How Did Ancient Romans Survive Floods Without Any Warning?

How did ancient Romans survive floods without any warning? Spend one flood in first-century Rome, five floors up in a rented room, as the Tiber fills the low streets, the Field of Mars and the Forum, and boats move where the street used to be. The video follows the water in, the collapses after it went down, the grain, and the five senators who were meant to keep the river in its bed. Built on Gregory Aldrete's study Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome and on the writers who saw the water rise: Livy, Tacitus, Cassius Dio, Horace and Pliny. Where historians disagree, the video says so. Every source is listed below. Chapters: 00:00 Tonight, and a Flood Two Thousand Years Ago 00:52 A City Built on Flood Ground 03:01 How the Water Comes In 06:26 Boats in the Streets 08:38 When the Water Goes Down 11:45 Five Senators and a River 14:43 How You Actually Survived 16:32 Walls, Nearly Two Thousand Years Later Sources: Aldrete, G. S. (2006, vaak geciteerd als 2007). Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome. Ancient Society and History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801884055. Kondratieff, E. (2007). Review of Gregory S. Aldrete, Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.09.18. Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies, University of St Andrews. Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome (samenvatting van Aldrete). Tacitus, Annales 1.76 en 1.79. Latijnse tekst en vertaling van 1.76 in Aldrete 2006, 24-25; Engelse vertaling van beide hoofdstukken op LacusCurtius. Tacitus, Historiae 1.86. Latijnse tekst en vertaling in Aldrete 2006, 26. Cassius Dio, Romeinse geschiedenis 39.61.1-2, vertaling E. Cary (Loeb Classical Library), op LacusCurtius. Cassius Dio, Romeinse geschiedenis 53.20.1 en 53.33.5, vertaling E. Cary (Loeb Classical Library), op LacusCurtius. Cassius Dio, Romeinse geschiedenis 54.1.1-4, vertaling E. Cary (Loeb Classical Library), op LacusCurtius. Cassius Dio, Romeinse geschiedenis 57.14.7-8, vertaling E. Cary (Loeb Classical Library), op LacusCurtius. Cassius Dio 54.25.2 en 55.22.3, vertaling E. Cary (Loeb), en Cassiodorus, Chronicon 604, beide geciteerd met vertaling in Aldrete 2006, 23-24. Livius, Ab urbe condita 4.49.2-3, 7.3.2, 30.38.10-12, 35.9.2-3, 35.21.5-6 en 38.28.4. Latijnse tekst en vertaling in Aldrete 2006, 14-17. Horatius, Carmina 1.2.13-20. Latijnse tekst en Loeb-vertaling in Aldrete 2006, 20-22, met de discussie over de datering. Plinius de Jongere, Epistulae 8.17 (Latijn en vertaling in Aldrete 2006, 27-28), en de inscriptie CIL 5.5262 uit Como over zijn loopbaan als curator alvei Tiberis et riparum et cloacarum urbis. Plinius de Oudere, Naturalis Historia 36.104-108, Latijnse tekst op LacusCurtius. Suetonius, Divus Augustus 30 en 37, vertaling J. C. Rolfe (Loeb Classical Library), op LacusCurtius. Ammianus Marcellinus 29.6.17-18. Latijnse tekst en vertaling in Aldrete 2006, 30-31. Claudianus, De Bello Gildonico 41-43. Latijnse tekst en vertaling in Aldrete 2006, 31. Plutarchus, Otho 4.5, Loeb-vertaling in Aldrete 2006, 26. Inscriptie van keizer Claudius uit Ostia, 46 n.Chr., CIL 14.85. Tekst in Aldrete 2006, noot 24 bij hoofdstuk 5. Res Gestae Divi Augusti 5, geciteerd in Aldrete 2006, 131. Storey, G. R. (1997). The population of ancient Rome. Antiquity 71(274), 966-978. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X0008... Strabo, Geographica 5.3.7-8, vertaling H. L. Jones (Loeb Classical Library, deel II, 1923), op LacusCurtius. Juvenalis, Satiren 3, regels 190-202. Every claim in this episode comes from the sources above. Where historians and archaeologists disagree, the narration says so. The illustrations are made with AI image tools in our own fixed style from our own scene descriptions, and the narration uses a synthetic voice. Lives of Long Ago: How ordinary people really lived, from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages, drawn in ink and watercolour and told in the second person, with sources under every video. #history #dailylife #historyfacts