Episode CXXVII - Augustus: The Making of an Emperor (Live in Melbourne)
Emperors of Rome
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The Problems With Augustus
One of the problems with augustus, it seems to me, is that we look at him with hind siht. He didn't even know that he was going to necessarily survive when he's doing all his trips around,. and hes lying with what might have been malaria or something else. But i thinki it's reflected also in what we've discussed with his early life, that it works out. But i do think there's a certain amount of luck there. It's kind of sad, cause it's, it's sort of a story of use these people and move on, and that's successful in this case.
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