Roman History 11 - Augustus 23 BC - 14 AD

This is from the podcast series The History Of Rome by Mike Duncan.
He currently does The Revolutions podcast
www.revolutionspodcast.com/

[@hailalexander93]

For some reason I've always really liked Agrippa and the friendship between him and Augustus. He may be one of the most underrated generals in history.

[@hailalexander93]

@Frank Lucas it's interesting to me to think about how Augustus usually holds the title hands down as the greatest Emperor, but Agrippa is rarely mentioned in a similar light. I would personally say he's up there with Ceasar and Scipio, almost more so when you consider his tempered approach to politics and his own personal status.

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Agrippa, a dictators loyal general. lol

[@drunkensailor112]

@@williamdukeofnormandy1403 agrippa was responsible for almost all of the infrastructural improvements throughout the empire. He wasn't just a general.

[@hailalexander93]

@@drunkensailor112 what's your point? I think everyone who knows this history knows every great general was also a top administrator as well.

[@Dlabelmard]

Augustus was one of the most effective ruler for sure, but he definitely wasn't a great commander, having abandoned his legions on some occasions, and preferring to delegate the leadership of his forces when possible.

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After 21 hours of history of rome so far, I thought I check in and say thanks for this amazing content. Truly, thank you and well done.

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Love the Orwell/Stalin reference on Octavian’s purge of Anthony… It’s 1984 and 1948 a full two millennia prior.

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I've listened to this series over five times. I only wish he completed it to Constantinople's fall.

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The best podcast about the history of Rome

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0:00 - Accession of Caesar Augustus 27:46 - Reigning Supreme 51:24 - All in the Family 1:15:40 - Teutoburg Nightmares 1:40:55 - The King is Dead, Long Live the King

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Why aren’t you in every video lol

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Legend 🙌

[@kaybee55]

I wonder if Teutoburg Nightmares is a play on Dan Carlin's Punic Nightmares... I'm gonna go with yes.

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@@kaybee55 I'm pretty sure this came before Dan Carlin. This podcast started in 2007

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After all these episodes I’d like to say this is the best “History of Rome” I’ve heard. Thank you, and please, keep it up

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These were all done back in 2010 or so

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This is so well done. I like the down to earth approach. You don’t sacrifice accuracy in order to sound clever and entertaining. If you can get sponsors that aren’t too intrusive, go for it. You’ve earned the right.

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It is the year of our Lord 2023 and there are still very few things I can think of that would be cooler then a mock naval battle held in a lake. Seriously that sounds like the most amazing spectacle ever.

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The Roman's knew how to have a good time.

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[@brucelee-wo5ge]

I'm rewatching the excellent I Claudius production in conjunction with listening to the relevant episodes of your wonderful series and reading wikipedia history pages on the main protagonists. I first watched I Claudius on FTA TV at age 15 and, whilst enthralled by the performances and main plot, I failed to follow the detail of the relationships (which my new understanding reveals are quite convoluted), It is fascinating that aspects of the Julio-Claudian dictatorship of this ancient culture, which has myriad influences on contemporary society, is illuminated for us through these three platforms!

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Holy cow. .this was so enjoyable to listen to. your narration was outstanding....thank you for this

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Hey Mike, been with you since 2014. Im currently on the english civil war revolutions and beyond but listening to this (the algorithm sent me back) just makes me want to say its nice to be back here in REUM.

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This my third time listening through Excellent attention to detail. Your comments & opinions are a nice touch.

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Love this.. the best. I have read a ton of roman history but never understood it until listening to these webecast

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[@YawehthedragondogofEL]

Julius Caesar certainly chose his successor well.

[@-timaeus-9781]

A lot better than Marcus Aurelius that's for sure. :)

[@YawehthedragondogofEL]

It was either that or have him killed. To have done otherwise would have sparked a civil war.

[@joechang8696]

Get married or be executed? A spearhead wedding, precursor to the shotgun weddings

[@cezarcaruntu]

He didn't. Only kings or emperors chose successors. He wasn't either.

[@truro3439]

​@@cezarcaruntu He was de facto emperor and clearly grooming Octavian to be his heir apparent. Names aren't really that important, Bashar al-Assad for example is basically king of Syria despite using the title President

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2:56 I wasn’t expecting a 1984 reference here but I’m not mad

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Saddest last words, can bring me to tears without trying.

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One thing I notice when binge listening to this guy. he took ALLOT of vacations in those days :)

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Ur one of the most amazing history people I've ever gotten the honor to listen to. Thank you so much for your work, and I hope that you someday work on other periods and places in history.

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[@-timaeus-9781]

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[@jimland4359]

Thank you again! I listed to most of these through his website, but it is really helpful to group them into more long form podcasts. I have to admit though. I start to lose interest after Comodus. Everyone else loves to look at the fall. I tend to like the rise.

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agrippa and augustus greatest Bromance in history

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bROMANce :)

[@madmazmc]

Thanks for clearing up the whole Livia conspiracy. I learned about it in Art History and it seemed a little far out.

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What a beautiful friendship between Augustus and Agripa. Bro love

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[@paulrosa6173]

I read Graves "I Claudius" over 30 years ago and watched the series over 40 years ago when everyone else was (including the parish priest). I and don't find it hard to believe Livia could have arranged the deaths of Tiberius's rivals. The old romans seemed to have loved their genetic lineages like religion, maybe more than religion. They sacrificed so much for their family lines. All Graves did was flesh out the story. He actually seems to have been in awe of women and considering how murderous and ambitious moms figured more highly not much later, he is not off the wall by following the rumors. I know you can't think that they really saw things in modern terms (Jung's 2000 years of directed thinking separates us from them) and they were used to killing for just about anything they really wanted. But this series is so good, I'm going to listen to the whole endless thing as long as my strength and stomach holds out. .

[@Bill23799]

I am also a big fan of the novels and the series " I, CLAVDIVS " . I would be a bit nervous if Livia asked me to her home for a home cooked meal. ( Gulp ) By home cooked of course I mean cooked by her home slaves.

[@jerryoconnor4572]

I loved Graves book and the TV adaptation was excellent. Of course a lot was artistic license but riveting all the same. In saying that I would be inclined to be unavailable for one of Livias dinners.

[@jimtaggert42]

what's wrong with your stomach?

[@brianaguila6925]

Ancient historians stated that Livia supposedly posioned potential rivals to Tiberius' ascension as the next emperor. By eliminating the favored heirs, Octavian was forced to choose the former despite his dislike for the role. Of course, ancient historians hated powerful people that stomped their power or they don't fit as to what roles people should play in their society ( we knew that ancient Romans hate powerful women).

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I first watched "I, Claudius" late 70's presented by Masterpiece Theater and recently bought a remastered DVD and rewatched it... Marvelous... then somehow discovered your channel and like your presentation... I read a few Roman history books, paperbacks and found the state offices very confusing, I guess so that power would be diffused but which in republics always leads to oligarchs, then democracies, and finally dictators....

[@RoyAnderson]

I’m not saying Livia killed everyone, but where there’s smoke there’s fire, and there was a lot of smoke surrounding Livia.

[@mat3714]

So she went all the way to the eastern Mediterranean at the cover of dark, poisoned an already dying of an infected wound man and went back to rome unnoticed, all of that in a world with no phone nor planes on top of a highly misogynist environment ?

[@antaltakacs7466]

She was immensely powerful, Augustus would defer some areas of statecraft to her, more so later on their lives. All it took her is a snap of the finger to get someone killed lol

[@mat3714]

@@antaltakacs7466 immensely powerful? Having whole state departments at her command?? All of that being legally the possession of her father or husband with no access to milirary command and not even the right to attend Senate meetings..... she did all that. Falling for the evil wife/mother trope that was pretty much disproved.

[@RoyAnderson]

@@mat3714 You may be overthinking this Mat. These were ancient times. Livia was the most powerful person after the aforementioned folks. Would you tell her “no”? Of course not, because she’d have you killed. You would have no right to a trial or jury. You’d be killed on the spot. The end. Times were different.

[@mat3714]

@@RoyAnderson ya , exactly... time were different, woman were mostly possessions. You are thinking with a modern person perspective. If you get assassinated because of a wive it was usually the male benefactor of the opening who was responsible. Very few women held power during most of humanity history and almost always due to power vacuum caused by lack of male lineage. I'd like to add that I'm glad that this trend is dying.

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This podcast is at least 10 years old, I think it just got put on KZbin recently. He has another Podcast now that is on Revolutions.

[@chrisvickers7928]

I read I Claudius and Claudius the God before the TV series came out. With a cast of brilliant Shakespearean actors I loved the series but it is Graves rewriting of history, fun though it was.

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I gotta imagine that when Tiberius was left as the only dude and came back Augustus was breathing heavily while whispering "...You better not fuck it after I'm gone..."

[@Paddythelaad]

I love that Octavian had a daughter named Agrippina, he must have liked Agrippa as much as me.

[@bdleo300]

Worth mentioning Roman interventions in Arabia and Nubia during this period

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The Pantheon was rebuilt under Hadrian not Trajan

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From Wikipedia: Lise Hetland argues that the present construction began in 114, under Trajan, four years after it was destroyed by fire for the second time. She reexamined Herbert Bloch's 1959 paper, which is responsible for the commonly maintained Hadrianic date, and maintains that he should not have excluded all of the Trajanic-era bricks from his brick-stamp study. Her argument is particularly interesting in light of Heilmeyer's argument that, based on stylistic evidence, Apollodorus of Damascus, Trajan's architect, was the obvious architect.

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Hope everyone will continue listening this to the end and go to the history of byzantium after

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Happy Mothers Day was nice too.

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"Had always been at war with East Asia" was that a slight 1984 reference?

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While talking about the "vaporization" of Marcus Antoininus

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The best part about this is that throughout it's history, Rome was always at war with East Asia.

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I'm starting to find my only complaint with this series. There doesn't seem to be even a mention most of the time of what was going on in the rest of the empire. I know all the military conquests, campaigns, wars, and battles would start making things to long, but from one episode to the next it's hard to tell how the size of the empire was changing and such. If anyone has suggestions on a source for the militaristic/expansions side of thing is appreciate it.

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Kings and generals takes a more military centric look at Roman history.

[@mrscanlan.5016]

Octavian was so lucky to have a great friend in Marcus Agrippa, who happen to be a great General and Tactician too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Agrippa was A G, WAS A BOSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great pairing old Gaius Octavian and Marcus Agrippa

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It was great thanks

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The statue of Arminius (Herman The German) was a favourite target of RAF fighters, on their way back to Britain, at which to take practice shots!😂

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Go for it

[@robertgiles9124]

If Julius knew that Octavian was gong to kill his son with Cleopatra, I doubt he would have put him in his Will.

[@ghostinthemachine8243]

Julius Caesar was no fool. The Romans would never have accepted a foreigner as a legal Roman heir.

[@robertgiles9124]

@@ghostinthemachine8243 You must be unfamiliar with Roman History. They made many "foreigners" their rulers time after time. From Spain to Syria. Egypt was a possession anyway so would not be considered so Foreign. Even a son of a Slave became an Emperor. Listen to Duncan's HISTORY of ROME podcast and see how wild it got at times.

[@BRTowe]

@@robertgiles9124 Egypt was not an official province at the time and Cleopatra was not a Roman citizen. The child was not eligible to be an heir under Roman law.

[@robertgiles9124]

@@BRTowe The Child could have been adopted by a Roman General and all bets would be off. He was after all HALF Roman...Rome had some very wacky Emperors anyway at times...so anything was possible. My MAIN point was about how Octavian Killed the poor child.

[@Bill23799]

Thank you for this great historical series. Hey, wait a minute. Didn't Titus Pullo, who really was the father of young Caesarean, sneak the young boy out from under the clutches of Rome? Ok you caught me. Now how hysterically correct do you consider the HBO/BBC mini series " ROME ". At the very least it was very good entertainment. Was " I,CLAVDIVS " closer to the actual history?

[@tedswedalla5422]

Warren Spahn would have something to say about Mike saying Randy Johnson is the greatest left hander in baseball history.

[@nobodyaskedbut]

Spahn won 20 games (13) more times than Johnson won 15 (11) and Spahn's career ERA was lower (3.09-3.29) despite pitching over 1000 more innings. Spahn is superior and it's not close.

[@fieroboom]

Is Octavian's general Agrippa the same Agrippa II as the "King of the Jews" Herodian line Julius Marcus Agrippa I? I understand this is a strictly historical account of Rome, but I'm trying to put it together in my mind, and Roman names are reused so much, sometimes it's difficult to follow...

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47:57 Reach for Elbe's shore? Looks like its the end, the war has been lost

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Keeping them safe until the rivers been crossed

[@damien81981]

they had their own ocean. they basically had their own world.

[@LordDad]

Nicely done But the best left handed pitcher in baseball history is either Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax or Warren Spahn

[@simonpeter5032]

"He had no choice, he simply had to keep living.." Oh, what a pity..

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I hope you got that audible money

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Sandy Koufax, best left hander.

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Steve Carlton

[@Paddythelaad]

Most of the highly effective leaders/generals were young. Alexander, Napoleon, Agrippa, Hannibal, Scipio Africanus etc etc. It should be the norm for people around 23 to lead, its when the brain peaks, according to neuroscience, biology and, well, history.

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[@Bill23799]

Eddie Foy had 5 sons. In the time of Augustus Foy could have become mayor of Rome for his contribution to the state.

[@cristianmicu]

Romania never exists on any maps until World War I, but on a map going back to Caesar's Roman Empire i can see DACIA pretty much between the Danube river on south and river dnister on east, that territory is present Romania in most part.. at least no one can negate DACIA because it existed before roman empire. IT WAS THERE

[@DystopiaFatigue]

Rome in 18 BC sounds a lot like The US in 2023 AD, sans Augustus.

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Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

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Guten Tag, majesty. Well, no idea where the 3 legions have gone! 🤷

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why is the ending of the video so patchy?

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1:28:00

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43:00 sounds familiar??

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27 BC is the year the Roman Empire truly came to be or should i call it the Roman Principate.

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51:34

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The map is highly dubious. You can clearly see where the mapmaker`s sympathies are. Hint: It`s not Germania.

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1:19:00 Simpus Maximus

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8:00

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Love the series but one small issue. Johnson over spahn or koufax? lol