Barbarians - What Did It ACTUALLY Mean To Be a Barbarian?

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Let's have another look at the Netflix series Barbarians and let's learn what it meant to be a barbarian from a Roman Imperial point of view, on a social, cultural and juridical level, and let's have fun!
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@briane6957 3 жыл бұрын

"What is a barbarian" you ask? Anyone not subscribed to Metatron. Simple as.

@susanmaggiora4800 3 жыл бұрын

Brian E Best descriptor I can think of!

@JesusFriedChrist 3 жыл бұрын

Luv me republic Luv me gladiators Luv me maniples Simple as

@randomcamus9445 6 ай бұрын

Among the barbarian tribes they fought and robbed each other if he stole the women of other tribes.barbarians for their pleasure and also to sell to the Romans .....

@sevenproxies4255 3 жыл бұрын

"Barbarians are people who's speech is unintelligable" ** Listens to Arnold Schwarzenegger talk while playing Conan The Barbarian "Yup, sounds legit"

@Azdaja13 3 жыл бұрын

CROM!

@mementomori8791 3 жыл бұрын

If you can say “Schwarzenegger”, you’re barbarian. If you can write it correctly, you’re very barbarian.

@gerhardadler3418 3 жыл бұрын

Right, but on the other hand, i've seen youtuber whose native language is english that were worse

@rafaelalodio5116 3 жыл бұрын

LOL Makes sense

@AF-tv6uf 3 жыл бұрын

Bleaarghargh!

@zeash482 3 жыл бұрын

Join the roman infantry! Service guarantees citizenships!

@igorvoloshin3406 3 жыл бұрын

Want to know more?

@aqidon 3 жыл бұрын

Underated comment.

@ErebosGR 3 жыл бұрын

_Spartacus has left the chat_

@TJ11692 3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Germania and I say kill'em all!

@walterashworth1011 3 жыл бұрын

I think some are missing your glorious reference to the federation.

@makky6239 3 жыл бұрын

"Joining the army and learning latin" sounds like the French foreign legion

@MrSurvivalgecoLP 3 жыл бұрын

@Boricua 787 Huh?

@dangle3392 3 жыл бұрын

Well, serve the French Legion and you will be granted the citizenship

@SaeedG1999 3 жыл бұрын

@@dangle3392 Fr ?

@Auto-Toon 3 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t it only if u bleed for the legion that u got granted citizenship?

@MrRemicas 3 жыл бұрын

@@Auto-Toon A legionnaire can ask the citizenship if he's wounded during combat (since 1999) or after three years of service.

@Yumao420 3 жыл бұрын

For me it's fascinating how Romans conquered the north of Spain. They someted some tribes by force, but most of them were something like this: Roman officer: How's the leader here? Tribe leader: Me, What happens? Roman officer: Do you want us to educate one of your kids in Rome? If you accept we'll leave you alone. Tribe leader: I would accept, but he has to pray to the Night Pantheon and the God of the Oak (or other random god) Roman officer: We already praise the Night Pantheon, just different names (their gods were similar enough with most other cultures for lies like this to be credible). And we'll build an altar to your oak god in Rome. After that chat, the kid is raised as a roman so when he comes back to be the leader of the tribe and sees no baths, he probably makes them become part of Rome to get back some of his luxuries. And the statue of the God of the Oak is decoration in the house of some random rich guy. Edit: The Night Pantheon is a modern name for the main Celtic Gods like Tutatis/Teutanes

@budahbaba7856 3 жыл бұрын

Something i appreciate is the Islamic conquest. The Spanish were reduced to the tiniest piece of land that no one else wanted. Yet they held that, and expanded. 800 frigging years to reclaim the peninsula. And a powerful (if smaller) neighbor came to be in the process, Portugal. Too small to subdue Spain, but too strong to be absorbed by Spain. Through this lens, i have to see their invasion into central America. The Spanish and Portuguese were still in Holy War mode against Islam. They had become very hardened people. By this time, all war is a Holy War. And throughout the middle ages... if you wanted a strong Queen for your nation, choose her from the Spanish/Portuguese royalty.

@torbjornlekberg7756 3 жыл бұрын

Makes sense considering the roman habit of seeing other gods as the greekoroman ones under different names. For example, Tor/Thor was interpreted as Hercules/Heracles. I would like to learn about the spanish religion of the time, if you dont mind. Do you have any suggestions where I, as someone who does not speak spanish, can read more? Googling night pantheon gave no good results.

@xenomorphphantom8991 3 жыл бұрын

@@torbjornlekberg7756 Look on google for the religion of the Visigoths,that's a good starting point.

@torbjornlekberg7756 3 жыл бұрын

@@xenomorphphantom8991 Thank you.

@mortache 3 жыл бұрын

@Alvi Syahri He meant someone to marry if you are a monarch

@JakeHoltMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Summerize Roman history in a sentence: "sometimes it went well, sometimes they got assassinated" 😂

@bleedingmasque.6193 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes there was civil war.

@Executor009 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes it was glorious.

@Executor009 3 жыл бұрын

Or wait a minute, glory is eternal.

@tellerjive 3 жыл бұрын

Somea times maybe gooda, somea times maybe shita - Gattuso

@alessandrovanni6132 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes both: Aurelian

@jasoncowley4718 3 жыл бұрын

"These Romans are crazy!" - Obelix.

@miliba 3 жыл бұрын

in german its "die spinnen die römer"

@MNalias 3 жыл бұрын

@@miliba In "Babarian"

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 3 жыл бұрын

Well none can doubt that goths where better than late romans.

@Diogolindir 3 жыл бұрын

@@MNalias one of my best friends is dutch, my mother language is spanish so I always tease her whenever I hear that she speaks dutch telling her to stop the barbarian gibberish hahaha

@galenbjorn443 3 жыл бұрын

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 the northmen where always better -Oden

@marcomcdowell8861 3 жыл бұрын

Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!

@kleinjahr 3 жыл бұрын

Cohen the Barbarian’s answer was better.

@HerrZenki 3 жыл бұрын

It's crush ya enemehs, see dem dreben befoar you and to hear the lamentehshon of their wahmen!

@danielthompson6207 3 жыл бұрын

To crush your coffee beans, see them ground up before you, and to hear the percolation of their brewing!

@iapetusmccool 3 жыл бұрын

@nickyiil but if you kill everyone, there won't be anyone to make more stuff for you to plunder again later.

@butsmash 3 жыл бұрын

THE LAMENTAYSHUN OF DER WEHMEEEEEEEN!!!

@edwardanderson1053 3 жыл бұрын

Remember though Cleopatra was a Ptolemy a descendant of one of Alexander's generals, so technically she was Greek.

@kingkefa7130 3 жыл бұрын

Not only Greek, but also a descendant of one of Alexander's generals.

@joek600 3 жыл бұрын

@@kesorangutan6170 Only Demosthenes said that in one of his speaches against Philip and they were at war at the time.

@JesusFriedChrist 3 жыл бұрын

It makes me laugh so much, the attempts at historical revisionism going on these days. “The Egyptians were black” “Cleopatra was black” “WE WUZ KANGZ” LMFAO 😂😂😂😂😂😂 sorry, history says NO.

@TristanisAwesome123 3 жыл бұрын

@@JesusFriedChrist I haven't heard many people try to claim that Cleopatra was black, since it's pretty common knowledge that she was a Ptolemaic ruler. I have heard people try to claim that Egyptians were Black, but usually it's in response to people who claim that Egypt was not really a "Black" civilization. This is usually presented as evidence that Black people haven't had any great civilizations on account of their "racial inferiority." Unfortunately for both sides of this silliness, to say that Egyptians were "White," "Black," or anything else along those lines is extremely anachronistic and ahistorical. Egypt had a diverse and cosmopolitan civilization that spanned millennia and drew people from all over, and their methods of determining kinship and heritage were very different from the modern notions of clear cut racial delineations based on the color of one's skin. The whole idea of "White" and "Black" as legitimate and total classifications is a recent one, and it's not based on science in any way.

@masonmorgan4 2 жыл бұрын

so she was racially Greek but culturally Egyptian?

@ScorpioMartianus 3 жыл бұрын

Scorpiō Lūcius suprā nōminātus tē salūtat! 😃Summās grātiās tibi agō, cāre Metatron, quod meum canālem tam benignē laudāstī! Thanks so much, my friend. Outstanding video! Your analysis of Rōmānitās is spot on, from your citing one of my favorite authors (Plautus!), to the in depth analysis of "barbarismus" and citizenship. Bravo!

@corvus_da 3 жыл бұрын

What form is laudasti? A contraction of laudavisti?

@ScorpioMartianus 3 жыл бұрын

@@corvus_da that’s exactly right! 😃 and Italian and Spanish use the contacted form in their preterite tenses for 2nd person singular.

@JesusFriedChrist 3 жыл бұрын

This is the greatest crossover since Gaius Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus formed the First Triumvirate.

@corvus_da 3 жыл бұрын

@@ScorpioMartianus Thanks!😃

@ScorpioMartianus 3 жыл бұрын

@Ander son aqui 😃 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/is6Zl8qInpexlZc.html

@Warkurus 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine coming into a tavern and asking "I am looking for a guy from here. I didn't get his full name, but it starts with Marcus Aurelius. Do you know him?" xD

@drakefang8368 3 жыл бұрын

The emperor in disguise: *Sweating suddenly

@xxfrosty609xx3 2 жыл бұрын

@@drakefang8368 The emperor: *sweats in philosophy*

@Atenejin 3 жыл бұрын

Me being a Greek guy in 1st century AD: "ΠΑΣ ΜΗ ΕΛΛΗΝ ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΣ" (Wild Roman with Gladius approaching) "ΠΑΣ ΜΗ ΕΛΛΗΝ ΤΕ ΚΑΙ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΣ ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΣ"

@ronjayrose9706 3 жыл бұрын

Me No Overstand whaf Girly Man Jus Saye

@Atenejin 3 жыл бұрын

@@ronjayrose9706 My interpretation of your comment: "Bar bar bar bar bar bar..."

@beph13 3 жыл бұрын

Вы бы считали нас русскими варварами? мы оба следуем правильной церкви.

@corvus_da 3 жыл бұрын

To everyone who's about to ask, it means: "Everyone [who is] not Greek [is] a barbarian." - "Everyone [who is] neither Greek nor Roman [is] a barbarian."

@argoarcontediatene8557 3 жыл бұрын

Bar bar bar bar, bar, bar bar! Bar bar, bar bar bar bar bar. Bar bar.

@rioalfacinha 3 жыл бұрын

I really liked the fact, that Arminius looked very Roman. It emphasized how Roman he was and felt until he came back to Germania. As well, it will be a very nice double contrast in season 2, when he will have an argument with his brother Flavus - who is hopefully displayed blonde in the show, I mean the name...duh... - at the river Weser. You will have a more Roman looking brother, who wants to be a German and a German looking brother who wants to be Roman, arguing about their identity. That could be very interesting. P.S.: There were probably more blonds in Germania then in Italia, but very likely also a lot with darker or even black hair.

@archangelrsr1326 3 жыл бұрын

I am half German, half Italian and my hair is brown. In fact most modern Germans have brown hair. I'm pretty sure the situation back then was not thaaaatt different...

@fabiansaerve 3 жыл бұрын

@@archangelrsr1326 it was tho. We Germans are really mixed. Especially the south. Obviously because Germany is in the middle of Europe.

@valentintapata2268 3 жыл бұрын

@@archangelrsr1326 Eastern Germany and of course Austria are heavily mixed with Slavs. These areas were settled by the Slavs a later conquered by the Germans. There are Slavic remains like Lusatian Sorbs in Germany and Slovenes in southern Austria. And there was a lot of mixing with other peoples as well.

@greenmachine5600 3 жыл бұрын

Closet to germans are probably Danish or some swedes lol

@0Turbox 3 жыл бұрын

@@archangelrsr1326 The more you get to the north, the more blonds and red haired people you find. You also find more big nosed people in the south. I highly doubt, this was the case 2k years ago. Especially the Germans didn't want to mix up with other cultures.

@ianmoriarty2199 3 жыл бұрын

Who were the barbarians? "Non-Romans," said the Romans, being invaded by non-Romans.

@daanwilmer 3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for a Bill Wurtz explanation. Nice!

@campkira 3 жыл бұрын

any one who not citizen is....

@robertpatter5509 2 жыл бұрын

Bill Wurtz does make a good video .

@mrtrollnator123 Жыл бұрын

R.I.P Roman Empire

@randomcamus9445 6 ай бұрын

Among the barbarian tribes they fought and robbed each other if he stole the women of other tribes.barbarians for their pleasure and also to sell to the Romans ....

@McHobotheBobo 3 жыл бұрын

Metatron: "He doesn't look very German, in fact he looks Italian." Lombards: *Am I a joke to you?*

@ReasonAboveEverything 3 жыл бұрын

To be fair Lombardia was in the most Northwest part of Italian peninsula.

@brittakriep2938 3 жыл бұрын

Langobarden is the german name.

@valkeakirahvi 3 жыл бұрын

What do Germans look like anyway? Even Finland has plenty of people who are not blond at all (including me) even though the stereotype is that we should be.

@ReasonAboveEverything 3 жыл бұрын

@@valkeakirahvi The Southwest center region we have less than 20 percent of blonde people. East North has about 40 percent not blonde people. Hair color can be changed with few genes but the whole facial phenotype is more set. However the more mixed nation is (check out the haplogroups in every country) the more unified the phenotype is. It would be more appropriate to speak about Central European phenotype rather than restrict the definition within artificially created borders.

@valkeakirahvi 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReasonAboveEverything That's the point. I don't think there is one look that modern Germans, or historical Germanic people can be caracterised with.

@hanakoakamoto8919 3 жыл бұрын

"Je teaches Latin in very fun way" reminded me of the "Romanus eunt domus" scene from Life of Brian.

@dreammfyre 3 жыл бұрын

You should do “How historically accurate is Asterix & Obelix” next.

@qvida4614 3 жыл бұрын

@@kesorangutan6170 yeah, not wearing pants in cold weather would be strange... :D

@atimidbirb Жыл бұрын

Fully. Duh. Didn´t you see the skeleton of a two headed unicorn in the British Museum

@VelikiHejter 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting thing is that Slavic word for Germans is Nemci and "nem" basically means mute, so, something alongside the lines of barbarian, but, it was never used as a pejorative, it simply means "those that we can not understand" and "slovo" from "Sloveni", Slavs, literally means letter in modern Slavic languages, or those that we do understand.

@BrutusAlbion 3 жыл бұрын

hey that's an interesting bit! Thanks for sharing mate!

@Vartra 3 жыл бұрын

It is also very interesting how Germans are named differently by English, Slavic and Nordic people (that we know of). I wonder why that is?

@VelikiHejter 3 жыл бұрын

@@Vartra I do not know about the others, but Slavic peoples have different name for Germans because they were the first foreign group we encounter, basically in pre-history. It's a very old, tribal, name, predating naming conventions by, probably, tens of thousands of years.

@BrutusAlbion 3 жыл бұрын

@@VelikiHejter whats the word bro? Don't leave me in anticipation! :(

@ustanik9921 3 жыл бұрын

One theory is that the word Slavs comes from Slovo, but the other is that it comes from "Slava" or glory, which I personally like more. Pozdrav!

@bubbasbigblast8563 3 жыл бұрын

The bit at the start reminds me of story in the late empire, where the Roman army went to report a victory to a city, which shut the soldiers out until the Emperor came by because the soldiers in the Roman army were just too similar to the German army that was just defeated.

@Azaghal1988 3 жыл бұрын

propably they were just germanic mercenaries, as was common in the late empire.

@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 3 жыл бұрын

that doesn't really make sense, you can recognize roman soldiers by their uniform

@canadious6933 3 жыл бұрын

@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 not really if it was late roman

@bubbasbigblast8563 3 жыл бұрын

@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 That was very much not the case in the late empire.

@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 3 жыл бұрын

@@bubbasbigblast8563 if you say so

@dreammfyre 3 жыл бұрын

Conan the barbarian who joined the imperial army to gain citizenship doesn’t really have as nice of a ring to it.

@pattheplanter 3 жыл бұрын

Conan the Citizen, we forget he was a barbarian as soon as he becomes a citizen. Conan predated the Romans by at least 3,000 years, of course. Everybody was a Barbarian, then. I have just discovered that the Romans had a word for "citizen of the world" - _cosmicos._

@robby7025 3 жыл бұрын

@@pattheplanter the romans were too cosmopolitan it was their downfal.

@JanoTuotanto 3 жыл бұрын

Conan the storm trooper

@dusk6159 3 жыл бұрын

@@robby7025 Bs, falsehood, that was one of the reasons of their splendour and success.

@pattheplanter 3 жыл бұрын

@@dusk6159 You are right. It was their inability to persuade Huns, Goths and Turks to become Roman citizens that was their big failure. Come to think of it, they didn't manage to keep Romans in the Roman Empire, that could be regarded as rather careless.

@justinbell7309 3 жыл бұрын

Megatron drinking game: if he's wearing his galea, take a shot every time he has to fix the strap under his chin.

@BigPuddin 3 жыл бұрын

Take a shot every time he brings his gladius into the shot.

@rikm2745 3 жыл бұрын

Take a shot at every jump-cut... r.i.p.

@mesajongte 3 жыл бұрын

"Bar Bar Bar..." (Edit) - Me & You except Greeks

@teufeldritch 3 жыл бұрын

Bar bar bar bar Barbara Ann!

@YnotTheTony 3 жыл бұрын

CHAOS GUTEMBAG!!!!

@kanenasithaki4669 3 жыл бұрын

Santa Barbara

@claudiussmith8798 3 жыл бұрын

Rhabarberbarbarasbarbarenbierbar barbarenbartbarbiersbärbelsbarbarenbierbart?🍻

@flusskiesel 3 жыл бұрын

It is very funny that we Germans are calling a lot of words without any content: ,,Bla Bla''

@sevenproxies4255 3 жыл бұрын

"Service guarantees citizenship. Would you like to know more?"

@illerac84 3 жыл бұрын

Are you doing your part?

@jamesscott3263 3 жыл бұрын

Using a bonus action to rage.

@torbjornlekberg7756 3 жыл бұрын

For the next round I suggest reckless attack.

@jamesscott3263 3 жыл бұрын

@@torbjornlekberg7756 GREAT WEAPON MASTER!

@potman4581 3 жыл бұрын

The Metatron and Scorpio Martianus?? I think I came.

@decem_sagittae 3 жыл бұрын

Came where?

@princepartee725 3 жыл бұрын

...Vidi, Vici?

@TakCWAL 3 жыл бұрын

~Hands over a box of tissue~

@potman4581 3 жыл бұрын

@@TakCWAL Thank you, that's very thoughtful.

@holdyerblobsaloft 3 жыл бұрын

*Metatron et Scorpio Martianus?? VENI.

@magister.mortran 3 жыл бұрын

You forgot the most common way to gain Roman citizenship: Being slave of a Roman citizen and obtain manumission. Freed slaves would receive the praenomen and nomen of their former owner. And while they would not be full citizens themselves, their children would. This was probably even more common than through military service.

@YnotTheTony 3 жыл бұрын

I think he didn't talked about it because of the subject in question: how civilized barbarians gained citizenship. But I could be wrong. Thanks for the information nonetheless! o/

@janwojtyna3392 3 жыл бұрын

manumissio originated early in Roman Law as a form of emancipating male children via "sale" to be slaves trans tibere

@rysiii811 3 жыл бұрын

@@YnotTheTony I'd bet that slavery is banned subject with youtube policies, since americans rapped the term...

@YnotTheTony 3 жыл бұрын

@@rysiii811 oooooh you're right! I often forget about this issue :/

@Intranetusa 3 жыл бұрын

@Andro mache American slaves were not paid for their daily work. However, they could earn money on their side jobs after they finished their quota of daily work. Furthermore, manumission in America was more common in the 1700s, but decreased after the invention of the cotton gin and the demand for intensive physical labor increased (the price of manumission had to be agreed upon by the master, so they could set a higher or lower price).

@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522 3 жыл бұрын

The slavic word for slavs is a variation of "Słowianie" wich comes from the word "słowa" meaning words. As in slavs are people who use words. On the other hand people who arent slavic dont use uctual words, they speak gibberish. To this day in many slavic languages the word for Germans is Niemcy wich is derrived from "niemi" (unable to speak)

@YnotTheTony 3 жыл бұрын

@Pasha Staravoitau ah yes scottish and irish germans...the bagpipes were never so loud!

@QualityPen 3 жыл бұрын

It’s actually kind of remarkable how widespread Old Slavonic was. Even now, Ukrainian and Russian are close enough that someone who speaks one language can innately understand about 50% of the other. I can’t understand Polish but notice the same roots in many of its words. What’s even more interesting is when you find Latin and Greek words in Russian, like biblioteca (library)...

@ronjayrose9706 3 жыл бұрын

@Raymond Foster Celts are different from Germans just like how Slavs are different from Greeks, Romans, And Baltic peoples they're all different groups of Indo-Europeans

@milosjanos5058 3 жыл бұрын

@@QualityPen and czech and slovak are even closer. As a Slovak I can understand 99% of czech. Regarding polish it is bit difficult, but if Pole doesn´t speak very fast I can understand like 60%-70%

@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522 3 жыл бұрын

@Pasha Staravoitau thats interesting. My guess is becouse Russians were more isolated they still used the original word for every non-slav rather than making new terms for different peoples.

@Gaisowiros 3 жыл бұрын

Luke from ScorpioMartianus is amazing, glad to see you collaborating! If you ever need help on the Gaulish language though, I am here!

@ScorpioMartianus 3 жыл бұрын

That's so nice of you to say! You're amazing too 😃especially if you know Gaulish! Ande yes, I'm interested haha.

@Gaisowiros 3 жыл бұрын

@@ScorpioMartianus I do not speak Gaulish as well as you speak Latin. We don't know much about Gaulish verbs so that limits what we can do with it. Though I know the grammar and many nouns and adjectives. But thank you! People are often surprised to hear that Gaulish sounds like Latin; you would have no problems pronouncing it.

@JesusFriedChrist 3 жыл бұрын

I want to see you on Ecolinguist! Europeans vs Gaulish

@Gaisowiros 3 жыл бұрын

@@JesusFriedChrist I would gladly do it if there were more verbs to work with!

@dariustiapula 3 жыл бұрын

"Young man!, are you talented?." Young man, are you down on your fortunes?. There's is no need to keep your life wasted!. Come and join the L.E.G.I.O.N and earn your citizenship. Young man there is no need to waste your life as a barbarian. Young man no need to raid for your basic needs. Come and join the L.E.G.I.O.N!."

@mrtizio13 3 жыл бұрын

I want this translated in actual Latin

@oscura70percent 24 күн бұрын

What if we like raiding?

@jspirmann 3 жыл бұрын

I think it is also important to notice Cleopatra was of Greek heritage. She was, for all intents and purposes, what we today would consider "White" or more specifically "Mediterranean"

@zhilinskysproject5543 Жыл бұрын

More like half Mediterranean half Persian due to the intermarrying between the Seleucid (which where already half Persian) and Ptolemaic dynasties

@christiankalinkina239 Жыл бұрын

@@zhilinskysproject5543 Persians look white enough that if they spoke any European language you probably wouldn't notice

@thefleecer3673 Жыл бұрын

I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was Black! 😂😅😂

@Maza675 Жыл бұрын

Yeah. She black. I saw it on Netflix. They wouldn't lie

@everdinestenger1548 8 ай бұрын

That race swapping makes me so sick. What does the woke mob want? That whites are exterminated or that we stand on hands and feet and be sprayed black. What does skin color matter

@robertoprestigiacomo253 3 жыл бұрын

I've read reviews to this show by Italians and it's funny the fact that the defeat of Teutoburg forest is still an open wound to us (I'm Italian). There are mixed opinions about the story and the characters. Most said it was a bland story and characters are too much "telenovelas" style but I haven't watched the show myself so I can't say. Then there are the funny comments. Many complained about the fact that the show is too biased because Arminius in Germany is considered a hero whereas the Italians in those comments were not very generous with his historical figure. Some added some comments like "what did you expect, it's a German show, they have to celebrate their own". I mean, 2011 years have passed and people are still upset for that event. Romans would be proud.

@FubbleSmurf 3 жыл бұрын

I want "Italian man in 1st century legionary armor calls you a barbarian for 10 minutes straight" ASMR.

@zackarypecia3007 3 жыл бұрын

My favourite thing about him is that he can make a full on video with armour on like it is nothing. Something about seeing him lecture us while wearing armour just makes me so incredibly happy.

@metatronyt 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear that. Lately I've been wearing my Armour 12 hours a day

@mrtrollnator123 Жыл бұрын

@@metatronyt good lord

@geoffreyzimmerman2814 3 жыл бұрын

i remember that slaves can earn their freedom but can never be full citizens. So if a freed slave joined the army, would he get full citizenship?

@magister.mortran 3 жыл бұрын

The son of a freed slave would have full Roman citizenship, even without military service.

@404Dannyboy 3 жыл бұрын

As Magister said, the freed slaves son will be a full citizen but I would also add that slaves usually got freed late in life after good service or after they had made enough money. By the age you would be freed you probably would be too old to join up in the infantry.

@4flx17 3 жыл бұрын

No, because it was forbidden to the freed slave to join the army

@geoffreyzimmerman2814 3 жыл бұрын

I also remember when studying Petrionious dinner with Tramalchio, one of the points was that the wealthy guy was doing customs he wasn't allowed to do because he was a freed slave and not the son of a freed slave. Maybe if u have the money u can get away with anything too?

@Redhand1949 3 жыл бұрын

Both your videos on the TV Series have been excellent. I have really enjoyed listening to them, in particular the first where you comment on how realistic the Roman armor is. Finally, steps are being taken to get things right! But your commentary in this video is also informative and a good check on dramatic license in the series.

@heinrichzerbe 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making me aware of this series. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and with you sharing your knowledge on this topic I'm fascinated by it even more.

@user-yp3pv7jd5l 3 жыл бұрын

it would have been funnier if you had the greek say PAS MEE ELLEEN BARBAROS in the beginning! Consider making a linguistics video again!

@orthochristos 3 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is that even to this day, modern Greeks call themselves "Ρωμιός" (singular) - Romios i.e Roman.

@megasayajinsongoku99 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! It's because we are Roman Greeks and because we ( mainly ) continued the eastern hellenized remains of the Roman State. The (Eastern) Roman ( Greek) State. Greeks continued the grecoroman culture and the Roman State until the 15. Century.

@m.thorton9305 3 жыл бұрын

aren't the Turks also calling them Rum(Roman) to this day?

@technics291 3 жыл бұрын

@@m.thorton9305 No. They used this term to describe Greek Or orthodox Christian population.

@orthochristos 3 жыл бұрын

@@m.thorton9305 Yes. But they also call us Yunan, from Ionians

@technics291 3 жыл бұрын

@@Janibek35 Yes. Byzantines that was ruled by Muslims.

@kolbywilliams7234 3 жыл бұрын

All the video ideas you mention in your video sound awesome. Can’t wait to see them, thank you.

@shatdamouthboyah4568 3 жыл бұрын

Great follow up to the other Barbarian video

@GeorgeKarayannis 3 жыл бұрын

Correction. well, between the classical and Roman times, there were the Hellenistic Times and during these, as Hellenic Civilisation was spread from West to Afghanistan, a "barbarian" was anyone who did not partake in Hellenic Civilisation

@tylersmith3139 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but the difference is Greek eventually became that way where the Romans learned pretty quickly on withholding Citizenship from people due to not being ethnic Latins wasn't going to in a Republic where most people weren't ethnic Latins whereas the Greek pretty much lived in mostly ethnic Greek society and could get away with it.

@benjaminstevens4468 3 жыл бұрын

The beginning was solid gold. I cracked up.

@gangstalkerofgangstalkers 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding video as always.

@samiam2971 3 жыл бұрын

I fully agree that the actor playing Arminius appeared too Roman/Italian. The real Arminius was of the Cheruski, obviously a northwest Germanic folk, thus the real man was likely to have been fair in complexion, etc as Tacitus described the "Germani" generally.

@josephahner3031 3 жыл бұрын

Lol the opening alone got you a like for this one.

@thechrisofsomething2780 3 жыл бұрын

Never been this fast in my entire life

@danielmcbolnd4828 3 жыл бұрын

too bad ur 1 minute late

@thechrisofsomething2780 3 жыл бұрын

Damn this is becoming quite the mess

@daryld4457 3 жыл бұрын

@The Chris of Something, you've never been that fast? That's not what your mum says. LOL.

@antonius.martinus 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice, loved the explanation.

@connorgioiafigliu 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video!

@wikipediaintellectual7088 3 жыл бұрын

I like the fact that he looked phenotypically Roman. As someone who didn’t even know this was based off true events, it really threw me for a loop when I discovered his true lineage.

@acefreak9561 3 жыл бұрын

Now im curious about a casual roman conversation in latin

@iberius9937 3 жыл бұрын

It is still done today by many communities of Classicists all over the world, mainly Europe and America.

@KnightofAges 3 жыл бұрын

For a great example of current (vulgar) Latin used in everyday conversation, read 'Commentarii De Bello Gallico' by Iulius Caesar. The book was dictated by Caesar, and thus it uses the Latin he spoke. And he was heavily criticized at the time for this, as many felt that books should only be written in the more formal, classical, Latin that is usually used as 'Classical' Latin, even if by the 1st century AD it had dropped out of everyday use.

@acefreak9561 3 жыл бұрын

I could try that not that i understand latin but doesnt mean i cant try

@KnightofAges 3 жыл бұрын

@@acefreak9561 The classical Latin that most Classisists speak today was actually old, fairly complicated and not used in everyday conversations by the 1st century AD. Romans of that time used the 'Sermo Vulgaris', or 'Common Speech'. It's from where modern Italian evolved, and if you can speak modern Italian, you will see many similarities (for example, in old Classic Latin, a Horse is 'Equus', but in Sermo Vulgaris a Horse is 'Caballus').

@acefreak9561 3 жыл бұрын

@@KnightofAges what about español tho ive seen many similarities in latin like you said equus to caballus for us its caballo

@elcano56 3 жыл бұрын

Love the intro!! Nice video😂

@PipeJM117 3 жыл бұрын

Hey! Thank you very much! I've loved this video.

@peterszeug308 3 жыл бұрын

But Pyrrhus said: These don't look like barbarians to me!

@cultofmalgus1310 3 жыл бұрын

could you do a video on the differences in culture, religion, traditions of the Ancient Celts and Germans?

@VisboerAnton 3 жыл бұрын

GRAZIE MILLE for these reviews on Barbarians!!!

@Surrealiantx 3 жыл бұрын

This is incredible knowledge, thank you so much!

@knighttemplar78 3 жыл бұрын

And as we say in Greece "Una faccia, una razza" for us and our Italian friends! Congrats for the amazing video Raf!

3 жыл бұрын

Greeks and romans are brothers practically the same culture, greeks founded western civilization and the romans contributed to it and spread it throughout Europe. The western world would not exist without romans and greeks.

@knighttemplar78 3 жыл бұрын

@ Indeed my friend!

@Axemantitan 3 жыл бұрын

I think that they wanted Arminius to look Italian for the effect of surprising the audience when he speaks German for the first time and it is revealed that he was born German. If he were tall, hale, and blond, then the surprise would have been lost.

@Rikalonius 3 жыл бұрын

I love you channel. I'm a fervent student of Roman History, but of course, I pale in comparison because I'm not good at linguistic. I would LOVE for you to do a breakdown video on the Roman naming convention. I think I have a pretty good handle on it, but I'm sure I would learn a lot more from one of your videos.

@Eclipse-mf6hc 3 жыл бұрын

I was watching your other video on Barbarians and was gong to watch the video when a minute or two in a image from presumably the trailer appears with the words “you were born a barbarian (or something)” and I thought “hmmmmm” and promptly watched the trailer and began binging it. This show is now one of my favourite shows and I’m longing for season 2 to drop.

@MaxSluiman 3 жыл бұрын

Armin and Arie are names that are still used in modern day Germany and The Netherlands.

@laterreurrouge1917 3 жыл бұрын

Also the name "Hermann" is in the debate a lot. Even at the actual site of the battle

@000jimbojones000 3 жыл бұрын

@@laterreurrouge1917 Yep the monument for Arminius in the Teutoburg Forest ist called Hermansdenkmal (Herman monument) He is also called Herman the german. Funny thing is Hermann should be Hermannus not Arminius. ;-) But also keep in mind that the monument is more a nationalistic thing build in 1838.. So almost 1800 years later.. ;-) Arminius should be Armin from old german means heroic.

@laterreurrouge1917 3 жыл бұрын

@@000jimbojones000 nothing but quality content 👏💪

@fredericleclerc9037 3 жыл бұрын

Being a Barbarian ONLY ment this : You are not Hellenized. Nothing less, nothing more.

@Oxide-Actual 3 жыл бұрын

You are living a fatricide of denial. To he helenneized was to have an absorption of greek culture, relgion, language , and mindset... yet there are still many cases that people who were in fact helenized were still considered "barbaroi". The greeks were a marvel, but in a modern cultural standpoint, they were actually very ignorant of other peoples... simply because their mindset was one of cultural and religious greatness, especially in athenian statesmen. As horrible is it may sound my freind, if you travelled back in time, and you went there, you would be dubbed barbaroi.... they even considered the great romanum imperium as such in times.

@fredericleclerc9037 3 жыл бұрын

@@Oxide-Actual Yup... thanks for the clarification. (Already knew that). I just don't think that most people read wall of text. I'm a Role-Player and I'm SO tired of stuff like Barbarians are brute swinging a 2 handed-axe ;)

@joek600 3 жыл бұрын

Even if you were hellenized you would still be a barbaros if you were not born of a Greek father.

@KraNisOG 3 жыл бұрын

@@Oxide-Actual considering our modern disease would come with us, they'd consider us a punishment sent by the gods and should be killed, or pleased, so if you ask to no longer be a barbarian, they might be inclined to appease you.

@oscura70percent 24 күн бұрын

Barbarian

@countmarkula1993 3 жыл бұрын

Seen several videos of yours and just realized I wasn't subbed. Well, just fixed that. Keep up the great content!

@HDPolarBear 3 жыл бұрын

damn closing in on 500k, i started watching your content when you had under 100k subs, however i fell out and stopped watching when you where around 250k. Not because of your content, but youtube is always putting me on random adventure paths, so i have been lost in youtube maze for some time. Finally that exact adventure put me here again and i remembered.

@MLCloneCODgamer 3 жыл бұрын

I like how you mention Cleopatra when talking about Egyptian race.... She's Greek XD

@ikad5229 3 жыл бұрын

He didn't say she was Egyptian. He said that a lot of generals aprecciated her because of her intelligence and her languahe skills. She was Greek ethnically, but in the end she was a Egyptian pharaoh. It didn't matter her skin or "nationality", but her intelligence.

@noobster4779 3 жыл бұрын

She was the "most egypt" ptolemaian though. She was one of the very few who even made an effort to learn local languages and customs, she was THE symbol of aegypten power in her time after the Caesar kicking out her brother affair. Also ethics like that didnt matter as much as today back then. Also she wasnt greek....there was no greece back then after all. She was ethnically speaking hellenistic and from one of the hundreds of small poleis in an area spanning hafl the eastern mediterrainean.

@sclair2854 3 жыл бұрын

Calling Cleopatra Greek is the same as calling Edward III french because of William the Conqueror's birthplace. The ethnic background of the Ptolemy's is important, but they had been the rulers of egypt for 300 years by her time.

@valkeakirahvi 3 жыл бұрын

@@sclair2854 Greece as a country didn't exist back then, so it isn't really about her birth place, but the fact that her first language was Greek, and she was a part of the ruling elite that had the hellenistic culture. That said, it's also true that even the "ethnically Egyptian" pharaos had been a part of a mediterranean cultural circle for hundreds of years, where they exchanged culture and wives with other empires such as the Greeks and Mesopotamians. The question of race at that time is very complicated.

@JesusFriedChrist 3 жыл бұрын

@@valkeakirahvi Complicated, yes perhaps. But I think we can be reasonably accurate in saying she was from Greek lineage.

@connorgolden4 3 жыл бұрын

It means that they need to be purged by the chads of the great empire. So says Dovahhatty.

@francescobarresi8885 3 жыл бұрын

Dovahhatty dude... Tier A entertainment

@odochi7091 3 жыл бұрын

Glad this dude is becoming bigger

@purpleunicornmedia 3 жыл бұрын

Good and interesting video, thank you!

@chris-qe4yc 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing Intro , greetings from Greece and Cyprus :)

@awakeningtovacuity8372 3 жыл бұрын

I thought Barbarians were called such because they had beards. Now I know better.

@cahallo5964 3 жыл бұрын

I like pubic hair

@cahallo5964 3 жыл бұрын

Re thinking what I have just done I do not think my comment is very civilised

@MrKugelsicher90 3 жыл бұрын

@Mister Albanian someone mad cause cant grow beard? : D

@Lttlemoi 3 жыл бұрын

I thought "bar bar" is supposedly referring to the bleating of sheep, i.e. people who talk like sheep, i.e. barbarians.

@TNaizel 3 жыл бұрын

There were the Longobards named after their long beards

@arminius301 3 жыл бұрын

ever seen the Hermanns Denkmal? suppose his name was Hermann (very common German first name and derivative of Armin) and then latinized to Arminius....not sure about Ari

@malahamavet 3 жыл бұрын

yeeeesssss! I somehow felt the scorpio Martians dialogue. That channel is the best Latin thing in the universe

@bigchungus8131 3 жыл бұрын

Great series. Keep them coming.

@Ernest_XX 3 жыл бұрын

These romans are crazy

@antonycharnock2993 3 жыл бұрын

I think that gaulish village is probably still there...

@narxes 3 жыл бұрын

Everybody is a barbarian to someone.

@oscura70percent 24 күн бұрын

Thus Spoke Narxes The Barbarian

@isoldmysoulforanime7163 3 жыл бұрын

Keep them coming! New subscriber here. Love your work!

@metatronyt 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! New video on this series coming soon

@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947 3 жыл бұрын

This guy speaking in the language of the time is one of the reasons for this Brazilian here to watch this channel.

@larryleqend 3 жыл бұрын

This was a really good show, nothing will be 100 percent accurate but it’s flaws couldn’t overshadow the good.

@briankearney5994 3 жыл бұрын

I’m curious what you think about the equites translated to “knights” for the English captions? Probably another video coming about that comparison ;). Personally, I think I see where they are going as there are parallels with medieval knights for sure, and I don’t think it’s terrible, but perhaps they should have just left it as equites.

@Nethan2000 3 жыл бұрын

Well, medieval knights called themselves "equites" in Latin, so in a way that is a perfectly serviceable translation.

@randomdude2026 3 жыл бұрын

It has to do with the German word for equites. In Germany the word for knight is "Ritter" which literally means rider. That's the reason you can translate equites as Ritter in German because they basically mean the same. It only gets weird if you translate the German Ritter as knight into English.

@perfectibility999 3 жыл бұрын

Translating equestrians as knights has been standard for a long time. It's just understood that the Roman equestrian class were quite different from medieval knights, but still associated with mounted warfare due to their origins.

@briankearney5994 3 жыл бұрын

Great comments guys, beyond the cavalry roots of the equestrians, there’s a bunch of them that have little to do with the military as administrators and businessmen (senatorial rank couldn’t run businesses directly, so equestrians were the highest that could). I mean, sure, we also have knight as an honorific outside the military later as well, but this is an entire class in Roman society. Although I completely agree about the origins of the term and the complexity in the translation.

@GhostofNr9 3 жыл бұрын

In modern German „Ritter“ means „knight“ and „Reiter“ means rider. I suppose, yet I do not know if those two words have the same roots. When I had Latin in school we translated equites into Reiter / riders however, not into Ritter / knights. It was also possible to use the same word „Equites“, or if in plural to translate it into cavalry. I can’t remember if our teacher insisted on this translation or if it was recommended by Stowasser, the common Latin - German dictionary, but I will check it out...

@GhostKnt 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your Videos. They are entertaining and Educational. Thank you for directing my attention to Netflick's Barbarians. I am always looking to AUTHENTIC REPRESENTATIONS of Ancient Rome. Where did you get your Roman Armor, particulary the Lorica Segmentata and Helmet ? Thank you again.

@inaces1 3 жыл бұрын

Great video

@xirensixseo 3 жыл бұрын

if professor metatron went back in time, he'd be able to get around a lot better than people like us

@davethepants 3 жыл бұрын

One small thing I noticed is that you said Arminius' actor doesn't look very German, or not German enough to make for enough "contrast". I understand the point, yet I see the actor as still very much historically accurate. There are in fact huge amounts of Germans who have darker, even black hair, just as there are blond northern Italians. Even with the Cherusci in easternmost Westphalia, which is intuitively "somewhat up north" in Germany, it would be a bit of a coin toss. This area in Germany (and a bit south of that) is particularly interesting because it's where Franks and Saxons always met later on and had their back-and-forth over the centuries. The Frankish and Saxon heritages are still visible in Germany to an extent. In Roman times, almost only later-to-become Frankish peoples were actually conquered and part of the empire, particularly on the left-hand side of the Rhine river. That's how in westernmost and southwestern Germany, you even today get a lot more dark haired people who might look vaguely French or even Italian, whereas in northernmost Germany most people really are blonder. In the central area of eastern Westphalia, northern Hesse and southernmost Lower Saxony (i.e. Cherusci), people tend to be quite mixed indeed.

@arx3516 3 жыл бұрын

I agree, but it's a tv series, and you have to have some visual contrast.

@alexandrub8786 3 жыл бұрын

The north italians aren't blond because of the long beards?

@davethepants 3 жыл бұрын

@@arx3516 Yeah I do see the point. Just wanted to point out it's not plain factually *wrong* / ahistorical at all. This channel is mostly about historical accuracy, after all

@a.d.samano7873 3 жыл бұрын

Nice gear there. A good video too.

@Philipp.of.Swabia 3 жыл бұрын

Just watched the series, it’s cool but some points are kinda weird such as Arminius who had blond hair if I’m not mistaken xD but I enjoyed the series anyways although some stuff was weird.

@donrog5035 3 жыл бұрын

It is his brother who is blond

@gianlucarossi5672 3 жыл бұрын

@@AwersomeCan No he was blond.

@jamok5922 3 жыл бұрын

Anche in Belgio il terzo nome proprio lo sceglie il Re, ogni anno ne sceglie 1 maschile e uno femminile da dare ai nuovi nati.Non so se è ancora così, fino alla fine degli anni sessanta 70 lo faceva ora non so se è cambiato.Penso che facevano così per tracciare meglio la gente... Sono in pochi ed i cognomi sono molto simili.

@calebstevens4658 Жыл бұрын

Excellent videos

@damian_madmansnest 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the intro immediately made me think of Luke Ranieri 🙃And thanks for a great video!

@Andarion00 3 жыл бұрын

12:25-12:28 Germanicus approves of this message

@Duke_of_Lorraine 3 жыл бұрын

I hope we get a sequel with Germanicus avenging Varus' legions

@Duke_of_Lorraine 3 жыл бұрын

@Grey-Wolf 93 even better. Arminius' tribe, the Cheruscii, was one of the tribes that formed the Franks. Who were in the long run the most succesful Germanic tribe

@celtofcanaanesurix2245 3 жыл бұрын

I would totally love to see a video about Arminius’ motivations, also scholars are split between the etymology being from something like Ariamanaz, Harjamanaz, and Ermunaz, which all mean in order; Free/noble-man, war-man, and strong/whole

@Jr-ft9ii 3 жыл бұрын

AMAZING costume and AMAZING video!!

@HyperTrojan 3 жыл бұрын

Come disse Alberto Angela:"Un impero multietnico, ma non multiculturale".

@SicSeb 3 жыл бұрын

I'm half German, half Dutch and I have dark hair, dark eyes and I'm only 1.75m. So maybe Arminius was like that aswell ;)

@Casketkrusher_ 2 жыл бұрын

Eww Dutch!

@antoniospano8006 2 жыл бұрын

Friend, I think then as today there is no typical Italian or a typical German or Dutch, I mean it's not that all Germans, Dutch are blond, of course there is a higher percentage than in southern Europe. Just as not all Italians or people in southern Europe have all brown or black hair, there is a middle ground for you and there is a middle ground for us too. In Italy, Spain, Greece, Romania etc ... you can normally find a certain percentage of people with blond or red hair. As in Germany, the Netherlands can easily find a certain percentage of people with brown or black hair. As for your height, you have an average height in today's world population.

@Likexner 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! I love your content, especially the Roman stuff. A few corrections of pronunciation: "gibberish" is pronounced with a soft g, the "b" in "subtle" is silent and the "gen" in "genocide" is pronounced the same way as in "general". Peace

@johnspera8369 3 жыл бұрын

EXCELLENT, M!!!

@Lehnard 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't Tacitus describe most Germans as red haired? I remember that Arminus' brother (who stayed with the Romans) was mentioned as some one with lighter hair.

@pattheplanter 3 жыл бұрын

Colour words in Latin and Greek are tricky. Like _rubio_ in modern Spain, it might not translate exactly.

@sualtam9509 3 жыл бұрын

Also what an Italian might consider light hair could be dark hair in Scandinavia.

@kingkefa7130 3 жыл бұрын

They also said Slavs have red hair, which seems unlikely.

@magister.mortran 3 жыл бұрын

Germans were no homogenous ethnic group, so you can't say Armenius should have looked more German. Keep in mind that the ancestors of today's Spaniards were Visigoths, i.e. Germans, and look totally different from Swedes who have also German ancestors. "German" is an artificial classification invented by the Romans, not an ethnic group. Armenius belonged to the Cherusci. Today we don't know how Cherusci looked like, whether they had blond or black hair, because they went extinct, shortly after their defeat by Germanicus.

@KnightofAges 3 жыл бұрын

The ancestors of current Spaniards are not the Visigoths, who never made up more than 5% of the population of Hispania. They and the Suevii were located in very small and specific areas of the Peninsula [the Visigoths around Toledo, the Suevii around Aveiro in Portugal], areas which to this day have more blue-eyed blondes than the rest of Iberia. Most accepted Catholicism, got baptized with local names, and were absorbed into the much larger mass of the Roman-Iberians of the days of the Roman Empire, who ARE the forefathers of current Spaniards (which is why most have dark hair and have dark eyes), exception being the Basques [who have a hard time accepting Spanish rule or for that matter the Visigothic one either].

@markiec8914 3 жыл бұрын

True the Germanic tribes lived in a vast territory back then, stretching from the Rhine, North Sea, Baltic Sea and all the way East to the Pontic Steppes. They embraced Celtic, Dacian, Slavic and Scythian/Sarmatian influences.

@eust117 3 жыл бұрын

When I watched that "you were born a barbarian" scene between Varus and Arminius, I couldn't stop thinking (almost hoping actually) that Arminius would make a witty reference to the gauls who less than half a century ago had acquired senatorial positions. A pity he was dumbfounded...