I think more disputes should be resolved with competitive bird watching.

"i left a good teaching job for this" i feel you brother

aww yeah babe wake up there's a new toldinstone

That ghost phallus must've been a scary sight to behold.

"...I left a good teaching job for this" incredibly worth it, I'd say 😄thank you for another wonderful video!

For those interested in the foundation of Rome. There's an italian tv show called "Romulus", which tells the creation of Rome in a realistic way. Also, the creator of the show directed a movie called "The First King", which tells a more faithful depiction of the myth. Both the movie and the show were filmed in archaic latin, by the way. Pretty recomended

I like the way that he told us about the old building

I think we'd all like to see an episode about the phantom phallus.

I love that Rome was founded via competitive birdwatching lol

Thank you! I knew bits and pieces of the mythology of Rome, but had never been able to put together a cohesive picture of all of the parts. Really enjoyed the video!

Preserving the house of Romulus among the buildings of Rome seems sort of like the United States preserving Mount Vernon, or Monticello into modern times. I find this parallel desire to preserve a certain aspect of the past to be interesting.

A&E, History, et al move over. Toldinstone's got this!!!

Who would have thought a video about old buildings would have a story about a flaming ghost dick? God I love history.

man, toldinstone, your videos make me so incredibly interested in stuff ive never even thought i would have any interest in

Excellent video - Little wonder that the Hut of Romulus burned so often since it was used as a temple and burnt offerings were devoted there. Not the best idea to do that in a building with a thatched roof!

"I left a good teaching job for this" 1:23 Had me cackling

“I left a good teaching job for this” and we thank you every day for your service

I'm fascinated how the Hut is right next to the former shrine at the end of the Circus- I'd love to learn more about the part of Roman culture where war spoils were paraded into the Circus by returning legions

Its crazy how advanced yet primitive Roman beliefs are. Livy explains competitive bird watching like it's some be all end all method that's just accepted.

Dude! I am addicted to your content. It's awesome!

These videos make every week better

Leaving your teaching job to make videos on gigantic phantom phalli seems like a worthy trade-off to me.

I always assumed that Romulus died of natural causes and someone poetically described his funeral pyre on the Field of Mars something like "It was on the Field of Mars where the soldiers trained that he went back to his father, the God Mars, in a pillar of smoke." Over centuries this was supernaturalized into Romulus was training or reviewing the troops and suddenly a pillar of smoke surrounded him and he was gathered up to the Gods.

This was the first episode of the history of Rome in 15 buildings. Are we getting all 15!? I hope so. Keep up the good work!

If your teaching job did not allow you to teach about giant phantom phalluses, it was not actually a good teaching job.

In the myth of Rome's founding there are echoes of the Indo-European creation myth: two brothers, *Manu- ('Man') and *Yemo- ('Twin'), who are suckled by, in their case, the primordial cow. Manu kills his brother and forms the world from his body. Indeed, the name of the slain, or sacrificed, brother, Remus is said to derive from from Proto-Latin *Yemos.

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Immediately liked the video! I’ve been going threw your playlists again binge watching them.

Glad to see this topic again, the first video you made on this was also great.

So at least two of the world's great capital cities were created using augury. The migrating Aztecs founded what would later become Mexico City when they saw an eagle on a cactus devouring a rattlesnake, as depicted on the Mexican flag.

I have read your book and it is excellent! It really cleared up basic Roman history for me in a very readable form. Thank you.

I'd be curious to hear your findings on the Etrurians /Hetrurians / Etruscans?...

Awesome content!

That was really interesting. Never heard of Romulus' house before.

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In this video, you mention the earliest reference to Romulus and Remus as 4th century BC, i.e., the 300s BC. However, I was just in the Capitoline Museum last week, and they date the capitoline wolf to the 5th century BC. I also recall some other artifacts which reference other figures from the story of the Aeneid, such as Aeneas, as early as the 7th century BC, if not Romulus himself. I will have to look back at my photos to recall specifics, but I remember it very specifically as it certainly was of surprise to me to see the myth or aspects of it attested so far back. I can say with absolute clarity though that the capitoline wolf is definitely labelled 5th century in the Capitoline Museum.

This was excellent. Thank you for it.

YO More videos on the giant dong please. We need lore.

Love this. Content is cool and your voice is ace.

At a time when exposing infants was common, people loved stories about rescued babies who went on to have illustrious careers. Such myths presumably made certain folks feel less guilty.

Amazing how the human mind comes up with such stories .Speaking about the Ancients.

Thank you!

The first year or so i followed this dude i thought the channels name was " Todd Linstone "

I really enjoyed learning the fact about the term for wolf and prostitute being the same. Great video. Thank you!

Well done,

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1:18 Can I get away with two Biggus Dickus jokes sort of in a row?

Have heard the founding myths of rome a few times, but yo made it seem fresh...pretty cool sponsorship, btw.

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Imagine being alive for the foundation of Rome. That'd be cool.

May i suggest (for every italian speaking reader/viewer here) a conference held by Andrea Carandini a few years back, explaining what his team discovered in the Palatine hill and what the archeologists actively working on the site, think happened in those remote centuries. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8yoqah5156YYoU.html (PS: cheers from Italy, keep on with your nice work here, i love your videos!)

What happened to the hut? When did they stop rebuilding it? Is it there today?

I'm very interested in the early days of Rome, they may have lived in round huts but they were still a very sophisticated society much like the Mayans or Aztecs. It's a contrast you don't see in any society today. There's actually a rebuilt hut from around the same period in Fidene in Rome.

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your comment as phallus-man floats around on screen is... priceless.

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Very well done!. How bird watching divination day turns into fratricide day, not surprising for the times. I have a feeling while strolling up their respective hills, swords were being sharpened.

Thinking of this Hut as the Birthing Place of the Latin Ethnicity and Culture , of our Civilization and Identity .Where Pater Romvlvs made the first Foundation of the Vrbs Æterna ... it makes me feel tingly inside .A yearning to be there .

Damn. That thing looks like it was built in a day.

I saw this last week when I was there, sad I missed out on the promo code xD

I like it :)

I can't get over "the licc" being played in the intro lmao.

"i left a good teaching job for this" is hilarious my man. feels bad XD

Remus: "How was your visit to the Oracle of Delphi, brother? Did you see the future of our newly created city?" Romulus: "Well, according to what the oracle told me, our city will expand, not only beyond the Seven Hills and the other tribes, but it will also occupy the entire peninsula and even vast territories that we hardly know about now. Each new enemy that challenges the city will be more terrible and foreign than the previous one, but in the end they will all bite the dust. Then, a kind of government called "Imperi" or something like that will be formed, and will unify all the different cultures and religions of the world, although ours will be the most important. Also, the vast majority of the city's rulers will be pretty phony types: one who sleeps with his three sisters and makes his horse second in command, a fat man who believes himself an artist and burns the whole city down just to find inspiration, one who believes he is Hercules, another who literally wants to become a woman, a boy who only thinks about feeding pigeons, etc. Logically, the government will gradually decline, to the point of being divided into two and replacing the gods who have watched over us for countless generations by an executed carpenter from the farthest corner of the world that doesn't even exist yet. Finally, the part of the Empire in which our city is located will fall, not to mention that the last ruler will have the same name as me" Remus: "..." Romulus: "..." Remus: "...We definitely should have just raised pigs for the rest of our lifes" Romulus: "Yep"

Kind of reminds me of Ise shrine in Japan, rebuilt every couple of decades on the other side of its plot of land whether or not it's damaged.

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Finally a good sponsor (I hope). Doc we have to try to keep you away from garbage like Masterworks and Established Titles and their ilk. Great vid as always ❤.

I think the lupa = prostitute hypothesis is more likely than the more accepted version of the story.

i never bothered to read into this story so this video is amazing for me

Romulus and Remus, Cain and Abel and on down the line.

I can't be the only one who would love to hear a discussion about all things Roman between Garrett and Mary Beard.

When I was young and full of vitriol I would laugh and say My siblings and I were raised by wolves. My parents were not amused.

I went to the grocery store this morning and bought some guacamole. It was really good.

always had a fasciantion with the Latin language and Roman history. tibi gratias mi amice!

Why does my boy Titus Tatius always get left out of the whole first king of Rome discussion?

There's a lot of kink in Rome's various backstories.

This 🍃 the question when this oldest building last stood

I burst out laughing at that phallus animation 😂

I love you videos, but for some reason, Yat always suggests them when i yakked out and super drunk lmao

"...I left a good teaching job for this." Prof, if your classes weren't free, I might think about complaining to the dean about that. Where's the dean's office, anyway?

Personally I saw 24 vultures flying in a line.

i'm going w/the 'raised by wolves' version, here!! being that no one was there who's walking the planet today, i often fall on the side of 'fable' or 'folk.' WHO KNOWS!! i kind of 'like' the story of a childless she-wolf who nursed two infant humans . . .

got a little "ship of Theseus" going on with that hut.

I can think of a few politicians that deserve to be translated to Heaven.

@toldinstone what is the name or source of the painting or the name of the artist at 2:46 ?

I'm sure there's a parallel universe where Remus won and he established the city on the Aventine Hill and the city is called Rema.

It helps if you have someone with a bunch of caged birds down near the Tiber…

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It has been suggested that the hut of Romulus had semi religious usages, but I wonder if the gardener kept his equipment in there.....

Re-upload? I sewar I've seen this topic covered by you some time ago.

Competitive Bird Watching: An old bird-watcher friend of mine said that if he saw any unusual birds he would certainly not inform the pillars of the bird society of which he was a member. He'd seen too many members who reported unusual sightings "shot down". [I myself have may have seen birds which are extinct, but ...[continued page 94]

Livy also speculated that Romulus killed Remus by accident during the brawl rather than straight-up murdering him.

oh snap the new Garret Ryan just dropped

SHould you have started a told in wood channel for this content?

Love the "vulture math"!

Will you do a video on drug of Rome?

I feel like this story is mad enough to be true, on the basis that you couldn't make it up

you should spend a bit of every day for a year to make like a full movie length video about something in roman history

What is going on with subtitles lately? Both this and other channels have messed up subtitles, and it started a few weeks ago, I think. But not all channels have this, so it's obviously not all of KZfaq. But on this channel, all of the subtitles for the entire video comes immediately when the video starts, and when they disappear after a few seconds, there are no subtitles for the rest of the video. What is up with that?

Omg, really?? She wolf was slang for lady of the night? And everyone ran with the literal wolf interpretation. Every single person in ancient Rome was literally Joe Rogan. I mean I can't be too mad cause we got the best movie ever, the Jungle Book out of it.