The Ancient Rome Iceberg Explained

If you’re going to comment about BCE don’t do it because I don’t care

Ancient Rome was a crazy place and a crazy time. This video explores the ins and outs of the ancient Roman world through various people, places, events, and ideas, from the famous to the obscure.

Corrections:

3:04 The Roman Empire at its height controlled a land area of about 5,000,000 km^2, while the contiguous United States has a land area of about 8,000,000 km^2.

9:17 The citation for the BOTTOM quote should be Cassius Dio, Roman History, 44.19.

Songs Used

Chris Zabriskie - Short Song 022723
Chris Zabriskie - Hitchcock Would Have Fucked Up Charade
Chris Zabriskie - Direct to Video
Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major D960 (Played by Franziska Lee)
Lee Rosevere - Featherlight
Chris Zabriskie - Out of the Skies, Under the Earth
Salakapakka Sound System - Celebration of the moon
Unworn - a winter that kills
Paavoharju - Tartu Tähän Hetkeen
Chris Zabriskie - Short Song 022123

Ancient Sources

Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars
The Bible (NJV, NIV)
Cassius Dio, Roman History
Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the War in Gaul
Ptolemy, Geography
Petrarch, On His Own Ignorance

Modern Sources

Heather, Peter, The Restoration of Rome (2014)
Goldsworthy, Adrian, Caesar: Life of a Colossus (2006)
Louise McReynolds, “Excavating Byzantium: Russia’s Archaeologists and Translatio Imperii” (2020)

Online Sources

Wikipedia.org
Loeb Classical Library
Perseus Tufts Library

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