{"id":91715,"date":"2025-01-16T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=91715"},"modified":"2025-01-15T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:09:07","slug":"augustus-and-the-roman-army-the-first-emperor-and-the-creation-of-the-professional-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/01\/16\/augustus-and-the-roman-army-the-first-emperor-and-the-creation-of-the-professional-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Augustus and the Roman Army &#8211; the first emperor and the creation of the professional army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UpweWhKDaCA?si=4O-sB3SqOZERcGO6\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 7 Aug 2024<\/p>\n<p>We take a look at Caesar Augustus, the first emperor (or <em>princeps<\/em>) of Rome and the great nephew of Julius Caesar. Ancient sources &mdash; and Shakespeare and Hollywood &mdash; depict him as politician and no soldier in contrast to Mark Antony. How true is this? More importantly, how did the man who created the imperial system and re-shaped society change the Roman army?<\/p>\n<p>This video is based on a talk I gave in 2014 at the Roman Legionary Museum in Caerleon &mdash; a museum and adjacent sites, well worth a visit for anyone in or near South Wales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Published 7 Aug 2024 We take a look at Caesar Augustus, the first emperor (or princeps) of Rome and the great nephew of Julius Caesar. Ancient sources &mdash; and Shakespeare and Hollywood &mdash; depict him as politician and no soldier in contrast to Mark Antony. How true is this? More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,5],"tags":[1566,31,1340,1391,1343,1345],"class_list":["post-91715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-military","tag-adriangoldsworthy","tag-army","tag-augustus","tag-biography","tag-romanempire","tag-romanrepublic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nRh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93568,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91715\/revisions\/93568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}