Augustus: "My man Agrippa needs a monument too." Contractor: "Like a statue?" Augustus: "The man won me the empire, think bigger"

@X3105i

4 жыл бұрын

How big

@demonmurphy

4 жыл бұрын

X310 5 Etiam!

@HeroLanding

3 жыл бұрын

@@X3105i Yes

@vaughnjohnson8767

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@averongodoffire8098

3 жыл бұрын

@@X3105i Augustus: You’ve seen the temples in Greece? Contractor: Yeah? Augustus: think that but like 4 Times bigger and a giant freestanding dome made of concrete!... Contractor: ... we could just make a tall needle I hear those are popular- Augustus: excuse me- DID I STUTTER OR DID I SAY I WANT A TEMPLE BUILT TO MAKE JUPITER FEEL SECOND CLASS!!!

Fan fuct: Augustus respected Agrippa so much as both a (best) friend and an Allie,that when Agrippa died rather than placing his remains in a personal grave or inside(Agrippas) Pantheon,he placed them inside his OWN Mausoleum,his personal grave.Just this act can show how much Octavianus loved his best friend Marcus. Again,a low class man(Agrippa wasn't of royalty) was buried together with the EMPEROR OF ROME. Now that's respect.

@kariscoyne1886

4 жыл бұрын

oh my god they were tombmates

@yugitrump435

4 жыл бұрын

Also married either Augustus' daughter or sister. I forgot which. He made Agrippa royalty

@tenarmurk

4 жыл бұрын

Agrippa was married to the daughter of augustus and when Augustus was very sick he adopted agrippa as his son so he could be emperor if he died

@moredetonation3755

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, just guys being dudes

@clockworkkirlia7475

3 жыл бұрын

@@kariscoyne1886 Two brooos, lyin' in a stone tomb, five feet apart 'cause they're not gay.

"Not die to RNG" Ah, so Augustus was a savescummer. That makes sense.

@marcusalm7350

5 жыл бұрын

Also explains why he goes overboard sometimes. He forgot to reload a previous save after going wild.

@StarrTheWitch

5 жыл бұрын

@@marcusalm7350 maybe he was one of those "Save Files? Not time for that, i gotta keep goin, I'll save next Decade" and then he forgot and then he was too far gone

@jeeshadow1

5 жыл бұрын

Makes me wonder how he screwed that up regarding Teutoburg Forest!

@tibfulv

5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes you forget to save. Always a pain.

@TheWildmanden

5 жыл бұрын

probably a corrupted save file

Augustus: Well, I've settled the civil wars, seized power, and established the greatest empire the West shall ever see. Surely I will be the most famous and renowned man of my time. Some poor Jewish boy in the provinces: Hold my water/wine.

@callianr6980

5 жыл бұрын

Bwahahahahaha!!! That's comedy gold. I can just imagine them meeting in the afterlife and Augustus glaring at Jesus sooooo hard. And Jesus is just a nice guy and apologizes for the inconveniences or something. Or says something snarky. He had a habit of being snarky.

@spamhonx56

5 жыл бұрын

greatest empire the west will ever see? i suppose that's true, because it wasn't just the west that saw the british empire... the romans did it with better style though. it all comes down to the hats, and nothing competes with laurel wreaths, wolf/lion/bear heads and crested gallic helms.

@luxlightlegend1273

5 жыл бұрын

spamhonx56 I would argue that modern empires like the british do not fall under what the west sees. Its much more the greatest (lets ignore ethics for a while, landmass does the job) empire the world has ever seen

@spamhonx56

5 жыл бұрын

LuxLightLegend aye, i agree. honestly though, if we were talking about ethics, the roman empire doesn't necessarily win there anyway... we all know the degree to which slavery was utilised in ancient rome.

@joshuakusuma5953

5 жыл бұрын

@@callianr6980 Also has a habit of going "hey guys, don't be dicks" to the point of being preachy.

Augustus's Rules for Running a Successful Empire: 1.) Don't actually call yourself an Emperor. 2.) In fact, don't call yourself anything. That's what the Senate is for. 3.) Always keep an Egypt in your back pocket, just in case. 4.) Build lots of cool things. People love looking at cool things. 5.) Rip Antonius's name off of every monument. Pretty sure people will forget who he is if it's done often enough. 6.) Makes laws restricting sex. Everyone will love you for it. 7.) Jupiter D***it! Why do my heirs keep dying?!

@respublica4373

5 жыл бұрын

8) hope for a good RNG and to be sure dont play on ironman and savescum ( but forget to do so when some sneeky germanic bois take your legions )

@dr.vikyll7466

5 жыл бұрын

9) Make sure Jesus dies. Oh that backfired horribly. No no constantine dont you look at christianity that way CONSTANTINE!

@respublica4373

5 жыл бұрын

didnt jesus die during tiberius reign? ( well propably if he even actually existed that is )

@dr.vikyll7466

5 жыл бұрын

oh yeah it was tiberius that was that oops

@TheKeyser94

5 жыл бұрын

10) Bang everyone woman on sight meanwhile proclaiming the laws to restrict sex.

"...as I'm sure Crassus would tell you." Crassus: *chokes on molten gold in agreement*

@sleazymeezy

4 жыл бұрын

Why did I laugh so hard

@FlyinBlaney

4 жыл бұрын

Crassus, also known as rich Viserys Targaryen but, like, not a king, and rich. Basically just alike to him in getting gold on his head or whatever

@ZephLodwick

3 жыл бұрын

That was Valerian (and that story is probably apocryphal).

"Or because Disney made it(the old republic) non-canon" Oof, that one hurt. Right in the nostalgia.

@cosminbanica1169

5 жыл бұрын

If nostalgia is high you should Look for the Aperion project

@wadespencer3623

5 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, it was never canon. You didn't lose anything. It was C canon at best.

@wadespencer3623

5 жыл бұрын

"There are two worlds here. There's my world, which is the movies, and there's this other world that has been created, which I say is the parallel universe-the licensing world of the books, games and comic books. They don't intrude on my world, which is a select period of time, [but] they do intrude in between the movies. I don't get too involved in the parallel universe." Lucas himself. There's waaaaaaaaay more where that came from. He never considered anything in the EU canon. That doesn't mean any of it is bad. It was just never totally canon. Hell, the only thing that actually changed position in the canon was The Clone Wars, because it's now officially primary canon.

@fuzzydunlop7928

5 жыл бұрын

Canon is subjective. If people simply decide not to adhere to them and choose their own canon, then they have literally no say in the matter since the material has already been released into the ether. So, because they hold the rights to financially profit off of the franchise, they suddenly have the authority to dictate the lore? I beg to differ. Once a creative work enters the consciousness of the people it ceases to be within the sole control of the creator or rights-holders in terms of how the public perceives it - there is no law which dictates how one must feel or think regarding an intellectual property. I'm restoring the canon and returning it to you - the people.

@fuzzydunlop7928

5 жыл бұрын

That said, Revan was in a deleted scene from the Clone Wars which - going with the inherently limited and counter-productive orthodox view of 'canon' - means there is still very much the possibility of it being recognized as 'canon' - though my point is that what Lucas or Disney dictates in terms of lore is totally irrelevant and the greatest trick they pull is making the fandom believe they actually have to listen to them at all.

He died at 75, for most people of that time, he was practically immortal.

-I have brought peace, freed justice and security to my new empire. -Your new empire? Gaius, my alliegance is to Republic! To aristocracy!

@joshuakusuma5953

5 жыл бұрын

-If you are not with me, then you are my enemy.

@artemiostriantafyllou7986

5 жыл бұрын

@@joshuakusuma5953 Only a barbarian deals in absolutes!

@marc-ericleblanc-seguin4514

5 жыл бұрын

Vlad Prus “So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause.” - Padme Amidala, Senator of Naboo in the Galactic Republic Senate as it transitions in the First Galactic Empire.

@deanrichardson5460

5 жыл бұрын

From my point of view the Senate is evil!

@sheep5135

5 жыл бұрын

I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND

Fun fact: Augustus had a "first minister" named Maecenas. His name is where we get the word maecanate for a patron, especially a patron of the arts.

@OverlySarcasticProductions

5 жыл бұрын

Maecanas is the coolest! The original cut of this script has an extra few minutes of just how cool Maecenas was, but I had to cut it for time. It's basically all on him that we got the great Roman poetry out of that era that we did and I would have loved to talk more about him.

@anttibjorklund1869

5 жыл бұрын

@@OverlySarcasticProductions Oh that would've been great to see!

@mathieuleader8601

5 жыл бұрын

neat

@Nobythulhu

3 жыл бұрын

Neat! I can attest that in Spanish, the closest word to “patron”, in the sense of providing patronage, is “mecenas”. Just... the dude’s name, straight out. We do have the word “patrón”, but... that has a different history and connotation...

Ah yes. The man who invented my third favorite month...

@30alex30clubpenguin

5 жыл бұрын

its my favorite month

@warriorcrab1319

5 жыл бұрын

Soooo. if he Invented it, uh, was there less time before that?

@its_drez

5 жыл бұрын

Least fav month for me bc summer starts on aug 1

@admontblanc

4 жыл бұрын

@@warriorcrab1319 there were less months not sure if some were bigger or all were, December was always the last month for romans even before the julian calendar was created and December has the root Dece which is 10.

@yamjams8907

4 жыл бұрын

cool my favorite month is November cus it’s chilly

Augustus: I am the Senate! "Not yet." Augustus: So it's treason, then.

Can we please get a special on Marcus Agrippa?

@adambielen8996

5 жыл бұрын

Yes please.

@aidanmagill6769

5 жыл бұрын

Seconded

@theConquerersMama

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty please

@MrSqurk

4 жыл бұрын

Agrippa the best wingman in human history.

@marcusvipsaniusagrippa5249

4 жыл бұрын

Approved.

Augustus: "Wow this expansion into Germania is going surprisingly well." Augustus, one winter and three dead legions later: "Ok, let's just get out of here. Puppet them instead of conquering? Puppet them instead of conquering."

"Does anyone else feel a little...giggle. When they hear my friend's name....Biggus Dickus?"

@marcustulliuscicero5443

5 жыл бұрын

*fwiend's

@gabriel300010

5 жыл бұрын

Naughtius Maximus

@nikhiliyengar1510

5 жыл бұрын

His middle name must be humorous.

@hearmeroar6691

5 жыл бұрын

He has a wife you know.

@confusedwolf7157

4 жыл бұрын

Wowdy wabble these commentors neh?

Boy my IQ Is increasing with this channel

@flimpeenflarmpoon1353

5 жыл бұрын

Historia Civilis is amazing. Kings and Generals are great too.

@flimpeenflarmpoon1353

5 жыл бұрын

Invicta is another roman one.

@xaph5575

5 жыл бұрын

I love all these channels

@flimpeenflarmpoon1353

5 жыл бұрын

Shit, you like the Yogscast too? Do you watch ThatMadCat? She's great.

@joebowden4065

5 жыл бұрын

Flimpeen Flarmpoon epimetheus?

“Too young or too murdered” lol

@arianewinter4266

3 жыл бұрын

Or deamed as non canon by disney

You know, there ARE two other big Augustan literary works: Ovid's Metamorphoses which is basically THE library of Roman myths and Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, which was essentially a Complete History of Rome

Get yourself someone who talks about you the way Blue talks about the Parthenon

@MCArt25

5 жыл бұрын

Pantheon

What stats does Livia have hmm... "47 in Intrigue" "Elusive Shadow" Oooookaaaaay.

@megashark0305

4 жыл бұрын

CK2 reference?

Agrippa needs his own video, Blue. Do you hear me, mate? Agrippa? _NEEDS_ his own video.

@moirapalace3946

5 жыл бұрын

Especially when he seems to have such a huge nerd boner for Agrippa.

@marcusvipsaniusagrippa5249

4 жыл бұрын

Approved.

Great video, but I think you could've mentioned the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest. Augustus for his time won many military victories and expanded the empire, but on his deathbed, all he could think about was that one defeat and his three legions. Gaius Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!

Can't wait until you cover Nero. I've got to see that immediately.

@tyberostheredwake8098

5 жыл бұрын

I await the Fate comments, but mostly the awful lute playing.

Love how you referenced Agrippa's general badassery but we REALLY need a standalone video on him. One of history's great admirals/generals, amazing architect... guy basically did everything and was awesome at it. Like a Renaissance man who was on speed 24/7

@lordtaitos4212

11 ай бұрын

It’s actually cheating how three of the most effective and dangerous men in human history all lived at the same time and were best friends.

Could you cover Ivan the Terrible or Rasputin sometime in the future? My goodness KOTOR was so good.

@fromthe4621

5 жыл бұрын

JediAcolyte22 KOTOR was amazing. Replayed it over the summer

Red: sings at the end. Blue: Says interesting facts

@arianewinter4266

3 жыл бұрын

She often writes interessting facts you can read while she sings

Augustus: "You think rome is your ally I was born the son of a God moulded by him, nobody knew me until I founded this empire!

@Solqueen86

5 жыл бұрын

Jesus: Hold my wine Judus....

@samlund8543

5 жыл бұрын

And by then it nothing to me but BLINDING!

@macoy3943

5 жыл бұрын

Augustus: “No need to stand on ceremony Mr. Antony”

when christmas rolls around, please convince red to do A Christmas Carol. There's lots of fun to be had drawing ghosts.

@mathieuleader8601

5 жыл бұрын

or the lesser known -THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN is a great short story by Charles Dickens

“So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause.” - Padme Amidala, Senator of Naboo in the Galactic Republic Senate as it transitions in the First Galactic Empire.

@varana

5 жыл бұрын

Only that "liberty" had been dead for half a century, at least. (And it only existed for Roman citizens, which was a tiny, tiny fraction of the Empire's populace, and even of those, only a small fraction had any actual influence on what was happening.)

@sulphuric_glue4468

5 жыл бұрын

If anything the Roman people had more liberty under the emperors than the republic

@KTChamberlain

5 жыл бұрын

One little problem: George Lucas doesn't know the difference between a democracy and a republic. He thinks they're the same when they're not and perpetuated the misconception with the prequels. The reasons why Augustus Caesar was able to turn the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire was because he used bigger-army diplomacy and got the people on his side. He knew how win the common people over as did Julius Caesar. Palpatine makes one speech and somehow the Senate goes along with it, even though he looked like Death and showed no proof to back up his case. Either he was able to use the Force to sway them, or everyone's that blind and stupid. If he had stormtroopers positioned at every senator's platform and hold them at gunpoint to declare him emperor, then that would have been far more badass and far more believable at the same time.

@varana

5 жыл бұрын

In international parlance, a republic is just any state without a monarch as head of government. A republic can be democratic, like the US or Switzerland, or not, like North Korea. Conversely, there are democratic non-republics, like the UK. In the US, a republic is a form of representative democracy, as opposed to direct democracy. But it is a democracy nonetheless.

@KTChamberlain

5 жыл бұрын

Nowhere in the US Constitution does the word democracy appear. The key difference between a democracy and a republic is that in a democracy it's majority rules, in a republic, the law protects the individual from the majority. Bottom line: America is not a democracy, it's a republic with checks and balances.

HIS LEGIONS! GIVE THEM BACK!

Awesome video about Augustus, as usual with your videos Blue. I actually just finished reading about Augustus, and it was much of the stuff you talked about, but you did surprise me with things I didn't know, like how he subsidized temples and had that governor in Egypt he sent a dagger to. Great job as always! Hey if you ever go back to Africa, I was hoping you could talk about Queen Anna Nzinga of Angola. She's an important figure in Angolan and greater Portuguese history. A strong willed ruler, who stood up to the colonial power and played off many factional royal in fighting in her kingdom of Ndongo and the neighboring Kongo Empire. I'd love to see your take on in!

If you think about it, Rome ended just as it started: as a single city This has nothing to do with the video other than "Romans", but I thought it was cool nonetheless

@boldandbrash8431

5 жыл бұрын

Depending on your point of view, it started as a single city and ended as a single different city

@Filled2105

5 жыл бұрын

@@boldandbrash8431 Yeah, basically

@boldandbrash8431

5 жыл бұрын

Oh I went ahead and subbed btw. Lets get you to a thousand

@Filled2105

5 жыл бұрын

@@boldandbrash8431 Thanks, I'll see if I ever get to a thousand, if I do, then, I dunno, I'll just post something then

@agihammerthief8953

5 жыл бұрын

Byzantium still controlled Morea at the time of its final anexation, though, not just Constantinople.

Augustus was an interesting character just like his step father Caesar. He had flaws but his ability to surround himself with smart leaders gave him the advantage that Antony didn’t have.

"Because Disney made it non-canon" *shows KOTOR*.... YES!! Thank you! KOTOR is the best!

0:16 Blue, why the "big air quotes"? Julius Caesar legally adopted Octavius, which makes him Octavius's father. 1:29 Augustus didn't off Lepidus. Lepidus was allowed to live the rest of his life in peace and obscurity.

@ojutay8375

5 жыл бұрын

Jamestown yeah after Augustus basically trapped him into resigning

@adambielen8996

5 жыл бұрын

Well Lepidus lived long enough to know he got a good deal then.

@fandoms_unite890

2 жыл бұрын

The air quotes are for, Julius Caesar was dead at the time- posthumous adoption, not a “”adoption”” as we might think.

Get a guy that talks about you like how Blue gushes over the perfection that is The Pantheon

Augustus is a snake and I LOVE IT !

@tibfulv

5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes history is like drama. Part of the reason why history books are fun. People are always vying for power, especially in monarchies. Why Shakespeare too put on the Romans.

@taskforceknight9336

4 жыл бұрын

Augustus wasnt a snake. He built an empire. Commodus and Caligula were the real snakes

Okay Blue, two issues with this summary. One, you forget to mention that Augustus pretty much set the standard for how emperors keep power, which is aggressive territorial expansion, and also that he forcefully had to stop this due to disastrous campaigns into Germany which cost him a large chunk of his army. It's Augustus who sets the standard of emperor at 'needs to conquer something' that causes so many problems later, as ever emperor has to prove themselves by trying to take something. It's also why so many parts of the empire fall apart later, and why it becomes basically ungovernable by the third century. For example, when the praetorians kill Claudius, a man with no political or military experience, he immediately sets off to go conquer Britain because his position is so untenable. Furthermore, by the time of the third century there are no more civilian emperors, and by which I mean all of them are generals currently involved in military conquest, and by that point the emperor becomes anyone who is proclaimed the emperor by his troops. More on that in point two. Second, you fail to mention that it's Augustus who fails to fix the very problem that's going to doom the empire, that of succession. Because Augustus never set up laws for how power is meant to be transferred due to his own fears of someone killing him and taking power once he did so, the empire never actually manages to deal with a problem that is going to doom it over and over again. Augustus knew that if he told everyone who his successor was going to be, that it would create a possible power base for that person, and it would possibly cause them to remove him. Augustus, especially in his later years after the death of three legions in germany, pretty much was a paranoid lunatic who saw enemies in ever corner and didn't know who to trust, which is why the matter of succession doesn't get resolved. This means that every emperor that dies has no real way of setting up an heir, which doesn't actually get resolved until the reforms during the time of Constantine. As such, every time an emperor dies, it sets off purges and sometimes civil war, as is the case with the death of Caligula where the praetorian guard turn the only person without any political experience into their new emperor, and it's also why the death of Nero set up civil war. It's also why the third century has something like 50 emperors, because no real legitimate manner of succession was ever officially established. This results in creating a situation where by the third century, the time of everything going to hell in a handbasket, the emperor becomes whoever is proclaimed emperor by his troops, which means emperors get proclaimed constantly, and they're all possibly legitimate because Augustus never bothered to create a manner of succession for his new empire. Essentially, it's impossible to discuss Augustus without mentioning these two points, because of how extremely important it is to everything that comes later.

@aidanmagill6769

5 жыл бұрын

Congratulations. That is the longest non sequitur I have ever seen.

@midshipman8654

5 жыл бұрын

Shawn Conway However, there was a period of 200 odd years after Augustus that this system worked moderately well. Seeing as how the Pax Romana is a thing it’s a little extreme to call these things set up by Augustus as doomed to fail. Of course they contributed to Rome’s instability later on but other things did as well.

@theliberator5126

5 жыл бұрын

You make it sound like all the next emperors that followed never had a chance to do these things. You cannot say that Augustus was the only one who could have introduced succession laws as any number of emperors could have (and probably should have) during the Pax Romana

@frostyguy1989

5 жыл бұрын

@@theliberator5126 Rome was a civilisation built upon tradition and precedents set by those who had come before. Any laws or customs that were set up prior, such as succession, were considered to be law and were very difficult to change as Rome was a deeply conservative society that took immense pride in its traditions and institutions. The prevailing thinking was "If it was good enough for our elders, then it's good enough for us."

@theliberator5126

5 жыл бұрын

frostyguy1989 Considering Constantine literally changed the entire Empire. I think that they could have changed, they just chose not to as the idea of having a dynasty that stands the test of time was not a leaders main interest until the medieval era.

Normally these videos i watch for school are super boring. But your form of teaching and how casual and funny you are kept me entertained. even after i finished the work i kept watching. ur a pretty cool teacher.

Blue has such great talent and I love being able to learn so much thanks to him!!

"(let's be honest, the only famous Roman work, don't @ me)" But... but... Ovid

@geraldgrenier8132

3 жыл бұрын

Ovid is infamous, if you read a version of a myth where the God's are acting out of character to make thenlook jerky, you can basically Track the source back to Ovid. He rewrote a lot of myths to deliberately make the God's look bad as a dig at Augustus the only reason he well know is the catholic church uses him to teach Latin because it made the pagan gods look bad he no famousnformbe a good Latin author, he infamous for be a useful propagandist

"Prematurely perforated." Is there any good time to be perforated?

@bread3039

3 жыл бұрын

😏

@ikhidealigbeh514

2 жыл бұрын

@@bread3039 This guy gets it

Ive been watching all morning and now i cant stop

'I Claudius' has a lot to answer for in regards to Livia's reputation. It's not entirely Robert Graves fault. He was having fun by making textbook Roman matron Livia a secret serial killer, and a generation of historians had a good laugh. Then the miniseries came out. (one last note, Drusus was also her son, and Tiberius' younger brother)

You really did me dirty with the KOTOR joke. My heart yearns for the Star Wars Legends.

Blue:"oh gods help me" *the pagan in me is QUAKING*

Never stop this series!

I think it would be awesome to see a video about Orpheus and Eurydice. You two make amazing content!

That KOTOR reference is amazing, thank you.

"a prematurely perforated Julius" That about killed me hahaha

@cogboyofmars1575

4 жыл бұрын

It killed Julius too.

thnk u sm my teacher put this as our edpuzzle and i justed to say i rlly love the animation :D!

6:43 To Soon Blue, to soon

The "Disney made it non-cannon" made me laugh so hard

"- he pulled 'a Bane-'?! Hilarious! Love it.

Livia didn’t kill anyone. That is just slander propagated by the gossiper Suetonius. It was normal for people to die suddenly. Augustus lived an an unprecedented 75 years anyway. He outlived all his heirs. Tiberius wasn’t that bad. He was a scholarly emperor who was reluctantly given power. Augustus hated him and only made him his heir since everyone else died. He also had a huge chip on his shoulder since he wasn’t a direct blood descendant of Augustus. He had to divorce his wife for Julia. He left Rome for Capua and all the lies about his depravity were fueled by the aristocratic Suetonius. He left Rome stable and with a full treasury.

@joeyuzwa891

5 жыл бұрын

need i remind you that Tiberius was also notoriously murder-y, and INSPIRED CALIGULA.

@admontblanc

4 жыл бұрын

@@joeyuzwa891 he didn't inspire Caligula, he murdered his entire family and then oddly kept just him alive and 2 of his sisters. Who knows what kind of emperor Caligula could've been if Tiberius wasn't a paranoid fool who saw a treasonous shadow behind every curtain of the imperial palace.

@joehayes9933

4 жыл бұрын

@@admontblanc Caligula had a lot of issues with a lot of causes.

Sooo how long till my man Marcus Aurelius?

@RoboBoddicker

5 жыл бұрын

Bout 150 years?

Nothing like learning about some awesome architecture facts from Blue. I need to get to Europe someday.

0:10 never thought i'd hear cisero talk about anyone but the nightmother

awesome work, romans are very intressting ^^ I also adore your voice its so awesome :3

Crassus should become a pop star I heard he's got some golden pipes

the lack of maecenas-discussion is truly criminal.. but forgiven bc of this video's general awesomeness

Augustus outdone Machiavelli hundreds of years before he was born

This is good introductary video. I thought I would mention a few things that you missed. 1:39 you mention that he ditched the title of Triumvir, technically that office had lapsed in 33BC and since then he was consul but he had been acting as if he had the power of the triumvirs. Which didn't go down well. In 28-27BC he reppealled or 'usefully amended' all of the acts of the triumvirs to delegitimise that aspect of his power and instead make all of his new laws and acts legitimate as a consul. Also his imperium of over the provinces was granted for 10 years in 28BC. 2:00, The Princeps Senatus meant that he would speak first in the senate, thats it. it was the power he had as consul that allowed him to make 'edicts' and he could still use popular assembles to make laws. 'Stacking the senate in his favour' is kind of misunderstanding the Roman senate, because the senate technically had no powers other than religious. Augustus copuld make laws whether everyone in the senate hated him or not, and based on the evidence quite a few of them didn't like him, such as Caepio, Egnatius Rufus, Asinius Pollio, etc. 2:12 Although he never changed any core institutions he did change the nature of those institutions. The most important of which was that he changed the nature of the Cursus Honorum from being one of competative oligarchy to be an aristocracy of service. that is to say rather than noble Roman families competing with each other as they climb the magistarial ladder, Augustus maximised the number of people going through the cursus honorum so that he had an army of noblemen who could carryout their services to the Roman state, as proconsuls, legates, etc. 3:07 That is basically the arguement that Suetonius made, that although we got an emperor, the end wresult was a net benefit. 3:21 I am sorry to say but I think you misunderstood the situation, Gallus was accused of conspiring against Augustus after Augustus had a falling out with him. The senate then said that he was to be tried found guilty of treason, Gallus took his own life to make sure his property was not confiscated. I have read an inscription of Gallus' about his campaign into Nubia and its basically, Gallus whose a good guy invaded Nubia for Augustus who is also a nice guy. 3:40 That is not quite true, in multiple occasions during the 20'sBC Augustus again and again ran into trouble, the Spolia Opima affair, the Caepio Conspiracy, Messala Corvinus resinging as Prefect of Rome, Egnatius Rufus, his near death in 23BC and his stepping down from the consulship in 23 and the subcequent republican resurgence after that was very... shaking. If Augustus died in 23BC then the monarchy would have died with him. It was only after 19BC when he got the power of a Consul and then in 18BC that he renewed the imperium over the provinces that he finally started to get the upper hand and return to the position of absolute power that he had held 31BC. I hope that was helpful and I look forward to watching more of your videos soon.

You forgot to mention that Augustus started off his career by purging anyone who stood as a potential rival. He started off with rich senators and eventually worked his way up to Lepidus and Antoninus. This was in stark contrast to his uncle Julius Caesar who was actually a pretty cool guy that pardoned all of his former enemies. They decided to repay him by stabbing him to death so I guess Augustus was pretty smart in that regard.

That last minute or so of Blue audibly getting a stiffy while talking about the Pantheon’s dome made me get a stiffy from hearing about the Pantheon’s dome. Well-played, sir.

Civil engineer here: The bit about the Parthenon having been cast in one go has to be incorrect, as the Romans were even more badass. There are several layers of weak and strong concrete, the strong carrying the structure and the weak protecting it from the environment without weighing it much down.

Your bane impression was pretty good

Damn! Spending my data onboard ship watching this!

Where has this channel been all my life

Blue and Red; I'd love to see a video on how to study/write an essay/ do reading for class when you have an anxiety/attention disorder!

"like pokemon, but it's a bunch of humans and coins in a giant burlap sack" top 10 blue quotes

Ah a better done version of Palpatine.

@Obi-Wan_Kenobi

5 жыл бұрын

Oh I don't think so. Palpatine was executed perfectly.

@sleazymeezy

4 жыл бұрын

@@Obi-Wan_Kenobi what exactly is your allegiance?

Now take all those cool statues and marble columns, and just...paint the heck out of them.

Fun fact about the Pantheon #2: The first little roof of the building that led to the spherical room had a design flaw that had 40ft pillars instead of 50ft pillars, and because of some linings you can see that the first buildings roof was supposed to be higher

Where was this when I needed it? Still, great video as always.

Very interesting!

“Criminally ignored” is a criminal understatement (in regards to Germanicus). A video dedicated to Germanicus and his relationship to Tiberius would be amazing.

Augustus: Look, I've made an empire! Cicero: You've fucked up a perfectly good republic is what you've done. Look at it, it's got civil wars.

Hello Blue i love your content. Wonder if you will ever cover Ilyria.

Damned Disney! KOTOR will always be canon to me!

@DeathMessenger1988

5 жыл бұрын

Everything not Disney-made about Star Wars will always be canon to me. Seriously, fuck Force Awakens, Last Jedi, Rogue One, Solo, Rebels and Battlefront I and II!

I will LOVE to hear the summary of Nero the Mad Emperor cause of what he did to compete in the Olympics is honestly hilarious and the fact he was the greatest Diva since Sacraties

That KOTOR line still gets me...

I'm about to learn all of this in class, so this is perfect timing

Dude you missed such a great opportunity to use that hood imagery and make an "I Love Democracy" meme

Pax Romana: The Roman Peace, courtesy of Emperor Augustus Caesar, the one who knew how to win the Game of Thrones.

I really like your videos, but with this one I do have a little issue: Of the potential heirs (Agrippa was also considered) that died prematurly most were unsuspicious, Drusus for example fell of a horse, while Gaius died after being wounded in battle. Tacitus is known for including quite a lot of rumors in his works.Which brings me to the eventual heir, Tiberius: The man definitly had his shortcommings, especially in regards to judging other peroples nature, but he probably was Romes most competent General after Agrippas death, was verry well educated and a competent ruler of the empire.

Hope you'll do Traianus in the future too.

Can't wait for Claudius.

Augustus my allegiance is to the Republic, TO DEMOCRACY!!!

@prielknaaphofnar.9754

5 жыл бұрын

If you are not with the Augustus, then you are against him.

@sleazymeezy

4 жыл бұрын

@@prielknaaphofnar.9754 only a conspirer deals in absolutes

@arianewinter4266

3 жыл бұрын

Who do I find you everywhere I go

_”Hey, if you’re tryna smash, why not check out the Circus Maximus”_

He reconquered his predecessor's empire and took down his opposition, all before being of legal drinking age!

"Ah Octavian, precocious little pipsqueek"...

I'm so ready for Caligula

Do you have any plans for a Marius and Sulla video? Perhaps one on Gaius and Tiberius Gracchi?

we need more on Aggrippa... you know exactly why

Why are you doing Augustus? It’s September, so it’s Sptemberus’ turn. Yeah, my history grades were never that great.

"Strike him centurion very woughly!"

Yay! I was just going through you’re tweets!

"My theory is: Livia did it." -- Mike Duncan, on whatever.

That was a good bane impression lmao