Kingbreakers: The Praetorian Guard
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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A History of Rome's First Emperor, Augustus
Over the course of his reign, augustus slowly, sneakily transformed a vibrant but disfunctional republic into a full blown autocracy. As roman historian tacitus said, he was wholly unopposed. Augustus never everf got the tragic lesson of his murdered uncle, julius caesar, and how quickly power could be taken away by a few dozen well placed jabs of a knife. So he decides that he needs an official imperial bodyguard to protect both him and his family from any danger. Enter the true stars of our show, the pretorian guard.
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