Caesar's Funeral (44 B.C.E.)
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Suetonius, "The Life of Julius Caesar" | amzn.to/2wUXoxG
Plutarch, "The Life of Julius Caesar" | amzn.to/2U9MfAQ
Plutarch, "The Life of Cicero" | amzn.to/2U9MfAQ
Plutarch, "The Life of Brutus" | amzn.to/2U9MfAQ
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Cassius Dio, "Roman History: Book 45" | amzn.to/2U4G3u2
Cicero, "Letters to Atticus, Book 14" | amzn.to/33oLLtz
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Barry Strauss, "The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination" | amzn.to/2TP8k8N
Tom Holland, "Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar" | amzn.to/2vXq74T
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Adrian Goldsworthy, "Antony and Cleopatra" | amzn.to/3cYoMvc
Tom Holland, "Rubicon" | amzn.to/2wVYMzY
Adrian Goldsworthy, "Augustus" | amzn.to/2wXGtdA
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Adrian Goldsworthy, "Caesar: Life of a Colossus" | amzn.to/2QfgRjm
William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar" | amzn.to/2vm5ajH
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"Thomas Neutrality," by Enrique Molano
"But Enough About Me Bill Paxton," by Chris Zabriskie
"Sad Cyclops," by Podington Bear
"Night Owl," by Broke For Free
"Hallon," by Christian Bjoerklund
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16:52
Sorry guys, Tribune Aquila says "No" to burning down the temple.
But he didn't say no to burning down the Forum!
don't blame him, be a bit of a piss take to burn the temple down for the pontifex Maximus's body's funeral pyre.
5 days ago????????
(Edited)
It makes sense that Aquila said no. It appears the mob checked in to see if it was ok to burn the temple.
“Cicero made a long speech.” Sounds right.
Well, he didn't have to stand over the dead corpse for it...
"Caesar's not going anywhere"
"Cicero made a long speech"
But did he call anybody's sister a whore?
Lol
@@MrSaywutnow what's the reference? I'm intrigued, but you've wooshed me here.
Step 1: conspiracy
step 2: murder Caesar
step 3: ????????
step 4: profit
Step 5: sell out
Step 6: bro down
I thought the same thing. Feels very underwear gnomey to me.
“Now that you’ve killed Caesar, what are you going to do next?” “I don’t know, I didn’t think we’d get this far”
Step 5: rinse and repeat
Everyone always forgets step 5
Step 5: the Roman republic collapsed and the Senate fucked up
"Cicero made a long speech"
Some things never change
Cicero's the kind of guy that sends minutes-long voice messages to the Whatsapp group
Cicero was the kind of guy to write triple the amount of words his latin teacher asked
This comment thread is perfect.
Cicero is that guy you mute on the discord vc
Cicero the kind of guy to tell a whole ass story while the joint burns to nothing in his fingers
“We did it brutus, we saved the republic”
“What now”
“Dunno, didnt think we’d make it this far”
Real Spongebob "we did it, Patrick. We saved the city" moment.
@@as7river Brutus: We did it, Decimus, we saved the republic, just think what would happen if we didn’t assasinate Caesar
Julius Caesar: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"
Anacronian Julius Caesar: I AM THE SENATE.
Octavian: The Roman Republic will be reorganized into the first Roman Empire! For a safe and secure society.
\m/
I got the Star Wars reference➡️😆
Princeps Octavian: "I love democracy, I love the Republic."
Cicero to Antony : Expelling the optimates was never part of the plan, nor was allowing Lepidus's legion in the Pomerium !
Antony : Perhaps do you think you are being treated.... unfairly ? Good, I would not like to have to let another legion in the city
"Me Sad. :-("
-Opening words from Roman Senator giving the commencement address at Caesar's funeral, 44 B.C.E.
I mean me sad :-( too tbh
If I’m ever asked to give a speech at s funeral that’s all I’ll be saying
@@Aviationlord7742 Remember to do the face after saying that.
I think that line is in Shakespeare's play.
Presumably, he was a Gaul...
:P
My favorite thing about Caesar is how his enemies thought of him. They called him a traitor, a liar, and a tyrant. They even assassinated him in broad daylight. Yet even among those that hated him the most, the unanimous consensus is that he was a genius.
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves."
Good point. The main problem was jealousy. They knew he was a great leader and loved and respected by the people, and with good reason given all his building projects and political reforms; genuine admiration not the propaganda or threats kind. They didn't like the fact they were basically sidelined by his popularity and he was the de facto ruler of Rome even if he held no such title and they were still senators. This whole 'oh he's planning to become a king' thing absolutely reeks of nothing more than convenient excuse to go some way towards trying to justify the murder. They just couldn't handle that he was a better politician, leader and generally individual, than any of them were. And that's not even considering that he came back to Rome the most successful military general in its history; for that alone deserves accolades but then to totally outshine every other wannabe consul in Rome in the political arena as well? They were blind with envy. Shows you just how much when their best recourse they can think of is the rather final and irreversible method of political assassination. But this is a dozen main conspirators we're talking about, and many more besides them, and one man they wanted out the picture, and they must have known the consequences on them wouldn't be possible to avoid. And they still went ahead with it... shows you really just how effective Caesar was (and why we still talk about him to this day)
I just wish he'd been able to live out his natural life and who knows what else he'd have accomplished! He was only 55; also was in the middle of a whole bunch of building projects; also was in the planning stages of the invasion of Parthia, which if successful, would have been the only time since Alexander a conquest of that area would have been successful and would have also avenged Crassus' humiliating crushing at the hands of the Parthians which could be considered Rome's worst defeat up to that point
Oh, the flimsy egos of inept politicians. How they have robbed the world of progress for millenia.
@@J3diMindTrix better essay than the example at school
@@darthmader057mmm6 Why thanks.
They were projecting themselves onto Caesar.
I find it incredible that these guys failed to see the carnage that killing caesar would create.
ikr
> Let's go kill the people's most beloved politician who makes their daily lives better, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!?
The power of echo chambers.
What do you expect from the people who entertained the thought to fucking kill Caesar?
They thought the Roman people agreed with them that Caesar was a tyrant
There could of been an argument made but the conservative faction lead the conspiracy. They should of made a Caesarian the leader of the conspiracy. This would of prevented the optics game.
Even when he was dead, he still kept winning.
What a madlad
Attila Katona-Bugner he died because he got tired of winning. But winning didn’t get tired of him
He leaves 3 months wages to all of the men in Rome after his death. He knew how to keep the people on his side even after he was dead.
He was a born winner
I mean he is THE one and only Caesar!
@@Hugh_Morris Right up until he was killed.
Bye bye little red square. It’s been quite a journey, I’ll miss the little thing
I won't. That square was a tyrant.
Sadly I fear we will see more. A string of tyrant squares.
@@edwardofgreene et tu, edward?
Its just a little red square that became a rhombus.
Why Im so sad?
That little red square liberated the people of Rome from the corrupt decadent aristocracy
@@edwardofgreene You fear correctly, my dear Edward. Tyrannis vincere.
The really sad thing about this is that so few ancient civilizations recorded their history in the way the Romans did, there can be few series like this one
Also don't forget many successive empires robbed them of their history by destroying all records, so as to give the impression they never existed in the first place. This often occurred in China for instance. But yes, it is a shame nonetheless
@@J3diMindTrix The Romans also destroyed the histories and literature of their enemies, the Carthaginians. So it is a bit of a mixed bag.
Except the Arab
@@alfisyahr they out there doing math and austrology
@@alfisyahr the Arab empires aren't ancient. And ancient Arabia is similarly lacking in writing.
I gotta give it to Anthony, he may not be the smartest guy but he completely outplayed all his enemies with that speech.
This is the most “I didn’t think we’d get this far” moment in history.
@@panzerofthelake506 Say what you want bro but he already got head from your wife
@@panzerofthelake506 Say what you want bro but he already got head from your wife
@@panzerofthelake506 sat what you want bro but he already got head from your wife
@Vivek Acharya Say what you want bro but he already got head from your wife
@Vivek Acharya Say what you want bro but he already got head from your wife
Man this Octavius guy sure sounds like an inconsequential figure in this whole story, I bet we’ll never hear about him again.
I'm sure the people in the story feel the exact same way, no need to keep a close eye on him.
A historical footnote perhaps. Doubt something would happen in a few years after the funeral. Why did Historia Civilis even put his name in the video then smh.
Man, that was a close call. We killed a tyrant and restored the Repubic! Im sure the topic of civil war is solved and will never appear again!
Yeah no need to kill possible heirs who hold legitimacy
Yeah what a deep cut to mention someone so obscure! I guess he did get Caesar’s name, but still... Shows you how deep HC goes into stuff.
Antony may have been an idiot on multiple occasions, but how quickly and strategically he acted to safeguard Caesar's bloc and play the crowd to obtain popular support is masterful. I think he should be remembered for this moment in particular, above most others.
And saving the battle of Alesia
@@lupo1thewolf And the battles of Mutina and Phillipi. Mostly I see him as a very competent tactician, a mediocre strategist, and a fairly poor politician with strokes of genius.
@@KaiHung-wv3ul ya i can see him missing out on the hints that could have saved cesar, and i can bet he was oblivious about his brother's initiative against octavian.
I personally do not think he was able of elaborate subterfuge or interested in it. He was quite open about his feelings towards others (including the lovely letter to octavian) menacing when he wanted, acting like an elephant quite often.
Even at the funeral he seems genuine, that's something the crowd picks up on.
Caesar really was the embodiment of "if you strike me down now, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine"
And his name literally became synonymous with emperor
@@Choppytehbear1337Kaiser means emperor not king
@@Choppytehbear1337Not true. Kaiser is german for emperor, not king.
treating historical figures like they're fictional characters is cringy as fuck
Was "Caesar" a suicidal psychopath ?
We did it Cassius! We've saved the republic!
Lepidus, Anthony, Octavian: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
Lousy meme
ACogloc yeah it is getting repetitive.
*Actium time*
Augustus: Let me introduce a real leader to you!
time travel
Marc Anthony: Remember when I said I would honor Caesar's murderers?
Brutus: Yes, I did!
Marc Anthony: *I LIED!*
*Unleashes the Roman mob onto them*
Marc Anthony: I’ll be back
I mean that hot head just triggered the incompetent one.
It wasn't smart to threaten the only other living consul
cartmann94 Great line from a great film.
How the fuck was this made 1 week ago
Caesar's will truly shows what he wanted most in life, to leave a legacy that would never be forgotten.
Caesars problem wasn't he wouldn't have a legacy. Caesars problem was that his legacy had reached a point in which he was no longer a man seeking descendants to carry his name. Caesars legacy had become a legacy of all mankind. Legacies are left by men. He was declared a god immediately after his death. The didn't believe he would be honored in the afterlife, they thought he would CONTROL the afterlife. The parallels to Christ are uncanny. It took Jesus 4 centuries longer to get recognized as God than it did Caesar. His name is the definition of power, esteem, and respect. His name became a title. It's not possible to overstate his influence on the world for thousands of miles and thousands of years. His assassination is quite possibly the second most important and well known murder in history. And the only murder with more impact, became the foundation of the largest religion in the world. He may not be a god, but if he truly isn't, I'm gonna need to hear that from God
"If a man of Caesar's genius was unable to find a way out, what hope do we have now?"
I absolutely love this. Only bit of clarity comes after the fact when it's too late.
What would Caesar do...
Quick! Build a wall!
and the beautiful thing is that it was written to Cicero, who probably grudegly knew and respected Caesar's genius, even if he didn't agree with his actions.
@@MoritzvonSchweinitz Cicero absolutely respected Caesar's intelligence, and begrudgingly called him the greatest public speaker in Rome
@@Hugh_Morris Cicero was the greatest public speaker in Rome at the time, but Caesar was regarded as a solid runner up.
@@lycaonpictus9662 I agree, just saying Cicero called Caesar the best. He wouldn't have been counting himself in that
Caesar last clause of his will: "Ask Tribune Aquila if he's ok with all of the above"
Superb.
No thanks.
This is gold
@@luciuspontiusaquila-tribun5447 That wasn't a no!
Caesar's last joke.
"Nothing bad has happened"
"Nobody has been murderered"
Oh, Brutus, saying the future in an Orwellian way.
There is no war in Ba sing se
Antony at the funeral:
"TWENTY-THREE STAB WOUNDS!"
*Slams hand on marble table*
@@spyczech *_DiDn'T wAnT tO GiVe HiM a ChAnCe hUh??_*
@@concept5631 DID YOU FEEL ANGER?!?
Lmfaooo
I don't think even Caesar could've imagined how well making Octavian his heir would work out, best bit of foresight ever.
he didn't give him his name if he didn't see how much smart Octavian, they spend time togother in spain
That for sure, specially considering [spoiler] that he ordered to execute Caesarion[spoiler\]
@@vladimir4614 Yeah that is interesting. I don't think that Caesar ever intended Caesarion to be involved in Roman politics beyond being Pharaoh of Egypt. It really shows how quickly Augustus managed to grasp control of the Republic that he felt the need to kill Caesarion at such a young age.
@ and even then, Octavian was not not arrogant. His arrogance just paled when compares to that of Caesar, a man who 'flirted' with kingship.... literally anyone would seem humble in comparison.
@mPky1 I think it's a little harsh to say Augustus was FAR greater than Caesar. After all at 18 Octavian was made one of the most powerful people in the republic instantly because of Caesars will. He did amazing things with that power of course but Caesar at 18 was nearly bankrupt and was on the run from Sulla, and still managed to make himself the supreme authority in the Republic. Give Caesar Augustus' start he would probably have done amazing things with it as well. Not to take anything away from Augustus though he was incredible.
I see Octavius' square is coloured purple. *Good choice.*
Caesar 2: Rise of the Purple Square
Color of the royalty in the coming milenia
Keledran Von Sebottendorff red plus blue is purple. Brutus is blue and Caesar is red. A mix of ideas I suppose or maybe I’m just making shit up
@@duckasarus3663 caesar was red as that is what the roman legion wore in gaul. (i suspect)
@@METALFREAK03 he was wearing a red cape like superman in ceasar gaulic war their is a moment in the battle of alesia where famously ceasar was leading a counter attck convincing is man to keep fighting wearing is red cape to make sure every one chould see him leading from the front so the gaulic attack failed and after that they was no hope for vergincetorix he was trapped and shortly surrender after
Me in 2020: Damn I wish I could get like 3 months wages right about now.
Lol if you had that unemployement you couldve
I couldnt get it cause i was a stocker
Althought if i was fired or quit i wouldve gotten like x3 more money than i was making
@@phantompain2466 Yeah. I had to work too
@@phantompain2466 you should've quit
Honestly, I'm in awe. Put yourself in Julius's shoes for a second. Your heir apparent not only defeated your conspirators, but your right hand man (Marc Antony), expanded the the republic into an empire, and ushered in a 200 year long era of peace. That's summarizing his achievements, but he practically ascended the name into Godhood.
Damn, Augustus.
Augustus was smart politically but his military dealings was entirely done by agrippa, so i think augustus mostly got lucky that he had probably the best military strategist of the era under him who also didnt have any personal ambition. So i agree, but he got lucky too
Decimus being in Caesar’s will really broke my heart man.
For real man it hit hard - this and how he sent Labienus’ things back to him after he left him. I think Caesar was a pretty deep feeling guy under it all.
@@AfterAFashionASMR Just like Titus said "If a day has gone by where I had not helped my friends - it is a wasted day!"
@@AfterAFashionASMR ah
Don’t feel too bad he did kill a million Gauls and enslave just as many
Of course he was a complicated man, we live a couple thousand years later and we’re still talking about him. Of course he had friends and a sense of humor and private thoughts.
He also killed many, many, many people who did not need to die.
Cassius: we did it guys, we saved the city.
Marc Antony: HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!!
based
@@kava2340 Not based, he was elected Consvl at Vitae ( Consul for Life )
@@luketheunlucky7632 pretty based
Shame on the Senate of Rome for such barbarity. Shame.
God I wish that series had another 8 seasons
This was all an inside job from the benchmaker's guild
The plan was executed *perfectly* .
Cassius: I own such a dagger and if you follow in Caesar's footsteps *maybe you'll get to see it someday!*
Me & Antony: Yikes!
To be fair Antony was quite the troll by asking him if he had any daggers.
Classic Antony, lol.
@@lycaonpictus9662 I'm guessing he wasn't expecting Cassius to answer him like that.
Antony: Hey you got a dagger hidden in there? 😅
Cassius: *In the first age, in the first battle..*
Antony: Uh, Cassius-
Cassius: *When the shadows first lengthened, one stood..*
Antony: it was just a joke you know.
Cassius: *Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension..*
Antony: I'm going now.
Cassius was edgy before edgy was popular
@@merrittanimation7721
Cassius : *...He chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace...*
Marc Anthony : I SAID I'M GOING OUT. BY JUPITER! WHAT IN THE NAME OF PLUTO IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!?
Cassius: *...and with boiling blood he scoured the umbral plains, seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him.*
Marc Anthony : Why are you the way you are...?
LMFAO This was the crossover I didn't know I needed.
@@GalileoAV Whats's it from?
I am pulsating with excitement for Octavius Caesar's entry.
I feel like I need to cue the pillar men theme and keep one away from Magnus the Red for that comment.
Alexander Mackie HUMONGOUS TERMINATOR DADDIES
Sexy bloated containerghhh
I am so ready for that little purple square.
@@Valk369 Ogryns!?
The madness of the crowd makes complete sense. The soldiers wore the armor for Caesar. Used the weapons for Caesar.
The people were able to come out of poverty because of him. The jewelry and clothes might have been bought with the money he gave the people. They loved him and felt they owed him so much.
They showed it.
“Only time would tell if they were right.”
Narrator: They weren’t.
"Friends, Romans, countrymen..." - fiction
"Me sad :-(" - historically correct and true
Antony had so much potential and then he let his dick take over after meeting Cleopatra. What a waste. But Octavian, later to be known as Augustus kept a pretty peaceful and prosperous Rome for forty years. Caesar made a pretty good choice in choosing Octavian. He obviously saw something in him that no one else could've foreseen.
@@jaelge but on the other hand he ended the republic and his form of empire would create countless civil wars for the empire. every upstart with an army could be the emperor and arms were the legitimacy... thats a rule that followed all the way to the byzantines... i mean i hate "royal" inheritance, as if blood is an indicator of legitimacy to rule, but its far more stable than what octavian created.
@@jaelge Antony always seemed like a hot head military guy to me, I'm mainly judging him on how he handled Rome when Caesar was in Egypt, more interested in partying and campaigning than politics and leadership.
@@Cretaigne95: I think he held it together pretty well. I think the fear he likely instilled was the reason Caesar appointed him to maintain order and keep the fuck-wit politicians in the Senate in line, not to mention his apparent unwavering loyalty to his general at that time. But you're right as well, in that without a firm hand and sound mind to guide him he was only a formidable soldier with no real talent for the complexities of politics. But don't you agree that it would not be to Ceasar''s interest to appoint an ambitious man that might have the notion to usurp him in his absence?
I mean, maybe Antony didn't say it, but Shakespeare did... at this point in history isn't that still pretty cool?
THANK GOD someone is finally continuing the story past Caesar's assassination. Almost everyone stops there or fudges through this part until the 2nd triumvirate.
Yep, too often people stop when the story is getting good!
@@HistoryDose So much this. While Caesar was not there to witness it, the combined effect of his decisions, appointments, personal popularity and carefully designed will was enough to vanquish his foes, yet again.
Yo wtf dude, watch out for spoilers smh..
because the 2nd triumvirate is a mess lol
@@Robytmro even through death Caesar was a military genius.
Imagine if after the assassination caesar came back from the dead and tribune Aquila said “No Caesar can not be assassinated.”
Caesar just turning in his grave bitchily muttering "Of course, nobody had asked tribune Aquila."
@@phoenixfoster-smith8585 Caeser was cremated so he literally can't turn
@@HiHi-lh3ps his ashes be turning in a jar like
@Amanda 24 y.o - check my vidéó Caesar's name made him a salad
@Amanda 24 y.o - check my vidéó Technically his campaigns made him an Emperor too (he was acclaimed Imperator in 60 BC)
People have been writing fanfictions where Caesar’s killers get chewed up at the bottom of Hell for literal centuries.
Not a single man in history has ever misjudged the writing on the wall as hard as Brutus, Decimus and Cassius did.
Writing on the wall? I dont understand. Because ceasar is popular?
@@SammyJoeLouis
Sorry; I was making fun of how Brutus said he’d be remembered for his virtue, while the Triumvirs and Caesar would be remembered for vice.
And this is how we start the "Octavian Series" folks.
I don't want to spoil myself so I didn't look too much into it... but can we get a HIS YEAR: Octavian PLLS!?
I'm so HYPEEEE UGHHHHHHH I CAN'T WAIT!!!
His Year(s): Gaius Octavius Caesar (Augustus)
"Quintilius Varus... GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS!"
You don't know how much I am begging for this!
Ceasar's campaigns made him a king
Ceasar's murder made him a martyr
Ceasar's funeral made him a god
Ceasar's salad made me thin
Then lowered to pizza. What happened?
Rick Sanchez 👏👏👏🥇
@@danny90099 What a devilishly good comment!
Makes much more sense if "Ceasar's heir made him a god"
Pretty much Everybody after reading Caesar's Will:
Antony:Holy,
Decimus: Sh*t.
Fulvia: OH MY GOD!
5:01 oh how well this has aged
I love rewatching the videos from this channel, and I double checked the comments to see if anyone else had noticed that too.
Oh trust me it gets better
Given that they had roughly the same budget, I can't believe how much better this is than Game of Thrones!
GoT seasons 1-4 were top, seasons 5-6 average and 7-8 were utter trash.
@@mariano98ify As bad as season 7 was even it doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the utter travesty that was season 8.
Season 7 was bad
Season 8 was as bad as Bibulu's political career.
@@mariano98ify In retrospect 1 to 4 was like a pg 18 soap opera.
@@JonatasAdoM like parents would allow their kids to watch it.
"If I end up dying a violent death, I want a life-sized mannequin of my mangled body to be displayed at my funeral. Just to spice things up a little, you know?" - Caesar, probably
How do I want my corpse disposed of? Quickly and unexpectedly.
@@koatam For a dictator his disposal was surprisingly democratic.
@@michaelbalfour3170 He was an epic populist. Of course people of rome will love him.
On the one hand "If a man of Caesar's Genius was unable to find a way out, what hope do we have now?" is a pretty badass quote, but watching this 2 years after it came out, looking at the playlist and the next episode titled "Cisero's Finest Hour" is badass in its own right as an answer to that question.
Also worth noting- this is probably the Roman definition of the word Genius, which we associate today with intellect, but in that time was a word more associated with the favor of the Gods by my understanding- an idea that someone who carries the favor of the gods will be gifted with a clarity of vision, a skill and competency and ability to see the path forward that will bring them victory, glory, and success. That vision, that ability to lead and chart a course through troubled waters, so to speak, is what the word "Genius" meant to the Romans, and is probably what they were talking about here, and IDK about y'all, but I think that makes the quote even more of a badass endorsement of Caesar.
If caesar lived, imagine all the good he would have done
The sheer devotion of the Roman People to a supposed “Tyrant” was pretty underestimated by the Conspirators, Jesus.
It turns out if you do a lot of nice things for a lot of people they like you especially if you pay for it by killing a few million people that don't matter. The anti Caesar faction offered nothing but the terrible status Quo.
Jesus was pretty sanguine about the devotion of the Roman people to their tyrants, as it turned out.
Sounds like another case of politicians out of touch with the people.
@@Kashparrot Ex-fucking-xactly. 2000 years latter, those self pretentious, supposedly highly educated ruling class politicians have learnt nothing.
@Sari Çizmeli Mehmet Ağa
When it comes to populist dictators like Caesar, you're right: they help the people but harm the politicians. When it comes to military juntas and political coupes, very rarely.
Mob: “GET OUT OF THE WAY!”
Lepidus: “No.”
Mob: “Understandable, have a nice day.”
lol
Tbf, there was no way a mob could fight well armed and armored legionnaires.
Lepidus: "look i liked the guy as much as anyone but we are NOT using the temple to mutherfucking Jupiter as his funeral pyre. Go burn down some court houses instead. None of the gods are going to curse us all over that."
Mob: "Fair point I guess."
The dude somehow managed to deflect a raging mob. Not calm it down, no; they were still hysterical, but they still went elsewhere. He just rolled a nat 20 in charisma.
Lepidus may have gotten the short end of history's stick, but he definitely had some balls to handle a situation like that.
Dude had 5 triumphs and got to bone the Cleopatra for several months on a River boat while being guarded by 5000 loyal men for several months. Those two things alone made his a life worth living forget all the other awesome parts
So for those that want more info. Caesar left 300 Sestercii to every male citizen of the Republic. I pegged this at somewhere around 1.1 million people in my own studies. Also Octavius is the correct term but barely. His named was Gaius Octavian Thurinus. He is commonly called Octavius after the adoption of Caesar. His name after the adoption was Gaius Julius Caesar. Even after he became Augustus in 27 BC he would always be called Caesar by the people and Gaius by his many friends.
How much is that in today's money?
@@woofy2000 the video creator said it was the equivalent of 3 months wages for the average person. Though this was back when the vast majority of wealth was held by societal elites.
Antony's message: "Someone call an ambulance...BUT NOT FOR ME!"
17:18 "And the pyre was lit"
Wouldn't expect anything less from Caesars pyre, it better be lit AF fam
Man Caesar is such a mixed character, on one hand he's a Tyrant taking as much power as he can get, on the other he put everyone in his will and actually did lots of good stuff for Rome.
Something I really like about this channels style is that
You never pull the classic
“Yes, THAT octavius”
Or
“Remember that name, it’ll be important later”
No hints, no spoilers, just events in order as they happened
It also makes the videos more rewatchable as you get more used to the names and understand the story bits by bits better
Way better in terms narrative when you avoid acting like things are predetermined or at least end oriented, it really makes things come alive when you can see the possibilities of the present in that moment
Other channels do that sometimes for the benefit of some viewers.
this.
He *does* do that, though. Do you not remember when he mentions the statue of Brutus two videos ago? In my eyes, that foreshadowing and crossreferencing are pretty common narrative tropes of his.
"by the way, on Caesar's way to Munda, he brought his nephew with him, someone called Octavius, just thought I should mention that"
HC says, slowly zooming in to Octavius's name
"consider it mentioned"
*Me* : _"We should thank the assassins for killing a tyrant"_
*Mark Antony* : _"HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME! Shame on the House of Brutii for such barbarity, shame!"_
Could you imagine HC describe a Rtw game like his caesar videos.
When the mob amassed before Cassius' house, demanding he come out, the first thing that popped into my head was "Atia of the Julii, I call for justice"
Ironic coming from you, Mr. Palpatine.
And he was Antony's husband
@@sortagoodish8491 He is the senate.
Ah yes, living in quarantine. Cassius and Brutus must've known what that's like...
Splicer87 haha
Et tu, Covid...
@@steve1978ger we survived 26 plagues
But the 27th delivered a fatal blow.
The plague that humanity raised and treated as its own.
Corona-chan.
Basically what happened is a bunch of powerful men were so delusional that they assumed the people hated Caeser as much as they did and would celebrate his death with them. What they didn't factor in is that the reason they hated him is the reason the people loved him. They hated him because he actually gave power to the plebeians. He reopened an oratory school for the plebs (the plebs were practically incapable of even arguing their case in court because there was no school of rhetoric that accepted plebs. Democracy, folks. Can't even defend yourself unless you're upper class), that the optimates closed down, because they didn't want the plebeians to learn rhetoric. Brutus rented property at, I think, 40% interest, and Caesar curbed that.
Basically what I'm saying is, these coneheads were so dense they didn't realize that the plebeians hated their guts and they had just killed the only man in the patrician class they cared for. Caesar wasn't a tyrant, not even a dictator. He was the dude that gave the oligarchs of Rome a taste of their own medicine. He was a tyrant only if you were a penny-pinching landlord or a loanshark.
How delusional, how dense, how stupid, how... Retarded! Did they have to be to think that the plebs would support their murder?
After the assassination they closed the school, if you were wondering. As if that was a big surprise.
0:38 The Conspirators were proud
1:19 The crossed the Pamerium
1:48 Decimus, Cassius, Brutus 😊 😆
The People of Rome 😨😱😰😐😶
3:15 Potential Leader?
Brutus - Famous Name, Expeller of King
4:53 Gladiator Barricade
5:44 We want to “Restore Republican Ideals”
7:32 Senate Meeting
Senate broadly sided with Conspirators
9:14 Amnesty
9:46 Cicero did not feel Free to speak his mind
11:06 Caesar’s Reform Minded Will
12:56 Mark Antony felt betrayed by Caesar’s Will
13:21 Rome’s, Ceasar’s Funeral
14:33 Antony
• Senate took an oath
• Oh Jupiter
• To The Future
• Gladly Give my life before Caesar
16:40 Mob Carry Caesar’s body to The Jupiter Temple, then lit it on a pyre 🔥
18:27 Caesar’s Assassins lose The People’s Support
Brutus & Cassius Flee
21:04 Decimus
Wow I was not expecting that you would go further in the story of Rome. Pleasant surprise indeed!
Avro same when i got the notification i felt the hype
I was expecting that he would eventually, but I didn't expect it to be this early. I thought he'd finish some other things first. I'm glad to have been wrong though. The English Civil war stuff was fascinating, but my true love will always be Rome.
I really want him to continue his Alexander the Great stuff, but I guess it just doesn't draw the same number of views.
@@jesseberg3271 My guess is that the patreons voted for more of this, as other youtube history channels have already covered Alexander the Great in pretty good detail but there's a bit of a gap for this time period.
@@BoxStudioExecutive I'm a Patron but havent been in any of the polls. I'll look what's voted for.
I agree though, Alexander has already been covered on CZcams. It just makes more sense for Historia Civilis to walk his own path
I'm lost for words when I imagine what Octavius felt when he heard what Caesar had given to him. Caesar trusted the mere eighteen years old boy as the sole man to inherit his astronomical ambition. It should had been life-changing experience for Octavius...
Caesar was able to recognize talent and prowess when he saw them. To him Octavian was the most suitable candidate. He didn't really consider Mark Antony capable of maintaining his policies and fulfilling the, nicely put by you, astronomical ambition. He was too impulsive, too rash - shortly before the assassination both men had fallen out with each other, not enough for Antony to team up with the conspirators, but prolly this was another indication for Caesar he wasn't wrong about selecting Octavian as his heir.
It is amazing, and the incredible thing is Octavian managed it! Caesar saw prodigious talent in that boy.
@@josephking9337 it wasn't but, he had cesarion with cleopatra. in the video it says he was his sisters grandson.
@@josephking9337 Born to a foreign mother or not, he was his son, and had he been given his name he'd commanded immense power the same way Octavian did... had he been able to wield it. Which he wasn't, obviously, as babies usually don't do that very well.
The reason is more simple and two fold. Yes, Caesar knew talent when he saw it (even in raw, mostly untapped form like Octavian), AND, Cesarion was literally an infant when Caesar died. Had he put him as his political heir in his will he'd ensured he didn't make it even into prepubescence...
I mean it's not as if the kid had a long life ahead of him (and Caesar had his chosen heir to thank for it), but you know, if he wasn't named in his will the kid had a chance to live into adulthood at least. Had he been named, he would've had none.
@@ramjb Caesarion was his real son. Octavian was adopted. So Caesar chose Octavian. That's why!
Talk about not reading the room! The Romans LOVED Caesar
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men-
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Based.
Thank you good lad
Brutus is an honorable man ;)
I fear I wrong the honourable men whose daggers have stabbed Caesar - I do fear it!
Here was a Ceaser, when comes such another!
I always found it crazy how 2k years later and we can get a day by day breakdown of what happened. With how much pillaging, plundering and looting was done in the ancient world it's amazing any documentation at all survived.
Libraries
@@nicodangond5822 RIP Alexandria
@@firingallcylinders2949 irony
On the other hand, consider that days like these are among the few days where we DO have surviving moment-by-moment accounts from the Classical period. It was such an important event, that everyone who could, took detailed accounts.
Whereas today, I can in a moment find a detailed accounting of every minor league sports event and what two ex-girlfriends had for dinner Saturday night.
Although, given the trend towards digital stovepiping in the interest of monetization, and planned obsolescence, it's likely that our species may see a similar "dark age" looking back on today, a few thousand years from now.
It's less a matter of what individual things survived all this time as what people thought was worth saving and what people thought was worth copying. Caesar was immensely popular both in life and in death, no matter how many people he pissed off, there were still plenty who loved him. Therefore did written by or about him got prioritized for saving fun destruction and for copying for posterity. We have lots of ancient Greek philosophical and historical writings that reference other ones we no longer have access to, because people thought they were more definitive, they thought highly of their authors, or other similar reasons.
It has been 2,067 years since the day of his assasination in 44 B.C. to today March 15, 2023. Just thought someone would like to know.
Caesar really seemed like he actually cared about the people. He didn’t act like a politician he just was himself and he cared for everyone. Not something you see that often
What makes you think that?
@@haldir3120 A number of things.
Caesar oversaw the restoration of the grain dole to a functioning status, the formal integration of Cisalpine Gaul, land reform to help restore a semblance of the middle-class small farmers, which were failing because the men were often being called out to fight wars for Rome, and subsequently being bought out by large plantations using slave labor (slaves and land which were taken through conquest fought by said middle-class Romans), cash bailouts for failing farmers willing to sell their land, the unconditional release of Pompeiian-aligned legions during the Civil War, and the large sums of money paid to every Roman citizen and loyal soldier, which came directly out of his pocket.
For as brutal and ruthless as he was in conquest, he had the interests of the Roman people in mind.
Caesar depended on the common people as his power base.
Among his peers, the nobility, he was looked down upon.
With all the symbolism near the end of his life, I think the man was trying to become a king.
And a king that is loved by the people has more powerful than a nobleman simply tolerated by his peers.
Caesar slaughtered untold numbers of Gauls in a bloodthirsty campaign of conquest. He brought over a million slaves to Rome, and slaves were the main reason for the crushing poverty among the plebians. Rich aristocrats bought up thousands of slaves and used them to work their vast plantations, driving out tenant farmers. Caesar was just one more populist who was the cause of the problems he made such a big show of claiming to fix.
"Who will tell me that is not murder, who will tell my legions, who love Caesar, that that is not murder!"
Soon my son.. Soon
"I've been outplayed ..... by a boy. Take a letter: to Brutus Junius and Gaius Cassius Longinus. Ave from Rome..."
‘Who will stand against the motion…’
The giant wax figure is the equivalent of the ''where did he touch you'' doll
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"I don't think we thought this one through, lads."
4:50 "...they decided to use their armed gladiators to barricade themselves on the Capitoline Hill. It's worth noting that there has been a lot of second guessing as to whether or not this was a smart move, since occupying the capitol seems less like a political movement thing and more like an insurrectionist thing."
You can say that again
13:28
Me: Huh, that does seem pretty over the top. I wonder how Caesar's funeral could be seen particularly crazy.
Roman People: *Burn down most of the forum and nearly destroy an important religious site*
Me: Oh.
Seems pretty normal behavior for the time
Conspirators: "We freed Rome from the tyranny. Now we can have the Republic back!"
(years later)
Augustus: *becomes Emperor eliminating the Republic for ever*
Conspirators: "Bruh...."
Good fucking riddance roman republic
The Senate: "Let's give this man unlimited power"
Also the Senate: "Hey this dude acts like he is a king. He is threat that needs to go"
It wasnt unlimited. It was only for ten years. Caesar made it king like by removing that term limit.
And that power was not given but rather taken at sword point btw
They probably voted to give him that power so they could later accuse him of being a tyrant.
@@haldir3120they gave him that initially
@@haldir3120the 10 year dictatorship that is
@@aaronstorey9712 'given' after he arrived with army in Rome and occupied it. That is not what to give entails
Best history channel on CZcams. Painstakingly researched, extraordinarily well-written, presented with appropriately haunting music and a unique minimalist art style. Fantastic stuff. I've watched most of your Rome videos several times. If you're looking for ideas for the next big thing I'd love to know more about the Holy Roman Empire. Please keep up the amazing effort.
His sources can be iffy, but there's no doubt he knows how to make history fun to listen to.
"Me sad. :-("
The world's greatest eulogy...
Antony: Is that a dagger in your toga or are you just happy to see me?
Cassius, cranky because he's been separated from his boyfriend Brutus for the evening: it's a dagger
a r t
10:43 Cassius really said fuck around and find out.
When you are about to kill someone, never be afraid of “what’ll happen if you fail” but be afraid of “what’ll happen if you succeed”
2:50 "So you got Caesar. What will you do now?"
*"We never thought we'd get this far..."*
"... So the plan from here on out is that there is no plan. Sometimes, you can over plan these things."
- Marcus Brutus, 44 BC, probably
Me *trying to go about my day*
*sees new Historia Civilis video*
*immediately chucks everything out the window and begins watching it*
Absolumen!!
This is THE best channel on CZcams.
Just an amazing job on the videos, and really the inflection and tone of Civilias voice are very calming.
Who is in your display picture
Best day of the "shelter in place" so far.
Stands below your window with giant bag
Aat hes Historia Civilis
@@gentlemanfarmer6042 100% agreed.
Other channels like this
Kings and Generals
Fire of Learning
Unbiased history of Rome
Voices of the Past
If you have any suggestions for similar style channels please let me know
Never thought I’d ever miss a red square this much :(
RIP Caesar 🟥
Can't wait for the next one! This quarantine got my rewatching your whole series.
I refused to watch this until now because I didn't want to accept that he was gone
Yeah I feel you,But he has been gone for 2 millennia
@@DeathBone4656 He'd still be alive today if it wasn't for those traitors.
@@AnonymousCZcamsr69 they say the whole murder was staged by him and his best friends. He could be still living peacefully somewhere in Gaul.
Ik, I love Cicero, but I love Caesar more
I love Cicero as a statesman,He was a good politican,but Caeser in my opinion is better because of his conquests,battles. When Caeser was shoved into an impossible situation fortune always favored him in the end. Though Caeser was brutal.He didnt purge which I like but what he did to Gual and others was just terrible.
Back to Rome once more Marvelous
you're first, absolute legend
Ave Roma
dang that is creepy
Great video, as always. Very impressed that the quality keeps getting higher and higher... It's thoroughly researched, exciting, funny - I know many history youtube channels, but yours is one of a kind. Congrats and looking forward to the next video.
Caesar's accomplishments politically and militarily were amazing. He got into lots of losing battles that he turned around. He also quickly solved many difficult political situations to bring peace to Rome. Pompey the Great does not seem to have been that amazing but got his title from Sulla.
8:33 "HEE WAASS AA COOOONNNSSSUUUUULLLLL OOFF ROOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEEEE!!!!"
To die in this sordid way
Shame!
Thinking of Richard Burton LOL
22 minutes of relief from this damn quarantine, lovely!
14:14 ah yes the wonderful speech of "Me Sad. :("
Me sad that they praise Caesar :(
I love your videos! Simple, informative, and fun to watch!
I hope you continue to make more videos about the events following Caesar's death, about Augustus and the other emperors, and so on.
I would love to watch them all! Thanks for these amazing vids!
Anthony: "Is that a dagger or are you just happy to see me?"
Cassius: "Come closer and you might find out..."
I actually thought Cassius was going for the d joke when he started out with "I own such a dagger...."
@@anjasnyder7996 so he threatened to RAPE Anthony if he acted like Caesar?
Its a shame that HBO cut this to a guy in a pub going
“ and brutes was like blah blah blah republic this and republic that, then Antony got up and threw Caesers toga into the crowd and it went up in fucking flames”
Probably had to do it because the show had been axed to 2 seasons. :(
@@FF-qv8en last i recall the show was effectively canceled while they were already filming the second season, so all the shortcomings of the first season were there by design. The second season is where you can genuinely see just how many shortcuts they were making in order to finish the show.
edit: wait.. i think i might be mistaking in thinking that the funeral episode happens in the 1st season.. it probably did happened in the 2nd season... sorry it has been a while since i last watched.
@@joaozin156 haha no worries, I double checked - Caesar's murder occurs in the first episode of season 2 so naturally the speech part that came after must've also been S2, possibly in the same episode or on episode 2 of S2.
lol
Budget
Fascinating. Nice job on the presentation of the rarely discussed aftermath of one of the more seismic events in history. It's not easy to present absolute chaos with such clarity and in such an engaging manner.
You know. The populist speech at his funeral, getting the crowd into a frenzy. Caesar would have wanted that.
Senate: "A tyrant has been killed."
People: "You mean the man who passed through the badly-needed land reform bill you've been opposing since the Grachhi?"
Senate: "Um...."
People: "You mean the man whose kept literally every promise he made while you and General Puss-Pey were finding bigger knives to backstab him with!?"
Senate: "Uuummmm..."
People: "You mean the man who doubled the size of the Republic and you allowed not one, not two, but FIVE triumphs, one of which he had to cancel because of your political BS!?"
Senate: "B-but he wore those triumphal clothes all the time, and..had that chair.."
People: "BuT he wOre tHoSe trIUmpaL--READY JAVELINS!"
He was trying to take over the republic and deserved what was coming to him. The senators who prevented any reform are guilty too. They created the environment for Caesar to take over.
@@Padraic54 So because he tried to take over a republic he has spent blood and sweat expanding and improving, he deserved to be stabbed to death? Huh, cool.
@@izanagi711 Yes. Fighting on behalf of your country and even making neccecary reforms don't make it ok to declare yourself king. Obviously.
@@lorddashdonalddappington2653 nothing is wrong with monarchy especially when the republic itself was feeble and corrupt to the core. We do not know that Caesar was even going to declare himself monarch. What we do know is that he did good by the Roman people and they knew it and loved him for it. The people of Rome are what made Rome, not the Senate, not the Republic.
@@izanagi711 He didn't want to improve it. he wanted to destroy it. There's a significant difference.
Now I'm not going to make excuses for the cowards who killed him, who without an exception owed Caesar a lot (in several cases even their life), and killed him in a mob and even looking away like the coward rats they were, because almost none of them would have the guts to do it one on one, much less looking him into the eye - but the fact is that Caesar's motivations weren't to improve the republic, but take it for himself. Which kind of is...destroying the republic on it's own.
That he had popular support is also meaningless. Plenty of tyrants have had plenty of popular support in the past, doesn't make them any less tyrant or any more lawful. Law in any state prevails over "people's will". Because, and there's plenty of instances of it nowadays, people is easy to manipulate, while a serious legal system that takes itself seriously, is not.
And Caesar was brilliant in many things. Probably the biggest of them being an expert manipulator of the people's minds and will. Yes, he had popular support. Big deal. He still was tearing the republic (the last pieces that were left standing after the previous decades) down and turning it into his own personal dominion. His work was cut short, but Octavius saw it finished for himself. See what followed later.
You know what this means... our beloved HC will continue this paramount timeline and cover the next civil war! We love you Historia Civilis!
As I learned recently, Et tu Brute? can be translated in a few different ways because Latin is a language where a lot of ideas and words wear a lot of different hats.
Brute can be used as an affectionate nickname for someone named Brutus, however because of that it can also be used to mean "my son, who is Brutus", and the final (and my personal favourite) is that it can also be used as a scornful, almost sneered, "boy".
So Caesar was possibly calling Brutus out as an ungrateful bastard (at least in Shakespeare's retelling).
Who's your daddy?
Brute is also a declension of Brutus which implicates him not as the subject of the sentence but rather as a passive actor
This is top 5 history channel no jokes love your story telling and the sound is just amazing. The visuals are super simple but honestly I don't need much more.
HC in the last Caesar episode:
"...along with an eighth statue of the man who drove them (the kings) out. That guy's name happened to be Brutus, I just mentioned that for no reason, let's move on."
HC this episode: 4:20