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November 14, 2020

The Decline of the Great Library of Alexandria

Filed under: Africa, Books, History, Science, Technology — Tags: Christianity, Egypt, JuliusCaesar, Literature, Philosophy, Rioting, TheGreatLibrary — Nicholas @ 04:00

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
Published 27 Mar 2019

Presented by Ms History. The Great Library was a center of knowledge. Its decline was not the single cataclysmic event that may seem to think, but its slow decline is perhaps, even more tragic. It is history that deserves to be remembered.

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October 10, 2020

I AM Julius Caesar

Filed under: Europe, History, Middle East, Military — Tags: Assassin, Autobiography, CivilWar, Cleopatra, Egypt, JuliusCaesar, RomanRepublic — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Published 2 Jul 2020

Politician, warrior, priest, lover.

My name is Gaius Julius Caesar and I led one of the most extraordinary lives in recorded history.

My victories over foes both foreign and domestic are still studied today. I upended the Roman Republic and became its first dictator.

I loved Cleopatra.

My brutal assassination has been synonymous with bitter betrayal for 2000 years.

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I AM Julius Caesar! Welcome to the first episode of the I AM series where you live history itself through the mind, viewpoints and lives of a historical character!

See and experience the world they lived and celebrate their triumphs and feel their defeats.

This first episode is on Julius Caesar, the revolutionary who set into place the foundations of what would become the Roman Empire.

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September 19, 2020

History RE-Summarized: The Roman Republic

Filed under: Europe, History, Humour — Tags: Carthage, CivilWar, JuliusCaesar, OverlySarcasticProductions, RomanRepublic — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 18 Sep 2020

The Roman Republic is a fascinating story all on its own, but it also serves as an excellent object lesson in civics.

This video is a Remastered, Definitive Edition of three previous videos from this channel — History Summarized: “The Roman Republic”, “The Punic Wars”, and “Julius Caesar and the Fall of The Republic”. This video combines them all into one narrative, fully upgrades all of the visuals, and adds extra historical notes and clarifications along the way. Please let me know if you enjoyed this, and are interested in more videos like this. There are many historical miniseries on this channel that would fit neatly into a compilation like this, and I’d be thrilled to make them!

SOURCES & Further Reading: Virgil’s Aeneid, Polybius’ Histories, Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, SPQR by Mary Beard, Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matt Kneale, Rubicon by Tom Holland, The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan, (and also my degree in Classical Studies).

Note for 14:15 — I mention Livy’s History Of Rome (“Ab Urbe Condita“) by name, but made the lizard-brain mistake of showing Polybius instead. Poor Livy, first 75% of his work is lost, and now this.

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May 6, 2020

Quintus Tullius Cicero, Praetor 62 B.C.E.

Filed under: Europe, France, History, Military — Tags: Cicero, JuliusCaesar, RomanRepublic, Rome — Nicholas @ 02:00

Thersites the Historian
Published 25 Jul 2018

Quintus Tullius Cicero is best known as the younger brother of Marcus Tullius Cicero who wrote a pamphlet on running for the Consulship, but he was also one of Caesar’s legates in Gaul and a braver than average Roman.

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February 15, 2020

Lupercalia

Filed under: Europe, History, Religion — Tags: JuliusCaesar, Monarchy, Polytheism, RomanHellenism, RomanRepublic, Rome — Nicholas @ 02:00

Historia Civilis
Published 4 Sep 2014

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Plus a bonus video with a Julius Caesar connection:

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February 1, 2020

Cursus honorum – Consuls

Filed under: Government, History — Tags: Cicero, JuliusCaesar, RomanRepublic, Rome, Senate — Nicholas @ 02:00

Historia Civilis
Published 18 May 2015

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Music is “The Life and Death of a Certain K. Zabriskie, Patriarch” by Chris Zabriskie. (http://chriszabriskie.com/)

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January 29, 2020

The Roman Triumph

Filed under: Europe, History, Military — Tags: JuliusCaesar, Leadership, Polytheism, RomanRepublic, Rome — Nicholas @ 06:00

Historia Civilis
Published 5 Dec 2018

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Sources:
The Jewish War, by Josephus: https://amzn.to/2Ub8JRq
Parallel Lives: The Life of Pompey, by Plutarch: https://amzn.to/2BP6vjq
Parallel Lives: The Life of Julius Caesar, by Plutarch: https://amzn.to/2BP6vjq
Letters to Atticus, Book 13, by Cicero: https://amzn.to/2Qa9SKv
The History of Rome, Book 1, by Livy: https://amzn.to/2PbCkX7
Natural History, Book 3, by Pliny the Elder: https://amzn.to/2PhX3Za
Roman History, Book 43, by Cassius Dio: https://amzn.to/2PgJ99C
Roman History, Book 44, by Cassius Dio: https://amzn.to/2PgJ99C
Roman History, Book 53, by Cassius Dio: https://amzn.to/2Pgdq8Q
Roman History, Book 54, by Cassius Dio: https://amzn.to/2Pgdq8Q
Roman History, Book 55, by Cassius Dio: https://amzn.to/2Pgdq8Q
The Life of Julius Caesar, by Suetonius: https://amzn.to/2QuwULE
The Fasti Triumphales http://www.attalus.org/translate/fast…
The Roman Triumph, by Mary Beard: https://amzn.to/2UafiDD
Rubicon, by Tom Holland: https://amzn.to/2E0x5HX
Cicero, by Anthony Everitt: https://amzn.to/2PgJJnO
Julius Caesar, by Philip Freeman: https://amzn.to/2DXortC
Caesar: Life of a Colossus, by Adrian Goldsworthy: https://amzn.to/2Q9rtlO
The Rise of Rome, by Anthony Everitt: https://amzn.to/2PeSEGw
“Circum Metas Fertur: An Alternative Reading of the Triumphal Route,” by Ida Östenberg. From Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, vol. 59, no. 3: https://bit.ly/2SpsjHJ

Music:
“Honey,” by Nctrnm
“XY,” by Nctrnm
“The House Glows (With Almost No Help),” by Chris Zabriskie
“Hallon,” by Christian Bjoerklund

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January 25, 2020

Cursus honorum – Praetors

Filed under: Government, History, Law — Tags: JuliusCaesar, Justice, RomanRepublic, Rome — Nicholas @ 02:00

Historia Civilis
Published 19 Feb 2015

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January 19, 2020

Cursus honorum – Aediles

Filed under: Bureaucracy, Government, History — Tags: Cicero, Infrastructure, JuliusCaesar, RomanRepublic, Rome — Nicholas @ 02:00

Historia Civilis
Published 6 Feb 2015

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January 14, 2020

Cursus honorum – Quaestors

Filed under: Bureaucracy, Government, History — Tags: Cicero, JuliusCaesar, RomanRepublic, Rome, Sicily — Nicholas @ 02:00

Historia Civilis
Published 20 Dec 2014

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January 3, 2020

The Battle of Alesia (52 B.C.E.)

Filed under: Europe, France, History, Military — Tags: Fortification, JuliusCaesar, Leadership, RomanRepublic, Rome — Nicholas @ 06:00

Historia Civilis
Published 24 Apr 2015

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January 2, 2020

Divine Caesar Augustus, Master of Propaganda – January 1, 2020 – TimeGhost of Christmas Past Day 9

Filed under: Europe, History, Religion — Tags: Augustus, JuliusCaesar, Polytheism, RomanEmpire — Nicholas @ 04:00

TimeGhost History
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Dissent This
Julius Caesar was already associated with the Divine during his life. But two years after his death, he was officially declared so by the Senate of Rome. Very much to benefit of his cousin, Octavian.

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Happy New Year! We have some amazing videos coming up in the new year, but not before we publish the final instalment of our TimeGhost of Christmas Past episode. This one is my personal favourite, as I’m a huge fan of the late Roman Republic and early Empire as a historical study object. So when we were dividing the Christmas episodes among the research team, I fought for this one to be on the list. I had a blast writing it (surprisingly, I don’t get to write about Caesar that often for the WW2 Channel) and I hope you all enjoy watching it.
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October 30, 2019

Shakespeare Summarized: Julius Caesar

Filed under: History, Humour, Media — Tags: Criticism, JuliusCaesar, Movies, OverlySarcasticProductions, RomanRepublic, Rome, Shakespeare, Theatre — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 1 Dec 2013

Here we go again! It’s only taken me several months…

Sarcastified Shakespeare returns, this time with a look at that historical tragedy we all love to write essays about, Julius Caesar!

I think the real main character here was Brutus’s crippling self-esteem issues…

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October 1, 2019

Bring back the Aurochs!

Filed under: Europe, France, History, Science — Tags: Cloning, JuliusCaesar, LNeilSmith — Nicholas @ 03:00

L. Neil Smith has a dream, and it includes lots and lots of barbecue sauce:

Aurochs in a cave painting in Lascaux, France.
Image via Infogalactic.com

The aurocs, you probably know, was a kind of wild bovine critter that lived and flourished in fairly recent prehistoric times. It ranged all over the Old World, from Japan and what became Sahara country, to Europe, where it first showed up about 270,000 years ago. (Homo sapiens arrived there about 100,000 years ago, when Adam and Eve got expelled from the Garden of Africa.

The aurocs is the number one game animal depicted lovingly in cavemens’ wet dreams, as painted by torchlight on the walls of certain caves, notably in France. I don’t know why French cavemen produced the most beautiful paintings in the world, but the genetic thread seems to have run true from 40,000 years ago, straight to Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, and Claude Monet. Our ancestors hunted wooly mammoths, too — it must have seemed to them as massive an undertaking as the Space Progran — but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one depicted on a cave wall.

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Julius Caesar described aurochs in Volume III of his Gallic Wars — another French connection, coinzidenza? The last one died, regrettably, in 1627, in a forest in Poland, but I recently learned to my delight that aurochs DNA abounds in the world’s laboratories (it’s found in their bones), and the entire genome has been mapped. It wouldn’t be much of a feat to plant some of it in the egg cell of a closely related descendant species — say an Indian cow — and bring it to term. It would certainly be less ambitious than trying to resurrect wooly mammoths (a favorite scientific undertaking of mine) and a hell of a lot more practical — and profitable.

Imagine, if you can, the Wyoming prairie (my wife is from Wyoming, the original Marlboro Girl, and as inveterate a Westerner as I am) or the flatlands of northern Texas, blackened from horizon to horizon, not with American bison (although I like them, too — yummy!) but with archaic European aurochs. Fifteen hundred pounds of politically incorrect red meet, stamping around, munching the prairie grass, paying court to the lady aurochs and doing whatever else aurocs did when Fred Flintstone and Ringo Starr were wandering the countryside with flint-tipped spears in their hands and growling stomachs under their aurochs-hide Speedos.

So that’s my idea, friends and readers. Resurrect the first big game animal our distant ancestors likely ever hunted and ate. It should prove to be a highly profitable enterprise. We may even discover that we have a genetic affinity for aurocs meat. Perhaps we’ll be less likely to gather deadly fat in our arteries, chowing down on the creature we evolved to consume.

Pass the barbecue sauce, please, and in any case, Bring Back The Aurochs!

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May 23, 2019

Those “theories of history”

Filed under: History, Politics, USA — Tags: Culture, JuliusCaesar, Leadership, Rome, Severian, Sulla — Nicholas @ 05:00

At Rotten Chestnuts, Severian starts off talking great-man versus vast-impersonal-forces-of-history then segues into passivity (not Severian’s, but the widespread use of the passive voice):

Lionel Royer (1852-1926). Vercingetorix jette ses armes aux pieds de Jules César (Vercingetorix throws down his arms at the feet of Julius Caesar)
The painting depicts the surrender of the Gallic chieftain after the Battle of Alesia (52 BC). The depiction of Gauls with long hair and mustaches is also called into question today. The horse is a Percheron, although at this time this breed was not in Gaul. The rectangular shield also does not accord with the time when they were mostly oval.
Musée CROZATIER du Puy-en-Velay. — http://www.mairie-le-puy-en-velay.fr/ via Wikimedia Commons.

Academics, of course, are all in on “social” explanations of historical phenomena. Being weak, ineffective people themselves, with no experience of life, the very idea of a Caesar frightens and repels them… so they construct theories of History in which it is impossible for a Caesar to exist. On this view, “social forces” (what they used to call “the relations of the means of production”) tore the Roman Republic apart; the Empire was its inevitable next stage. Assign whatever name you like to the Imperator — whether Caesar, Marius, Sulla, or Miles Gloriosus, he’s just the temporary face of the vast, impersonal social forces that control our fate. None of this “History is just the biographies of great men” for them!

The eggheads have a point, though, albeit not the one they think they’re making. The Roman elite’s social system was designed to produce a certain type of man. Whether Gaius Julius Caesar was personally the embodiment of that system, or a perversion of it, is irrelevant — the system was designed to produce men like Caesar, fellows with a very particular set of skills. Eggheads have never seen one, but anyone who has kicked around the world outside the ivory tower for a bit has met that type of guy. The skills themselves are fairly common, at least in embryo. Whether a potential Caesar becomes actual might well be merely a question of opportunity and scale.

A terrifying notion, that, when you look around the modern West. The one characteristic all effective elites have in common is the self-knowledge that they are the elite. The British, for instance, thought nothing of sending some 19 year old kid, whose slim formal education was mostly Latin and Greek, off to govern the Punjab. It worked, largely because that kid, whatever his defects of intellect and ability, had character, of the kind you just don’t get without a pedigree stretching back to Hastings.

Again, if you’ve ever met one of the horsey set you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t, the most accessible American equivalents are the sons and grandsons of career army officers. Think of Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump, as played by Gary Sinise in the movie. That kind of guy always completes the mission, or dies trying, because it’s simply unthinkable that he won’t. After five generations, West Point is in his DNA…

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