Welcome to the Roman Iceberg! This iceberg touches on nearly every aspect of Roman history, from Rome's greatest men like Julius Caesar, Augustus, and Cicero to Rome's downfall and even aspects of Roman history that you may not be all that well versed in such as Lepidus and Majorian. If it deals with Rome it probably got mentioned at some point in this video!

Rome and its people are some of the most studied aspects of history in the entire world. And yet, underneath all of the most showy and most wellknown aspects of Roman history exists a deep and storied history that many people either know nothing about or have skipped over in favor of the more flashy aspects of Roman history. That is why I decided to create the Roman History Iceberg. 10 Tiers of various deep and not so deep cuts of Roman history filled to the brim with important people, events, places, and theories in Roman history all made with the goal of introducing all of you to some pieces of history that I feel are missed out on.

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Sources Used:

Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita
Cassius Dio, Roman History
Ptolemy, Geography
Polybius, The Histories
Tacitus, Annals
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities
Ammianus Marcellinus, The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History
Hydatius, The Chronicle of Hydatius. And the Consularia Constantinopolitana
John of Antioch, Historia Chronike
Procopius, Vandalic War
Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds and Sayings: One Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome
Cicero, De Divinatione
Zosimus: Historia Nova
Sallust: The Histories
Julius Caesar: The Conquest of Gaul
Tacitius: On the life and character of Julius Agricola
Cicero: The Catilinarian Orations
Gaius Sallustius Crispus: Bellum Catilinae

Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Richard D. Weigel, Lepidus: the Tarnished Triumvir
John Freely, The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II – Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire
Susan Raven, Rome in Africa
Penny MacGeorge, Late Roman Warlords
Robert Habermann, The Last Emperor of Rome
Peter Bang, Commanding and Consuming the World: Empire, Tribute, and Trade in Roman and Chinese History
Hyun Jin Kim, Rome and China Points of Contact
Riccardo Bellucci: Alba Longa
Philip Matyszak: Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain
Byron Nakamura: Palmyra and the Roman East
Richard Stoneman: Palmyra and Its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt against Rome
Stephen DanoCollins: The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City
Lewis M Hopfe: Archaeological indications on the origins of Roman Mithraism
Richard Gordon: The Cult of Roman Mithras: The God and his Mysteries
Roger Beck: The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun
Miranda AldhouseGreen: Caesar's Druids: Story of an Ancient Priesthood
Ronald Hutton: Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain
Duncan B. Campbell: Mons Graupius AD 83: Rome’s Battle at the Edge of the World
Ilkka Syvänne: Gordian III and Philip the Arab: The Roman Empire At a Crossroads
David MacDonald: The Death of Gordian III: Another Tradition
Walter Burkert: Ancient Mystery Cults
Carl Ruck, Albert Hofmann and R Gordon Wasson: The Road to Eleusis
Sandra Bingham, The Praetorian Guard: A History of Rome's Elite Special Forces
Adrian Goldsworthy, The Fall of the West: The Slow Death of the Roman Superpower
Matthew Jordan Storm, The Exarch’s Son: Heraclius of Carthage Battles the False Emperor
Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History
Paul Stephenson, Constantine: Unconquered Emperor
Timothy Barnes, Constantine. Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire
Richard Winston, Charlemagne: From The Hammer to The Cross
Caroline Finkel, Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War
P.M.W. Tennant, The Lupercalia and the Romulus and Remus Legend


0:00 Intro and Tier 1
18:18 Tier 2
30:20 Tier 3
53:22 Tier 4
1:13:47 Tier 5
1:29:00 Tier 6
2:05:23 Tier 7
2:34:31 Tier 8
3:03:46 Tier 9
3:27:26 Tier 10
3:48:28 Outro