His Year: Julius Caesar (59 B.C.E.)

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[thejoker]

"This was when they started to call Caeser a tyrant"
Also
"This was Caeser's first day as consul"

[adamweinberg]

I've never felt so much for a bunch of squares

[extremeteatime]

See, Bibilus made a fatal mistake: He forgot to ask Tribune Aquila before trying to shoot down Caesar's land reform bill.

[iamseamonkey]

"Caesar is a radical reformer and we don't like his stupid face" - the conservative faction, 60BC

[Breeze]

19:00 "The Senators couldn't criticize the bill without being hypocrites" Imagine if that were still a thing

[uthertheking]

Another version:
Vettius said that Pompey and Caesar planned to murder Pompey and Caesar.

[ozzyjames]

So let's get this straight, bibulus got his farewell speech vetoed? Fucking brutal.

[TheSecondVersion]

I'm sure that there were available outhouses near the public forum, but I like the idea that someone brought a bucket of shit just in case Bibulus showed up.

[garomcfbgdd]

So, in almost 2 thousand years, nothing has changed in politics.

[xergiok]

A small remark: Caesar didn't order Cato to be arrested quite like it's suggested in the video. Cato filibustered the bill for a month before Caesar lost his patience and threatened to have Cato arrested for obstruction. Cato then willingly agreed to be arrested and a large numbers of senators volunteered to be arrested as well. The whole thing seems like an obvious attempt to make Caesar look like a tyrant. Perhaps not a big deal, but from what we know, Caesar didn't act quite so impulsively and it definitely didn't happen on the first day.

[somewony]

See, this is why I like YouTube educational videos. You could never have a twenty minute long documentary only about roman politics on TV.

[teaandcoffeeM]

Is that the world's smallest violin playing for Bibulus?

[DJ-Q]

One thing to note about Caesar's land reforms is that it didn't address the core reason of why small farms were being bought out by larger ones. Rome's constant foreign wars took manpower away from the agriculture sector and the returning soldiers usually found that they were better fighters than farmers anyways leading to small farms going bankrupt and swathes of people moving into cities. Large plantation owners used the spoils of war to buy up land and used the mass influx of slave labor coming from Roman conquest to run their farms. Essentially, the inequity of wealth in agriculture was something Rome did to itself.

[ivancabezadevaca]

someone needs to make house of cards but with the roman senate

[Caerere]

Who else back here after the assassination?

[legitimatelycameron]

“How can the senate award me a triumph, but not ratify my conquest or treaties? How can you do this, it’s outrageous! It’s unfair!”

“Take a seat, young Pompey.”

[Theamsice]

Caesar: held fasces
Bibulus: held feces

[irBribe]

I don't know if you still read comments on videos this old but this is at least the third time I've gone to watch the Rome series you have made. I absolutely love it. You have made something truly special.

[connor]

anyone else gonna watch it from start to finish now? legendary series. Learnt so much and discovered my passion for Rome through this.

[nicholaskazantzidis]

When you actually learn about JC life and all that he saw, his travels, his campaigns, it’s almost unbelievable this all happens 2000 years ago. To this day I still have not seen a show that comes close to sharing his story.