Emperors - Augustus 1-5

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Bio On The First Emperor Augustus

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  • How come no one seems to care about Octavian? Just because he was the only one smart enough to not get assassinated? Just because he wasn't weird? Just because he gave Rome peace & calm?

    People are very quick to notice incompetent or totalitarian leaders, but no one appreciates a leader who just makes life easy & peaceful for people.

    And I like Nero & Caligula too, but obviously I'd rather LIVE under Augustus' rule.

  • brillant leader and brillant man

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  • Cicero was NOT calling Marc Antony a smashing chap;)

  • @Sere324nityMoon

    Good point.

  • @skummelhustler

    As I told someone just a few comments above this one, I guess I'm thinking in terms of 1st century emperors. But still, Caligula & Nero seem to be more famous than even those guys.

  • @skummelhustler

    All good emperors, but I guess I'm thinking in terms of his 1st century counterparts.

  • @RemziiBro

    yeah actual scholars of history hold him in high regard, as they should.

  • @deltapunk21

    Geez, you act as if Caligula actually fucked your wife at one of his dinner parties. Ease up man, it was 2,000 years ago. It didn't sound like his reign would have been fun to live under, but the stories about him are interesting. A guy who made a mockery out of anyone stupid enough to worship him...I think that's kind of cool, and a good lesson for those of us in modern times.

  • @IAMtheNewWorldOrder I agree.

  • @IAMtheNewWorldOrder Because 'Normal People' are rarely remembered. It's the sickos that grab our attention. It's the underlining fear that at any given time we could be just as crazy and as cruel as they were so we study them intently in order to avoid becoming like them.

  • I'm annoyed with the intro and I'm 2 minutes in... "They were tired of living under the rule of one man and preferred to be ruled by the elected. Clearly this woman narrating has no fucking idea about the Roman extraordinary magistrates or the fact that the Senate was a corrupt, unstable oligarchy...

  • augustus was a bit of a freud though, his glorious victories of his early career were all done by agrippa and other generals while he lay in his tent. everyone shouldnt base their opinions purely on the res gestae

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