Octavian's greatest skill was knowing himself. He knew what he was good at and what he was not. And could go out and build a team to fill in those weaknesses.

@avalle4493

2 жыл бұрын

I hate when people attack him for never becoming a military man. They overlooked that knowing your own strenght is an amazing trait for a leader.

@joshkeys1548

2 жыл бұрын

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom - Plato

"The History of Rome" podcast by Mike Duncan has quite a few episodes, but it is an absolutely brilliant (and entertaining) in depth look into Roman history and culture. I would say it's probably the best study of Roman history outside of a college classroom.

@sapaulgoogdmen9542

2 жыл бұрын

I finally finished his most recent book Hero of Two Worlds along with his other podcast Revolutions chapter covering the French and American Revolution’s from Lafayette’s involvement. You’re absolutely right that he has one of the most comprehensive studies into Rome. I also enjoyed his book The Storm before the Storm. It covers the time before Caesar that is often gleamed over.

@Silentwaytogo

2 жыл бұрын

Listening to his whole podcast years ago. Got me more interested in Roman history.

@ArmandoMPR

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that pod is great. Historia Civilis does a great job covering Ancient Rome here on KZread. And Dan Carlin has some amazing pods about the era, as well.

@amolinguas

2 жыл бұрын

Great podcast!! love it and might I recommend Dominic Perry's podcast History of Ancient Egypt

Augustus is the reason Rome lasted as long as it did which was especially impressive given how sickly he was throughout his life.

@marseldagistani1989

2 жыл бұрын

I am more surprised how it lasted with the Praetorian guard loosing it's checks and balances and started killing emperors starting with Caligula

@danteglory95

2 жыл бұрын

@@marseldagistani1989 Yeah and the fact that most of Rome's emperors were mediocre at best with just a few standouts like Augustus and Constantine.

@prs_81

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe at the time he wasn't too bad (Considering there was no one else left with this power and vision in the whole Roman world), but I think Caesar would've been a much better choice considering Augustus really just made a half-assed monarchy without a proper inheritence law resulting in usurper after usurper popping up and his wife was a snake whom he never had control over or punished.

@danteglory95

2 жыл бұрын

@@prs_81 But Caesar was killed because he tried to make himself a king in Rome which historically hates kings. Part of what makes Augustus's rise to power so impressive is he did it without people knowing it.

@prs_81

2 жыл бұрын

@@danteglory95 I'd argue it was Caesar's clemency towards his peers that got him assassinated. If he had brutally eliminated his senatorial rivals like Augustus did, he very well could've become an emperor. Or maybe if he didn't attend the senate on that fateful day. A lot of what ifs but I still believe that Caesar was a far bigger visionary than Augustus for not only planning huge conquests, but also things like codifiying Roman law which surprisingly no one thought about after Caesar until Justinian 600 years later.

The "Biographics" channel has a great double length video on Augustus/Octavian that goes a lot more into detail than this video did, and it's also funny and entertaining. I'd really love to see your reaction on that, as it deals with Augustus' succession and how Tiberius was the last potential heir that he was left with, and how his plans for Germanicus didn't come to pass, thus giving Caligula the chance to rise to power

Here's hoping for reactions to Historia Civilis great roman epic for next year! I think the best place to start is his "His Year" videos. There's a "Chronological Order" playlist in his Channel, to make things easier.

@AKAZA-kq8jd

2 жыл бұрын

He just loves making fun of both Octavian and Anthony.

@bernardogomes9891

2 жыл бұрын

They both kind of deserve it tbh

@AKAZA-kq8jd

2 жыл бұрын

@@bernardogomes9891 Thats okay I understand he must getting his information of on Suetonius and he to did not have a lot of nice things to say about Octavian either.

@bernardogomes9891

2 жыл бұрын

@@AKAZA-kq8jd yeah, and also i think the really good things to be said about octavian are in the events that come after he is consolidated in Power. He's not done with octavian yet

@AKAZA-kq8jd

2 жыл бұрын

@@bernardogomes9891 By no means in are eyes modern time Octavian is a warlord but one that build laws and Infrastructure and stand behind them and Govern them as princeps.

One of my favourite power moves by Augustus is claiming that he had “pacified” the Persians since they had sent hostages to him in tribute, as he claims in the Res Gestae. …When in reality, the Persians just had a culture of fostering children with other families with each other, and didn’t see anything odd about it but Augustus still used it as a way to show how he had “defeated” Persia, unlike Anthony.

@AKAZA-kq8jd

2 жыл бұрын

Such a disastrous campaign against the Persians Anthony thought he could pull off.

My knowledge of Roman history is from the beginning of the Republic to the end of the Octavian v. Anthony civil war. As such, this video gave me some basic understanding of the next chapter of Roma. Thank you for your help.

@AKAZA-kq8jd

2 жыл бұрын

We welcome your knowledge

@gamelandmaster3680

2 жыл бұрын

@@AKAZA-kq8jd Okay, how are you here some 1150 years in the future?

@AKAZA-kq8jd

2 жыл бұрын

@@gamelandmaster3680 My fascination with Rome starts with 753BC to 1453AD and also I like the underdogs.

@gamelandmaster3680

2 жыл бұрын

@@AKAZA-kq8jd When your knowledge of Rome is the entire history of Rome. I got you, that is very true.

@AKAZA-kq8jd

2 жыл бұрын

@@gamelandmaster3680 BTW any books or author you read about rome?

hope you're feeling better. You sound a little better, but also still fatigued. Hope you get 100% soon brother. Love your content.

Another great video, Chris. I love it when you prefaced it by saying this period of Roman history isn't in your wheelhouse. Then proceeded to give more information on the topic than the video itself. Awesome stuff.

I recently found this channel and I am obsessed with this gentleman. I am in Sweden so sometimes I stay up late to watch him. I am taking History courses in just five days and these videos are helping me a lot lol.

I love it when you do videos on Ancient Rome.

I just want to say how much I appreciate that you don't use clickbait, it's so refreshing and awesome to see a channel put their content on the table with no manipulation especially when the content is so good, great job, thanks for making me fall in love with history again, you deserve 10000000000 subscribers, god bless you

Love anything Rome, love the Channel keep up the good work!

You look drained my friend, but always thankful for a video! Hope you feel better soon

“Have I played the part well? Then applaud me as I exit.” - Augustus' final words, speaking about his part as Emperor. Since you've been doing more reactions to Roman history, I'd love to see you do a reaction to Kings and Generals video on Aurelian, the unfortunately less known about Emperor who can considered the sole reason why Rome survived the Crisis of the Third Century.

@AKAZA-kq8jd

2 жыл бұрын

Nawwww let's watch Extra credit third century crisis video.

@nickjones9888

2 жыл бұрын

I actually really like historymarches aurelian series

@KracenSC

2 жыл бұрын

@@AKAZA-kq8jd their version is terrible for it, actually accused aurelian's reason for going after zenobia being sexism instead of... you know, the secession, rebellion and cutting off food supplies

@titanschannel585

2 жыл бұрын

The restitutor orbis

@wolfgangfegelein2450

2 жыл бұрын

@@AKAZA-kq8jd Extra Credit is a terrible history channel.

I like it so much when you do videos on more ancient topics! Thank you!

I hope you get better soon man. Great video as always btw. I commented this in you last video but I'm going to put it here one more time (and the last one) just for good measure, I hope you can see this comment. Please please react to Kings and General's Thomas Cochrane video. A Scotch seaman that fought bravely in the Napoleonic Wars, and helped to liberate Chile, Peru and Brazil from their colonial rulers. A truly interesting character and an amazing story, for real.

If you're going to react more to any of Eastorys videos, please try to make time for "Estonian War of Independence animated", as I feel this is one of those stories that most people don't know about and would definitely be a great lesson.

Just returned home from a semester studying at the University of St. Andrews and one of my modules there was on the Roman Empire. Roman Emperors also get confusing because many of them shared the same names. We distinguish them by a title they earn through their rule. Following the Third Century Crisis and the Tetrarchy, the title of Caesar became a sort of junior emperor to Augustus. It should also be mentioned that the title Princeps is where we get the word Prince in English.

I wish i had the knowledge of Augustus that i do now when i was in middle school and did a report on him 😂 Hope your feeling better Chris . I hope you have a wonderful Christmas with your family. Keep up the good work my friend 👍7

Was just reading a book that talked about Augustus,big coincidence that you posted a video about it just a few hours later.

I'd love for you to review the biographics channel! His 2 part episodes on Augustus are amazing. I usually bounce back and forth and cross reference you both all the time 😀

Julio Claudian family tree is fascinating his biggest challenge was finding the right heir to succeed him.

get well soon

The battle you’re thinking of between Octavian and Mark Antony was the Battle of Actium and supposedly there were many desertions on Antony’s side daily that made his loss seem inevitable. It was the beginning of the end for them as Octavian made his way towards Alexandria and Antony had thought Cleopatra was dead, killed himself and the rumor was wrong with him being alive for only a few seconds to see her in her seclusion and they both were supposedly buried together as they wished. Cleopatras three children with Antony were also supposedly raised under Octavian’s first wife, Octavia. Great video 👍🏻

Rome is definitely my favorite part of history! Awesome to see you doing some more reactions of it.

Out of all of history i love rome the most. The kingdom. The republic, the empire. It's all gold. But there is always more to learn. Btw. Hope you get well soon. Especially before christmas comes!

Hey Chris for a while I’ve been really wanting to see you do uk prime ministers ranked that would be a great video

Augustus is definitely my favorite Historical figure of all time. I have had a fascination with him and his story ever since 7th grade when I first learned about the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire.

Always love the scenes in HBOS Rome where Octavian tricks Cicero into making him Consul so he can pass a law to go after the Killers just shows how people over looked him and underestimated him Always wondered as we say Augustus was a title so did Romans address him as that or was Octavian still used

You should watch Anchient Rome in 20 minutes it’s really good

Wow I love history

If you really like roman history, Historia Civilis has a TON of roman videos! love your videos keep em coming :D

Rome is such fascinating civilization.. they had technologies that blow my mind.

This is my favorite channel on KZread

I am learning english, I am from Spain and I live in Canary Island. I look always all your videos. I love history and... at the same time I can practise english,

I'll be honest, one thing that shocks me is Sabaton hasn't done any songs about Rome.

Diocletian actually made a system called the Tetrarachy. In which you had two senior emperors. Called the augusti. And the junior emperors called caesares. So yea. Augustus was used as emperor title more than caesar was.

@AKAZA-kq8jd

2 жыл бұрын

Tetrarachy sounds good on paper but Succession after the previous Emperor's faileds Augustus Succession system is more successful.

Would have been better to finish the Caesar's playlist upto Augustus by king's and Generals , history marche doesn't upload videos by events and is very slow

VTH: hey guys this isn’t my strongest subject Also VTH: knows all facts about the subject

Interesting thing about Augustus’ settlements… It was more than two. It was also incremental over time.

That was 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 informative.

My favorite channel that talks about ceaser and Ancient Rome is Historia Civilis

You should watch a video on Sulla dictator before Caesar he’s a super underrated important person in history and literally allowed and made Caesar March on Rome.

@benjaminnoort5015

2 жыл бұрын

Sulla used the power of the millitary to try and make the republic stronger again. He tried to reform everything to make sure no one else could. Its just sad that not long after him. Caesar still did it.

I think Agrippa’s importance is always overlooked… he certainly was the military champion of Caesar Augustus.. he was the sole reason Augustus was triumphant over sextus… and he was the mastermind behind the victory at Actium..

If you are interested in doing more Ancient Rome type videos I highly recommend kings and generals they are one of the best ancient history channels on KZread in my opinion.

THIS REACTION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE CAPITOLINE BROTHERHOOD OF MILLERS. TRUE ROMAN BREAD FOR TRUE ROMANS!

@VloggingThroughHistory

2 жыл бұрын

YES!!!

I would love to see you react to the “Unbiased History of Rome” series

Sextus Pompeus means 'The sixth Pompeus' in Latin and Octavius means 'the eighth'. I don't know if that's what they meant by the names but I thought I'd mention it

I would love to see a reaction video to anything by WonderWhy. His video on the split between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland is fascinating.

You should watch Fall of Civilization's videos on Roman Britain, and his two part series on Byzantium. They would make for good series (since the first is an hour long and the second is three hours long). Oh also Kings and General's video on How Rome Conquered Greece.

I really hope you'll be fine by Christmas. Being sick over the holidays is the worst.

You should watch the battle of the Teutoburg forest by historia civilis or by kings and generals if we are already talking about Augustus.

Can you do Kings and Generals' Roman Civil War Series? It provides more details not covered in this video albeit longer a format. Also, can you do K&G whether Caesar is a tyrant or a savior?

@benjaminnoort5015

2 жыл бұрын

He was both. He used the necesary evil to do good. The senate was corrupt and no longer worth the power they held.

@corneliaaurelli1603

2 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminnoort5015 I know, what I'm referring is him reacting to a video made by K&G on that topic.

@benjaminnoort5015

2 жыл бұрын

@@corneliaaurelli1603 i know. Im just adding to it bro

You should react to another Roman video HistoryMarche has made about the battle of the Catalonian -plains.

I know the video is about Octavian, but the content creator does gloss over the fact that Julius Caesar did have offspring. His daughter Julia was married to Pompey, his good friend and later rival (part of the first triumvirate). She does die, which affects a lot of political stuff to come, but he said that Julius Caesar had no children, which is technically false.

@VloggingThroughHistory

2 жыл бұрын

I think he said that Caesar LEFT no legitimate children, which is true. His daughter died before him, and his son wasn't legitimate.

Ave, true to Caesar

His name was Gaius Octavius. After he was adopted by Caesar through his last will, this should have changed to Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, why the name Octavian is often used for him between the adoption and his rule as princeps. But he used the name Gaius Julius Caesaris filius Caesar, Casaris filius meaning "son of Caesar". Well, Cicero and many other contemporaries ignored his wishes and called him Octavianus. When Caesar was declared a god, he changed the name to Caius Julius divi filius Caesar, divi filius meaning "son of one, who was made a god". Later honorary names were added and Augustus, an old title for certain priests, which was nearly forgotten at the time, became the most important part of his name. When he died the following name was in use: Imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, Co(n)s(ul) XIII, Imp(erator) XXI, Trib(uniciae) pot(estatis) XXXVII, P(ater) p(atriae) ("Commander / Fieldmarshall / Emperor Caesar, son of one, who was made a god, elevated, highest priest, Consul 3 times, Imperator 21 times, bearing a Tribuns' power 37 times, father of the nation"). "cis" means "on this side", "trans" "on the other side". Both words are prepositions (standing with the casus accusativus). You can still stand at the place at Actium from which Augustus viewed the battle. Actium was a little sanctuary, today with an image (I don't know the correct english word.) of the holy virgin Mary. More interesting are the ruins of Nikopolis, the city build to remember the victory. So if you come to Epiros, this are two places to visit.

Ahh, any time I see stuff about the period of Caesar, I immediately have to encourage people to check out two brilliant TV series - "Spartacus" and "Rome", which kinda tie into each other. "Spartacus" covers the great slave rebellion around 60 BC, with participation from members of the First Triumvirate, and then "Rome" covers the ascension of Julius Caesar, his downfall, and then the rise of Octavian. Of course, there are quite a few things that aren't historically accurate, but as far as portrayals of the Roman world of that period go - these series are at the top of the list, in my mind.

This video really reads into the intentions of someone has been dead for two thousand years, and it does so while leaving out the most important relationships in Augustus's life, like his older sister and Agrippa. The lack of context makes him seem like some kind of supervillain, detached from everyone around him and just making calculated decisions. We should remember that Julius Caesar and Octavius grew up in a Rome that was being torn apart by political infighting. They both lost people they cared about and they both, in their own ways, sought to end that internal conflict. Were their efforts ultimately self serving? Yes. Did they finally bring a peace to Rome? Yes. People are complicated, in our efforts to make stories simple in order to fit them into how we view the world, we strip away those complexities so as to make them heroes or villains, in doing so we rob them of their humanity.

I feel like this is a part of history that is often skipped over despite it being an incredibly important of roman history.

You should look at some history civilis videos, maybe his series on Hannibal

You should watch the civil war series by kings and generals

I have the Same Birthday as Augustus 9l23 .Fun Face August is named after Augustus , July is named after Julius'. Cesar... Rome the Series is Pretty good..

Hey VTH i just want to know what do you think about song Battle cry of Freedom. Mby do a reactiong. loving your videos man. Keep it up!

Love learning about Roman emperors

Can you make a video about Süleyman the magnificent by extra history, please?

Octavian and Marc Antony hated each other the entire time. Lepidus was brought in to be a silent partner to keep the peace. My favorite story about the second triumvirate is during the war against sextus where Lepidus tries to assert himself into more of a player in the triumvirate and Octavian responds by completely kicking him out and putting him into obscurity

5:40ish this was actually towards the start of the civil war. Gaul had been conquered a while back and Spain was long a Roman province

a slight correction to mr.chris... in 47 BCE Caesar was fighting the civil war against Pompey.... He had defeated the Gauls 5 years earlier in 52 BCE... I just wanted to point out...

And also why Octavian won the battle of Actium in 31 BCE was because of the navy Agrippa built...

Caesar is more well known for after the Third Century Crisis when Caesar were basically the heir apparent to the Augustus of the East and West as a way to put forth a stable transfer of power so that you didn't have armies declaring their generals as Emperor and starting a whole new Civil War.

I think cisapline gaul ment on this side of the alphs

If you could react to an episode of the pacific war series by Kings and Generals, that would be great!

I wonder why these videos rarely go into detail about events post 19bce. Theres so much that happened but they skim through all of it

The narrator of HistoryMarch sounds a lot like the narrator of WildCiencias, the animal match-up channel.

Octavian while very intelligent and obviously when things settled down a great ruler had very different sentiments about his enemies than Caesar did. One story claims that after the battle of Phillipi he would entertain his troops by making PoWs that happened to be father and son draw straws and the short one had to kill their father or son depending on who drew the short one. When one notable PoW that was a fairly well know senator and his son were brought up he asked Octavian to send his remains to Rome for a proper funeral. He coldly told him "The Birds will see to your funeral". He also after the revolt of Mark Antony brother had 300 prisoners that I believe were also all senators put to death at the currently under construction temple of Julies Caesar which was very clearly a human sacrifice. Learned most of this from Historia Civilis channel as he goes into a lot of detail that the History Marche video skips over, which not complaining as this was a more general overview of Octavian and a good one at that. Their are tons of other things about Octavian that Historia Civilis goes over that really paints the picture of the man he was which was a brilliant, but very cold and ruthless and this is not even mentioning the proscriptions. Would love to see you watch his videos from Caesars consulship to where he is currently with the looming war between Mark Anthony and Octavian.

Can you do like a history of Santa Claus for christmas?

Can you please tell us all the other options

16:38 Not to mention Cleopatra's brother had Pompey killed. So not only would it have been good use of propaganda by Octavian to justify fighting Egypt in what was mainly a war between two influential Roman leaders. He would've gained an ally in Sextus, as it's low-key personal. Sure, I don't think Cleopatra will have heavily favoured his father's murder, but did it matter to both Sextus and Octavian?

Can you react to History Marche Hannibal series?

Roman history is so interesting

You should check our history marches series on Hannibal and Michael the brave some of the best history content on KZread.

I love your content but I am gonna nitpick here haha. The v in Octavius is pronounced like a w so it would be Octawius in Classical Latin! That's all! Love your content!!!!! You do an amazing job!!!

For some reason I tought the latin C was pronounce more like the italian one, but now that I know it's really more like a K, that make the pronunciation of Cicero way much more cute. I mean Kikero sounds like a cute japanese character from a children anime! XD

Caesar was used as a title in the Russian Tsardom, Bulgarian Tsardom and the Serbian Tsardom. As Car/Tsar derived from Caesar.

Antony actually was drunk while he attempted to commit suicide and so he ended up stabbing himself in the stomach instead of his heart, meaning he bled out slowly over a course of several hours.

Have you checked out the Kings and Generals channel? They have a ton of great stuff specifically a lot of content around Rome.

Maybe it's a testament to how much ancient Romans wrote about themselves, but it's kind of crazy how much we know of not only their overall civilization -- but also a lot of the several individual character and cultural stories spread across nearly 2000 years of history (from the beginning of the Republic to the fall of Constantinople). Especially considering a lot of the major stories of Caeser and the first emperors are as old to us as the Bronze Age empires were to them.

"At the age of nineteen on my own responsibility, and at my own expense I raised an army, with which I sucessfully championed the liberty of the republic when it was opressed by the tyranny of a faction" Res Gestae Div Augusti written at the time of Augustus and set up across the empire - one of the great works of propaganda.

Kindly react kings and generals roman empire

you should react to cgp grey :)

Please React to the newest Simple History's video, the Invincible Soldier who would not die.

I recommend checking out historia civilis

I saw rome and hit the like button before you could get a word out lol

sextus takes control of the navy which is why he has control of the islands... Octavian himself did not have a strong navy to defeat Sextus... However, Octavian's best general Agrippa makes a navy in 2 weeks and defeats Sextus... This tells you of Agrippa's brilliance

nice

Historia Civilis has a great video on this.

The house of Julia claims descendance from Aeneas hero of Troy whose mother was Venus/Aphrodite, the same family line from which Romulus and Remus supposedly came from, making the Julia conveniently from divine blood, from an ancient a respected people and from the founder of Rome

Find it really fascinating that in both the Roman Empire and the USA the first emperor / president was the GOAT