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What if YouTube video... but documentary?????? Join Blue on a feature-length journey through all of Roman history: from its origins, through the Republic, up and down the Empire, and out into the medieval world of Catholicism in the Latin West and the Byzantine Empire in the Greek East. It’s a BIG tale, so Let’s Do Some History!
SOURCES & Further Reading:
BOOKS
“SPQR“ by Mary Beard
“Rome: A History in Seven Sackings“ by Matthew Kneale
“The Roman Way“ by Edith Hamilton
“The Aeneid“ by Virgil
“Histories“ by Polybius
“Ab Urbe Condita“ by Livy
“De Bello Gallico“ by Julius Caesar
“Odes“ by Horace
“Parallel Lives“ by Plutarch
“Rubicon“ by Tom Holland
“The Storm Before the Storm“ by Mike Duncan
“The Enemies of Rome“ by Stephen P. Kershaw
“The Age of Augustus“ by Werner Eck
“Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire“ by Ronald Mellor
“Cleopatra: A Life“ by Stacy Schiff
“Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants“ By Garrett Ryan
“The Classical World“ by Robin Lane Fox
“Ravenna“ by Judith Herrin
National Geographic “Ultimate Visual History of the World“ by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
“Byzantium“ I, II, and III by John Julius Norwich
“The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome“ by Anthony Kaldellis
“The Alexiad“ by Anna Komnene
“Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire“ by Caroline Finkel
“Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History“ by John Julius Norwich
“A History of Venice“ by John Julius Norwich.
ONLINE
Ara Pacis Augustae“ by Mark Cartwright on World History Encyclopedia
“Ara Pacis Augustae“ by Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker on Smarthistory
GREAT COURSES LECTURES
“Piazza Farnese to the Ara Pacis“ from “The Essential Guide to Italy“ by Dr. Kenneth R. Bartlett
“The Pax Romana“, “Rome’s Golden and Silver Ages“ & “Late Antiquity - Crisis and Response“ & “Barbarians and Emperors“ from “Foundations of Western Civilization“ by Thomas F.X. Noble
“Roman Art and Architecte“ & “From Commodus to Caracalla“ & “The Crisis of the Third Century“ & “Diocletian and Late Third-Century Reforms“ from “The Roman Empire: From Augustus to The Fall of Rome“ by Gregory Aldrete.
VIDEOS
“Ecclesiastical Latin vs Classical Pronunciation History | Latin: The Immortal Language“ & “How Latin became Italian 🇮🇹“ by polýMATHY,
UNIVERSITY
I have a bachelor’s degree in Classical Studies.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
1:48 - The Birth of Rome
10:47 - The Roman Republic
16:21 - The Punic Wars
24:50 - Rome’s First Assassination (uh oh)
36:00 - Julius Caesar
50:34 - Octavian vs the Assassins
58:07 - Octavian vs Antony
1:08:00 - Augustus as Emperor
1:25:48 - The Roman Empire
1:36:33 - The Crisis of the Third Century
1:47:20 - The Fall of Rome
1:58:30 - Rome After Empire
2:10:34 - The Byzantine Empire
2:24:48 - The Byzantine Golden Age
2:38:19 - The Decline and Fall of Byzantium
2:53:27 - Conclusion
MUSIC:
Courtesy of composer Austin Wintory / @awintory
I Know How It Feels To Be Lost, Mount Olympus, Reclamation, Welcome to the Real Underworld, Threshold, The Decision, Temptations, The Reliquary – from the Stray Gods Pantheon Edition and Journey scores.
Also, “Scheming Weasel“ & “Local Forecast“ & “Sneaky Snitch“ & Marty Gots A Plan“ & “Pippin the Hunchback“ by Kevin MacLeod ()
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Also Also, “Slaysenflite“ from Age of Mythology, “Phoebe the Orphan“ & “The Sacred Land of Artemis“ & “Naxos Island“ & “Kephallonia Island“ from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
Additional thanks to our the members of our discord community who kindly checked over my video draft and helped me pick out video thumbnails: Jonny, Catia, Chehrazad, and Billy. Thank you for all your help across multiple videos and your endless commitment to sharing cool facts about Mediterranean civilizations, Rome and otherwise.
Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up.
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