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An Interview with Classicist and Military Historian Barry Strauss

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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The Romans Aren't Ready for That Yet, Mark Anthony

In some way, Agrippa is underrated. He's one of these people who seems to be satisfied with being number two. I also don't think he could have become number one, because we can't underestimate how snobby the roman elite was. There's no way he's going to be the top dog, not in this period of history. The romans aren't ready for that yet. You very also, i think, fair to mark anthony, we don't get the impression that we do in roman pro augustan literature of the desolute, the drunk, the devout. Tis just takes it over. A you feel he was a man of talent

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