Hello podcast listeners, a quick notice on the schedule before we get started, and hey,

welcome to 2023, you made it, congratulations, quite an achievement these days are here.

For the next little while of the emperors of Rome podcast, the schedule will be, thusly.

We're wrapping up our story of Anthony and Cleopatra, we'll look at a few of the things

that were happening in Rome around that time.

Then after that later on in February, you'll be hearing some episodes with Kaelin Davenport,

as we take the story forward to the third century of Rome, and look at the reign of

the Emperor Galeanus.

All of this is to say that for the next little while you will not be hearing Riannon

on the podcast, she's taking some leave, she's got some writing that she wants to get done,

and I'm kind of determined to leave her alone for the duration of that.

But hey, you'll still be hearing the podcast, and while she might pop in for an episode

during that time, don't worry, you'll be left in very capable hands.

So on that note, Salvee and enjoy the first episode of the year.

Arvee, and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.

I'm your host, Matt Smith, and with me today is Dr. Andrew Conner, a lecturer at the Center

for Ancient Cultures at Monash University.

This is episode C-C-I-I-I, Augustine Egypt.

Which was a valuable province to Rome, with natural wealth and successful agriculture.

Thanks to an arid climate, there's also a number of preserved papari from that era,

providing modern scholarship with an invaluable paper trail on the administration at the time.

One papari has led to the belief that Augustus confiscated lands of the Egyptian temples,

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