Nobody's Year: CHAOS (57 B.C.E.)

Music is:
"Day Bird," by Broke For Free 
"Drums of the Deep," by Kevin MacLeod
"Hallon," by Christian Bjoerklund

[Wobbly_Wombat_two]

It is astonishing how much we know about political beefs that went down more than 2000 years ago! Romans sure as hell knew how to document things!

[Captain_Carrot]

11:50 lmao even in street fights they left the third line in reserve

[itaieiron]

"And, sadly, it will only get worse." cheerful music starts playing.

[JustinCage]

"Again, in a dispute with Cicero, Metellus Nepos asked repeatedly ‘Who is your father?’ ‘In your case, ’ said Cicero, ‘your mother has made the answer to this question rather difficult."

[leodarkk]

I don't understand how the Senate couldn't handle the situation, like juste saying :
"Yo Claudius, swords are forbidden, you killed some random people in the streets of Rome, stop that or we will arrest you."

They had no power at all? No armed forces that could be called in case of emergency?

[Bronze_Age_Sea_Person]

The more I hear about the late republic, the more I think there should be a whole TV series about it, at the style of House of Cards. It should go from the time Caesar was still a Quaestor until the Ides of March, or maybe going all the way to Octavian becoming emperor.

[cameronhutchinson]

I wonder if in 2000 years some alien will make a hologram about western politics in 2016 and upload it to Space-tube.

[tommykarrick]

My favorite thing about this series is that it shatters this long standing idea that Rome was some kind of stable super lawful nation
Like, sure they loved their laws and they wrote lots and lots of them, but stability and legitimacy was always in question
From a modern perspective we think of a country and a government as things that are very rigid but in Rome, things were always in flux, always changing with those who were able to grab control

[TrialByDance]

I love how he ties all his videos together with references to the previous videos and sets it up like a story. Hail Civilis.

[jophielswings]

Please show us how it gets worse! Love this content!

[bookswithbenjamin]

*I would like to recommend a trilogy of books written by Robert Harris. Told from the view from Tiro, Cicero's secretary, slave and good friend, it's some of the best historical fiction that I have ever read in my life. It basically covers Cicero's rise in power and fame all the way until his downfall. The characters and dialogue are so well written that you feel like you're apart of the story*

[Kurtownia]

There will come a day when you will no longer be making these videos, for one reason or another, and I will miss them dearly. There may come a day when Youtube is no longer there at all.
So for now, I'm glad we live in the god damn golden age of the Internet.
Thanks for existing, bro. Keep it up.

[SamuelTrademarked]

I love this guy. He's so educational but makes the learning really hilarious.

Never stop, Historia Civilis.

653k subs is not okay. This is 2.5m subs content

[Jicko]

I have to say I love your video. The narration is excellent. The visual, even if they are simple, do a perfect job into understanding the situation and the whole structure is easy to follow. Great job.

[cynic]

Pompey fixing the grain shortage? I thought he would've abandoned Rome, fled to Greece and not take enough initiative

[pluvius]

Fun fact: Not only did Metellus Nepos get into it with Cato the Younger, but right before that, out of spite over the Catiline executions, he did the same thing to Cicero that Clodius did to Bibulus, keeping Cicero from speaking at the end of his consular term. It took a while for Cicero to forgive him for that.

[theswedishdude]

how exactly did clodius not get arrested? and sentenced? him and his group of thugs went around murdering people and there were witnessess including senators who saw him do it. even with ceasar and pompeys support it should be an open and shut case.

[kulpy]

Hah, I was just thinking to myself that it had been a while since your last video.

[craigmays]

I really love your videos man. I watch them every time they come out as soon as I can.
One thing I would really love to see is that you would make a playlist in order of the best way to watch certain periods of time so that everything is able to be grasped at once and no critical information is in a video from a year ago, etc. When a new video only comes out once or twice per month, it's hard to remember what took place in the previous video when watching the current one, not to mention the fact that the chronology of your videos jumps around as you release them. You're still doing great things, keep up the good work!

[InsectSpray]

I'm currently reading 'Dictator' by Robert Harris and I love how I read the indeapth 'semi fictionalised' accounts and then you get get a sort of overview of the chapters in these videos! just ties it all together!!
(I highly recommend the books in that series btw)