It's the ancients on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes, your host and in today's podcast,

you might remember just over a month ago I was delighted to get on the show Lindsay Powell

to talk through the early life of one of the most remarkable figures in Roman history,

a gripper. And I'm delighted to say that in this follow-up podcast we are continuing the

story. Now in the last podcast we talked about the rise of a gripper, particularly during

the 30s BC, where a gripper and his best buddy Octavian, they fight against the forces

of Mark Antony and others ultimately culminating in a gripper's great naval victory at the

Battle of Actium. And in this podcast we are continuing the story, we are talking about

a gripper during his golden age, shall we say, the many achievements that he accomplishes

between 30 BC and his death almost 20 years later. Lindsay, as you're no doubt aware,

is a fantastic communicator. It was amazing to listen to him talk for well over an hour about

these achievements of a gripper during these last 20 years or so. Amazing chats and I hope you enjoy.

Here is Lindsay Powell.

Lindsay, it's great to have you back on. Thank you very much, Nate. I thought it. So we've

got to actium, Mark Antony and Cleopatra, they famously met their demise. What's the situation

for a gripper and Octavian in the immediate aftermath at the end of this conflict?

Well it's interesting, the situation is still confusing because after the Battle of Actium on

the 2nd of September is declared a victory. What he called himself was imparata chazad imparasa,

that's where he starred himself as a post to Octavian. He declares victory and then he goes

basically to Main In Greece and decides what to do and he then dispatches a gripper to take the

troops that are really of Marcus Antony's side. There are 19 legions which is a heck of a lot of

people. If you reckon on a number between 3 and 4,000 men per legion, they may not have all been

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