Replica of bronze equestrian statue of
Marcus Aurelius
in Rome, long thought
by later Romans to have been the
emperor Constantine.
Marcus Aurelius
Episode
# 7 of the documentary series Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdvWomrp0-Y
Lecture by Rufus Fears
(Removed from You Tube)
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Portayal
by Alec Guiness in 1960 movie
Excerpt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-pXYCV8xkc
Entire film
With Christopher Plummer as Commodus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6YwLpy6G4
Portrayal by Richard Harris in Gladiator (2000)
Excerpt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFHjOWLS72Q
Ancient Emperors - The Good, the Bad
and the Crazy
Lecture # 30 by Gregory Aldrete from the course History of the
Ancient World (Removed from You Tube)
On the Roman emperors from Augustus to Septimius Severus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lETvFU2CbY&feature=relmfu
Commodus
r. 180 - 192
Commodus
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Year of the Five Emperors -
193
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The Severan Dynasty
193 - 238
Septemius Severus 193 - 211
Caracalla (son of Severus) 211 - 217
Geta (son of Severus) 211
Macrinus 217 - 218
Elagabalus (adopted Alexander Severus) 218 - 222
Alexander Severus 222 - 235
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Severus
r.
193 to 211
Lucius Septimius Severus Augustus (145 – 211)
(r.
193 to 211)
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Caracalla
R. 198 - 217
Born
Lucius Septimius Bassianus; Caracalla was a nickname; died Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Pius Augustus (188 - 217), Roman emperor (198 to 217); extended Roman citizenship to all free men
in the empire and the rights of Roman women to all women in the empire
The Mystery of the Headless Romans
Episode
from the documentary series Timewatch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rhLlzmUTkc
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Cassius Dio
ca.
150 – 235
photo
Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus of Nicaea
Historia Romana
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The Time of Chaos
Crisis of the Third Century
235 - 284
Barbarians, Christians, Plague
Episode
# 8 of the documentary series Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire
Civil
unrest, the Goths, Christianity and plague shake the empire in the late 3rd century -
Emperors
Philip, a Christian, and Decius, a pagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSaayCKM_ZI
Collapse of the Severan dynasty
Barbarian coalitions
Civil unrest
Maximinus Thrax
Philip the Arab
Decius
Persecution
of Christians
Gallus
Valerian and Galienus
East and West
Shapur I of Persia
Galienus
The Empire of the Gallic Provinces
Posthumus
Palmyra
Odenathus and Zenobia
Claudius II
Aurelian
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Aurelian
R. 270 - 275
Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Augustus (214/5 - 275), Restorer of the World;
defeated the Juthungi, Sarmatians, Carpi, Vandals,
Alamanni, Visigoths, Palmyrenes and Persians. He conquered the Gallic Empire. He reunited the Roman Empire and ended the Crisis of the Third Century. He built the Aurelian
Wall around Rome. Made sun worship prominent.
Aurelian, the Soldiers’
Emperor
Episode # 9 of the documentary
series Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxD-vOZGbuA
Roman Emperor
Aurelian
A. D. 270 - 275
Biography and Ancient Coins
Aurelian and the Alemanni
Comments based on
Gibbon's account
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bulg3LMGHg
Restoration of Order
Lecture by Garrett Fagan from the course Emperors of Rome from the Great Courses
Includes discussion of Aurelian and Diocletian
(Removed from You Tube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PDNa5Y1CJw&feature=relmfu
Modern painting of Queen Zenobia of Palmyra
Palmyra is an oasis on an important caravan trade route in the Syrian Desert,
half-way between the Mediterranean Sea and the Eurphrates River. It became
a Roman colony in the first century A. D.
Sculpture of Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra by Harriet Hosmer (1857)
Queen Zenobia addressing her soldiers painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1725–1730)
Coin with Zenobia
Plamyrene Empire
(260 - 272); Gallic Empire (260 - 274)
Queen Zenobia's Last Look Upon Palmyra,
painted by Herbert Gustave Schmalz (1856 - 1935)
Queen
Zenobia
Discussion on the weekly BBC radio program In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg (May 30, 2013)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01snjpp
Also on You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOE0AaY13Xc
Zenobia
Comments based on Gibbon's account
Zenobia, Reina de Palmira
Eva Tobalina
SALA LUIS DE AJURIA - VITORIA GASTEIZ
05/11/2014
Zenobia
A musical play
by Mansour Rahbani (2007)
Aureliano in Palmira
Opera by Gioachino Rossini (1813)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grtngJLzxw8
Palmyra
UNESCO
Palmyra
Vacation Travel Video Guide
Triumph of Aurelian
Comments based on Gibbon's account
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTyRy8OdTOA
Gallic Empire
Posthumus
Aurelian
Wall
Aurelian Wall
Rome
and the Aurelian Wall (compared with earlier Servian wall)
Rome Redux:
The Tetrarchic Renaissance
Lecture # 22 by Diana Kleiner from the
course Roman Architecture (HSAR 252), Yale University, Spring 2009
1. Crisis in the Third Century and
the Aurelian Walls
2. The Rise of the Tetrarchy
3. The Decennial or Five-Column Monument in the Roman Forum
4.
The Senate House or Curia Julia
5. The Baths of Diocletian
6. The
Palace of Diocletian at Split
7. Tetrarchic Palaces Around the Empire
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3FFDOUytPs
Yale U:
http://oyc.yale.edu/history-art/hsar-252/lecture-22#transcript
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/404/hsar-252
Le Mura Aureliane:
Storia nel Caotico Traffico
di Roma
ARCHITETTURA
(2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIY7fzzAsso
Aurelian Wall
Ancient Rome Live
American Institute for Roman Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cc_gqKWBNI
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Plotinus
c. 204/5 – 270
Plotinus (ca. 204/5 – 270), philosopher from Egypt
Plotinus
A reading of Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzPOL1CsWcI
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moQOgWjVt0s
Neoplatonism
Discussion
of Plotinus and Neoplatonism on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
19
April 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g62w1
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Rome
Episode from the documentary series Engineering an Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kv5UgGHrbc
Or in two parts:
Part 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0IgOgBJEI
Part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq4ErWWUNtk
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All roads lead to Rome.
Via Appia / The Appian Way
Roman Roads
Paths to Empire
Episode from the 1997 documentary
series In Search of History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dKhm-hK74
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLQRYFEEwyY
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbYVAS1LElQ
Appian Way, Rome
Upload by WorldSiteGuides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkIMjtfAj1s
The Roman War Machine
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvGqux1_wPE
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Rome
Episode 2 of 2 of the BBC documentary series Building the Ancient City: Athens
and Rome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfwBBB8YOvk
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6BnHkciV_Y
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Birth of Rome
The
First Metropolitan City
Documentary
about construction in Rome from its beginning to its end from the series When Rome Ruled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMRydOiDdP8
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Imperial
Stone - The Art of Rome
Episode # 2 from the documentary series Art
of the Western World with Michael Wood (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKNM8QhPQ0g
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Incredible Monuments of Rome
Episode
about Roman history and monuments from the Ancient Mysteries documentary series with Leonard Nimoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-OEkWrm5Do
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Digging History
American Institute for Roman Culture
Episode 4. The Ancient Metropolis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYFNMHMpXVU
Episode 5. The Layers of Rome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blMNDQsXFXY
Episode 6. Destroying Rome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7xUoNZbsWQ
Episdoe 7. The Architecture and Engineering of Rome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlP0VKRrhYI
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Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
Documentary about seven Roman monuments
The Pantheon, Aqueducts, Via Appia, Baths of Caracalla, Trajan's Markets, Circus
Maximus and Colosseum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRASTfuSlc
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaOVn3VtA0I
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Roman City
PBS
documentary with David Macaulay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K7Yds8bWz4
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Meet the Romans
2012 BBC documentary with Mary Beard
For details see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gknyq/episodes/guide
Three episodes
1. All Roads Lead to Rome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggk_H3jEgw
2. Street Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JFw8M4PBUI
3. Behind Closed Doors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UvG0LDeYBA
Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome
Empire Without Limit
2016 BBC documentary
For details see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0797yqk
Four episodes
1. On the myths and legends of the origins of Rome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKy6UzGNeTc
2. On the world of the Romans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkugXWGmefw
3. On identity and citizenship in the Roman Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztMrPvYANSc
4. On the fall of the Roman Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN9wgJ6STVs
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Rome and the Christians
Two
lectures by Eugen Weber of UCLA from the 1986 course The Western Tradition
11. Early Christianity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8PgNSCETLo&feature=related
12. The Rise of the Church
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQcueQi57A
Later Roman Empire
Crisis and Christianity
Lecture by Gregory Andrete, # 40 of History of the Ancient World
(Removed from You Tube)
Rome:
A History of the Eternal City
2012 BBC documentary series Simon Sebag Montefiore
Three episodes
1. City of the Sacred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7CmaEuvwjU
2. Divine Gamble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbl9rrknbko
3. The Rebirth of God's City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOoEtaVrzps
