02 Augustus

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

History, Comedy

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Join us as we cover the first Roman Emperor: Augustus! (Or Octavius...or Octavian...) Was he a fearless leader? Or just someone with good friends and a famous uncle? Find out exactly where he hid during all the important battles and how he got Agrippa to rebuild Rome.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium.
0:10.9	This week, Augustus. Hello and welcome to Totalis Rankium again.
0:27.6	Number two.
0:28.6	Yes, episode two, first real episode where we rank an emperor.
0:33.6	And it's Augustus this week, as you should have just heard in the intro. Yes, and I want one interesting fact that I learnt, because I don't know anything else.
0:43.5	Augustus, they named a month after him.
0:45.2	Yeah.
0:45.6	The month of May.
0:47.2	Nice.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:48.2	Why was that?
0:50.5	Because, obviously, his first name was maybe. Maybe Augustus. Yes, that's his first name was maybe.
0:56.4	Maybe Augustus.
0:57.6	Yes, that's his full name.
0:58.8	Right, so as you may be able to tell,
1:01.0	maybe, see.
1:02.6	Jamie hasn't done any research.
1:04.4	I have done a fair amount of research.
1:07.3	I even got some little post-it broats that were different colours. Oh, that's really sweet. See, I'm organised, research, I even got some little post-it notes that were different colours.
1:11.6	Oh, that's really sweet.
1:12.6	See, I'm organised, far more organised than I ever was at university.
1:16.6	And they were in your job.
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