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11:05 Pulsum looks delicious!!!

pirnia02 1 hour ago in playlist Documentaries

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History dont really repeat itself, even though some things are similar. Slavary in the ancient times and "wage slavery" or "free workers" today is a whole lot different from each other. Today you live my wage, you sell yourself at a market, and you can if you want stopp working at one place and change it. This is much better then being a slave in many ways, and you got some legal rights nowadays.

BlueFrog83 1 week ago

@BlueFrog83: Agreed....while a lot of people today aren't as 'free' as they think they are, at least your employer can't kill you just because he happens to feel like it.

blertdrax 2 hours ago

37:15 Oh Ovid, you sleazy swine!

Ovid = Ancient Roman PUA

sh7de 2 weeks ago

48:20 Sounds like what's happening in the USA RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!!! Blame whomever you want, it's happening XD Funny about how history repeats itself.

straker454 3 weeks ago

And with the end of cheap fuels - history - indeed repeats!

polarjoa 4 weeks ago

Great gulf between the wealthy few & the rest, farmlands bought out by the wealthy, farmers losing their independence, flocking to cities & subsisting on fast food, the country sharply divided between conservatives (the bonii) & liberals (the populares), previously democratic institutions getting corrupt, greedy & less democratic, endless wars & strife ... it really was the United States of Rome! History repeats itself.

drav1dan 1 month ago

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drav1dan 1 month ago

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Rome, 1st century CE: bread and circuses.

USA, 21st century CE: burgers and TV.

drav1dan 1 month ago

It's ironic how the power of ROME was conquered by barbarians only to end up the power of Christianity which actually when you think about it didn't really change all that much : same corrupt ROME same corrupt leaders ........

voltorsith 1 month ago

TERRY JONES IS A roman PIMP!

bravo WELL DONE!

SuperKojim 1 month ago

Thumbs up if you deep down wish you where born during the height of the Roman Empire as a Roman citizen.

cwood4ever 1 month ago

@cwood4ever: I don't know whether I would choose to be a Roman or not if I had the chance. I've always been fascinated by Roman civilisation, but in many ways it was a brutal world. We really have it easy now compared to the average Roman. This chap in the documentary is assuming ' Marcus' is 60 years old, which isn't impossible but not really typical. Most people died far younger. Of course, if I had been born at that time, into that society, I wouldn't have known any different.

blertdrax 4 hours ago

terry jones is awesome. he's up there in my list with attenborough, that's how awesome he is.

lauracida 1 month ago

Why do I have the sickening feeling that America is already headed for this right now?

earthwitness18 1 month ago

@earthwitness18 I agree....if you meant spending all our resources fighting at the "frontiers" and then moving into a period of "security at the cost of great oppression" (as in the Severan period [200s]) which lingers for decades, slowly dissolving into complete collapse (roughly 300s and 400s). Like with Rome, there are wolves that circles us, waiting for the right moments.......

triarii11 1 month ago

@triarii11 Yep, that would be a fairly correct assumption.

earthwitness18 1 month ago

3-Not to pick on China, but Of Course they exploited the wealth of their territory--good lord man! Exploitation is a historical universal. 4-We still live in an age where infanticide depends on the society--illegal in America, rather common in India and many others. Barbarism depends on your perspective. I'm probably not good enough to write you cuz I do not speak ancient Greek, so I leave this for others--to correct your errors. Vim Vi repellare licet.

triarii11 1 month ago

To Patrickengsu: U may have learned classics, but not tact or debate...or humbleness. Nor economics. 1-If Rome took care of it's poor, why do anthros and archaeologists find so much nutrient deficiency? Free food was inconsistent, of poor quality, and meager amounts. 2-The idea of citizens leaving the farm to fight occured in the republic period, and was basically gone by the empire period--Marian reforms changed who fought and why. Stridency makes for unheard teachers.

triarii11 1 month ago

ah, and lastly, laws against infanticide are very advanced. Japan didn't develope such laws until the 16-17 hundreds. Nearly everything he says can be said about our societies. A lot of what he says is just plain bias and wrong- such as only the poor going to war. In the early empire only the land owners could become legionaries- or at least those who could afford weapons and armor. I'm dissapointed in this guy cause I liked his crusades doc, but since this one is so bias, that 1 probably is 2

PatrickEngSU 2 months ago

@PatrickEngSU Just came back to say...you really do scholarship and Roman history a disservice. If you really are a Classics major, you either partied too hard or need to go smack your instructors upside their heads....

triarii11 1 month ago

Don't reply to me unless you can read and write greek and latin

PatrickEngSU 2 months ago

This show just shows that the poor lived poorly in every age. In later times Rome provided for hte poor extremely well as those in power were terrified of the angry mob. In today's society the poor could not go to a fooball game or any entertainment without paying; it was free in Rome. The fact is that the poor would not be cared for to the degree they were in Rome until modern times in good countries. If you doubt me, major in classics and read for yourselves.

PatrickEngSU 2 months ago

hmmm, I see- rome sucked in all the wealth. Gosh, I don't know any other countries in history like that... Any literate could list brittain, US, France, Germany, Japan.... China under the mandate of heaven was the only regional power that didn't steal the region's wealth

PatrickEngSU 2 months ago

Romans didn't have to buy food- at least for a large time period, the government bought and imported enough grain to feed Rome's citizens. They also had clean water and access to baths. Poor Romans could get themselves invited to a rich man's dinner if they bothered the rich at the baths enough.A quote from one Roman says he doesn't leave until he gets an invite. Rome fed its poor- that's more than we can say about the shit hole called the united states...

PatrickEngSU 2 months ago

@PatrickEngSU Yeah, things are pretty bad here in the US. We can't deal with our unemployment problems by rounding the jobless up and getting rid of them in the colloseum! yeah, it's pretty bad here. Apparently, the Romans had that one figured out. Hmmmm.

earlnut 1 month ago

I love Terry.

marmite400 2 months ago

His ending monolog sounds a lot like our friends on Wall Street. Total scumbags who play all sides for their own glory and enrichment while everybody else suffers. Wish a volcano would wipe out all the bankers.

Mangina9000 2 months ago

@Mangina9000 Hey leave the volcano out of this. It doesn't deserve such dirty work.

LucienAchillean 2 months ago

Ancient Roman cuisine changed over the long duration of this ancient civilization. Dietary habits were affected by the influence of Greek culture, the political changes from kingdom to republic to empire, and by the empire's enormous expansion, which exposed Romans to many new, provincial culinary habits and cooking techniques. In the beginning the differences between social classes were not very great, but disparities developed with the empire's growth.

SuperGreatSphinx 2 months ago