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The Ancients

Agrippa and Augustus: The Golden Age

The Ancients

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4.73.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The Romans, an ancient conquering civilisation with an empire that spread from Europe across the Balkans to the Middle East and North Africa. For this episode, we are returning to our study of one of the most influential men in Roman History, Marcus Agrippa. Lindsay Powell came back to talk Tristan through the later life of the right hand man of Octavian / Augustus. After bringing about the end of the last civil war of the Roman Republic, and his great victory at the Battle of Actium in 31BC, came Agrippa’s twenty golden years. His loyalty to Octavian unwavering, Agrippa delivered countless architectural and artistic developments to Ancient Rome and other cities across the Empire. Lindsay and Tristan explore the lengths to which Agrippa’s devotion to his Emperor would stretch, whether to marriage or even to gifting his own sons.

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0:00.0

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

0:08.5

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

0:13.6

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

0:18.4

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

0:24.4

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

0:29.7

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

0:35.6

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

0:41.7

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

0:47.1

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

0:52.3

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

0:59.2

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

1:04.3

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

1:12.1

Here is Lindsay Powell.

1:15.1

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

1:29.1

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

1:36.6

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

1:43.3

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

1:49.1

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

1:54.5

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

1:59.4

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

2:06.5

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

2:11.4

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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