The Roman Colosseum: What It Was Like to Attend the Games

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I could imagine an ancient roman dad telling his son there is no way he is paying 5 brass pieces for snacks or whatever

I can hear a Roman child saying "I want a date," and being told "We have dates at home."

This channel really has that public broadcasting comfort to it. So glad it exists.

It's so gratifying to hear someone pronounce Classical Latin correctly, with the rolled "Rs and Cs taking the "K" sound. Pax!

"i love going to the games but their prices are highway robbery!" "that's why i buy snacks outside and hide them in my toga..you can fit an entire feast in these things"

Tickets to the Colosseum may've been hard to come by, but at least Ancient Romans didn't have to deal with Ticketmaster.

Made it! So amazing! The honey is chewy, the date and nuts give the bite some body. The flavor hits on so many levels. It's sweet, but salty, but savory at the same time! I used long pepper and almonds...we have allergies to black pepper and walnuts at my house. I wish YouTube let me post pictures. While the prep work was a bit hectic...all my teenage kids decided it was time to make their lunches when I started this, so there were five cooks bobbing and weaving around each other. I am making this again. Definitely going to add this to a chartuery board. Also pairs well with honeydew.

11:15 I love this, this people who have brought their own grills to make some ancient barbeque in the stands, it's like Classical World Nascar spectators

Augustus was indeed an emperor you could give some lip too, there is a famous story where he bought a bird trained to say (translated) "Hail emperor Augustus" only for the seller's business partner to show up the next day claiming he was scammed and proved it by showing his own bird, trained to say "Hail emperor Mark Anthony", Augustus's rival in the civil war Apparently he found this so funny he decided to also buy the second bird lol

I knew about the retractable roof, but not about the ticket procedures. It's amazing how many "modern" things are actually that old.

17:41 sometimes audiences got gifts...horses, pack animals.. So, Rome's version of "You get a car, and you get a car, and everyone gets a car."

You introduced me to Long Pepper, and it has become part of my routine palette of spices. Thank you.

The fact its still called Colosseum is proof we will always call them Facebook and Twitter

Fun fact: in Italian we still say "in pompa magna" for doing something with the greatest pomp

Between your excellent pronunciation of Latin and other languages, the interesting facts you present, and your genuine delight upon trying your historical recipes, your videos are a pleasure to watch. This one was no exception. Now I know where the expression "pomp and circumstance" came from. Keep 'em coming, frater!

I lived in Italy near Rome from 2009 to 2011. I've taken many tours of Il Colosseo, and the entertainments were wild. I used to jog around the Circo Massimo. Damn, that was a really cool part of my life.

Sparsio Missilium: It's fantastic to see people cooking in the stands, knowing that tailgating has basically been a tradition since ancient times.

I firmly believe that stories about Ancient Rome are always at their most fascinating when they show how shockingly close their lives were to ours today. I once had a professor who managed that and I thought he was brilliant for it. But you somehow manage to do this even better, finding analogies and describing how their world still makes sense today.

I have a coworker who takes the dates, splits them, then stuffs them with slightly crushed walnuts and a small amount of goat cheese.