S8 Ep581: 5. Julia: The Tool and Rebel of Augustus (9) Augustus used his only daughter, Julia, as a political tool to secure his heirs. He forced her into multiple marriages with potential successors like Agrippa and Tiberius. While she was initially obedient and p
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🗓️ 15 March 2026
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Augustus used his only daughter, Julia, as a political tool to secure his heirs. He forced her into multiple marriages with potential successors like Agrippa and Tiberius. While she was initially obedient and produced five children, Julia eventually rebelled by engaging in very public affairs, including one with the son of her father's rival, Mark Antony. Furious that she undermined his public image of family virtue, Augustus exiled her to a remote island for nearly twenty years. After Augustus died, Tiberius took control and starved her to death. (10)
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| 0:35.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:38.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:42.0 | Continuing with Emma Southton, the new book is A Rome of One's Own, the forgotten women of the Roman Empire. |
| 0:48.8 | It is now the Roman Empire. |
| 0:51.0 | The monarchy is gone. |
| 0:52.7 | The memory of the monarchy pleases Augustus, the emperor. |
| 0:57.3 | The republic has gone. The memory of the republic came to this moment when Augustus will present |
| 1:03.4 | himself as a man who saves the republic by making himself the first among equals, the preencaps. |
| 1:10.8 | He has a daughter, however, and herein lies a tale. |
| 1:14.8 | Emma, this is Julia Caesar Phileas, who becomes when she's 11 years old, born 39 BC, |
| 1:23.0 | comes when she's 11 years old, Julia Augusti Philea. |
| 1:27.2 | Augustus wanted sons. |
| 1:28.7 | He wanted heirs. |
| 1:30.3 | He has a daughter who has a mind of her own. |
| 1:33.0 | She's very well educated. |
| 1:34.7 | And then she's married to Marcellus at 13 years old. |
| 1:38.5 | Why? |
| 1:39.5 | Marcellus was her cousin. |
| 1:40.7 | What was Augustus thinking? |
| 1:42.9 | He was trying to make a son-in-law. So this is where we |
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