He certainly had a profound effect on history... I think Julis Cesar will always be thought of as the greater and more important man, but I also think this is what Octavian wanted.
Want or want. He surely needed Julias Caesar for propaganda at the time, since all his power lay in his connection to the name. His veterans was the reason Octavian needed his name because there lay his sole power. Once ge had an army he was someone but still petty in roman politics, so Cicero used him to get to Antony who was thought of as the real contender. Antony tried to keep the peace by negotiating with caesar's murderers and this was a point Octavian could use against Antony pressuring Antony to go after rhe murderers in order to not loose his momentum in the support from the veterans. The triumvirate was formed where Antony still got the obvious better part of the deal because he was still in the better position as leader of the empire. It was only after the murderers lay dead and Antony was in Egypt that Octavian was free to make his propaganda against Antony and turn over the Roman elite when Antony was not at Rome. His downfall was only cemented after his defeat against the Parthians though. Antony needed to win the war and if he had he would have gained the leverage needed to defeat Octavian but as he did not his reputation was tarnished amoung the people, a portion of the veterans and among the elite who began to fear what Octavian would do if they continued to support Antony.
100%! Julius Caesar was always far more the showman. Augustus was content with stability and an alliance with all peoples that would secure peace and prosperity for Rome, all the while not being perceived as "weak" by his enemies. He was a true politician who knew how to silence his pride and surround himself with those who knew more about specific areas of Roman life than he. That is what made him so successful.
Christus Regnet Augustus was seen as more significant in the imperial era but Gaius Julius Caesar is recognized as by far the greatest Roman to ever live now. Without Julius Caesar, Octavian would never have been in the position he was in to be able to consolidate his power. He likely wouldn’t have sniffed even senatorial power due to the fact that he was born into a rich but fairly minor, politically inactive family. His connection to Julius Caesar through his mother, Caesar’s niece (his sister’s daughter) gave him a step into the small circle of the great Roman political families, and his great uncle’s historic career gave him a cultural gravitas just from being his blood and named heir.
The guy is just my favorite historic figure ever. Don't know why but I find Augustus story so fascinating. It could result in an epic TV show for sure, specially his rise to power. Great video.
@@RexGalilae The network wasn’t going to renew so the creator had to skip a large majority of things and crammed things together. Really sucks I loved the series.
I love Augustus he was truly Rome's best Emperor. He was a genius, and he was a great leader. He did more for Rome establishing it's best foundation than any other Roman Emperor in history.
Emperor Augustus is the greatest Emperor of Rome and one of Europe greatest monarch's of all time. Julius Ceasar saw him as the right successor to his will for a reason. He brought fouth the longest peacful time in Roman history, creating the age of ''Pax Romana''. This period saw brilliant writer like Ovid, Virgil & Horace. He became Europe most influential leader and remember for his extreme generosity and humility. ''Civitatis'' mean first citizen of the state.
this life he is a football player in Switzerland, he just signed a contract with one of the biggest football clubs, this winter I met him in Egypt on a driving tour on the Red Sea in Hurghada, we stayed in the same hotel Meraki Resort in Hurghada, on my last day it comes to me that I know him from somewhere, I thought he was Ceasar or Ceasarion, but I recognized him latter he was my biggest enemy... today I just understand he was a talented intelligent young man who deserved to be the next ruler, this life he is quite handsome and tall and looks quite identical to when he was a young emperor...Marcus Antonius this life lives in Romania in the region of Maramures a city named Sighet, he is into politics, philosophy and he is the manager of a sawmill factory and he looks also quite similar to the once known Marcus Antonius
Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen we both agreed Varus Was a complete douche.... He let himself trick by Ariminius and allowed his entire Legion to get ambushed in Muddy Terrai.... Varus should have learn how to deal with Barbarians from Labienus
you made a mistake at 9:15 The Pantheon that was build during the reign of Augustus, burned down and The pantheon that stands today was built during the reign of Hadrian
I thought so. after he said that's wondered if Augustus built it 1st then Hadrian remodeled it or built a better version in its place. But your write. I seen plenty of docs on Rome Hadrian built it.
Well, Hadrian dedicated the new one to Agrippa, Augustus' friend who led the construction, so he was clearly inspired by the original. PS: If you're ever in the Upper Egypt visit the Temple of Abydos - it's an Egyptian Pantheon, dedicated to more gods than I dare to presume to know the names of.
My favorite story involves the letter Antony sent Octavius before war broke out between them. Octavius had been giving Antony a hard time for being with Cleopatra, and in response, Antony sarcastically applauded him for avoiding the beds of like five different Roman women, basically calling him a playboy and a scoundrel, while he defended himself by hanging that at least he was married to Cleopatra and not just boning around. Edit: Is it bad my first ever crush was on a long-dead historical figure? Talk about being timezoned. Still, I could never compete with Livia. She was badass enough on her own.
I liked your comment about "age is just a number". "Your never too young to achieve your goals ". And life is a product of life experience". This is something I've always told my children. But like most of us it's not until your older and hopefully a little bit wiser that you realize that's when the world was your oyster. "Que sera sera!"
I really really like Julius Caesar and I think Augustus is right behind him on my list. Those 2 are 2 of my favorite people in the history of the world. Augustus and Julius were great leaders, politicians, people and military minds.
It is my opinion that the republic fell because ceaser who used to be chill started making himself king. When ceaser died Augustus continued that so maybe he is a little bit of a tyrant. But he was the best first emporer that Rome could have wished for
Augustus' main flaw was that he was too successful. He got rid of the republic and was so successful for so long that people forgot how to run the republic and got too used to autocratic rule. He also gave people the idea that his reign was the rule for an empire, when it was actually the exception. Very few people can handle that much power without become tyrannical, megalomaniacal, or corrupt. Augustus set up a system in which only someone of his stature could produce the same kind of results. Most of his successors weren't able to handle such power, but thanks to him, they had no choice. Only a handful of other emperors could manage as well as he could: Trajan, Constantine I, Justinian I, and arguably Marcus Aurelius and a few others. Not Hadrian, though. He was more interested in killing Jews, vanity building projects, and hanging out in Greece than being a good ruler.
Good point, but he only ruled for five years before being assassinated, most of which was spent reconquering the break off splinter empires (Gallic and Palmyrene). We don't know what his reign would have been like had he lived longer.
Tiberius was a nutjob. Many of the things that Caligula did, he learned from Tiberius. Tiberius was always fearful someone was trying to take his power and allowed many purges of political enemies. He kept Caligula in constant fear for his life. Tiberius was at the island retreat, having pedophilia orgies, and killing people too. Caligula took what Tiberius did, and cranked it up to 11.
@@francescosorce5189 They were interesting characters but personally " cool " was not s proper adjective to describe them. They were still dictators and Caesar committed genocide against the Gaulish people, literally destroying an entire civilization by forcing the entire region to assimilate into rome. I just want to bring this up because many people forget that at the roots of it, Caesar was a man that had committed many atrocities, he was power hungry and authoritarian.
I find the whole saga of Julius Ceaser adopting Octavian strange. Why did he do that? He must have known that Mark Antony saw himself as the successor and would fight. Caesar must have known it would lead to continued civil war. Or did Caesar think that Antony would just give up immediately and accept his last will and testament and accept some young teenager as Supreme ruler?
There is a scene in the movie THE ROBE in which Diana stands beside her beloved Marcellus and blasts Caligula for his cruelty and spite. She says the line "Once the emperors of Rome were noble..." Whenever I see the movie and she says those words I always, ALWAYS think of the image of OCTAVIAN AUGUSTUS. To me he embodies the kind of emperor she must have been talking about.
Diocletian was the first to split the empire in the late third century, almost 100 years before the Battle of Adrianople, but it was most definitely split by the time Constantine died in 337. I can see the contention for 395, since there was a loss of contact between the two, essentially...but, if you're going for the same contentions, just use 284 as the date, and not 395.
I'm not sure if this works. The tetrarchy considered itself to be a system of co-augusti and ceasers ruling one empire together. by 395 this administrative split had become a cultural split and they now either viewed their empires as separate or, in the case of the east, they viewed the other as an unruly subordinate. Obviously "the fall of Rome" is a vague phrase that garners a lot of contention but I think that placing it at the establishment of the tetrachy is a bridge too far. IMO a great argument can be made that, if we are going to set the fall of Rome to be the devision of the empire, it was a process that began in 284 and culminated in 395.
"Imperator" was an acclamation accorded to a victorious general by his troops. Vespasian was the first to use the term as a job description. Octavian was Princeps.
The Pantheon that stands today was a later building of the same name. It still has Agrippa's name on it, as he helped to build it by patronizing the original one.
Augustus Caesar is amongst 3 of my most favourite rulers along with Alauddin Husain Shah & Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. No not just as leaders rather as if there's some connection of soul.
Great video! And i think i agree with you about him being a good man. In that time in history I dont think he could have been more liberal and achieve what he did at the same time
I cannot agree. He strikes me as an egotistical sociopath. Anyone who believes themselves to be the first among all other men cannot be a good man. But maybe I'm reading too much into your usage of "good man"
A question to be asked is if his reign and rise to power was the beginning of the end for Rome. Certainly many of the prerogatives of roman politics were put to an end; such as the expansion of Rome territorialy, but also the diversity that came with a republic where the state was not an embodiment of a single individuals ambition but through the disagreement between factions and the different approaches of individuals in power at different points in time, led to a state which could more naturaly, freely and independantly embody the necesseties that came with the empire and also embody more accurately the general cultural principles that Rome was founded on.
Don’t forget that his best friend Agrippa, helped him through almost everything & it was possibly the greatest Bromance of human history. Augustus was absolutely crushed when Agrippa died in 12BC
Really excellent job.. interesting use that song by Erik Satie , gorgeous painting at 8:08 I wonder if it is by Sir Lawrence Alfred-Tadema.. really beautiful.. he did a great job here
The painting is from a set I think, because I've seen one of the same scene in desolation and ruin, as well as this one. I believe there's one which precedes it too. Very impressive. Edit: Set of five by Thomas Cole, called The Course of Empire. It consists of the following: The Savage State, The Arcadian or Pastoral State, The Consummation of Empire (in the video), The Destruction, and The Desolation.
I feel like you gave Augustus a bit too much credit and forgot to state one of his main reasons for success his choice of allies, Agrippa and Maecenas. Agrippa was extremely vital in his rule and is the reason for many of Augustus military victories and prestige. While, Augustus was not a bad military commander he was not that great without Agrippa. Not only that but Agrippa could be trusted not to try and seize power something which if he did do would be devastating for Augustus. Maecenas while less remembered was also vital serving to better mediate some of Augustus own political aims and mitigate his somewhat cruelness. This could be seen with the social reforms mentioned in the video where as in the video talked about as good they were harshly enforced and contributed to a decrease in his overall popularity though not enough to change the overall view he was good. It also didn't help that Augustus like many Romans(which is what made the reforms so unpopular) cheated on his wife and often. This all happened after Maecenas and Augustus had a falling out and shows us how influential he may have been in guaranteeing Augustus' success. Overall I'd see Augustus as a very politically savvy man and one who made up for his short comings by using others to improve himself and because of that and in spite of not being as well roundly good as Julius Caesar was able to accomplish more.
Be like Augustus (obviously metaphorically). Rise to power and stay humble, bring the prosperity through action that others pray for. The true test of a king of kings. An Emperor.
Biden is more like the elderly Tiberius ... senile, corrupt, lazy and has no clue about the world or the common man... and I bet Tiberius sniffed little girls too.
Augustus is my personal hero and a capable leader, Caesar was absolutely right on the money. They are both legends, despite the bloodshed and human sacrifice which they were forced to adopt because they were men of their time.
He was Commander in Chief because he had to be supreme commander of all Roman armies in order to avoid future civil wars, Caesar because Caius Julius Caesar adopted him as his son in his Will, and Son of the Divine Julius, because his father was deified by popular demand. Being the son of a deity doesn't entitle you to be worshipped yourself in the Graeco-Roman religions, unless you prove yourself worthy of posthumous devotion when your mortal life of service to others is over and your spirit has ascended to the Gods. So no, Augustus didn't ask Romans to worship him as a god while he was walking around among them. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝
His name is literally the praising of Caesar. That's not a God, that's a Messiah. (Messiah being the ones who wish to educate about their God and not themselves + do it very successfully)
Caesar was a military genius, while Augustus really left other people carry his campaigns. Not not mention him fleeing from battles leaving the troops behind more than once when he thought his life was in danger.
I have noted the various snipes below but I think you made a good fist of this. If you do more I would drop all background noise which is distracting (at 67 I can only concentrate on one thing at a time). Your presentation is slick enough to do without noise
Good balanced biography. One additional important reform is that he introduced a state pension for the army. This prevented generals like Sulla, Pompey, Caesar and Augustus himself ( before he became Emporer) being able to order their soldiers to march on Rome because they relied on them for their pensions.
Saying that Augustus was a tyrant would be ignorant, he is essentially an autocrat and ruled fairly well at that. I'd say he's a great leader that Rome needed, not a perfect man, but a great man for the situation of Rome at the time.
I really and i support my opinion that Agustus Ceazer was a good and strong ruler, after watching this...he deserves huge amount of credit. Plus, he is the *FIRST EMPEROR* of the Roman Empire!
“Have I played the part well?
Then applaud as I exit...”
Why do I like that quote?
Because you recognize that life is a play and we are actors on the stage. ;)
Perhaps because it shows an extraordinary amount of self prescience, acknowledging its multiple meanings.
Cuz I said it
Because u are not the only one
"Enjoyed my rule? Don't forget to like and subscribe and click that bell notification for upcoming Emperors!" - Imperator Caesar Augustus
He was probably holding onto life in the end just to die in august
lol
Nah not true
@@Renegade4_life. I heard of you. I heard you were dead.
@Confederate Media source lmao
@Confederate Media and sing song when holding hands
He certainly had a profound effect on history... I think Julis Cesar will always be thought of as the greater and more important man, but I also think this is what Octavian wanted.
Want or want. He surely needed Julias Caesar for propaganda at the time, since all his power lay in his connection to the name. His veterans was the reason Octavian needed his name because there lay his sole power. Once ge had an army he was someone but still petty in roman politics, so Cicero used him to get to Antony who was thought of as the real contender. Antony tried to keep the peace by negotiating with caesar's murderers and this was a point Octavian could use against Antony pressuring Antony to go after rhe murderers in order to not loose his momentum in the support from the veterans. The triumvirate was formed where Antony still got the obvious better part of the deal because he was still in the better position as leader of the empire. It was only after the murderers lay dead and Antony was in Egypt that Octavian was free to make his propaganda against Antony and turn over the Roman elite when Antony was not at Rome. His downfall was only cemented after his defeat against the Parthians though. Antony needed to win the war and if he had he would have gained the leverage needed to defeat Octavian but as he did not his reputation was tarnished amoung the people, a portion of the veterans and among the elite who began to fear what Octavian would do if they continued to support Antony.
Fortune Finder you still make no sense
Augustus was always seen as the greater. That is why the emperors began calling themselves "Augustus," and the junior emperor "Caesar."
100%! Julius Caesar was always far more the showman. Augustus was content with stability and an alliance with all peoples that would secure peace and prosperity for Rome, all the while not being perceived as "weak" by his enemies. He was a true politician who knew how to silence his pride and surround himself with those who knew more about specific areas of Roman life than he. That is what made him so successful.
Christus Regnet Augustus was seen as more significant in the imperial era but Gaius Julius Caesar is recognized as by far the greatest Roman to ever live now. Without Julius Caesar, Octavian would never have been in the position he was in to be able to consolidate his power. He likely wouldn’t have sniffed even senatorial power due to the fact that he was born into a rich but fairly minor, politically inactive family. His connection to Julius Caesar through his mother, Caesar’s niece (his sister’s daughter) gave him a step into the small circle of the great Roman political families, and his great uncle’s historic career gave him a cultural gravitas just from being his blood and named heir.
"He was unusually handsome at all periods of his life"
"His teeth were ill kept and his eyebrows united"
That's a weird understanding of handsomeness
DCM you are applying modern standards of beauty to the past.
@@MrSqurk I am commenting on the roman standard of beauty
DCM OK?
@@MrSqurk ok
Ok
"Step away from my chair..."
Literaly just wathced that scene )))
The greatest thing Ceaser ever did was look on Octvian and see some thing special.
Conquer gaul, Defeat Pompey, become the absolute ruler of Rome?
Adopting augustus was not the most important thing he did
@@gunter6377 yet end of the day it was octvian that made ceaser a god.
@@Andrewza1 Caesar was pontifex maximus if he wanted to he could turn himself in a god
@@gunter6377 What? How does one go from high priest to a God? You make it sound like it would be so simple.
@@MillenniumRP he was dictator. There was nothing stopping him
The guy is just my favorite historic figure ever. Don't know why but I find Augustus story so fascinating. It could result in an epic TV show for sure, specially his rise to power. Great video.
HBOs Rome Season 2 does it but not very faithfully. Still, loved it coz Rome
@@RexGalilae still good enough, I still want a remake tho...
@@RexGalilae The network wasn’t going to renew so the creator had to skip a large majority of things and crammed things together. Really sucks I loved the series.
I love Augustus he was truly Rome's best Emperor.
He was a genius, and he was a great leader. He did more for Rome establishing it's best foundation than any other Roman Emperor in history.
The best part of the video was when you suddenly said that "Antony had been boning Cleopatra for some while now" 🤣😂
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no...no
Yes.
@@DanishCamp hold this L bruh
Emperor Augustus is the greatest Emperor of Rome and one of Europe greatest monarch's of all time. Julius Ceasar saw him as the right successor to his will for a reason. He brought fouth the longest peacful time in Roman history, creating the age of ''Pax Romana''. This period saw brilliant writer like Ovid, Virgil & Horace. He became Europe most influential leader and remember for his extreme generosity and humility. ''Civitatis'' mean first citizen of the state.
Gabe Pettiford Pax Augusta, which was the first 40 Years of the 200-year long Pax Romana
Richard Stern your right, also called ''Pax Augustus'' thank you for your thoughtful comment.
Ever heard of Aurelian?
What about Aurelian? His Rome was split into many pieecs yet he managed to combine it and somewhat stablize it for a small amount of time
One of the greatest monarchs in all Mediterranean history
Wow, seeing Agrippa in 2:52 makes me realize how fittingly the actor in "Rome" (2005) was cast!
The casting in that series was really amazing, too bad it got canceled so soon.
2000 years later and we still have a month named after him, that's some pretty amazing achievement.
this life he is a football player in Switzerland, he just signed a contract with one of the biggest football clubs, this winter I met him in Egypt on a driving tour on the Red Sea in Hurghada, we stayed in the same hotel Meraki Resort in Hurghada, on my last day it comes to me that I know him from somewhere, I thought he was Ceasar or Ceasarion, but I recognized him latter he was my biggest enemy... today I just understand he was a talented intelligent young man who deserved to be the next ruler, this life he is quite handsome and tall and looks quite identical to when he was a young emperor...Marcus Antonius this life lives in Romania in the region of Maramures a city named Sighet, he is into politics, philosophy and he is the manager of a sawmill factory and he looks also quite similar to the once known Marcus Antonius
"Varus, give me back my Legion!"
Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen we both agreed Varus Was a complete douche....
He let himself trick by Ariminius and allowed his entire Legion to get ambushed in Muddy Terrai.... Varus should have learn how to deal with Barbarians from Labienus
Three legions, gents. Three legions were lost in that dreadful ambush.
And what if Arminus was telling the truth ?
Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus Augustus why :(
legions he lost several at the Battle of Teutoberg Forest 9 CE
you made a mistake at 9:15 The Pantheon that was build during the reign of Augustus, burned down and The pantheon that stands today was built during the reign of Hadrian
They changed Hadrian's Pantheon or something ? .
I thought so. after he said that's wondered if Augustus built it 1st then Hadrian remodeled it or built a better version in its place. But your write. I seen plenty of docs on Rome Hadrian built it.
Well, Hadrian dedicated the new one to Agrippa, Augustus' friend who led the construction, so he was clearly inspired by the original.
PS: If you're ever in the Upper Egypt visit the Temple of Abydos - it's an Egyptian Pantheon, dedicated to more gods than I dare to presume to know the names of.
Yes, Hadrian rebuilt it and added the dome.
The original burned down.
“Octavius mother was Atia’ who was was the nephew of julius Caesar. ” -classic
She went through an operation, if must know.
She went through an operation transitioning into a girl, therefore becoming niece of Julius Caesar
@@Afrimusican wait really? She was trans?
@@heee302 no
I laughed too. The person who made the video mustn't speak English as their first language.
"who he had been bonning for a while" ...brilliant
My favorite story involves the letter Antony sent Octavius before war broke out between them. Octavius had been giving Antony a hard time for being with Cleopatra, and in response, Antony sarcastically applauded him for avoiding the beds of like five different Roman women, basically calling him a playboy and a scoundrel, while he defended himself by hanging that at least he was married to Cleopatra and not just boning around.
Edit: Is it bad my first ever crush was on a long-dead historical figure? Talk about being timezoned. Still, I could never compete with Livia. She was badass enough on her own.
I liked your comment about "age is just a number". "Your never too young to achieve your goals ". And life is a product of life experience".
This is something I've always told my children. But like most of us it's not until your older and hopefully a little bit wiser that you realize that's when the world was your oyster.
"Que sera sera!"
I would say.. people wouldn't know Caesar today if it weren't for the mature stable temperament of Augustus. Yea, Im a fan :)
He is like the main character of ancient world
I really really like Julius Caesar and I think Augustus is right behind him on my list. Those 2 are 2 of my favorite people in the history of the world. Augustus and Julius were great leaders, politicians, people and military minds.
It is my opinion that the republic fell because ceaser who used to be chill started making himself king. When ceaser died Augustus continued that so maybe he is a little bit of a tyrant. But he was the best first emporer that Rome could have wished for
Augustus' main flaw was that he was too successful. He got rid of the republic and was so successful for so long that people forgot how to run the republic and got too used to autocratic rule. He also gave people the idea that his reign was the rule for an empire, when it was actually the exception. Very few people can handle that much power without become tyrannical, megalomaniacal, or corrupt. Augustus set up a system in which only someone of his stature could produce the same kind of results. Most of his successors weren't able to handle such power, but thanks to him, they had no choice. Only a handful of other emperors could manage as well as he could: Trajan, Constantine I, Justinian I, and arguably Marcus Aurelius and a few others. Not Hadrian, though. He was more interested in killing Jews, vanity building projects, and hanging out in Greece than being a good ruler.
Nonamearisto You forgot to add Aurelian to that list.
Good point, but he only ruled for five years before being assassinated, most of which was spent reconquering the break off splinter empires (Gallic and Palmyrene). We don't know what his reign would have been like had he lived longer.
What about Tiberius or Vespasian
Nonamearisto I would add Diocletion as well. Had his system been followed by the other emperors the empire would've been much easier to manage
Tiberius was a nutjob. Many of the things that Caligula did, he learned from Tiberius. Tiberius was always fearful someone was trying to take his power and allowed many purges of political enemies. He kept Caligula in constant fear for his life. Tiberius was at the island retreat, having pedophilia orgies, and killing people too. Caligula took what Tiberius did, and cranked it up to 11.
There's a bunch of pretenders in this damn comment section
What movie are they talking about?
Julius Caesar’s fatal flaw is what makes me like him the most. He truly was compassionate to his fellow citizens, embodied the Father archetype
August and Caesar are some of my favorite characters from Ancient Rome.
they are considered Gods in the Roman pantheon... so yeah, one must have done something cool for that to happen amiright?
@@francescosorce5189 They were interesting characters but personally " cool " was not s proper adjective to describe them. They were still dictators and Caesar committed genocide against the Gaulish people, literally destroying an entire civilization by forcing the entire region to assimilate into rome.
I just want to bring this up because many people forget that at the roots of it, Caesar was a man that had committed many atrocities, he was power hungry and authoritarian.
He was a great man and a great Emperor.
This was a man who just wanted power at all costs.
@@DanishCamp Marxist
@@TheNuclearRevolution don't waste my time.
Fortune Finder but he never wielded power for powers sake
Fortune Finder nothing is wrong with that. His reign was mostly peaceful and prosperous
I love history , thank you so much for sharing this useful data ! Greatly appreciated.
Thanks for using the proper map for the time period
Not taking anything away from Augustus, but he would never have been successful without one Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.
My opinion is that I'm subscribing. Great video!
2:06, you probably wanted to say Niece
I find the whole saga of Julius Ceaser adopting Octavian strange. Why did he do that? He must have known that Mark Antony saw himself as the successor and would fight. Caesar must have known it would lead to continued civil war. Or did Caesar think that Antony would just give up immediately and accept his last will and testament and accept some young teenager as Supreme ruler?
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 This was beautiful👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
HAIL, AUGUSTUS. IMPERATOR. PRINCEPS PRIMUS....!!!
August 1, 2019.
Ave
A hero of Rome nonetheless
Ty for adding the aftermath of defeating Marc Antony. The stuff about the first and second settlement was interesting.
There is a scene in the movie THE ROBE in which Diana stands beside her beloved Marcellus and blasts Caligula for his cruelty and spite. She says the line "Once the emperors of Rome were noble..."
Whenever I see the movie and she says those words I always, ALWAYS think of the image of OCTAVIAN AUGUSTUS. To me he embodies the kind of emperor she must have been talking about.
Why did you cite the end of the Roman Empire as 395 ACE? The Western Roman Empire fell in 476, and the Eastern Roman Empire didn't fall until 1453.
395 is the year of the final split between West and East. It is used by some as the end of the (united) Roman Empire.
Of All My Intention the roman empire still exits behind the sences Look to Rome
Diocletian was the first to split the empire in the late third century, almost 100 years before the Battle of Adrianople, but it was most definitely split by the time Constantine died in 337. I can see the contention for 395, since there was a loss of contact between the two, essentially...but, if you're going for the same contentions, just use 284 as the date, and not 395.
I'm not sure if this works. The tetrarchy considered itself to be a system of co-augusti and ceasers ruling one empire together. by 395 this administrative split had become a cultural split and they now either viewed their empires as separate or, in the case of the east, they viewed the other as an unruly subordinate. Obviously "the fall of Rome" is a vague phrase that garners a lot of contention but I think that placing it at the establishment of the tetrachy is a bridge too far. IMO a great argument can be made that, if we are going to set the fall of Rome to be the devision of the empire, it was a process that began in 284 and culminated in 395.
Of All My Intention No because 395 was the final split. Why would you use an earlier one?
So even if I’m 19 I can still remake the Roman Empire
Correct
Thanks for that video. I'm german and I really needed this for my classtest so thanks😁
"Imperator" was an acclamation accorded to a victorious general by his troops. Vespasian was the first to use the term as a job description. Octavian was Princeps.
I love Historia Civilis & your channel, every video you guys release make my day :p
And he ruled as emperor for some 40+ years. The longest-living Roman Emperor.
Augustus was the embodiment of Plato's concept of the Philosopher King
That would be Marcus Aurelius, August is more like the Prince of Machiavelli.
I agree but one would argue that he was more of a Stoic right?
The Pantheon that stands today was a later building of the same name. It still has Agrippa's name on it, as he helped to build it by patronizing the original one.
Augustus Caesar is amongst 3 of my most favourite rulers along with Alauddin Husain Shah & Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. No not just as leaders rather as if there's some connection of soul.
Great video! And i think i agree with you about him being a good man. In that time in history I dont think he could have been more liberal and achieve what he did at the same time
I cannot agree. He strikes me as an egotistical sociopath. Anyone who believes themselves to be the first among all other men cannot be a good man. But maybe I'm reading too much into your usage of "good man"
Tyler Massey How can a man that lived thousands of years ago strike you as anything? Did you know him?
“Suppress your ego” declares himself son of god
"Augustus is one of the most influential and the best politician who ever lived" - Every human being with a brain
Apollo
God bless you Augustus a true Roman
I think he was a good man
A question to be asked is if his reign and rise to power was the beginning of the end for Rome. Certainly many of the prerogatives of roman politics were put to an end; such as the expansion of Rome territorialy, but also the diversity that came with a republic where the state was not an embodiment of a single individuals ambition but through the disagreement between factions and the different approaches of individuals in power at different points in time, led to a state which could more naturaly, freely and independantly embody the necesseties that came with the empire and also embody more accurately the general cultural principles that Rome was founded on.
Age is just a number. Boi, that sounds so wrong today.
Don’t forget that his best friend Agrippa, helped him through almost everything & it was possibly the greatest Bromance of human history. Augustus was absolutely crushed when Agrippa died in 12BC
Great video man i loved the way you put it all together !! i subbed and liked , keep it up !!
He deserves a big hollywood movie series
Really excellent job.. interesting use that song by Erik Satie , gorgeous painting at 8:08 I wonder if it is by Sir Lawrence Alfred-Tadema.. really beautiful.. he did a great job here
The painting is from a set I think, because I've seen one of the same scene in desolation and ruin, as well as this one. I believe there's one which precedes it too. Very impressive.
Edit: Set of five by Thomas Cole, called The Course of Empire. It consists of the following:
The Savage State, The Arcadian or Pastoral State, The Consummation of Empire (in the video), The Destruction, and The Desolation.
Greatest ruler of all time.
“.. And instead focus on his relationship with Cleopatra who he has been boning for quite a while now” 😂
Great video!! Make more on Rome!!
I feel like you gave Augustus a bit too much credit and forgot to state one of his main reasons for success his choice of allies, Agrippa and Maecenas. Agrippa was extremely vital in his rule and is the reason for many of Augustus military victories and prestige. While, Augustus was not a bad military commander he was not that great without Agrippa. Not only that but Agrippa could be trusted not to try and seize power something which if he did do would be devastating for Augustus. Maecenas while less remembered was also vital serving to better mediate some of Augustus own political aims and mitigate his somewhat cruelness. This could be seen with the social reforms mentioned in the video where as in the video talked about as good they were harshly enforced and contributed to a decrease in his overall popularity though not enough to change the overall view he was good. It also didn't help that Augustus like many Romans(which is what made the reforms so unpopular) cheated on his wife and often. This all happened after Maecenas and Augustus had a falling out and shows us how influential he may have been in guaranteeing Augustus' success. Overall I'd see Augustus as a very politically savvy man and one who made up for his short comings by using others to improve himself and because of that and in spite of not being as well roundly good as Julius Caesar was able to accomplish more.
I was hoping that you would have a video of Tiberius. Nice presentation, concise and elegant.
Awesome documentary!
Great job!
Be like Augustus (obviously metaphorically). Rise to power and stay humble, bring the prosperity through action that others pray for. The true test of a king of kings. An Emperor.
In my idea,he was one of the best as Caesar has chosen him and saw potential in him. A real leader
This is a really cool video!!!
Hes always been my fav.
we need a leader like him
Biden is more like the elderly Tiberius ... senile, corrupt, lazy and has no clue about the world or the common man... and I bet Tiberius sniffed little girls too.
There we’re actually multiple instances where he killed for amusement, especially during the Roman civil war
Augustus is my personal hero and a capable leader, Caesar was absolutely right on the money. They are both legends, despite the bloodshed and human sacrifice which they were forced to adopt because they were men of their time.
It's kinda hard to say Augustus didn't ask that he be worshiped as a god when he changed his name to Commander Caesar Son of Gods Sacred.
He was Commander in Chief because he had to be supreme commander of all Roman armies in order to avoid future civil wars, Caesar because Caius Julius Caesar adopted him as his son in his Will, and Son of the Divine Julius, because his father was deified by popular demand. Being the son of a deity doesn't entitle you to be worshipped yourself in the Graeco-Roman religions, unless you prove yourself worthy of posthumous devotion when your mortal life of service to others is over and your spirit has ascended to the Gods. So no, Augustus didn't ask Romans to worship him as a god while he was walking around among them.
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His name is literally the praising of Caesar. That's not a God, that's a Messiah. (Messiah being the ones who wish to educate about their God and not themselves + do it very successfully)
Liked and subscribed! Great video!
He certainly embodies the ideal image of Rome.
I wonder if anyone was jealous of him as he rose to power?.. and if so what did he do to overcome those envious people?
Great job! I enjoyed your work.
He couldn't have played his part better, the only thing Julius Caesar had over him is seniority.
Caesar was a military genius, while Augustus really left other people carry his campaigns. Not not mention him fleeing from battles leaving the troops behind more than once when he thought his life was in danger.
👍🏻 Please do more Roman Empire stories! This was excellent! 💌
I think that you made very nice presentation. Thank you!
I have noted the various snipes below but I think you made a good fist of this. If you do more I would drop all background noise which is distracting (at 67 I can only concentrate on one thing at a time). Your presentation is slick enough to do without noise
Good balanced biography. One additional important reform is that he introduced a state pension for the army. This prevented generals like Sulla, Pompey, Caesar and Augustus himself ( before he became Emporer) being able to order their soldiers to march on Rome because they relied on them for their pensions.
Augustus: 'The Golden Age'!
"I'm tok intelligent for this shit. I'm the real deal fool. O shit, a genius!"
~ Augustus
Nice job - good pix,,, I subbed.
Saying that Augustus was a tyrant would be ignorant, he is essentially an autocrat and ruled fairly well at that.
I'd say he's a great leader that Rome needed, not a perfect man, but a great man for the situation of Rome at the time.
Octavian’s mother was Caesar’s... nephew?
collin incests is a coin toss of greatness or blunder.
Caught that too, probably meant niece
Yes, sex change existed back then as well
Romans were really ahead of their time
It was complicated
Sounds like octavian was a great ruler, he likely learned an incredible amount from caesar.
great video but, I wish the pace were a bit slower.
Kind of weird seeing these guys with faces instead of colored squares
Beautiful.
where does the story of Octavius giving the eulogy for his grandmother come from, I have never read that?
I really and i support my opinion that Agustus Ceazer was a good and strong ruler, after watching this...he deserves huge amount of credit. Plus, he is the *FIRST EMPEROR* of the Roman Empire!
Fun fackt my name is Octavian-Constantin and im Romanian
Great influence, Augustus!
I'm 16 and now I want to be an emperor
Good for you
he wasn't evil. Leaders at that point were brutal by our standards.
Wow, very interesting
Great vid! I think Augustus was a great ruler, as far as rulers go, but a "ruler" is, at best, only ever the lesser of many evils.
Augustus was one of the greatests personalitys of history. He didn’t nothing wrong.