David Gwynn
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first heard Sep 2026
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He almost never holds it because he can let other people be consul.
While he stays in the background, keeps this image of being a princeps.
Don't look like an autocrat, and you can rule the entire Roman Empire.
Under Augustus' military organization, the army is out on the frontiers.
Only one military force is allowed in Italy.
But not Augustus.
Almost all dictators, kings, autocrats want people to glorify them.
Alexander notoriously tried to get poets to write poems celebrating them, which is why we've got none of it.
Because it's terrible.
Because very few dictators realize what Augustus realized.
You find a poet of genius, you don't tell them what to write.
You encourage them to write hopefully things that will praise you, but you don't try and dictate it.
And this is where Octavian Augustus' own account of his career begins.
The Ray Gestae is the great funerary inscription, carved on Augustus' Mausoleum in Rome on bronze, but Augustus wrote it years before he died.
Very good forward planning.
And then they both die, AD two and AD four.
It could have been Livia, but frankly, the partnership between Livia and Augustus is too strong for too long.
Sadly, people dying young doesn't usually require a conspiracy.
But it's possible.
We'll never know about Agrippa posthumous, but he seems to be regarded as you know, whether it's a psychotic or at the very least, he seems to be regarded as dangerous and must be kept away.
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