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Augustus: Rome’s Greatest Emperor

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Source/Further reading:

Mike Duncan’s excellent, in-depth History of Rome podcast (several episodes covering Augustus): https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/2009/04/52-caesar-augustus-the-history-of-rome.html

Britannica, in-depth: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Augustus-Roman-emperor

Explainer, Ancient.Eu: https://www.ancient.eu/augustus/

Marcus Agrippa: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marcus-Vipsanius-Agrippa

More on Marcus: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ancient-history/marcus-agrippa-augustus.html

Biographics, Mark Anthony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHC51v39EmM

Caesar crossing the Rubicon: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2017/03-04/julius-caesar-crossing-rubicon-rome

Was Cicero’s death the end of the Republic? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2019/01-02/death-of-cicero-and-the-roman-republic/

Morality laws: https://www.ancient.eu/article/116/augustus-political-social--moral-reforms/

Thoughtful BBC podcast on the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000f69q

Useful family tree: https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/.a/6a01053629a711970c0115707db65a970b-pi

History Extra, Augustus overview: https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/the-bloody-rise-of-augustus/

Ovid’s exile: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/16/ovids-exile-to-the-remotest-margins-of-the-roman-empire-revoked

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