How Dangerous was the Front Row of the Colosseum?
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Published 2023-07-28
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Chapters:
0:00 The Elephant Incident
1:25 Seating at the Colosseum
3:19 Factor
4:18 Safety measures
5:15 Disasters in Roman arenas
6:10 Escaped animals
6:54 Gladiatorial mishaps
8:02 Imperial whims
All Comments (21)
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That story about a child-eating python lurking in the slums of Rome sounds exactly like something that would be a side quest you'd find in an RPG.
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I now actually want to see Paulus Blartus, Colosseum Cop as a movie
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I love that an engraver from about 1500 years later still had only the sketchiest idea of what elephants looked like. He must have been particularly sceptical when he was told about their height.
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20.000 people died in a wooden amfitheater collapse? That's a lot of people.
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Imagine being able to time travel and be able to witness something like this first hand.
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Just like being in the splash zone at Sea World.
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Killing random spectators. Thats the ancient Imax experience
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0:22 "you can draw elephants yeah" ? "don't worry fam, i got ya"
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Last time I was this early, Rome was still a republic!
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My family lore tells of how one of my Roman ancestors, though a man of meager means, was always able to get great seats at the Colosseum through Stubbus Hubbus.
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I’m in Arles , France right now. It’s like living in an ancient Roman town , I’m loving it
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The POOR elephants!….I would so HATE such a “spectacle” 😢
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Caligula once ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the audience into an arena during the intermission to be eaten.
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Those sunhats look quite modern!
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8:20 the emperor was like "blasphemy. I don't have ANY control over what happens at these games. And to prove it, I'm going to control what happens next by feeding you to the dogs."
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Great video as always. There's a show called Spartacus Blood and Sand that often showed the crowd getting sprayed with blood, or skewered by a flying sword from the gladiatorial combat. Nice to know those finer details held some accuracy even with the overall show taking enormous liberties.
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Thank you for all of your videos, I always enjoy them and learning something I may have not known before, and if not just hearing history in an unbiased outlook is always a treat.
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Aboslutely love this channel! one of my favourite subscriptions on youtube thank you Toldinstone!
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I love your channel for how much life you bring to ancient history with all these specific looks you do at details like this. Just the colosseum alone I feel like your channel has made me understand what it would've been like so much more than other things that talk about gladiators
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What I love the most about these videos, and it may seem odd, is the rock tapping sound at the beginning.
