Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
A classicist's advice on the most historically accurate ways for Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to hold their cage match in the Colosseum.
Check out my other YouTube channels, @toldinstone and @scenicroutestothepast
You might be interested in my book, "Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants":
amazon.com/Naked-Statues-Fat-Gladiators-Elephants/dp/1633887022
Special thanks to my girlfriend for assistance with the illustrations.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:29 A note on arenas
1:47 Boxing
2:54 Wrestling
3:34 Pankration
4:20 Gladiatorial combat
A classicist's advice on the most historically accurate ways for Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to hold their cage match in the Colosseum.
Check out my other YouTube channels, @toldinstone and @scenicroutestothepast
You might be interested in my book, "Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants":
amazon.com/Naked-Statues-Fat-Gladiators-Elephants/dp/1633887022
Special thanks to my girlfriend for assistance with the illustrations.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:29 A note on arenas
1:47 Boxing
2:54 Wrestling
3:34 Pankration
4:20 Gladiatorial combat
![[ASMR] Separating two Roman coins stuck together for 1,700 years](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VpAeHy9Xou0/mqdefault.jpg "[ASMR] Separating two Roman coins stuck together for 1,700 years
In a lot of uncleaned coins, I received these two small bronzes (AE3) of Constantius II, which had apparently been stuck together since antiquity. In this video, I separate them with a scalpel blade and clean off some of the dirt encrusting their surfaces.
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