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literally went in the comments immediately before watching the video just to see someone shout out the guild of millers

Wtf i love miller lite

bro go back to ur RPG games on pc you damn larper 🤣

Corporatio*

"True Roman bread for true Romans."

Fantastic programme!

ok glad we're all on the same page here 😁👍

He was indeed sponsored by the guild of millers lol.

He was there for delivering exposition in the show as well as showing how Romans got their news. Very clever.

Rome for f**ng Romans eh

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Oh my

There are so many people in this video's comment section complementing this guy that I want to go watch the show just for him! Somebody should find out what the guy's Twitter is and post it so we can all notify him to come here and read his praises!

@@geekdivaherself Ian McNeice is a veteran British actor. He played Baron Harkonnen in Dune miniseries (2000) and loads of other roles for almost 50 years now. At the age of 71 he's doesn't seem to be into twitter that much. He's just retweeting his grandkids.

In a way, he was one of the greatest characters.

He was great in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

One place where we might still find a set of the Acta would be the library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, since it was built for the father-in-law of Julius Caesar, who ordered the Acta to be compiled, presumably in his role as Pontifex Maximus. Those might go back to 59 BC. The library might also house the 80 volumes of the Annales Maximi covering 400 to 133 BC.

@@faithlesshound5621 I know about that , if only we’ll get the technology to extract it in our lifetime. It would cover up to early Imperial Rome (AD 79).

@@faithlesshound5621 There are about 500,000 papyri which were discovered in an ancient trash dump at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt in 1898 and are being painstakingly reconstructed (only around 5000 have been reconstructed in over 100 years). The dates span from the third century BC to the sixth century AD, and the papyri are mostly everyday documents. I think it's pretty likely that if the Acta Diurna were popular and widespread, at least some portion of some day's news will be found there. As far as I know, right now we have absolutely nothing from the Acta Diurna except references in other materials.

@@joshconeby The rate at which those papyrus fragments are being studied is a disgrace, considering the number of classical scholars in Oxford. 1% in 120 years! Any state university in the USA would have done better. Unfortunately, there are record repositories all around the world which are doing worse than that. I hope they are decaying more slowly now than if they had remained in the ground.

@@faithlesshound5621 AI could solve this

In Denmark we have the same, "Statstidende", "Journal of the State", with new laws and announcements, verdicts, deaths etc. etc. I guess many countries have.

Metropolis which is near Gotham has the Planetae Diurna…

@@get_fucked I am sure Russia has one too, but only giving the exact information the government feel safe about getting out. As for statistics they will be left out or very twisted if they don't like the real ones. But they will gladly write which new law will also give you 15 years in Sibiria. Some official information from Russia's government might be true, but *none of it can be trusted.*

Chile has the Diario Oficial. It isn't any fun to read (laws, decrees, official announcements), but it is important: laws' last stage of approval is the publication in that official newspaper. Only then they are considered binding.

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Lost his life for spreading nonsense too

And Marcus Antonius had that Cicero cancelled... permanently 🌿😆🌿

Back in 2019, I had a mock symposium for some family and friends, later featured in my video on Greek and Roman drinking games. The image is a still from that video.

Oh my

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Salutations to you Germania ✌️🌿😁🌿

@@janegardener1662 Salutations and thank you

@@optimusprinceps3526 Gratias

The newsreader in HBO's Rome is using the rhetorical gestures described by Quintilian (Rome's foremost teacher of rhetoric in the reign of Trajan). We don't know whether these gestures would have been used in the relatively informal context of a herald proclaiming the news, but it's a good bet that they were. As far as we know, the acta diurna were published only in Rome, and no other city in the empire had anything comparable.

Unfortunately, we don't know much about the acta diurna - no "issue" survives, and this video summarizes most of the little we can glean from ancient authors.

@@toldinstone That's because it's a figment of your imagination. The printing press wasn't invented until circa AD1500, by Guttenberg, in Germany. Before that there were official notices written by scribes pasted to walls. I assume the Acta Diurna was something like this. If you were a politician who needed this info on a daily basis, you would send your scribe to the location in your city where official notices were posted. He would copy it down on a papyrus scroll then bring it to you. If there was a new 'book' you wanted a copy of, you'd hire a scribe to copy each and every page by hand, and in maybe 2 weeks, you would have your own copy. There was NO PRINTING in ancient Rome. None at all.

I would have made Rome more like the way Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio descriptions, not made up half fairy tale stuff... and I would have had the series Rome not end until Nero's demise...

​@@optimusprinceps3526 Hope you have a lot of cash to pump into publishing several more seasons of the show. The show was already cram-packed because they only had funding for 2 seasons. As a result the second season feels very disjointed, albeit still enjoyable. I don't know what you mean about fairy tale stuff... Maybe you mean the liberties taken with some of the characters (such as Atia, but also characters such as Titus Pullo & Lucius Vorenus) which required you to suspend your disbelief quite a bit in some instances? If so, yeah, those arches did spin a bit of a yarn sometimes, and foregoing them for a quicker historical plot development probably would have been preferable. My only minor gripe would be the casting choice, which in some instances didn't make a ton of sense to me-- for example the casting & recasting of Octavian. I liked Julius Caesar's actor & thought his performance was great overall, but I felt there are probably many other actors that shared much more of a likeness to Caesar. For example, maybe casting Italian actors to play Romans would have been a good choice : )) I also think it would have been awesome to go that extra mile and have the dialogue be in classical Latin with subtitles... That would have been an awesome touch of authenticity to their fairly authentic, awesome set design... But then again, I can see why they wouldn't want to go that route considering the illiterate masses...

@@user-lh1wr9sr8m There's actually a recent italian series about the founding of Rome called "Romulus", in which the dialogues are in ancient latin. You should definitely give it a watch

@@OptimusNero Where can it be watched?

@@user-lh1wr9sr8m Fairy Tale stuff, like the whole Octavia and Octavian thing, the Marc Anthony and their Mother thing, some was too unbelievable to me, almost as bad as Caligula

Comics and puzzles ?

Deeply appreciated!

I've heard that the Roman aristocrats wouldn't have really appreciated the steam engine, but maybe something like an aeroplane would pique their interest more

@@1224chrisng Those Roman Elites would have been mind boggled by Whiskey and Fireworks too 👍🌿😆🌿

@@1224chrisng Remember, the Roman elite treats such marvels as that, marvels and not actual groundbreaking devices. More toy than tool in their eyes...

@@optimusprinceps3526 Pretty sure almost every culture on Earth has, in one way or the other, discovered alcohol

@@person8064 he said whiskey, not alcohol.

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It gets burned into the memory, doesn't it?

It would have been written on papyrus

👍🌿😆🌿 Caveat Emptor Plebian

Thanks for the kind words. To be honest, I don't know of any thorough modern treatment of the acta diurna (there are a few things on JSTOR, but nothing comprehensive). I took most of my information from a mix of stray mentions in old articles and classical encyclopedia articles. I kept a list of primary sources, however, so I'd be happy to point you to the textual reference for any given anecdote - just let me know!

I would love that :D It would mostly be the one of the daily Roman gazette. That I found quite fascinating

Traditional wax on wood ?

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If I had a Time Machine, well you don't really want to know what I'd do 🌿😆🌿

I imagine your clientele would be the same as Lloyd's: merchants and shipping magnates, only...

Roman city dwellers seem to have loved fastfood. I bet a burger joint would make success.

@@optimusprinceps3526 I would prevent Hitler from ever existing... ...by helping Hadrian finish the deed. Of couse, that still leaves the christian question. Maybe going back to the diadocci era would be better, everyone was a casualty back then.

"We need more slaves!"

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