David Gwynn
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first heard Sep 2026
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is not even a subtle double standard.
Augustus as a married man is not committing adultery by sleeping around because under Roman law that's fine.
This is what I mean about an image.
There's no evidence Roman morality improved in the slightest.
But it's part of what you do.
It's part of building that image.
The Battle of the Teutenberg Forest did not end Rome's dreams of expansion, but it does seem to play an important role in Augustus's thinking that we'd gone so far.
We're talking about a colossal empire.
This is where the limits have to be drawn.
Амі, this is a world and especially the Roman world that celebrates military glory.
I mean it's actually one of the most remarkable transformations that's happening in Rome under Augustus.
The Roman Republic was a society that assumed warfare.
The Republic exists for give or take 450 years.
We're certain it's at peace on about three of them.
It was always at war.
And military glory was how the senators marked themselves out.
By the Dion Augustus dies, senators now know you don't get military glory.
The army is now a professional organization paid for by the state.
The main role of the army is going to be
had come defending the frontiers, not trying to push further beyond them.
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