like 5-10 years or did it really just vary based on who your master was or if there was a law keeping you from like owning someone for 80 years? Also if your into history I just got done learning about the 100 years war with France, and England really interesting stuff there to dig into if you haven’t already
@stanislavkostarnov21578 ай бұрын
@@lifesglitch2970 as far as I understand, most slaves continued being slaves for the length of their lives... whilst freed slaves were not "uncommon" they were in the minority, maybe under 20% of all privately owned slaves earned there freedom at a maximum. usually far less when it was done, these were freed after between 5 & 15 years on a skilled position in the owners household/industry... these were important, influential workers whose active investment was required for the success of a venture otherwise, sometimes, a master would free all the personal house slaves on his deathbed, but that was exceedingly rare, mostly seen in the early days of the Republic. also, some provinces would follow local traditions where slaves would be kept 25 years or 7 years, but these were relics of laws before becoming part of the empire.
@Paulftate6 ай бұрын
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@annefiftythree9 ай бұрын
I start to get really fed up by the alleged mysteries. It is clear (and I have a written confirmation from a prominent Roman architect) that Rome was de facto an observatory with radio and optical telescopes. When I first visited the Colosseum in 1965, I could not understand why we were told that spectators would fit in it. There are no seats. The Colosseum as the etymology indicates, was a colossal radio telescope (column resp. pillar), a dish. Obviously, parts were dismantled just like they did with the Arecibo telescope. The gladiators and Christians allegedly fighting in the arena, were indeed fighting above our heads: gladiator stands for comet and Christians stands for infamous comet Kreutz that triggered earthquakes and destruction in the Middle East. Kreutz was renamed Crusaders. Just more historical lies. ENOUGH!
@frontenac50839 ай бұрын
Why the fI_Ick do they let you use the internet at the loony farm!?