Dr Simon Elliott

Exactly, yeah.

Okay.

So it's a big deal.

And then that's it.

And everyone just goes, you know, God, that was tiring, wasn't it?

Yeah.

They do because he's in such a powerful position.

So he's brought peace to the Roman world.

And with all that sort of tribulation and the fighting and everything, even though you've got the wealth coming over from the Hellenistic world, it's not good for business.

So what the political classes want is stability.

They're being assassinated and they're losing all their wealth and

and they're being outpaced and outplayed by the Novo Reich, who themselves are leading their campaigns in the East.

So the political class in Rome, the senatorial class, they want basically some stability.

And so you have the Pax Romana brought in by Octavian and the senator claiming Augustus and say, okay, we'll leave it to you, crack on.

And then he begins his reforms of the military.

So that's the beginning of the story of the Roman Empire.

The warlords are picking their fights.

They're picking their fights.

So, for example, if you're one of these warlords, we'll say Crassus or Mark Antony, you will not choose to pick a fight with the Parthians.

Right.