Understanding the Roman Forum

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The state of the forum in the middle ages is the most mind blowing thought for me. Thinking about all of the incredible history that happened in the forum since the founding of the city - the contiones, the triumphs, the conflicts, the gladiator fights, the beast hunts, the feasts, the festivals, the senate meetings, etc.- all but forgotten. The footsteps of the greatest and most infamous men of Rome in the epicenter of the greatest empire the world has ever known - now nothing more than a pasture for cattle to graze. It is hard to comprehend.

08:14 Incredible that folks still lay fresh flowers to Julius Caesar, a man who died more than 2080 years ago.

walking the roman forum is easily the greatest thing i've gotten to do in my life so far. i studied in rome for a few weeks (should've been a few months but this was spring 2020 and a little thing kinda got in the way) and i must say that there is no where on earth that you can feel the weight of those who walked before us than the heart of rome. The coliseum and palatine hill and forum all right there, you realize that where you stand was the center of the entire known western world for almost an entire millennium. its just a historical heft that i have yet to feel anywhere else on earth. yes im drunk. thank you garrett for your unbelievable work as always! SPQR!

its so crazy to see such an important historical site after a few hundred years turned back to mashland grazed by cattle.

i sometimes wonder what it'll be like for our country -- the mall in washington a pasture for grazing cows, the senate turned into a warehouse, the washington monument surrounded by an orchard...

Every single time I think "oh I wish there was a good quality video on this thing" I see a toldinstone notification about a new video about exactly what I want Could you make a video on the less well known high importance monuments in ancient Rome? Like the temple of the divine Augustus that was built behind the basilica Iulia?

Crazy to think that Caesar has been dead well over 70 years, and yet people still lay flowers at his temple

8:05 You know you've truly changed the world forever when, even 2,000 years after your lifetime, people still leave flowers at your death site. AVE CAESAR

I visited the forum in March. The most striking thing of all that images cannot properly illustrate is the sheer scale of it all. Sure, most of it is gone but what remains is far larger than I had imagined.

Having just visited Rome and having spent an inordinate amount of time at the Musei Capitolini, the timing of the post is perfect!

It's not just the information you convey. It's the obvious passion with which you do it. It's not just facts and figures to you, and that shows in your work. You make this history digestible to everyone. Your voice is also cool and mellow, and I could listen all day. Cheers.

0:40 It's absolutely incredible that parts of a city can simply be... buried. How does that happen? There's still people living in the city, and yet the ground level can just rise by tens of feet? I find that perplexing.

Just like Rome, in 1000 years, all of what we see today will be dust. Thanks, Garrett, your tour was better than the one I had. There are better Roman ruins today outside of Rome. I've been fortunate to see many of them.

Loved the detail about the grass reclaiming the forum

Making the confusing aspects of the ancient world comprehensible. Great video, Garrett!

Never ceases to amaze the way that Romes monuments fell away into ruin and were left neglected and unused

I am coming back to this video after seeing it last month! I have just seen the Forum for the first time in my life about two hours ago and your videos gave me so much context, I had a longg talk with my tour guide about all sorts of aspects of life back then. It was really amazing seeing it firsthand and thank you for making these videos! Also they have just opened up the imperial palaces remains to the public! so I was able to walk around and see the original frescos in the bath houses that many emporers might have bathed in! it is a very cool section on palantine hill that is worth the visit now it is open properly for people

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This video was a great idea. Thanks!