Barbarians at the Gates: Unbiased History - Rome XVIII
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One such artist being jamesrinereart, who made this great piece pBa4IbrgFK...
And Germs would spend 8 centuries larping as Romans, the irony.
I'd say WW2 they stopped larping and went full Roman.
@@yosefshekelberg5433 WW2 they went full germanic mode
@@yosefshekelberg5433 it's Roman to destroy civilization?
@@amienabled6665it’s Roman to absolutely fucking hate Jews
well what do you call the byzantines? they were greeks larping. in the end most of all these cultures are indoeuropean so we all came as the first steppe horde invading europea and splitting into greeks, celts, slavs, germans, and later on latins
Stilicho : I'm sorry i failed to save the empire
Aurelian: No, the empire failed you
💔
just wait until Majorian...
That somehow makes me feel better
disputed name majorian restored half of the western empire in four years and died such as life
I'm not crying. No...
>Decides to slaughter women and children.
>Still lost many men doing so.
Honorius, Emperor of Rome, everybody.
Ironically, if those pr*etorian weren't abolished by constantine they would easily restore order by killing those weakling that doesn't pay them to not kill them. And many of the great late roman era general would rose to become the emperor through that, but pr*etorian being pr*etorian i would assume it would end pretty bad(for the general).
Some badass women and children
@Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix How could Honorius forget to think. He lacked a brain to begin with.
@@peterongan9655 the pr*torian chad to virgin assassination ratio was uneven (and not in a good sense); the smallest glimpse of a pr*torian accidentally clubbing a mad tyrant to death is certainly not worth bankrupting the economy so they were disposed of for good without a single casualty.
@@peterongan9655 thought you said unironically at first and was about to start channeling the spirit of Constantine and raging like a mad man
Do you remember when this series was about our roman heroes destroying anything that stood in their paths? Good times.
Feels like so long ago
That was as little as two episodes ago. And we still have Justinian to look forward to, although not in this series. Dovah might cover that in another one.
Majorian is still ahead!
@Septimius Severus Justinian didn't bankrupt anything; the plague did. He rebuilt Constantinople, too.
@@Nonamearisto i doubt we'll get Justinian, sadly. but the Rome finale will be great, at least we can look forward to that
The fact that chads are almost nonexistent is just terrifying and sad
Edit: theodosius did nothing wrong btw
Edit2: stilicho is a true hero of rome
This comment re-appears every single episode lmfao.
No hot Wojacks, and no chads! It almost feels like school again!
Chad is a mentality, Rome just gets it first.
R-Rome delenda est...? :(
@@ReformedSooner24 😞
At the start of the series: Chad Romans going around slapping barbarians and having a good time.
Now: Tragic heroes desperately trying to save a falling empire from its enemies both inside and outside.
Me at the start of the series: haha, isn't this hilarious, completely warping the history to be ironic about the title
Me in the middle of the series: wow he's actually putting effort into this and telling a great story, I love his use of foreshadowing
Me at this point in the series: somewhere that's special for me... *sobs*
@Jake Equinox they were the CCP and they were here
@Jake Equinox Who would be the Honoria?
@Jake Equinox China is more like Parthia
All good things must come to an end
Have you ever heard The tragedy of Flavius Stilicho, the dutiful? They say he was so loyal that he would choose death over hurting the empire he adored...
He saved an Empire that would not save him.
Not really.... the tragedy of Flavius Aethius the loyal was way better.....
@@jasonbelstone3427 ironic
@@jasonbelstone3427 is it possible to learn this strategy?
It’s not a story the plebs would tell you
Stillicho is the embodiment of "What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"
Paarthurnax is best waifu
Very insightful. Thank you, based Psyduck!
Now that’s some big brain anime.
He should have been made Emperor.
@@nicholasrocha2414
Can't make a Vandal an emperor
“Augustus, something very bad has occurred”
Honorius: “Is the chicken dead?”
“No.”
“Has Rome been destroyed?”
“YES.”
“But the chicken´’s okay?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Alright then.”
Honorius was insane but he wasnt even that bqd of an emperor he had no men to do anything anymore
🐔
🐥
Why didn't Alaric just sack Ravenna and beat the crap out of Honorius ?
@@eduardogutierrez4698 Eastern Rome sent a garrison of almost 9000 troops to Ravenna, and not only that, Ravenna itself was surrounded by a swamp, making any attack on the city fruitless. Only way to take it was to cut its harbor off, with the barbarians lacking any navy for that
The only thing that will fix the heart in my hole is the Justinian episode.
Basil II > Justinian
@@lordofhostsappreciator3075 you got that backwards my guy
@@lordofhostsappreciator3075 This is the worst thing I have seen all year
@@robotux7316 Do you want Basil II to burn your eye because he current looking for other eye that isn't a Bulgar
"the heart in my hole"?
IT IS NOT FAIR, THAT AURELIAN GETS MURDERED AFTER 5 YEARS OF RULE, BUT HONORIUS CAN JUST DIE NATURALLY AFTER 30 YEARS OF RULE
If you ever feel useless in life, just think about Honorius and Arcadius.
I instantly feel better
Same but then I remember that they ruined the most glorious empire the earth has ever seen and will never be seen agan. Wastes of sperm
How do you go from a chad like Count Theodosius the Elder to his son and grandsons, H*norius and Arcadius
Dragon Bones cowardly degenerates is an understatement
@Jan Sitkowski In whole history.
@@dragonbones3885 "Great men rarely have great sons"
The situation is so bad that when Stilicho went east i said: “Thank God it’s only the Sassanids”
It’s crazy to think that a few episodes ago they were the big bad...now they shiver in terror.
At least until they get Khosrau, and maybe his dad Khavad.
But they would be in Byzantine history.
Not sure if Hephatalites are in same era as Attila.
@@powerist209 hepthalites were huns. Another name for them was the white hun( white being the colour of the south). They would go on to but fuck everyone from the bay of Bengal to the Euphrates.
What Attila was to the romans, the white huns were to the Persians and Indians, except if attillas death made them even stronger.
Attila was the scourge of God. The white huns were the vengeance of God, striking down upon the east like a hammer.
@@connorgolden4 Romans never shivered in terror, at the end of their civilization with only kids and old men left to fight and some good Goths the romans were the the first to defeat Attila in open field
At least now we get to look forward to Heraclius' tussle with them.
And here i thought that 2020 couldnt get anymore depressing.
@woopsiguessidied n Yea I'm not looking forward to the 470s. At this point I am just Hoping against hope that Dovah will cover my boys Justinian and Belisarius, however unlikely that may be.
@woopsiguessidied n chad Ragner. Also nord history is very mystery
@woopsiguessidied n So he's going to discuss the history of the Germs? Revolting.
Clark Pombuena he says he doesn’t want to satirise the Muslims, he’s scared he’ll be called islamophobic, but that does leave the possibility for a Justinian episode. He could always just end it there, with the Last Roman, Flavius Belisarius.
America is the late Roman Empire
“...bidubadipadi...
...gugabobabi...”
*Wise words from emperor Arcadius.*
Oh God even his bust looks feeble.
Yeah he was described as the most boring emperor
Top 10 Roman Rappers
Arcadius was probably mentally ill. Honorius had no such excuse.
The wisest he ever spoke
How to not cry remembering the sack of Rome:
1 - Lay down
2 - Cry a lot
3-cry a lot more
"The" sack of Rome? Even ignoring the Gallic sack in ancient times, there's still the Vandal sack of the city to go. And the REAL damage to be done in the Gothic Wars which were fought AFTER the last Western Emperor was gone, when Rome kept changing hands over and over again between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ostrogoths. The really ironic part if that said Goths were actually doing a decent job of running Italy and leaving the city of Rome to run itself, under a Roman bureaucracy.
@Aristocles did you listen to the Thomas Hodgkins audiobook, "Theodoric the Goth"? Good stuff.
Im actually ok with it. I have been a goth fan since i saw that one history channel documentary. I mean allaric was a chill dude until the battle of the frigido. Then he went apeshit on rome.
Just wait until it gets sacked again.
Theodosius get call "The Great" by being terrible.
Stilicho trying to help the dying empire "Enemy of the State"
Ironic.
Theodosius wasn't bad lol
@@be2081 Yeah he wasn't so bad.
But why he have the name "the Great" which he wasn't that great at all.
@@be2081 He wasn't THAT bad as his failures of sons true.
@@SurfParadise52 he was pretty great, the perspective of this video is the one of a pagan historian. Theodosius managed to stabilize the empire only two die shortly with no heirs other than his 12 year old honorius and 17 year old arcadius.
The State slowly became an enemy of all for which The Roman Empire once proudly stood. It's defenders became weak and incompetent while those who sought to destroy it from within disguised themselves in virtue and compassion.
Broke: white w*men in wheat fields
Woke: roman emperors in wheat fields
EVRPA.....
good one
If you thought Aurelian's death was depressing, imagine it happening once more, but before he could finish the job (say when Palmyra rebels again), and without a handful of competent chads to keep the Empire running. That's Majorian.
Aurelian died knowing he’d succeeded, Majorian died knowing he’d failed
@Robzah That bastard Ricimer...
CURSE YOU RICIMER, YOU GERM
I find you in every history related video.
i am something of a historian myself (;))
I've always enjoyed how the "barbarians" in this series are always depicted as groups of basically orcs, mutant savages and even demons made flesh. (as in mortal but demonic) I Also liked some of the suprisingly hot demon girls from your Constantine episode.
*"remember evil tits are...still tits"*
-By Constantine...probably
evil tits are stil tits ok
And the huns were basically an ancient more violent evil
Persian succubus.
@@lucareali7645 Huns were basically the fucking White Walkers.
It basicly gives kinda perspective from the romans why they sacked the barbarian country side.
This is a few days worth delayed cause I was very busy with lots of other real life issues, among them making a Subscribestar account for those that hate Patreon, and learning how to Crypto, which was a success. You can now send me all of your shitcoins in the Description's addresses while i make the series' final, even sadder episode. tchau tchau
I know that you keep saying that you'll let the Patreon bois decide where you go next but in case they make the wrong decision, what do you think of just carrying on with the Byzantines? Of all the history channels on youtube, you'd be the first to cover literally 90% of their emperors.
Or the Hundred Years War; same as the above. A lot of cool characters in that, England were massive underdogs in every battle, it's not a time that's covered much.
will you do one on justinian?
But what will happen to your channel after the end of the roman empire?
make byzantine series
Just give us a Justinian Episode at the end
When in the opening, Stilicho's barbarian half turns to civilised roman, and is granted eternal rest amongst other legends such as Aurelian, Augustus and Trajan, man, the feels...
So once the Germans are civilized, will they be Chads like Stilicho? If videos like this about German History were made I guess the likes of Charlemagne, Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck , Helmut von Moltke and Frederick II would be Chads. Wilhem I and Wilhem II would be wojaks, and Hitler would be a virgin.
Eduardo Gutierrez oh and give Albert Speer the scribe writer type robe/uniform.
Eduardo Gutierrez Chad Hohenstaufens all the way.
Eduardo Gutierrez keep in mind, unbiased history is told firmly from the correct Roman perspective of things. I’d expect future series to change the Chad to virgin spectrum accordingly. Though yes, Hitler would probably still be a virgin
@@eduardogutierrez4698 "and Hitler would be a virgin" You...you have no idea how true that is...An Austrian larper who wasn't even BORN in Germany pretending to be just that, a German.
There’s a Stilicho shaped hole in my Stilicho shaped heart.
But a civilized one.
In some alternate Earth, Stilicho prevailed. Great disasters and struggles still followed later, of course, yet others took the torch and eventually, the Fall of Night was beaten back.
I must point out that the reason why Rome depended so much on barbarian mercenaries and often rebellious "foederati" by the end was due to serfdom. Most Romans by the 400s AD were serfs bound to serve the lord of an estate, and thus legally unqualified to go fight. The few who were drafted anyway were untrained, badly armed, and were nothing like the citizen-farmer soldiers of the Republican period, who trained regularly, were well-armed (especially for the time) and were loyal to the state due to having a stake in it as a landowner; the state recognized their property rights, gave them courts to settle property disputes, organized them into armies to defend the land they owned, etc.. As such, we find a MUCH larger late Western Roman Empire fielding far smaller armies than the much smaller Republic did during the Punic Wars.
I know this episode was long enough as it was and some uprisings were mentioned, but there wasn't much detail as to why there were so many revolts from within, on top of the barbarian invasions, attempted usurpations, civil wars, etc.
Thanks Diocletian
What about the East? It managed to survive to 15th century and even managed to retake Africa and Italy under Justinian.
All with said system.
@@powerist209 The East was too hot, dry, and rocky for large latifundia plantations to trap most of the population in serfdom, apart from the river valley of Egypt. Also, the East was home to important trade routes the Empire could more easily tax for revenue, unlike the more agricultural West.
Of course, in the long run, it was the former Western Roman Empire which gave us the Renaissance, Age of Exploration, Reformation (for good and ill), Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, capitalism, and most of the largest multinational empires abroad, all while Greece was suffering under Ottoman rule, unable to rule itself let alone conquer most of the world and imprint its legal, linguistic, cultural, and other systems on almost the entirety of the rest of the world.
@@powerist209 The East made its own reforms.
This is the mistake most people make. They mistakenly assume the population of the later Roman Empire was much larger than it was during the Republican era. It wasn't. You're not wrong on most of the population working on plantations but most didn't want to fight in the first place, their landowners would intentionally try to hide them from Legionary recruiters, and most importantly, the population had been decimated by two massive plagues. Take a look at the population of Rome for example. At it's height it was well over a million, if not millions, of people living within the city and its suburbs. By the fall of the Roman Empire it barely had 50,000 people still living there.
Have to say, these videos have developed from a comedic retelling of history to a genuinely amazingly emotional series
Having watched since the first video, i'm honestly proud of how this channel's developed over the past year or two and now that we're nearly reaching the end, i'm genuinely just amazed at how great it's become. It's got to the point where it feels like a 30 minute video lasts 5 minutes, because of how good these videos are. Listening to dovah doing Attila's total war trailer lines at the end fit so well and sounded so good - honestly by the end of each i'm just craving the next one.
God bless dovah, this is easily one of the most entertaining series i've seen, and you should easily be proud of what you've made
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The days when it was just for the memes, and the Carthago Delanda EST.
It was fun..
@The Martial Lord of Loyalty it's never claimed to be anything else 😉
@The Martial Lord of Loyalty
Yes
“Rome has fallen! It’s temples desecrated, the men slaughtered & the women råped! Is there no hope left in these trying times...
No! It lives on in the hearts of men! It’s legacy remembered, its leaders sanctified, it shall survive even when the city itself has fallen... for Rome is eternal!”
Ave Gottkaiser?
@@clumsycommissar5260 Ave! His legacy lives on!
Can we just appreciate what Stilicho could have done instead of serving the empire. He could have joined his Vandal Brothers in arms and completely destroy the empire. Instead his civilized side took over. Honorius and Ol*mpius deserve a special place in hell and Stilicho should stay with Aurelian in the highest level of heaven for eternity. God Bless Stilicho
BBC ver: Focus more on Alaric, Stilcho was just there to be executed
History channel ver: Focus more on Alaric, Stilicho was there for plot convenience and exposition
Dovah ver: Stilicho is the star of the show, making Alaric an antagonist
Actual docs is more interested in Alaric than Stilicho for some reason lol
Bunch of Barbarian femgirls hahaha
I swear nobody give a shit about stilicho before this vid come out
XO Man O War: Stilicho as scheming villain who pit Barbarians against Barbarians and the hero is a Germ in alien power armor.
In fairness, Alaric is an interesting character in his own right, being a goth who dreamed of being a Roman General but who ultimately became the man who sacked Rome. There's plenty of potential there for good storytelling and drama. At the same time though Stilicho himself as a lot of that same potential and makes for a strong foil to Alraric, being a half-barbarian who rose to effectively command the empire before his heritage made him a liability for the Emperor.
Basically: I think the best story about this time period would feature both as protagonists, tracking their lives and eventual fates.
Alaric's quotes are the best, like those two from the beginning of this episode.
I wonder how he’s gonna portray Pope Leo convincing Attila to not sack Rome.
I heard it speculated that he might have pointed out to the superstitious hun that Alaric died soon after sacking the city.
Italy was also experiencing a famine, so taking the time to sack Rome would've starved a lot of Attila's men
@@BlueGamingRage He burned down the farmlands after his men took anything the army would need. And even then he needed food to go back to Germania, so, not a reason.
I expect a roman version of a Space Marine Chaplain slapping the fuck outta Atlla with a bible.
Leo is going to summon Jesus or something
Stilicho in the Chad afterlife although still being sad hits hard
The tragedy about the Gothic sack of Rome was that Alaric seemed to have honestly wanted to be made a legitimate general of the Roman Empire. But when a rival of his attacked him, he no longer trusted the negotiations, and sacked Rome.
All because of Honorius idiocy.
As you said: Alaric just want a Roman comand and food for his people.
But Honorius not only make him a enemy but by killing Stilicho make thousands of barbarians to defect to Alaric army.
@@avalle4493 what are you writing about our brave Emperor Honorius bravely defeated Visigotic women and children
@@niccolorichter1488 A top-3 Emperor😌
Along with Comodus and Valentinian.
The Visigothic sack actually did relatively little damage. The Vandal sack was worse. MUCH worse was the repeated back-to-back sackings, evacuations, and general chaos in the Gothic War of Justinian, in the 500s AD. If it helps, he succeeded in retaking Rome for the (Eastern) Roman Empire, which held it until the mid-700s AD. Not that they held it very closely, or rebuilt it much. They had it for another roughly 200 years and didn't do much to fix it.
I think the sassanid invations and the constant plagues diminished the bizantine economy. Also Justinian spent a lot of money in retaking Rome by itself
@L. Lawliet Agreed. Justinian should have only went for Africa.
Seeing Stilicho's story and his eventual demise is just depressing, one of the last chads of the western Roman Empire
Luckily we can remember Stilicho as what he really was, not an enemy of the state, but the first germanic Chad in history, who got enlightened by the dream of Rome, maybe one day we will end up seeing the franks becoming civilized too...
I hope he isnt the last german Chad of history if he wants a funny memey he should do one on that Austrian painter
Charlemagne episode?
@@Kastor774 Nah, Theodoric the Great episode.
Charlemagne just couldn't comprehend Salic succession laws would kill his empire...
@@Kastor774 I really hope so
@@UltraRadCentrist Not Charlemagne's fault, he gave his entire empire to his sole legitimate surviving son (Louis the Pious) the entire empire still intact
Louis the Pious divided it up then between his sons, which killed it
"Same things make us laugh, make us cry."
-An ancient philosopher
Ah yes, the best philosopher. Big Smoke.
@@pomniplushie833 Excuse you, it's *BIGGUS SMOKIUS* in this era
Alex-Ovidiu Mircea Bigocles Smokenes
A Book
"Barbar blood leads to bad blood, tis' the way of the world." -Smokius Maximus
1:25 after rewatching the episode a few times, this part broke me. After all he did, he was recognized for his merit by Augustus, Trajan and Aurelian, altough he accepts it with reluctance "Sorry senpai's, after all of this I left it worse than before, yet ... you still accept me..."
How has there not been a Film series covering Stilicho-Aetius-Majorian? They are literally the heroes of the burning West. Stilicho saw how the West should be, Aetius tried to restore what once was, and Majorian was the last hope for the last flames.
They did brilliantly, it’s a shame they were Betrayed…
These unbiased tales are so inspiring, especially with that anime opening
I prefered the classical music openings
the virgin disclaimerhatty vs the chad dovahhatty
Thats an english cover of Ancient Magus Bride's op, by the way. You could watch it on Kissani-....
(swallows, blinks back tears)...
Online... Somewhere.
@@jasonbelstone3427 I gotcha, fam:
www.thewatchcartoononline.tv/anime/the-ancient-magus-bride
@@alexanderkorol677 Thank you, bro...
Last time I was this early, Ceasar hadn't been turned into a knife holder yet.
I believe the technical term is "knife wound officianado"
I thought you wouldn't tell anyone your real name, Gyro?
Why you gotta do me like that?
*The City which had taken the world was itself taken.* - St. Jerome.
Something about the light in the Restitutor Orbis’s mask going out while Dovahhatty tells me that the era of classical civilization is over forever really hits hard
13:55 - "Imagine a future where all that's left of Rome is a bunch of barbarians and plebs larping 24/7 and justifying edgy ideologies, using our imagery and shit. Total cringe."
Lol I would say Britain did a pretty good job overall or maybe even napoleon or even justainan
@@erickrasniewski567 Pretty much all of post-Roman Western history, in some measure.
@@Bardockfan150 yeah pretty much
@@erickrasniewski567 I thought about it as a self-referential meme, since it's pretty much what we love to do in this channel, LOL.
"You think the Roman Empire was a good thing??! Are you kidding me?!!! Cringe, my dude! Criiinge! They were the second most problematic empire in history!"
"Stop sticking to edgy ideologies and come on the right side of history... We are all woke down here..."
The Age of Virginity, the murderer of civilizations, is nearly night.
*>tries not to cry* "f-f-for the Rome and it's glory" *>breaks down and starts to cry, a lot*
When Pandora's Box was opened, all the evils inside were unleashed into the world. But there was something else that came out of that box: Hope.
26:43
This feels like a personal attack
There once was a dream.
A dream called Rome...
Theare once was a dream
Dream that fell
@@emperorofwends8875 the dream never dies as long as someone remains to dream..
Oh boy, when the Mongolian throat singing part started I almost shat my pants
Anybody know where it came from?
total war: Attila
Stilicho's biggest mistake was facing Constantine instead of finishing off Alaric. That got him on Honorius' (who liked Constantine III) bad side.
>end is throat singing sounding like its coming from hell
"shiver"
Looks like Majorian will get the Aurelian treatment
The one man who could keep the empire together and perhaps restore even a modicum of its glory... betrayed.
RIP Majorian, the last truly great emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
Aurelian, Constantine and Majorian are basically the holy trinity of Roman Emperors so it fits. All three deserve the title Restitutor Orbis
Yup. He was Aurelian 2.0
Dude got so much done with so little. If it wasn’t for so damn spies/bad luck he could’ve retaken Africa and begun a resurgence...
@@connorgolden4 The one we need to blame the most is that damn traitor Ricimer for backstabbing him because even with a lost battle, he still could have kept the European holdings of the empire together until he could perhaps rebuild his army properly.
Majorian is Aurelian if he got stabed in the back after conquering palmyra
What make seeing Rome in such a state so sad is the fact that we know how great it can be.
My theory is that ( I forget his name) the guy who reformed Roman society so that you could only ever grow up to be whatever your father was, farmers sons become farmers, soldiers sons become soldiers and so on... my theory is that was the ultimate downfall of the Roman Empire... because right around/after that is when the empire started being invaded by multiple enemies in multiple places. The Roman army was the best, but at that point I feel like it must have been shrinking continuously, as only soldiers sons could become soldiers instead of anyone like it was. So the Roman armies were shrinking right at the time they needed them to be growing the most. They still fought off barbarian armies with small numbers, imagine if they would have had the massive numbers they used to have...
@@dannybeads3672 its diocletian btw
@@dannybeads3672 The Emperor you are referring to is Diocletian i too detest most of his reforms and think a lot of future problems were caused by them.But he did enlarged the army size and the plebs were allowed to join the limitanei ripeness the light armored border gard.
Like Rome America is bloated state of corruption, hedonism and hypocrisy.
So shut up globalist
@@dannybeads3672 The ultimate downfall was multiculturalism, training your enemies how to fight you. Replacing your people with them and diluting Roman culture and thus the very fabric of society with their backwards ways.
If Rome had adopted a method of permanent colonization by ethnic replacement of the natives and adopted racial laws to truly define what a Roman was. They would have been alright.
Stilicho turning full Roman while with the other emperors is blessed
I know that this series is a parody and more often than not only somewhat historically accurate, but the way you portray the great leaders of Rome inspires me.
Yes, they did not accomplish those things literally alone; however especially in comparison to the weak rulers and generals it's clear how much their skill, charisma and leadership was needed.
Truly, heroes of old, absolute madlads have walked on this Earth.
It inspires me to be better and improve my life, especially when I lost focus, to face adversaries and give my best to be more than just mediocre, and while it will likely never be a whole empire resting on my shoulders, I want to be a pillar of strength and a leader (if needed) in the communities that I exist in. Be a shining light in the face of evil, as whatever it may manifest itself.
Thank you!
The situation in Britannia could lead to a spin-off on Lucius Artorius Castus a.k.a. King Arthur.
@Minas Mzk
US? Bruh
Do you mean Ambrosius Aurelianus
@@felps1917 No but he lived a little bit before Artorius and he shoud definively be a character if this becomes a thing.
Honestly, I think it should end at Justinian, the Last Roman
@Minas Mzk If a US series is his next project after Rome, I think King Arthur is a little too early a starting point.
Remember lads. Roman Empire will remain alive forever in our hearts.
thank Deus that the glory of Rome is eternal
If you think about it, in its final moments, it finally achieved something great, civilisation. Look at all the germs after it died, they learned Latin, learned the classics, and over time they began to see the Romans as the good guys.
@@jahbama6202 and then thought there actually were romans and stabbed the east in the back
@@apparentlyjeremy Venice did that. And Venice, being Italian, was basically a vulgarized Roman city-state.
Dovah, if you decide to create a Justinian video and decide to make him into a Chad, Theodora should be the first woman to be a Stacy because of her accomplishments in protecting the stability of the empire and working behind the doors so to say. I'm not mentioning Belisarius, because is a defacto Chad esp after retaking the empire with all odds against him. Also, making Justinian A Wojack is also justifiable esp bc his dreams basically fucked the Romans up into constant warfare and such.
God I can't wait to see a chad with the magnitude of Belisarius. Please Dovah, continue past the fall of Western Rome!
Theodora was even chadder than Justinian.
For a thespian, she was one of the great, if not greatest, women in history.
@Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix the pre-plague chad, post-plague wojak one? Is still there
"Fall. You are alone, Romans. There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people. These tribes are just the beginning. I command a great and terrible army. We will ride to a billion kingdoms. We will ride until every light has been extinguished. You are strong, child, but I am beyond strength. I am the end. And I have come for you, Rome."
-Definitely Attila the Hun.
The opening is even more depressing than that of the Crisis of the Third Century video...
Please Aurelian come back and save Rome and our mortal souls!
@Alshamari Baha2 but plebs fucked up some how
Majorian is like Aurelian 2.0. He nearly saved the empire and was murdered before he could finish the job.
@@noodlecoffee193 and worst thing it was by a germ
@@noodlecoffee193 One last chance to save it and they actually ruined it...
We will have Aetius and Majorian...but they won’t be enough.
It’s seriously criminal their is not much fiction on stilicho. He’s one of the most fascinating figures in roman history for his political military genius. But on a personal level a man fighting against everything failing while betraying his own kin. So thanks so much for getting his name out there. Amazing video and narrative structure again. Love it
Cos Aetius exists essentially. Stilicho was brilliant, but he didn't defeat Atillia
XO Man O War has Stilicho, who is the villain in the prologue since the protagonist is a Goth abducted by aliens.
True Falcon that was the last energy of time used to defeat Attila. And badasss it was. Stilicho was it last chance to remain as a legit empire not doomed to fail
@@truefalcon6884 Attila was beaten because of a Frankish prince and by the Pope.
I can't help but think that an Italian version of this series would gather millions of views for every single episode.
If you haven't deleted the project files and decide to give it a go, I'd be happy to help with the translations!
Stilicho; the hero we needed but did not deserve.
"but one of the many powerful women of the era it really was the end times"
I am Deceased.
NO DOVA I DONT NEED THIS NOW NO MORE DEPRESSION IM ALSO GOING THROUGH MY EXISTENTIAL DREAD PLEASE NO
@Remember Navarro nah he made me get depressed
@@yt_krg first time ?
ever since the good emperors, i've been depressed
Ever since Constantine I died I grew the big sad.
@Remember Navarro yeah m8
I haven't seen a man crush invasions and rebellions this fast since Aurelian
Majorian restored gaul and Hispania in a single year
I love how this Chad telling of roman history has slowly but surely turned into the most dramatic and chaddest anime of all time
The Total War Attila reference at the end
Mind telling me which song is it
@@J0hnHenrySNEEDen Idk, I was referring to Attila's declaration at the end which is from the Attila announcement trailer
Such epic references czcams.com/video/HDVybaCiVWc/video.html
Just after oversimplified bois! This is the best!
Truly a good day
Yo bro same
Lowkey
And in that day I've got COVID symptoms. Still wonderful day
Exactly!
Imagine being a pleb. Constantly getting clapped by BarBar's
And you finally do something good as a pleb
Just for your Augustus to send more to kill you.
If anyone is wondering the song at the end is, 'buddhist monks chanting om' by one music every day.
Anglos.
Every.
Single.
Time.
Perfidious Albion.
Angloids*
Fixed it for you
Angl*ids
Please learn to censor offensive words properly.
*THE ETERNAL ANGLO*
The virgin native Briton vs the chad Anglo Saxon pirate.
It’s more depressing than a typical normal words but a horse guy show.
I like how the Sassanids were subtly warning the viewer of the eldritch horror that were the Huns
I can't be the only one appreciating Saint Augustine not being a virgin 😁
What?
@@xavierfaust9417 St. Augustine is a Spurdo.
"I Luvs God, 'n I Luvs Roem. Nuff said."
-- St. Augustine.
Stilicho the chad remained loyal to Rome until the end. RIP.
It’s time..
to duel
no please, Sol, help us... dont let Rome*Delenda*Est
By Deus...the Majorian episode will be so sad. Such a capable and ambitious man. The last who could’ve brought rome back from the brink...sigh.
When it show Majorianvs Flavius’ shadow morphs into Aurelian thought it was cool
Wait I just noticed, he really was like Aurelian
I'm fully expecting Attila to be a chad, sent by God to punish the decadent romans.
He literally calls himself "the scourge of god"
He can't be, since God sent Giga Chad Saint Pope Leo the Great to change his mind about sacking Rome.
yeah I was thinking about a twist like that too
He’ll probably make the pope a wojack who cowardly made Attila flee
@@absolutelyyousless7605 But we should give him the Great Credit tho, if wasn't b'cuzz of him the Second Sack of Rome would be inevitable, and considering how Huns way of living, it will be more worse than Aleric. the entire city of Rome would be Vanish and every Single Population would be a Slave if it was happen, so if Dovah gonna potray Pope Leo I as just a Wojack i'm prety sure every one gonna disagree and have a bitter sour on our mouth. B'cuzz we know how much Pope Leo I role is.
@@nore5992 maybe he'll make him a smug wojak that just bored attila into leaving by talking nonstop about jesus
apology for poor latin
when were you when rome dies
i was sat at circus suporting blus when messanger come
'rome is kill'
'no'
You support the BLUES?!
Today is 24 of August.
WE REMEMBER.
I love that the Sassanids and Goths keep bar-barring warnings about the Huns but nobody understands them lol
Dovah, mate, i just wanna say thank you. This series has evolved so much from the entirely comedic beginnings to this point, where it actually managed to deal some heavy emotional blows. Deusdamnit man, you've created something above the standards of even the great historian Ridley Scott.
The second season starring the Byzantine empire is a must!!
At least Justinian since he actually made a serious effort to reconquer the West
They were just Greeks larping as Romans.
it almost makes me cry, the way stilico died, accepting death is almost like leonidas or admiral yi sun shin, please i beg you to post next episode, you roasted us for a full month... it s enough...
When her own people wouldn’t stand and defend her, it took a son with half the blood of her enemy to make Rome’s last, most desperate final stands. This series may joke about how the Germans are inhuman barbarians, but let us never forget Stilicho’s incredible loyalty to Rome even as her walls fell down all around him. Let his incredible existence and achievements serve as proof that Rome is not just an empire; she is a dream. A dream that lives in anyone who wishes to keep the light of civilization alight even in the face of inevitable, all-encompassing chaos. Ave Stilicho. May you have met the great heroes of Rome in the next life, and may they be proud of all you have done not just for your empire, but for civilization itself.
My heart is beginning to split in two. It’s too sad
Just like the Empire.
Classic Numismatics NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Classic Numismatics even tho its been over a thousand years, too soon man
Just when I forget about you the series returns in glory
Tragic how a shitty imperor like Honorius rules for 30 years, while Aurelianus just 5.....
@Alshamari Baha2 unfortunately
See what happens when the praetorians are not around? Utterly incompetent emperors have long reigns. How I miss them!
You say that but it happened when the Praetorians were around as well, or are we forgetting about Commodus?
What is better? Thirty years of short-lived emperors. Or thirty years of Honorius?
@Alshamari Baha2 Actually the Praetorians liked him.
@@wellalrightthen3920 Rome was had Tiberius and Caligula much earlier who set horrible precedents.
@@FazeParticles Well the praetorians actually got to Caligula though
>watches the opening
>notices the song and animation
Truly a high culture work
Robzah The Song is ‘Here’, the OP from Ancient Magus Bride. Although it’s an English dub for some reason.
Everyone: the Empire is collapsing
Me: still laughing because of the Eugenius reference
i didn't catch it. what is it about?
@@graccusbro2061 there was a famous Spanish comedian named Eugenio who always wore sunglasses and smoked cigarettes during his routines
@@giovannilloretsorribas2836 wow
where in the video is the referance?
@@dabtican4953 8:35
This is too sad... Can't we just go back to some healthy, wholesome Praetorian Guard Slaughtering?
my face when Dovahatty depicts Theodosius the Great as a Virgin and Nero, Elagabalus, Caligula, and Caracalla all as chads 💀
He is anti-Catholic so it's not surprising he's depicting all Christians like that
It should be the other way around actually because many Catholics were germanics and the "chad face" is typical for germanic people
Loved the attila total war reference, everyone who's following this series would love it
Stilicho is one of the chaddest chads we've had yet. One of the few good things the 5th century had to offer Rome.
just wait for Aetius
Some notable figures in the early Church around this period (side note, Theodosius I convened the Council of Constantinople in 381, which pronounced anathema against those who denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit):
Aurelius Ambrosius, governor of Aemilia-Liguria and later bishop of Mediolanum -- eeyup, the very same Ambrose in this video. first bishop to actually *excommunicate a fricking emperor* and demand he do penance for his sins. considered the codifier of the liturgical tradition that bears his name (the Ambrosian Rite), still celebrated to this day in Milan. died two years after Theodosius I.
Aurelius Augustinus, bishop of Hippo Regius -- ex-Manichaean, theologian and scholar with a massive body of writing, including his autobiography the Confessions. was half-Berber via his mother Monnica (also sainted). most assuredly /not/ a virgin, having fucked around a lot in his horny young-man years. would soon write The City of God in response to claims that Al-r-c's sack of Rome was punishment for rejecting the old religion. not yet dead as of the end of this video.
Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus -- more commonly known as Saint Jerome, historian and theologian. grouchy curmudgeon with a penchant for trading verbal barbs and savage roasts with people in his letters. used to be a student of rhetoric and philosophy, was once accused of being a Ciceronian by Dominvs Noster Iesvs Christvs himself. withdrew to a cave in Bethlehem and spent twenty years of his life translating the books of the Bible into the common Latin tongue. died three years before Honorius.
Damasus, Pope of Rome -- ascended the Chair of Peter under the reign of Gratian, lasted into the first few years of Theodosius I. held a local council in Rome to officially pronounce on what books would constitute the Bible, and commissioned Jerome to translate said books into Latin for the benefit of the plebs. died one year after Gratian.
Innocentius, Pope of Rome -- had the absolute misfortune to reign when Rome was sacked. often found church-related disputes brought to him as final resort for settlement during his tenure. reconfirmed Damasus' list of the canon of scripture in a letter to a Gallic bishop. reported to have been willing to temporarily tolerate private practice of paganism around the time of The Sack, but public worship was not reinstated out of lack of interest. died six years before Honorius.
Ioannes ho Chrysostomos, Patriarch of Constantinople -- John the Goldenmouthed, a man who wrote more than any other theologian of the era except possibly Augustine. master theologian and excellent public speaker, popular with his flock. had the balls to openly talk shit about Aelia Eudoxia /twice/, getting exiled and then recalled the first time, and then being exiled again the second time. died in exile a year before Arcadius.
Theophilos, Patriarch of Alexandria -- reigned during the latter years of Theodosius I and most of the reign of Arcadius. provoked pagan outrage by exposing artifacts from a Mithraeum to the populace, sparking anti-Christian riots and Christian counter-riots that only ended when Theodosius ordered the pagans pardoned and the Serapeum (where the pagans had retreated to) destroyed. died four years after Arcadius.
Kyrillos, Patriarch of Alexandria -- nephew and successor to Theophilos. excessively assertive, prone to quarreling with the city's prefect Orestes over the bounds of each other's authority. some of his more overzealous followers murdered the philosopher Hypatia, suspecting she was the reason they couldn't be reconciled. keep an eye on this one, he gets involved in more shenanigans in the timeframe of the next video.
it's amazing to see how much your content improves each episode. I don't mean to imply that your earlier episodes sucked, far from it, but never have I seen a creator change his content so much and in such a unilaterally positive in such a short time frame. You are getting very good at this, and at completely unprecedented pace. I realize this comment is quite similar to shoddody's comment, but I just wanted to emphasize how crazy it is that you could rival any other history channel (in terms of the enjoyability of your vids; in terms of accuracy you're perhaps the worst) while barely having 20 videos. Good job, you've created an entirely new niche.
I bought a T-shirt it better not smell like Chinese glue
oh no no no he actually fell for it
It smells like
chinese childrens tears :)
Hey Dovah, if you see this I have a question for you. How do you decide which characters become american bears/freedom ain't free memes? Titus Le Benis (RIP) is a no brainer, but what made Timesitheus, Galerius, or most recently St. Augustine eligible for this depiction?
Bruh don't just heart the comment, I'm legit curious.
Yeah, I'm also curious for what makes a woman to be depicted as a wojak, since even the most traitorous ones like Messalina and Honoria are given the ideal gf meme
@@EduardoDiaz-wk7ld the gf wojack was introduced into the series in the Severan episode when the meme peaked
@@misaka3468 Yeah, but Honoria is still given the ideal gf meme even after that episode
@@EduardoDiaz-wk7ld I think that, for the women, they are shown as Wojaks when they get commanding roles, or are massive bisexuals.
The lack of Chads compared to the Julius Caesar Arc is worrying, and the decline of it is noted. :/