{"id":94254,"date":"2025-07-07T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=94254"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:29:55","slug":"augustus-visionary-statesman-or-destroyer-of-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/07\/07\/augustus-visionary-statesman-or-destroyer-of-the-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Augustus: Visionary Statesman or Destroyer Of The Republic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2dcT4tqPL_s?si=9UjD4O_Po-3BUyu8\" 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>The Rest Is History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 27 Jan 2025<\/p>\n<p>The Roman historian Suetonius&#8217; <em>The Lives of the Caesars<\/em>, written during the early imperial period of the Roman Empire, is a seminal biography covering the biographies of the early emperors of Rome, during two spectacular centuries of Roman history. Delving deep into the personal lives of the Caesars and sparing no detail, no matter how prurient, pungent, explicit or salacious, it vividly captures Rome at the peak of her power, and those colourful individuals at the heart of everything. It is an unsettling yet fascinating portrait of the alien and the intimate, that sees some of history&#8217;s most famous characters revealed as almost modern men, plotting a delicate line between private and public, respectability and suspicion. From the showmanship of Augustus, the first Caesar, and his convoluted family melodramas, to Tiberius, a monster in the historical record famed for his sexual misdeeds, to Caligula, who delighted in voyeuristic moral degeneracy, and the looming shadow of Nero; all will be revealed &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>00:00 A humble plug from Tom<br \/>\n02:55 The most spectacular two centuries in Roman history<br \/>\n05:25 The value of Suetonius as a biographer<br \/>\n08:43 Suetonius&#8217; interest in the love lives of the Caesars<br \/>\n12:58 Suetonius&#8217; influence on popular culture<br \/>\n16:15 Augustus: Rome&#8217;s greatest actor<br \/>\n21:25 Roman politics as spectacle<br \/>\n21:55 Augustus as the model of a good emperor<br \/>\n24:30 What kind of monarchy was this?<br \/>\n28:00 The life of Suetonius<br \/>\n35:52 How did Roman histories work?<br \/>\n39:04 Why Romans had no idea of privacy<br \/>\n40:05 Did Roman emperors sexual misdemeanours matter<br \/>\n42:08 How we see sexual relations different to the Romans<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Producer: Theo Young-Smith<br \/>\nEditor: Tabby Syrett<br \/>\nSocial Producer: Harry Balden<br \/>\nAssistant Producer: Tabby Syrett<br \/>\nExecutive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rest Is History Published 27 Jan 2025 The Roman historian Suetonius&#8217; The Lives of the Caesars, written during the early imperial period of the Roman Empire, is a seminal biography covering the biographies of the early emperors of Rome, during two spectacular centuries of Roman history. 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