The Magnificent City The Romans got for FREE
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This channel is all about history, world heritage, architecture, archaeology, and fascinating historical places around the world.
This documentary is about a great Greek city with a long and rich history, which was given to Rome as a gift, in a will.
This city was controlled by the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon during the Hellenistic Period. But when the last Attalid king died without an heir, he gifted his kingdom to Rome, which included this magnificent city.
This city was Ephesus. When it got absorbed into the Roman Empire, it became one of its key cities, being a major port city on the west coast of Anatolia.
It was eventually made the provincial capital of the Roman Province of Asia, and a crucial economic link between the eastern part of the empire and the west.
This video is the 2nd episode in a 4 part series about Ephesus, the first part covering the Ancient Greek history of the city, and this part covering the Roman history.
A good portion of this video explores the different monuments that still exist at the ancient site of Ephesus, and gives a good overall tour of the site, its topography, and its architecture and archaeology.
Written, Edited, and Narrated by Jordan Amit
jordanamit.com
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Reconstructions of Ephesus by:
Balage Balogh
archaeologyillustrated.com/
Halit Selo
Adam Nemeth
Aleksandar Jaksic
Special thanks to Taylan Öner who provided the footage of the Terrace Houses.
Public Domain Images:
bit.ly/3RqIK85
This really puts the Biblical Book of Ephesians in perspective. This place was a huge metro city back then. Never knew this city was so big!
Yes I believe that's what attracted Saint Paul to go there, because it was such a large city for his time. It had all the amenities and had a large population to find converts, so a good place to set up shop. I address all that in my next episode on Christian Ephesus, so stay tuned for it!
Exactly; the same way self-righteous corruption has continued to infect the major cesspools of todae!🎉
Roma il più grandioso e glorioso Impero della storia; Roma ha conquistato, dominato, costruito e CIVILIZZATO; la grandezza, la potenza, la magnificenza, lo splendore e la GLORIA DI ROMA EST AETERNA, ROMA INVICTA ET LUX MUNDI 🦅💪
Crazy how many places like this are scattered around Anatolia and the Balkans. Some known and some lost forever.
the Greeks of Anatolia are not given enough spotlight in general.
I've been to the major Roman sites of the Italian peninsula but it still fascinates me how these cities much farther east could be on the same level as the ones closer to the capital. I have to say that videos like this help us keep our minds curious about humanity's history and wonders - Istanbul is already in my bucket list and I guess that Ephesus comes next now.... Keep up the great work!!!
Thank you. However I would say that Asia Minor, Turkey today, contained many more impressive Roman cities than in Italy. Simply by the fact that they were already great Greek cities which were then Romanized. So the Romans simply had to upgrade them, on top of the greatness that was already there. I will make more videos about such cities in Turkey in the coming years. Thanks for you comment. I hope you get to go to Turkey one day!
@@Street-GemsIn witch sense they Romanized that's a false statement? All the Greeks that become Christians become Romans and the pagans remained Hellenes in the name
@@LondonPower Romanized before Christianity. Meaning the Romans had an influence on the people they absorbed into their empire. So if a society starts developing Roman customs, then they are being Romanized. But it can go the other way as well. The Romans were influenced by the Greeks and other cultures.
@@Street-Gems Its not true /Romans never try to Romanized the Greeks they give them freedom and the rigth to preserve their lunguage and customs
@@LondonPower For sure, but when any culture is dominant, it tends to rub off on others. Just like American culture rubs off on other countries. So customs get adopted and mixed, as a general rule. A Mcdonald's in every European city is Americanization.
Excellent graphical representation
Thank you
Augustus called himself Julius Caesar and maintained the trappings of the existing form of government. He didn't crown himself as Emperor Augustus. He held the office of consul, and by that time the system was so broken and dominated by the office that is equivalent to president (not king), that we retrospectively regard it as the beginning of the imperium. The office of "emperor" really means the heir of the private estate of Augustus, and it doesn't become a true state office until it passes out of julio-claudian hands.
It’s also notable that Augustus unified the power of the popular assembly onto himself, as well as the imperium proconsulare maius, that allowed him to legally control most provinces and armies.
Princeps was his title, the First Senator, and the name of the state was the Principate (Principatus). This is where we get the words Prime, Principle, Prince, Principality, etc.
@@LordTelperion true, that was another office he held, one that might be roughly equated to speaker of the house in our system. The fact that a junior senator was named "president" *and* "speaker of the house" (and chief justice), for life, is exactly what I mean when I say the system was totally broken. The title of Princeps was not something new created for the new "Emperor." It was a pre-existing office, meant to be the most senior member of the Senate. Like just about every other title of significance, they simply gave it to the guy who was dominating them. All of the checks and balances of the Republican system were defeated, but nobody called game over. We call it the Principate at that point. The Princeps still called it a republic and pretended he was letting the Senate do stuff.
This is a lesson with relevance to today's politics.
The visuals in this video are creative and impressive, a breakthrough in Ancient History presentations. You manage to achieve an interesting and clear understanding of the players of those magnificent times. I am looking forward to watching the third episode for a rounded picture of this city.
Thank you. Part 3 will come sooner than this one came.
This video is exceptional in the genre of history channels on CZcams!
The use of maps and graphic reconstructions of the cities you present and what they might have looked like as you give a tour of what it looks like now,
makes your videos stand out and exceptional.
Also, the comparison to what was going on in other parts of the Mediterranean and modern satellite images makes your channel stand out!
Most of the time on history channels you may get a nice tour of what it looks like now and an explanation of what it looked like, but nothing of the graphics and maps and satellite images that you use.
Thoroughly enjoyable!
I rarely comment on videos,
But
your channel has everything that I have asked for from other channels that present history.
I Subscribed of course months ago.
Thank you for this real treat and pleasure.
Wow! I'm so glad I read your comment. I almost missed it as I didn't get the notification for it. Thank you so much for the overflowing compliments. I'm really glad you're enjoying my content. I wish I could publish videos more frequently. My next big video will be amazing, but won't come out till July. Again thank you for appreciating my hard work and passion I bring into my videos.
Another great video. Hoping this channel grows because the videos beyond informative and the graphics showing old and new. Just the whole production. A++. Awesome video
Wow A++ that's a real compliment. Thank you I'm really glad you're enjoying them.
Are you American or simply someone speaking American English and probably jewish??
I normally steer clear of American docos because they usually "silly"....probably as a result of the poor public education system.?
You have really clearly explained the structure and geography of the city. Much better than most. Very interesting.
Keep up the very good work!
Thank you.
Thanks a ton
Even as a ruin this city is absolutely stunning. Thanks for an excellent video.
Thank you. Yes it is stunning.
Thanks, Jordan, for a commentary that is actually pleasant to listen to - a rare thing in this digi-false age.
Thank you! I actually wasn't super happy with how my voice came out in this video, but I'm glad you still found it pleasant.
Interesting. This is well produced, excellently written and great storytelling
Thank you!
Fantastic video, love this stuff. Well explained and nice pacing.
Thank you!
Excellent video! If you can re-title this video, "Ephesus - The City the Romans Got as Gift" it will get more views; especially by those interested in Ephesus, Ancient Greek cities, culture and architecture as well as the New Testament and related theological studies and archeology.
Hmmm, I'll consider it. Not a bad idea.
this title is funnier
@@through-faith-alone Haha thank you. But @PhD777 inspired me to rethink the title, and I settled on this one.
Excellent content. Awesome stuff man. Thanks so much for the effort and putting it out there.
Thank you man. This particular video was going nowhere, then it started spreading so I'm glad it reached people like you.
Another great video. Keep them coming .😎
Really cool video! One thing, though: Octavian didn't "called himself Augustus" - that was a title given to him by the Senate, and incorporated in his name as an agnomen.
A bit like "Caesar" was in every Emperor's name, even after the fall of its dinasty with Nero, or when a given commander or Emperor conquered a tribe or confederation of tribes, he was given the title of conqueror of those people, and incorporated also as agnomen - as in Gallicus, Dacicus, Gallaicus, Germanicus, etc.
Ok interesting. Thank you for the correction.
this is a gem of a channel. im not even much of a rome nerd or history nerd at that and i still find this stuff to be amazing
Thank you! If I can win over people who aren't super into history, then that's very rewarding. I'm glad you enjoy my channel.
Very interesting video! I hope to be able to visit Ephesus myself soon!
I hope you do. Now you're armed with the historical background.
nice video, it gives me the good feeling of those old, solid history documentaries but there is nothing old fashioned about the production at all.
Thank you. I try to keep it fresh.
Best video on Ephesus I’ve seen!
Thank you. You must watch the last one in the series called "The Death of a Great Roman City". One of my best.
binging all your vids!
That's an overkill of history haha. I'm flattered you're binging on them.
Your integration of renders/visualizations has to be the best of any history channel on youtube... and I've seen a LOT
Thank you! This particular video was going nowhere for months, then 2 weeks it got a lot more exposure, so I'm happy it reached people like you and didn't "go to waste", because I put in so much hard work into this video.
Excellent explanation, Clear and precise. Really enjoyed the over lay of cgi when walking/flying over the ruins not enough docs this. And i love the drawn depictions! Subscribed
Amazing. Thanks for subscribing! The drawn illustrations are by Balage Balogh.
Underrated channel
Love your work!
Thanks Nicholas
İts an amazing video. Congrats. Bravo
Thanks Taylan
thanks great job
Top Notch - thank you
Thank you!
Said i watched this video, but forgot to comment!. Absolutely LUV the entire production. The graphics specificall, love the morphing from then to now and back again. Really brings the current ruins into clarity. Looking forward to seeing the "Christian Ephesus" video!.
Amazing. I love your comment. The Christian episode is ready.
👍!!!. Saul's transformation into Paul by Jesus Himself is a story all it's own. But to see and visit the place Paul actually walked, and RAN for his life, is close to seeing the Jerusalem of Jesus' time. Ephesians, Paul's letter to them as well as his letter to the Romans are the two parts of the Bible, among others, that I can hear Jesus actually speaking to me. Places like Ephesus bring into sharp focus the fact that only Jesus matters. After all , it is called "His-tory". His story. We ARE His story. We've always been His story. All of creation is. And Paul's letter to the Ephesians is his teaching them how to follow Christ. I'll look for that video!!.
@@dmd5645 I think you'll like that video. I don't get into the scriptures, but talk about the traditions and what we know of the history. To make it easier on you, here's the link: czcams.com/video/-8OjwLOPZQc/video.htmlsi=05nDLLXiHPg0mhqP
@@Street-Gems thanks so much!!.
Well made video.
Excellent video.
Thank you.
Nice video 👍
Bravo!
Wow. Great channel
Thanks!
Sorry about the Christian joke. I am myself lol. I just like making jokes at my own expense but realise it was bad Taste.
And I absolutely love all of your videos.
@@Insectoid_ which Christian joke? I'm not Christian, but it's ok. I make fun of myself all the time haha.
@@Street-Gems CZcams just deleted a long comment I wrote. I mentioned certain far right tattoos I had. And how I’ve changed politically. And how the current situation with the orange guy in America make me mad.
"taken for a large church not far from here" - Justinian building the hagia sophia moments
Thanks!
Thanks Nick!
AMAZING
Awesome
10:34 - 10:42. The harbor front to the Agora, the Harbor Road or Aracadian Way, actually starts at the end of the coloseum. The representation on the video shows it starting at the Angora. Is the representation incorrect? Did the Angora actually run all the way to the end of the coloseum? Great video by the way!
Yes you are correct. The road where I show the red line did go from the Agora to the harbour, but the Arcadian Way is the one parallel to it, running from the theater to the harbour. I wasn't super clear there. You have a sharp eye.
great
This is one of most ancient GREEK colonies of Ioinia. Greeks were uprooted in 1922 AD from this place..
I know. But the Romans did control it and embellish it.
Subbed❤
I was just here. It looks just like the video. Well worth the trip.
You have an Ephesus! It came free with you empire!
It was a promotion lol
Marvellous! How much they already had there - seems like we all fell back into dark ages, and had to re-invent everything again. The Romans and before them the Greek, had a civilization equal to what we have - or better ! Can architects and builders still make these wonderful buildings? without cranes? (of course, as stated, they had slaves, free labour) I regret not having been to Turkey, probably will never make it.
I genuinely didn't know that it was a city 😮
Like, i knew that The Artemisium was built there (multiple times) but a city is not mentioned
I thought Ephesus was a region of Ionia.
Of course to build such a great wonder, you need a relatively large workforce in a workable distance but it never clicked.
I honest to God thought Artemis' temple was in a very rural isolated area. It would fit her aesthetic
Cool I'm glad I could teach something. Yes a large city indeed.
👍👍👍👍👍
Did they escivated that seaport bay ? There is a ton oh stuff perfectly preserved in that mud !!
I'm sure there's a ton of treasures in there! I don't think they emptied it.
Ephesus is fantastic of course but if you go to Turkey don't miss Aphrodisias, it felt like a hidden gem to me.
I haven't been but I agree with you. I want to make a video about it one day.
This City looks like it was Troy.....
Why are these areas not fully cleaned up?
you mean fully excavated?
LOL just happend yesterday at Schiphol
Έφεσος / Efesos was a Hellenic🇬🇷 city. Romans adopted the Hellenic civilisation and culture. So, everything they built was inspired by our culture and architecture.
Check your DNA you are not ancient Greek, so you also adopted ancient Greek culture... or Ameircan culture lately to be correct
@@trexeyesonly55modern Greeks are the contemporary descendants of ancient Greeks, that is true as it has always been
they didn't just adopt it, they were of the same culture, also comments shut up
@@ezrafriesner8370 we are not just descendants of the Greeks but also of the Hebrews unlike you
@@through-faith-alone I’m literally Jewish 💀 but also you’re gonna have to back that claim up buddy
Great is Artemis of the Ephesians
I know it's Ephesus somehow.
Then you are correct sir. But did you write the comment before watching the video?
Library boy libary
I do say library
They should have just taken Ephesus and pushed it west
So they actually already did it once. Probably twice would have been too much 😂 Watch the last episode in my series if you haven't already. I talk all about it. Here's the link: czcams.com/video/NrXd7UCuxsk/video.htmlsi=daEXTQQhN06lNr_g
@@Street-Gems
It's Patrick SpongeBob reference thought it fits here
@@nicbahtin4774 Lol completely went over my head. I never actually watched it as a kid.
Ephesus was Greek no Roman.
free what??
Greek ...not Greek speaking.
It was greek speaking?
@ezrafriesner8370 The hellinistic kingdoms were partialy or totally Greek speaking depending on the location of the kingdom....the dominance of the greek language or the percentage of ethnic Greeks was not the same at indo-greek kingdom for example as it was at kingdom of pergamus...but The kings were always Greeks not Greek speaking....
@@TheSauron197 why do you think they didn’t speak Greek? The Greek rulers of all sorts of places were multilingual, the greco-bactrians had coins with both Greek and Sanskrit, and the Ptolemaic dynasty used both Greek and Egyptian in records
@ezrafriesner8370 I don't understand your question??? My original comment was addressed to the creator of the video who described the rulers of the hellenistic kingdoms as Greek speaking..And I wrote " Greek..not greek
Speaking....As far as the commoners is concerned the level of hellenization varied...Cyprus the aegean and the black coast of anatolia, Cyrene were already Greek before Alexander due to the 1st and 2nd Greek colonization ..gradually the greek language became dominant at eastern Mediterranean bassin , it peaked during the byzantine period...at the eastern provinces of the seleucid empire obviously the greek was officiall language but I don't think that the commoners could speak it...Bactria was a special situation..There were loads of Greeks there before alexander...Bactria was used as a place of exile for the rebelius ionian Greeks...
I think Greek speaking is a more accurate description because there would have been rulers in the Eastern Mediterranean who were not ethnically Greek, but adopted the Greek language because it was the Lingua Franca of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic period and beyond. It was a language that was looked up to as cultured and superior, so there would have been cases dynasties and rulers who spoke Greek, but maybe were not exactly Greek ethnically. I'm sure there are all kinds of special cases, and examples of all types. So saying Greek speaking is more inclusive of all those different cases.
Israel didn't exist in Roman times, it was the Kingdom of Judea.
Dumb a#% going with ur logic Egypt didn't exist during Alexander the greats time
Israel is the name generally given to the Hebrew speaking people at that time, think of it like how each tribe had an established territory and cultural zone, regardless of when broader empires ruled said area as a whole
he means modern day Israel
Roman times
yes I meant modern day Israel
This convinces me that Romans had a more meaningful, more amazing living surroundings, without the modern comfort but more luxurious materials (we considered stone and marble today as luxury and live in plastic, they lived in only luxurious materials and architectures). At least for the upper class of course the slaves and lower class might not fare as well but still, they all enjoyed the same city infrastructure so they were all benefited in some ways. The world is not better than it was. Even the so called advances in medecine are bogus and mostly overhyped. THe medical field is fraught with incompetent doctors and malpractice and they know little more than ancient people did and are still charlatans working more as salesmen for big pharma non helpful drugs, they're undertakers after you wallet and know much less than they think.
It's Turkiye now, not Turkey.
Yeah I know, but I'm trying to reach more people, and that new name isn't so well known yet.
Nobody can pronounce the new name. People are free to call themselves anyway they like; can go back to Sultanate of Rum for all I care; just don’t expect the rest of the world to follow 🤣
It’s Turkiye in the Turkish language. English speakers call it Turkey
As a Welshman I don’t insist that the French have to call us Cymru instead of Pays de Galle, Turks need to get over themselves and accept that different languages have different names for the same place.
The kingdom of Pergamon united with the Roman Empire, so it kept all its privileges! the same thing happened to the Antigonid kingdom in Syria and the Greek colonies of Libya
7:07 “Not all slaves had it bad”… whoa whoa whoa… you can’t say that… have you ever been a slave yourself?… you just can’t say that… yikes
Obviously you know... and need to tell everybody
@@OddieStone tell me your story
I just meant that some slaves had jobs like doctors and tutors for rich families. So they weren't toiling the fields or carrying heavy stone. But fair. Point taken.
"greek city" You're so funny The're is no Ancient greece
…but Ancient Greek people defined by a common language, culture and religion. Your comment is actually the funny one.
10:00
“Mythological scenes… Angels…”
You’ve already said “mythological scenes” once, no need to repeat yourself.
well angels aren't exactly the same thing. When I think mythological scenes I'm thinking the gods themselves, not some insignificant angels.
The Anatolian Roman cities were way better than the greek
They were Greek
We are talking about the same cities, same greek cities...what you mean probably is that the roman period got more impressive infrastructure to them.
not europe or european history.
Ephesus located in Ionia... which despite being in Asia Minor was traditionally part of Ancient Greece and more to this, Ionia developed some of the most important philosophers, scientists and ideas that eventually european civilization is based on...plus, it was a centre for spreading Christianity throughout.
So I'm pretty sure, Ephesus has 99% more to say about the evolution of the European culture about Scandinavia or Germania of the same period. Even Alexandria in Egypt is more connected to the European culture as it was developed than Germania. So honestly i don't think pure division of the continents will make any sense to the geography of the ancient Greco-Roman world.
@@vanmars5718 westoid trying to steal history again. its not europe and its not european. stay in europe and keep your history to yourself, stop stealing others history.
Ever heard of ancient anatolians? Lydians? The Lydian Kingdom? Troy? they were there long before the greeks and armenians, because greeks and armenians are invaders and we kicked them out again.
@@vanmars5718 westoids are the funniest people on earth. they try to discredit my people from this land, steal our culture and history and then have the audacity to paint it as european.
History and Geography don't have clean black and white borders. It's all one long continuum. It's people who like to make clean definitions.
@@vanmars5718 nope ephesus is in what was lydia, an anatolian kingdom.