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How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
- optimalsolver 3y agoRelated: Overly Sarcastic just released an episode on the birth of Rome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kij-7DJVPkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kij-7DJVPkc
- LexiMax 3y agoLove their work. OSP Blue has also previously done a multi-part series of the history of the Roman Republic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsR-C9WtoKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsR-C9WtoKg
- pmoriarty 3y agoHardcore History did one too: [1] Unfortunately it's behind a paywall now, but the start of that particular series is one of the most interesting things I've ever heard on a history podcast. [1] - https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-death-throes-of-the-republic-series/ https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-death-thr...
- southwesterly 3y agoAlso shoutout to The History of Rome podcast. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rome_(podcast) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rome_(podcast... One of the best podcasts I’ve ever heard.
- mahogany 3y agoIf I can rant for just a moment: I must be getting old because, man I wish that video would just let me... breathe... for one second. Literally: I did not count a single full second of silence in the first two minutes. The editing is sentence after sentence with no breaks for me to digest and think about what they are saying. I guess this is the modern style of video making and it is reflective of our times, but I find it so exhausting. At least it's not as bad as TikTok. I'll stick to my slow as molasses Ken Burns and BBC docs from the 90s where I can ooze into the atmosphere, and yell at the clouds too I suppose ;D
- bromuro 3y agoAfter few minutes I was completely lost , while the guys continued blablahing.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoAs a substitute for commercialized elections, I vote for sortition.
- labster 3y agoActually, the beauty of it is you don’t vote for sortition.
- ggm 3y agoStrong chicken/egg value here. Before you have sortition, how do you decide to have sortition?
- drewcoo 3y agoThe egg came first. Many lizard-deciding-bodies or mechanisms may have chosen sortition! And perhaps it was a bad habit or even an old charter to throw names in a hat, not without the notice of the literate or the haberdashers/milliners union(s), who sought to leverage their skills into greater advantage . . .
- drewcoo 3y agoI thought that was the joke.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoGeorge Carlin would agree. Fewer idiots electing fewer charismatic despots would be a good start. Also, I don't vote so the politicians are the responsibility of people who mistakenly believe their vote matters when they are selectively stolen, gerrymandered, and manufactured consent into futility. 45 may have tried to steal Georgia like a moron, but Bernie lost the 2016 WV primary even though every district voted for him as the consequence of that state's electors collusion with one candidate. Until there's sortition, campaign finance reform, or an emperor, NPVIC could eventually be a potential workaround for electoral mutinies. Until then, there's not much chance of change because the only viable candidates are celebrities and career politicians willing to bend the knee to big money donors in exchange for favor$.
- pyuser583 3y agoI really like this blog!
- krsdcbl 3y agoHighly recommended, his essays about history in fantasy and pop culture are as hilarious as they are informative, and his historical deep dives are just as well written
- prox 3y agoInteresting. In popular search results you always read Pontius Pilate as a “governor” but in fact he was a Praetor? At least that makes way more sense if you read this blog and what his duties were. > Note that the praetor in his province doesn’t take over day-to-day garden variety law and order issues; those are still handled by local governments, according to local laws.
- churchill 3y agoHistorical sources (even outside the Bible) use procurator/governor interchangeably.
- qwytw 3y agoProcurator is not quite the same as praetor, it was technically not even a public magistracy. Legally Procurators were more like personal agents of the emperor. The empire was technically split into 'senatorial' and 'imperial' provinces (the latter were generally close to the borders and had legions stationed there). The senatorial provinces were governed by ex-magistrates of senatorial rank. IIRC it's likely that Pilate was actually a 'prefect' but this title was changed to 'procurator' several decades later which is why Tacitus used it instead.
- Archelaos 3y agoTo expand on this: We have a fragment of an inscription from Caesarea[1] that says: ...S TIBERIÉVM / [PO]NTIVS PÌLATVS / [PRAEF]ECTUS IVDAE[A]E / ...É... This hints that his contemporary title was "preafectus" and the title "procurator" from Tacitus "Annales" (15,44) is not accurate. It is even disputed among experts whether the passage containing this note is a younger Christian interpolation into the "Annales" and the title itself is a backward translation of the Greek ἡγεμονεύοντος (hegemoneuontos ~ "ruler") that the gospel of Luke uses as a title for Pilate (3:1) as well as for Quirinius/Cyrenius (2:2). [1] Here an image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caesarea_maritima_BW_5.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caesarea_maritima_BW...