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43:50 Aren't there another Boii tribe in modern day Austria?

This encouraged me to buy the book, when i saw the cover realised that i bought and read it 2 yrs ago, ha, sorry, didn't recognise the name and hadn't seen yr face before, Excellent book, , and yr comments on Augustus made me realise i haven't read Plutarch for ages, time to

".... So the Romans win..."

Augustus is just putting in his bit about the cats of the Roman empire, and how they tolerated the rise of their empire as long as it moved the cat civilization forward.

Do you upload these as podcasts as well?

Almost to 10k subscribers! Hope you're making progress on your next book, sir. Be well

Clapperboard was great, had completely forgotten about it

So, Dr. Goldsworthy, with all due respect, can I assume that you have been to Italy and have visited Rome? Forgive me, but it seems to me that far too many historians from the English speaking world seem to forget that Rome is in Italy and that Italian culture is absolutely linked to ancient Rome.

i am looking forward to the grand strategy dicussion

genuinely a professor just posting his works i applaud you sir i will be binging for a long time

Your comments on the Pax Romana are interesting. I recently watched a video by another popular Roman history channel where they argued that the concept of a "Pax Romana" is totally false, because Roman society was still violent and based around slavery, and there was plenty of fighting and killing going on throughout the first century AD. I do not agree that there was no "Pax Romana" but I am not an expert on the topic. I would love for you to make a dedicated video addressing the issue and giving your opinion on the subject!

A video of Augustus without an appearance by Augustus the Cat. 😢

890 Thanksgivings, and no turkey! Truly Rome was a harsh place.

"Babe, wake up. A new conquered and the proud just dropped."

I wouldn't want to be known as the guy who killed King Deldo either

Love this series!

Closing in on 10,000 members

Are you going to continue the hbo Rome series

You’re the man Goldsworthy

Adrian Goldsworthy, please keep pumping this content out. It's really really really good. Now I just need time to listen ffs

Another phenomenal entry in a monumental series of videos. Cheers, doc!

Thanks for posting these lectures. Although I've read you biography of Augustus (and might read it again very soon) it's good to have a recap like this.

'There are very few things Romans don't want local communities to do'. Jews: hold my beer :D

Yo yo whaz up?! I'll assume the regular crew is here.. Us gentlemen of the scholarly culture 😎

WE'RE BACK BOYS

Excellent! Thankyou.

Most firstest! Vae victus

I think this is the first time I've been first watching any video on TH-cam. Love this series. Been a avid reader of your since your Caesar biography!

For ww2 at sea... hard to beat "Das Boot." I put that in my top 5 greatest films list of any type.

WOW,u really hate Antony.. why??? I've read a couple of ur books, the hate is amazing 😂

I love Asterix and Obelix, but we have a similar comic book series in Poland, Kajko i Kokosz, which was created in 1972 and is at least as good. The action is set among the pre-Christian Slavs, who are constantly attacked by "Bugders" (their name is similar to the German "raubritter", but they look like the Teutonic Knights). The series is full of references to Slavic beliefs and mythology, there are creatures, rituals and customs that do not exist in other cultural circles. And there is dragon that breathe fire, but only when he is... At first glance, the series looks like a copy of A&O, but the creator of the comic, Janusz Christa, had previously drawn another comic with these characters, Kajtek and Koko (set in modern times), where Kajtek was short, but brave and clever, and his friend Koko was big, but cowardly and not overly intelligent. The first comics with these characters were published over a year before the first newspaper strip with Asterix.

Excellent! Very original and interesting.

That cat in the background objects. He is an Anthony fan.

Excellent video and I particularly enjoyed the stories of Viriathus. He seems a very underappreciated figure in ancient history. Between Hannibal's allies, Viriathus, and later Sertorius, Spain and modern day Portugal seem like a death trap to Roman armies at various times. You can understand why recruits didn't want to go there.

Perhaps Adrian should have started by telling us that he comes to praise Anthony, not to bury him...

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I'm looking forward to Part Two.

Gussie off screen cameo: 13:17

Right on the money. The fall of the Roman Republic was not done by a one or two events. Not done in just by Caesar. The fall was a series of lines that were crossed. It starts with the deaths surrounding the Gracchi brothers. Then all the others followed suit over time. But Sulla was the worst. He made quite plain that it was now okay to use military force against Rome itself to get what you want and crush the opposition. As you said, this set the precedent. This was now the standard of how Roman politics would be. Edit: It's also good you mentioned the Social War. The Romans spent years fighting, killing people that literally helped make the Republic the powerhouse that it was. They were allies. This conflict I believe made it easier for the Romans to turn their swords against each other. Why not? They'd already been killing people that they called friends and allies.

Great video, keep em coming!

Was so happy to find that Dr. Goldsworthy has his own channel. I already loved his books.

Glorious, Dr.

Id guess when your foil is Octavian that you dont need to be much of a true military man to fit the narrative Antony does

It’s time that Herodotus surrender his title of “Father of History” to Mr. Goldsworthy

Adrian is having a lot of fun in this video!

I have read this book twice. Mr. Goldsworthy is a fantastic writer, and he very convincingly demonstrates how the Roman Empire fell in the West.

love the in-depth information of this video! I would love to hear your opinion on when the use of the Republic era Scuta shield started and its popularity. I'm part of a team of videogame modders who have been working on a second punic war mod for a game called Bannerlord. our research team seems to have an idea, based on primary sources as well as the artwork from the era. but it's still pretty uncertain. was it before the Punic wars? after? or a gradual adoption throughout the 3rd century bce? if you end up doing a video on this subject I would be very excited to see it! and thanks again for your wonderful work.

Great videos, horrible, horrible intro sounds/music, lol. Your Conquered n Proud are the same.

love listening to Adrian

I love Asterix and Obelix as well as Tintin, they are famous in all Europe, what is really genius about asterix comedy is how relaxed it is and many times erudite mixed with silliness almost but not quiet Pythonesque. My favorite is still Obelix and Co., its genius, the most successful plan of all to conquer the tiny village is to introduce aggressive market capitalism, where everyone starts speculating about menhirs like its dutch tulips or modern stocks, its unbelievably funny, the movies cant come even close to it, although some of the animated movie cartoons were nice like the 12 works. I bet your would be surprised Mr Adrian by more modern Roman media as well videogames, even sometimes made by non western peoples which are of excellent quality and comics like the japanese Ad Astra: Scipio and Hannibal comic which makes a good fictional account of the punic wars. In a weird way even today in 2025 the Roman Era still resonates and even becomes highly successful in places with no connection to it.