Rome's Biggest Construction Projects

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
3:06 Domitian's Temple of Jupiter
4:45 Aura
5:48 The Forum of Trajan
7:16 Nero's Golden House

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@revolutionaryhamburger 4 ай бұрын

Here I was almost getting through my morning without once thinking about Rome.

@stephenwerner1662 4 ай бұрын

What??? It's not morning. Where do you live? Is it really morning there?

@ElliotCarson 4 ай бұрын

@@stephenwerner1662bro did you just discover time zones lmao

@SkycladWanderer 4 ай бұрын

And the you heard toldins tone or wat

@stephenwerner1662 4 ай бұрын

@@ElliotCarson time zones???? What colour is a "time zone"? How much does a "time zone" weigh? I'm so confused.

@GeorgiawithaG 4 ай бұрын

@@stephenwerner1662 Don't mind him, a "time zone" as he calls it is simply an area in which time can be controlled - stopped, started, reversed, the whole lot.

@Fabermain 4 ай бұрын

You, your two books(i got them on audible.) and your channel, made me take italian lessons. And now ive invited my old mother to Rome, as she always wanted to go. - ive been there once, more than a decade ago. And i cant wait to go back in april. thank you for all your work.

@YeeSoest 4 ай бұрын

Say Ciao to the Ladies for me and more importantly : Enjoy your trip, sounds fantastic ! 😊

@AsianManZan 4 ай бұрын

Hey I’ll be there in April as well. I can’t wait either. I hope you enjoy your trip!

@garafanvou6586 4 ай бұрын

Quest’uomo ha imparato l’italiano

@Fabermain 4 ай бұрын

I hope its gonna be. the trip itself includes a planned tour and a guide. so my mother will get the most of it.@@YeeSoest

@milosimpsonfilms. 4 ай бұрын

Aye this guy has also been an inspiration for me to travel to Rome this year too! I decided to defer Uni and hopefully go with a friend as well 😆

@youngimperialistmkii 4 ай бұрын

Seeing the temple of Jupiter in its heyday, must have been breathtaking.

@chrisbelos2834 4 ай бұрын

can we get the biggest projects a consul ever made too? emperors had decades and power to make them happend but consuls (pre-emperial era) had only a year or less. i'm taling about the Pompey, the Sulla, the Cicero. surely many projects were made by consuls.

@KerouacandRimbaud 4 ай бұрын

The very end of this makes me curious about these Roman "offices." Great video!!

@adamfox9651 4 ай бұрын

I'm sure they were occupied by "professionals". 😉

@CIS101 3 ай бұрын

Been watching this channel on, and off since lockdown in 2020, and it has always represented to me what's best about KZfaq, and the Internet. Thank you.

@jamespoynor9511 4 ай бұрын

Love your content. Please expand on these.

@gerardwooning3383 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for all the high-quality content and greets from the Nationalpark Eifel near cologne. The whole region here is full with amazing roman relics. And through you I learnt to understand them better.👍👍👍

@user-uf2df6zf5w 4 ай бұрын

Were there passenger carriages going from city to city in the Roman Empire?

@StewBurtTheRed 4 ай бұрын

Yes they had a mail carrier system or you could pay someone to walk it or have a slave/ servant walk the package/mail to whomever you wished

@DK-nc9wr 4 ай бұрын

Think OP meant the movement of people between cities and not a courier system.

@jameshoffa7085 4 ай бұрын

@@StewBurtTheRed haha you can't read

@r0ky_M 4 ай бұрын

There was a form of imperial transport service in the empire, but it was for a select few..Even Pliny (as a senator and governor of Bithynia) had to get approval direct from Trajan for his wife to use it to go visit a sick close relative.

@garafanvou6586 4 ай бұрын

For POWs

@raviolijones5351 4 ай бұрын

You are one of the greats!! Thank you for your book signing in Chicago - your content is beyond inspiring

@uncletiggermclaren7592 4 ай бұрын

You have cut a rod for your own back, Mr Ryan. The standard you have set for your work, I mean. Really very interesting and often borders on the poetical, and now ya has to keep it up, for the foreseeable future. ") One of the writers I never miss watching the same day you post for us. Thank you.

@Skibbityboo0580 4 ай бұрын

What an interesting saying. Never heard that before!

@uncletiggermclaren7592 4 ай бұрын

Shakespeare, like 20% of the sayings in English. :)@@Skibbityboo0580

@donbrashsux 4 ай бұрын

This channel is brilliant

@ryang8915 4 ай бұрын

Keep it up DR Ryan

@JerjerB 4 ай бұрын

Love this channel!

@mariotinivanda502 4 ай бұрын

You read my mind, i was just wondering about this topic

@joshuabb2 4 ай бұрын

Love that i found this channel!!

@plumbthumbs9584 4 ай бұрын

Dr. Ryan, you're the best, thank you!

@johnspizziri1919 4 ай бұрын

Wow. This was great!

@johnladuke6475 4 ай бұрын

I think gilded bronze might be a whole new way to describe decadent opulence.

@sonicgoo1121 4 ай бұрын

I wonder how many of these monuments were actually meant to last. Because using the most expensive materials seems to guarantee that they won't.

@Art-is-craft 4 ай бұрын

Rome existed for 1000 years. Anybody living in that probably thought it was for ever.

@dzonikg 4 ай бұрын

@@Art-is-craft Yes,USA is just 250 years old and people think there will last forever

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 4 ай бұрын

Oh, those can and did. Look at the Parthenon, they got that look not because of a thousand years of decay but a 1668 explosion of the gunpowder magazine that the building was used at the time. Look at the Tomb of King Ramses II: despite being made from less expensive limestone and being in the desert the details of its statuary are still legible...

@180Floridalife 4 ай бұрын

And new book add to the collection 😂 thanks excellent job

@Adayinthemylife 4 ай бұрын

Another informative, educational, and entertaining video, thank you. Question, how did the stone Temple of Jupiter burn so easily and often?

@brucefreadrich1188 4 ай бұрын

Everytime Jupiter would go steppin' out with a nymph, or a swan, or a cow, or what have you - Juno would get pissy. With the help of Vulcan (such a mommas boy) they would light it up. Just guessing, but it makes logical sense.

@joshuaharper372 4 ай бұрын

Materially, it could burn the same way Notre Dame in Paris did: the roof was supported by timber beams, and the roof structure could catch fire. If the roof collapsed, other parts of the building would then be liable to collapse, too.

@malkomalkavian 4 ай бұрын

That was a good one, cheers :)

@grafneun 2 ай бұрын

Great Video

@kmvoss 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the content. :)

@LeontiusInvictus 4 ай бұрын

Hadrian's Villa deserves a video!

@Zomrem 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, again and again.

@Prosper661 4 ай бұрын

Just quick thank you, for using metric system in your descriptions

@silverado9104 4 ай бұрын

as well as "Roman feet" Considering the everyday brutality of the ancient world, I wonder if "100 roman feet" is a statement of composition rather than of dimension.

@tomreed-oe7hi 2 ай бұрын

Can you do a detailed video of the Domus Area, Portus and Circus Maximus and then biggest Villa of Rome?

@arthurmorgan3180 4 ай бұрын

I wonder how well builders and masons were paid during the Roman Empire, not to mention there was probably no margin for error

@michaelporzio7384 4 ай бұрын

I wonder what tools they used to cut not only fine details but multi ton blocks of granite. These artisans must have been highly skilled.

@johnbeckwith1361 4 ай бұрын

I know most were slaves. Greeks were where the real artists came from.

@ldubt4494 4 ай бұрын

Slaves.

@TaeSunWoo 4 ай бұрын

Things to watch while playing Imperator: Rome

@deli8871 4 ай бұрын

must get in my daily rome history video

@lupo1thewolf 4 ай бұрын

I can confirm tat Egyptian red porfidus is exquisite here in italy

@sotony7483 4 ай бұрын

Two halls in the Forum of Trajan that were "formerly thought to be the Greek and Latin Libraries'? Can i ask what the thinking is on this? What's changed in the evidence (or lack of it)?

@theodore738 4 ай бұрын

Audio quality seems better somehow!

@ghostfifth 4 ай бұрын

I wish i could see the awesomeness of the ancient world. From the stone age to the modern there are just so many cool things in this world

@frankhill4358 4 ай бұрын

Wait you should do a comparison between Roman projects and Chinese such as the grand canal

@mapograph 4 ай бұрын

0:33 What about Constantinople? I felt like it also deserved a mention.

@jettjones9889 4 ай бұрын

I never stop thinking of Rome

@asheland_numismatics 4 ай бұрын

Rome 😎

@Peter_Schiavo 4 ай бұрын

Next year in February/March we're going to rent an apartment for a month and truly see everything in Rome. That is the plan anyway.

@scottdoran6347 3 ай бұрын

Why oh why, I’m out sailing around the world connected by Starlink and I’m getting schooled about Roman construction

@duckpotat9818 4 ай бұрын

Considering how much trade surplus India* and China maintained with Rome, shouldn't their capitals be wealthier? And considering their population was basically 2x times larger as well, they should also have highly populated cities? If not then could you get into why (i understand that's not exactly your specialty but maybe close enough) 8Ik other than Mauryan, Mughal and Maratha Empires no Indian empire (well you could include British Raj too ig) reached a territorial extent similar to today but the largest Empire/Kingdom in India at any given time still controlled about 1/3 of India, which is still massive and probably similar to Rome in population.

@FranssensM 4 ай бұрын

Garrett, how do you feel about metal detectorists. I was wondering why people don’t go to the original Roman roads. Like the Appian way or here in England, Ermin street or Watling St. We know the Romans erected buildings along these routes for different purposes. We could metal detect promising lumps in the landscape. Pointing local archaeologists to some new Roman sites. It’s not that easy I’m sure but it’s a start.

@jg90049 4 ай бұрын

Would you care to weigh in on where the Temple of the Divine Trajan and Plotina was located?

@michellehawkins1027 4 ай бұрын

I'm interested in a video of how Romans delt with winter.

@cosmo3665 4 ай бұрын

Fires and fur skins probably

@ustmissouri8029 4 ай бұрын

Would like to see a video about the 7-11 stores in Rome.

@johnladuke6475 4 ай бұрын

They were called VII-XI back then.

@apexerman1 3 ай бұрын

I think someone needs to commission a marble sculpture of Dr. Ryan. He's earned it. 🙂

@r0ky_M 4 ай бұрын

1:03 In actual fact it's an extreme exaggeration, for the bulk of Rome was not redeveloped in marble by Augustus.

@Dave_Sisson 4 ай бұрын

But politicians have always favoured a snappy line or slogan over actual facts. It was just as true 2000 years ago as it is now.

@r0ky_M 4 ай бұрын

@@Dave_SissonRyan is a historian not politician, so why support a false narrative from Suetonius?..in addition; Augustus did not build 82 temples from scratch , the 'Res Gestae Divi Augusti' actually tells that he ~restored~ 82 Temples.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 4 ай бұрын

@@r0ky_MBecause that line is so very much something Augustus would say if he was alive. Just as the other commentator said, Augustus is a politician with a talent of making narratives that makes him look good. And he cast a long shadow over successive emperors due to those. Yes, you are correct that Suetonius may not be the most reliable dude to talk about Early Imperial Roman history but he is one of the few that did... Even if it's the "politically correct" version. That is history, you know people because of what was left behind to study. Imagine trying to imagine Caligula other than a perverted monster his ultimately victorious enemies depicted of him after his death. That is what people knew of him later on because his enemies' depiction of him survive...

@r0ky_M 4 ай бұрын

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Nothing wrong with Historians quoting Suetonius, but what Suetonius wrote regarding Augustus's building projects is clearly an exaggeration which is at odds with what Ryan said.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 4 ай бұрын

@@r0ky_MAs I said, it is in line with Augustus being a PR genius. Besides, Augustus' Second Man Marcus Agrippa did a stellar job giving Rome that facelift. It may not be much but he did civic improvements better than those before him at the time which led to that contentious line by Suetonius...

@r0ky_M 4 ай бұрын

"Biggest" would surely have to include Aurelian's Wall which would dwarf Ryans top three picks.

@silverado9104 4 ай бұрын

video subject is clearly buildings in the CITY of Rome

@r0ky_M 4 ай бұрын

@@silverado9104 The Aurelian walls are a significant part of construction in Rome, to argue otherwise is plain foolish.

@silverado9104 4 ай бұрын

@@r0ky_M Thanks for the correction -- I did a mental dyslex and imaged the Aurelian Walls as the Antonine Wall !

@doublem1975x 4 ай бұрын

Ancient Rome was greater than any modern city.

@AlbertaGeek 4 ай бұрын

...Say idiots.

@tomreed-oe7hi 4 ай бұрын

Agreed

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 4 ай бұрын

Unless you're in the poorer sections. Great cities will always have that unsightly lower class side to it...

@sponjbob911 4 ай бұрын

Babe wake up, toldinstone posted a video!

@davidmajer3652 4 ай бұрын

Tales of these grand projects really capture your imagination.

@danielating1316 4 ай бұрын

Wasn't the Coliseum more expensive than all three buildings mentioned in this video?

@kkupsky6321 4 ай бұрын

My dude loves aura so much he emulates ai speaking about it. It was not scripted at all - William shatner

@ROLtheWolf 4 ай бұрын

Nero really lost his power, because he thought himself a golden-throated diva, and when he performed, people openly ridiculed him. Then senators and others in power encouraged Nero to go on tour, during which they replaced him and he died.

@Ninja1Ninja2 4 ай бұрын

it was more straight forward, the military wasnt paid enough and the senate supported a general who declared himself emperor. he thought they would kill him so he killed himself instead, then the general got killed by another general who wanted to be emperor and this repeated once every 3 months causing it to be the year of 4 emperors.

@Redysully 4 ай бұрын

Can we get all the KZfaq videos on Spotify please!!😊

@lloydwright3661 4 ай бұрын

Interesting you dont mention the trilithon stones in the foundation pad of the temple of jupiter (the largest stones ever moved in ancient times, the biggest being estimated at 1200 tonnes) Do you believe the romans didnt place them or did you just leave it out because noone can explain how they could possibly have placed them?

@adamfox9651 4 ай бұрын

To all those asking, "How does a building made of stone burn down?" A "stone building" isn't made of stone as in one solid stone block. It's made of many blocks of stone being held together. You ever knock down a model structure built from blocks as a kid? Your blocks are all still intact but what you built is now just a pile of blocks.

@MilitaryHistoryRelived 4 ай бұрын

The ancient architecture always surpasses in beauty the modern one. I wonder what went wrong 🤷🤷🤷

@Fat12219 3 ай бұрын

Without power tools 😮

@lostpony4885 4 ай бұрын

So the artificial lake in the Coliseum is Nero's. Never knew that. Did it actually function during the coliseums time or was the entire coliseum's history after the lake?

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 4 ай бұрын

The lake was filled in with earth to make level ground for the Colosseum...

@edh2246 4 ай бұрын

I don’t understand how buildings made of stone can completely burn.

@robertbrewer2190 4 ай бұрын

organic contents such as wood and ivory etc etc. The heat destroys the structure of the stone.

@Mr.Lovecats 4 ай бұрын

nice

@qsywastooshort7451 4 ай бұрын

[mention of Napoleon III] -spins football rattle wooh

@silverado9104 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful. QUESTION: How is it that a building of stone, concrete, and marble, like the Temple of Jupiter, "burns down" ? My knowledge of pyrotechnics is limited, but saying that it was later rebuilt suggests that "burn down" is meant literally. Or not ?

@silverado9104 4 ай бұрын

OMG several people already asked this !

@Art-is-craft 4 ай бұрын

The wooden structures would have been burned and some of the stone would have collapsed.

@joshuaharper372 4 ай бұрын

Think about what might have happened to Notre Dame in Paris a few years ago if there hadn't been a fire department. The timber roof structure (and flammable materials like fabrics and wooden furniture in the temple) would have burned, and the collapse of the roof could cause collapse of walls. Also, if the fire is hot enough, some types of stone can undergo chemical changes that weaken them. (I know this is true of limestone, but I am not sure about marble.) So while the stone itself doesn't contribute to the flames, the stones can be caused to collapse because of a roof fire.

@dancummane3668 4 ай бұрын

Wow.

@m.h.lockesteppe9834 4 ай бұрын

[Use Dacia audio for closing]

@game_boyd1644 4 ай бұрын

0:13 I'd say there's at least one other city that assumed such splendor and influence in human history, and that's Babylon, the Rome before there was a Rome.

@tomreed-oe7hi 2 ай бұрын

Still not as huge. Rome had 1.5 to million inhabitants

@tradeprosper5002 4 ай бұрын

Hadrian's Wall was a far bigger project than those in Rome.

@Quirrelq7 4 ай бұрын

who

@MrKudipanhama 4 ай бұрын

The video is talking about structures built in Rome tho… it’s literally in the title

@r0ky_M 4 ай бұрын

@@MrKudipanhama Actually the Title is ambiguous/not specific to the actual city of Rome.

@CarlosRodriguez-dd4sb 4 ай бұрын

Roman engineering and ingenuity is one of their greatest legacy

@tomreed-oe7hi 2 ай бұрын

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@Justsomeguyyuyu 4 ай бұрын

Someone reply to this so I remember to watch this video in the morning please

@T-qx74 4 ай бұрын

Hoss

@Justsomeguyyuyu 4 ай бұрын

@@T-qx74 thanks man

@williamrowland1003 4 ай бұрын

I am a simple Man, I see Told in Stone , video I watch it

@Ian_Bungy 4 ай бұрын

This is probably a dumb question but how does a temple or stone building burn down exactly? And how does a fire spread over stone?

@joe42m13 4 ай бұрын

curtains, furniture, oil, clothing/vestments, etc. can catch fire and damage the structure

@joshuaharper372 4 ай бұрын

And especially the wooden roof beams.

@antofab 3 ай бұрын

Just check what happened to Notre Dame de Paris few years ago...

@sonnylambert4893 4 ай бұрын

"...roam if you want to, Rome around the world..."

@jarnMod 4 ай бұрын

Rome is the wealthiest city in the world. I wonder how that compare to Luayang in China (probably Han when Augustus was in power but I'm never good with historical date juggling).

@Art-is-craft 4 ай бұрын

Rome was more impressive and more consistent.

@ShortbusMooner 4 ай бұрын

I haven't been subbed for long, and was wondering- have you ever looked into the Mud Floods? I've seen many still photos (from around the world) of standing buildings being excavated at the street level, and finding many levels of the buildings below. Just curious.. 🤔

@bruhbruhhh6592 3 ай бұрын

Wait wait I've been following this channel for like 2 years and I always pronounced it "todlinstone" in my head wtf

@nicholasricardo8443 4 ай бұрын

I find it interesting to compare Rome and Luoyang, I wonder if there is any content describing the capital of the Han, Chang'An and Luoyang spent much more time as the capital of China than Beijing has.

@hurrdurrmurrgurr 4 ай бұрын

Why did a city made of brick and marble keep burning down? Did they insist on drapes and rugs everywhere or something?

@joshuaharper372 4 ай бұрын

Nearly all the furniture would have been flammable, but there was more timber support than you might imagine even in mostly brick or marble buildings. Many roofs were supported by timber trusses, and most tenement buildings had a story or two of wooden shacks on top of them.

@jovanweismiller7114 4 ай бұрын

Any truth to the rumour that Nero started the Great Fire in order to clear the ground for the Domus Aurea?

@r0ky_M 4 ай бұрын

Nero's own palace burnt down in the fire which he then replaced, so hard to say if it was deliberate

@Art-is-craft 4 ай бұрын

He may have been mad but I doubt he was organised enough to achieve that.

@rachel_Cochran 4 ай бұрын

I don't know why that neck beard startles me every time I see that statue

@John_Fugazzi 4 ай бұрын

"At last I can live like a human being" - Nero said after the completion of the Domus Aurea.

@sethlutz4694 4 ай бұрын

YEAHHH!!!!!!! INFRASTRUCTURE!!!!!!! LETS GOOOO!!!!🎉🎉

@saladass4621 4 ай бұрын

Thanks, toldinstone. Gonna go play minecraft now.

@GHDEFIANT 4 ай бұрын

When's the next Forehead Fables visit

@summerwell8262 4 ай бұрын

Great video but with all due respect, the illustration of the temple of Jupiter is not really accurate in terms of size. I have recently visited The Capitoline Museum and they have a big section to explain the temple of Jupiter and they even have a model of it with people in relation and the temple is 3 times bigger than your illustration

@starcapture3040 4 ай бұрын

Baghdad had population of a million before London

@bastiat691 4 ай бұрын

imagine going back to one of the guys who built the aqueducts and showing them how a pipe along the ground or buried can do the same work as an aqueduct, right after they are done building one

@klapsigaarenbasgitaar1931 4 ай бұрын

You need pressurization most of the time.

@jeffreyhenion4818 4 ай бұрын

@@klapsigaarenbasgitaar1931. Indeed. Aside from routine maintenance, the aqueducts required no outside energy source. Gravity alone moved the thousands of gallons flowing into the city.

@r0ky_M 4 ай бұрын

Aqueduct builders actually did a lot of underground sections of conduit IIRC the above ground sections of Aqueducts don't form the bulk of Roman aqueduct construction...They are simply the most dramatic and thus get the most attention.

@Crazy-Clown-In-Town 4 ай бұрын

@ 3:57 How can it burn and do so much damage if it was made of stones? Maybe there was no fire. It just collapsed due to shoddy work.

@Art-is-craft 4 ай бұрын

Or the materials in the building such as flooring, walls, draperies, roof all burned.

@kkupsky6321 4 ай бұрын

I wish the good prof didn’t have to do tours and books and aura just to get by.

@jec1ny 4 ай бұрын

It certainly must have helped the construction budget when the two biggest expenses in terms of labor were likely food and chains. Not necessarily in that order.

@Art-is-craft 4 ай бұрын

There is myth that Rome was built by slaves.

@fatherofhistory 4 ай бұрын

Wow, talk about ambition! This video blew my mind with the scale and engineering genius of ancient Rome's construction projects. The Colosseum still leaves me speechless, but that Domitian's Temple... Any history buffs out there - what project surprised you the most?