Augustus: Rome’s Greatest Emperor
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Source/Further reading:
Mike Duncan’s excellent, in-depth History of Rome podcast (several episodes covering Augustus): thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/...
Britannica, in-depth: www.britannica.com/biography/...
Explainer, Ancient.Eu: www.ancient.eu/augustus/
Marcus Agrippa: www.britannica.com/biography/...
More on Marcus: www.warhistoryonline.com/anci...
Biographics, Mark Anthony: • Mark Antony: Lover of ...
Caesar crossing the Rubicon: www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
Was Cicero’s death the end of the Republic? www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
Morality laws: www.ancient.eu/article/116/au...
Thoughtful BBC podcast on the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000...
Useful family tree: thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/...
History Extra, Augustus overview: www.historyextra.com/period/r...
Ovid’s exile: www.theguardian.com/world/201...
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Simon, please do one of Brazil’s most famous emperor, Pedro ii of Brazil and perhaps one of Brazil most infamous and controversial presidents who won landslide elections but got arrested in corruption charges Lula da silva.
Thomas Sankara
Jesus Christ this was llloonnnggg just like the mans life i guess which is ironic since he lived in a constant state of limbo.
pretty poor research/ a lot of inaccuracies/
many facts are manipulated or not told or told wrong/
now I have doubts about creditability of other biographics episodes/
@@RodolphosTechchannel
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
This man still has a month named after him: August. The reason why August and July both have 31 days is because Augustus wanted his month to have the same number of days as the previous month, which is named after his uncle Julius Caesar.
Bruh... did not know this...
And that even numbers were believed to bring bad luck in Rome
@@jjf3161 history civilis has a good thing about the calendar. Look up the longest year in human history. Its 43 bce. I wont spoil why 🙂
Not Augustus but the senate after his death decided or so i read somewhere
@@theblondknight9579 mixed his deification with the month thing. He was still alive when he got the month named after him.
Augustus executed his enemies because he saw what happened to Julius when he tried to make peace with them.
The history lesson that keeps coming up is that completely destroying your enemies is the only way to secure your own survival
@@peter-8483 48 laws of power. I’d recommend reading it. And yes, it mentions this, I think it’s like the 4th law but I’m not sure
@David yes, you is right
Si vis pacem...
and it worked
"May he be luckier than Augustus, and better than Trajan."
-The challenge to an Emperor upon his coronation.
then Aurelian came along and just smashed it
@@ysbrandd4908 Aurelian was remarkable but he got murdered over fake news that’s not lucky
@@ysbrandd4908 I'd love to see a Biographics on him
@@ysbrandd4908 and so did Constantine The Great
I Don't think he was lucky, he took very good decisions, and he also failed some times.
Gaius Octavius literally defined the greatness of the Roman Empire. To do him justice, the Biographics episode had to be equally epic in format. Thank you for doing Augustus justice.
Especially when he said "No more Mister Nice Gaius."
Julius Caesar: «I came, i saw, i conquered»
(Continues to conquer Rome)
Augustus Caesar: «I found Rome a city of bricks, and left it a city of marble»
(Continues to lay the foundation of the largest empire the world has ever seen)
Its the most epic history ever told
@@DainHunter
What for exactly ? To die in Hell in the end ?
@@antonius_006 alot more then that if he wasn't there in history rome would probably not be in history or at least less known and that would change everything and we would probably be worse off honestly but can't say forsure
He glossed over a lot. Octavian was a pretty bad person and spoiled since birth. You don't know half of it
“Have I played the part well? Then applaud me as I exit.” -Augustus
Last words?
"If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance."
"Behold, I found Rome a city of clay, and I leave her to you of marble."
Ave imperator
Words from which Nero took EXACTLY the most hilariously horrible inspiration possible!
Augustus and Agrippa was the best bromance in history
There are also Justinian and Belisarius
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
@@truth5705
Once again, Ok Nazi
@@truth5705 get out of here troll. No one cares about your rhetoric. You can keep posting all you want. Just shows how manic you really are.
@@benallen7704 Is Roald Dahl a Nazi? Is T.S. Elliot a Nazi? Is Winston Churchill a Nazi? President Truman a Nazi? Is Dostoevsky a Nazi?
You're just showing how uneducated you are.
What Octavian achieved at such a young age and against such formidable opposition is absolutely mind blowing. By far one of the most impressive figures in history.
your are giving too much merit, marcus aurelius and cleopatra fell into decline, and the principal reason of his victory was climatology events, many figures of the history rich the glory thanks the casualiy
thanks to his great uncle, Caesar! let the dice fly, he probably had the same feeling when he rewrote his will as he crossed the rubicon!
@@mexicoxv2236 Augustus also very sickly though. He had to overcome that weakness first to reach all his goals
@@ursamajor6347 You are not an emperor. Your opinion about Augustus doesn't matter.
He killed many people. Surprise surprise, holding to his power as an emperor of greatest empire of the time requires him to do that. He also makes Cleopatra beg for her life naked just to still kill her lol. It is what it is.
But that doesn't discredit all the things he did to develop Rome that makes it still remembered today.
@@ursamajor6347 My point is, it doesn't matter what kind of human they are. Their achievement are great enough to guarantee immortality of their name.
Also he's not a psychopath. That's like saying every great king is a psychopath. Basic politics is reward luxuriously and punish without mercy. His harsh treatment to his enemy are necessary. That's just politics. That's how you keep your power in ancient world.
As for if Roman claim others as savages. Yes they do. That's not wrong and not only European civilization think that way. Most people in ancient world spend their entire life in the place they born with. They have no means to actually see other civilizations and not think that way. Tolerance only become popular when globalization occurs.
Wow I never knew Augustus played Cleopatra like a fiddle. Damn what a badass.
Next time, in English !!!!
Cleo: Hey wan sum fuk
Augustus: 😐😐😐 Lady, you are old. 🤔🤔🤔
@@hannibalburgers477 Augustus: *You May have tricked my Uncle & Antony but you ain’t tricking me bitch. Beg*
Cleopatra brought peace and prosperity to Egypt. So it's a tragedy, Then his propaganda machine painted her as seductress and made Romans hate her...
Murdered her and her son.
“I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new empire.”
-Augustus (probably)
"My allegiance is the the Republic, to democracy!"
- Marc Antony (probably)
@@xpendabull technically Marc Anthony was fighting to make an Empire with Cleopatra, so not democracy
@@xpendabull Marcus Lepidus more likely.
@@xpendabull “If you are not with me, then you are my enemy.”
-Augustus (probably)
@@valon5069 I realized that as i was writing that, but i just did it for the meme
We all need an *Agrippa* in our lives.
@4akaimalko Explain your past lives ???
@4akaimalko thank you , n I don’t think your crazy . There’s things we can’t explain nor can science , I thank you for sharing . You gave me insight .
Teutorburg never would have happen if Agrippa was in charge of Germania
And the wisdom to recognise them when they do come around.
@imyourdadandim9 awesome read dude
I love how octavian was never alone, as I suppose most people normally are playing the high stakes game for absolute power; he always had his stronk and loyal bff on his side, it's pretty heartwarming and not to mention heartbreaking to imagine the death of someone who wasn't just your no 1 ally, but simultaneously your closest and maybe only real friend
As a 19yr old boy the bond Agrippa and Augustus shared made me shed in tears
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble”. Augustus.
With Augustus’ taking the throne of Rome, the long civil wars ended in the Empire and became so-called pax romana. The economy began to prosper, and in connection with this, mass-extraction from the mine in Carrara (northern Italy) was started - Carrara marble. The massive mining of marble allowed the ruler to start numerous constructions in the capital and throughout the Empire.
Well told
He never said that. A playwriter wrote that about him like 200 years after he died.
@@antoinelachapelle3405 way to piss on everyone's party
@@loremasterhendrix I'm sorry I thought we were all here to learn history
@@antoinelachapelle3405 gtfo with your facts and real understanding of history 😡
Augustus may be the best example of a man rising in stature to meet, and then overcome, every challenge he ever faced, until he sat alone, at the very top. He may not have been born 'great', just one minor Roman noble among thousands, but he certainly became so. Without a doubt, one of the most consequential men who ever lived.
The earth-shaking influence of Rome is felt on Earth to this very day. They shaped so much of what we think of as the Modern World: logistics, law, medicine, architecture, society...even the roads they made are still used to this day, and guess what: NO POTHOLES.
He was a fascist.
@@spudeleven5124 Ceasar is 666 Italy is 666
No man should ever be born great, they should rise to being great, much like Augustus did.
We'd
Pet theory: one of the reasons why Julius named Octavian his heir was because Julius saw himself in Octavian. Octavian was always sickly and Julius suffered from a secret illness like strokes or seizures. A smart, ambitious man with health issues in need of an heir gets to meet his smart, ambitious nephew with health issues.
That’s… actually a really good theory.
The real history of Ancient Rome is better than any movie or novel could ever be. Truly epic.
Some great people get a day of remembrance. Augustus got a month named after himself.
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
@@truth5705 And what religion did they follow?
@@aromanlegionnair5096 I just searched up the people this guy listed and apparently they are all Jewish
@@truth5705 I have never heard of those figures. So I second your comment, would love to learn more.
@Chuck Fina
RE: "Augustus got a month named after himself."
Julius Caesar started it by name the 7th month after himself, as July. And he took a day from February and added it to July, which is why that month has 31 days. Augustus did the same thing with the 8th month, naming it August. He also took a day from February, which is why it has only 28 days, and added it to August, making it also have 31 days.
As a Historia Civilis fan I remember all of this as squares
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
A man of culture I see
@@truth5705 not you
@@yugitrump435 not you either
@@truth5705 more than you clearly
I like to think that Augustus was the one to give Claudius opportunities because perhaps he saw a bit of himself in him, both being sickly and largely underestimated despite their cunning. Claudius would of course bloom a lot later than Augustus but it would turn out that those two in the end would be the best parts of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
Octavian is truly one of the most important people in history: the idea of empire as we know it and whose status many nations still aspire to and are inspired by it is from him.
Those dislikes are from anthony and all of ptolemaic egypt
Or Constantine the Great fans, or Diocletian fans... Or Trajan fans.....
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
Or from the families of the countless roman prisoners he had tortured to death for his own amusement.
@@bart_ender6116 lol
you mean,"The families and subordinates of everyone who stuck a blade in Caesar".
@@mysticnovelbro Yeah? How does that change the fact he literally tortured and executed people for his own enjoyment?
"We can only hope, that as he did so, he saw his old friend Marcus Agrippa on the other side, waiting for him". Wow this sentiment is beautiful, I can't tell you how much I loved this long episode and how close we feel to somebody who lived 2000 years ago, thanks to you🙏🏽
@deliverence He saved and improved the life of millions thanks to his reforms and the pax Romana. He created his own heaven, for him and his subjects. He did more good than you will ever do. If he burns, so will you.
Agree. Simon outdid himself with that lovely flourish at the end.
@@ericknijnenburg8866 is going on the rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rphone and and I don’t trrrrrrrrrrr
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Wow, man, I never thought I'd say this but you sparked my interest in history. So far this is the best video I've watched from the Roman Emperors series. I'm officially choosing Augustus for my school project. Amazing job, Biographics!
Some other good ones are Marcus Aurelius, Constantine, and Diocletian. The Roman Empire is a very long, very interesting time in European history, and seemingly small decisions by emperors like these, had direct influence on the politics over a thousand years later. I hope your school project went well =)
Simon's 'segue into ads is so smooth it had me wondering how Octavian had the Roman empire on Squarespace
Ha ha ha
Personally, My favorite Imperator was Claudius. Mocked openly all his life due to a few physical disabilities, after Caligula was assassinated, the praetorian guards declared him emperor. And after Caligulas reign of tyranny, madness and bloodshed. Claudius ruled with surprising ability and skill.
I also really appreciate Claudius. He was a good emperor.
Claudius was the embodiment of 'look weak so people underestimate you'. I won't deny his likely disabilities but he clearly overcame them. His biggest mistake wasn't even due to his disabilities, but marrying Aggripina the younger.
Too bad he was brainwashed by the poonanie and ended up making Nero his heir, resulting in his assassination.
He and Augustus were the only really good emperors of the Julio-Claudians.
@@machirim2805 Tiberius was decent. Most of the killings during his reign are the cause of one of the Praetorian Prefects that he left in charge while he mostly stayed to himself
Ofcourse my man Augustus the chad gets one of nearly an hour.
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
@@truth5705 Well it could him years to get to the Marquis de Lafayette and he runs a bunch of channels. He also did videos on Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria so I'm sure he'll get to Stalin's lieutenants like he did with Hitler's.
@@SEAZNDragon He won't I can almost guarantee, it's too taboo.
And if does do videos about them, he won't mention their ethnic background the way he mentioned Stalin and Beria were Georgian.
You can't talk about this topic, if you do, you'll ruin your reputation.
@@truth5705 Basically you want to make a Jews are bad video
@@SEAZNDragon Why would you say that? I want him to make videos of these men, but he won't solely because they're Jewish.
Because people would accuse him of what you are accusing me of.
You're part of the reason.
I really got emotional towards the end😢😢. Damn, Augustus was truly a legend to be remembered...
I would argue Julius Ceasar was the first emperor of rome...historians like to split hairs on the transition period from republic to empire, but sullah was briefly an autocrat, Marian cronies had their moments as well...Caesar brought the game to the next level, Augustus saw it through to completion
It's not hair splitting, Octavian made specific reforms that officially changed the government, making it impossible for the Senate to simply regain it via a military victory, and of course those reforms also ensured the Senate would be less able to achieve such a victory. And yes while his career was launched on everything Caesar started, he did much more than just replicating the feats.
Probably the longest biographics video ever Augustus deserves it
I want “Do Not F**k with Octavian” on a t-shirt
I'd like one saying ' dont bother trying to debate with an American ' !
@@johnsaunders2109 Lol, you need something better to do with your life.
@@johnsaunders2109 here let me fix that for you:
"Don't bother trying to debate with an -American- Han Chinese"
There you go 😉
@@rejvaik00 just as,stupid!
@@johnsaunders2109 Feiran's 'Preticure' was published in...
From when I write this in the current time, that was 70 lunar cycles ago.
Much has changed since that time.
Not much of that change would likely please Feiran, who valued so much the independent spirit of the home estates of his age.
This contemporary culture spends more of its attention on distant communes than it does on the physical wonders of the natural world in which it inhabits.
Self-reliance has been all but replaced by the omnipresent crutch of reliance, whose bandages continue to wrap us in protection, usually at the expense of our remaining mobility and autonomy.
It might be best that he is gone.
But I do not want to idealize him; he was a product of his time and culture, and it is certain that many of his values would simply not be possible to preserve in today's age.
So, have we paid too much for our advances?
Should we want to go back?
In a pure exploration, for the purpose of seeking nothing but an unburdened soul, Feiran might spend hours and miles walking a single direction without anthropological encounter.
Such expanses of the estates have been replaced with our mostly paved conveniences- which feed perfectly our comfort, yet which allow our inner peace to starve at the same time.
See what I'm doing here?
I'm commandeering his assets by using it as a springboard to voice my own lofty views, amalgamated with his own under my exclusive discretion.
Sure, there's not necessarily anything wrong with doing that- but I just can't stand it when it comes right before the notary pad I am trying to visualize!
And don't let me become too much satisfied with the slack in my line, lest I become the maker of my own speculative and pretentious forward, or worse, to be the last-word loving creator of the after-the-fact reactionary argument, perhaps like Esther Bren Terse, who seemed to've fancied himself as Feiran’s more contemporary literary improvement.
As though post-hoc prose holds no advantage for the maker!
Just as history is necessarily written by the victor standing, whoever has yet to lift pen from paper (or in my case, whoever now has fingers to keys) remains, mouth still a flapping.
But seriously, Preticure will give you a feel for what that time was like.
In many ways, it was a time that was far less constrained than the lifestyle you and I may know, but it was no walk in a rose-garden, either.
Let's think realistically about the 'golden times,' where lives were shorter and illnesses were longer.
Feiran himself died in his 40th solar cycle by lungs weakened from unmitigated exposure to craterspawn, with no cure to lessen the spread.
Poverty and ignorance were an order of magnitude more severe.
A cure’s affect was anybody's quack guess.
Do not act enlightened post-hoc; you wouldn't have known if serpent oil was good for that rash or not, either.
Now and then, I might argue for a little regression, but I mean that only in the sense of trading in some of our disproportioned reliance on reliances for a little bit of a return to our natural ecology.
It is the well from which we have sprung, and from wandering too far from it we are certain to dry out.
But I like my assets. And I believe in the advancements of higher knowing; those usher in the new frontier, upon whose rim the Beyond may stretch farther into the distance than we can yet know.
Progress is unavoidable, and at least in the short term, it is a good.
Like it or not, subsistence (life) has improved.
As much as some relativists in the interactive-knowledge circles would have you believe that trading Avalar for a daily forage is a fair swap, it isn't.
We have sparse sounds and adorned cossacks now, instead of smashing in some of the heads of a neighboring order just to take their followers as objects.
So sure, journeying is not what it used to be, but that's prolly for the best.
Alright, I have gone too far back in time.
My point was that we should just be careful not to romanticize the past too much.
And let's also allow other people's ideas to stand for themselves, without trying to apply too much of ourselves to the story when we reference them.
So I hope I didn't do that too much just now.
Still, it's fun just to imagine.
It might be the place I'm currently at in my life, but between my mix of ennui, weariness, spiritual hollowness, and that strange sort of resigned exhaustion one feels just after consigning one's soul to the figurative devil itself, I read that, turned my gaze skyward and reverently intoned, "... beckon upon it and despair!"
Here is someone who understands, not the crushing nature of life, but instead the slow, constant grind of the cosmic ticking clock. Of each step, another slow plod towards an open grave. The question of "Why?" A small question but written with three letters each of which stretch from horizon to horizon, encompassing all the vast vaulting sky above that threatens to swallow us that live on this tiny spec of dust in the endless black ocean. The question that makes light-years and eons too small a measure to quantify the importance of it. "Why?" "Who am I?" "What do I want?"
...
And the knowledge that someone else has asked these questions gives an answer. Not the answer, but an answer.
"I am not alone."
Often there is a single image or concept which, by gift of precise language or striking juxtaposition, the poet seizes upon in such a way that the reader's attention is drawn to it and held there, like iron filings to a magnet. I mean something simple, something haunting -- as beautiful as two roads diverging in the yellow wood, or as bluntly insightful as "Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else." I see a little of that here, but not much more; there are occasional moments where I see an image beginning to coalesce out of the fog, but the author can't seem to hold on to it and it fades back into the morass of incomplete thoughts. The author will land on a striking statement -- "the me that can be seen" grabbed me -- but as I said, there's no serious development of any of this... The composition leaps from idea to idea in an almost panicked fashion; if the author was trying to portray fright, confusion, or a fading sense of identity, they aimed in the right direction. The repetition of phrases, however, fails to impress -- they're an old trick, hackneyed when in the hands of hacks or only-just-learning writers, and do nothing to create a sense of the profound.
We have here an author that is clearly still trying to break free of their artistic influences and find their own voice. I do not think they have done so yet. Instead of coming across as deep, this poem gives the impression of an untutored writer's attempt to imitate the depth of great poetry. There are some concepts here that catch the eye and the mind, if only momentarily, but the author does not yet have the experience or the vocabulary to articulate them fully. (Not to mention them having the possible wrath of fanatics coming down on them.) All the same, it shows talent, if a rough and unpolished talent, and I would encourage the author not to give up. True self-expression is difficult for even the best writers...
Alright, just reread all this and it seems all right, but I tend to get extremely voluble when I've had a few Jack and Cokes. I'm going to post this and then make myself another succulent vice. Pass it on to your correspondent and tell them again from me.
For each thing I do I rush through so I can do
something else. In such a way do the days pass-
a blend of stock car racing and the never
ending building of a gothic cathedral.
Through the windows of my speeding car, I see
all that I love falling away: books unread,
jokes untold, landscapes unvisited. And why?
What treasure do I expect in my future?
Rather it is the confusion of childhood
loping behind me, the chaos in the mind,
the failure chipping away at each success.
Glancing over my shoulder I see its shape
and so move forward, as someone in the woods
at night might hear the sound of approaching feet
and stop to listen; then, instead of silence
he hears some creature trying to be silent.
What else can he do but run? Rushing blindly
down the path, stumbling, struck in the face by sticks;
the other ever closer, yet not really
hurrying or out of breath, teasing its kill.
My favourite historical person on one of my favourite channels. I couldn't be more pleased. But you've still beaten my already high expectations with a double length episode on my favourite hero. Much love to you Simon! I'm so glad you've made this video
Brilliant piece of history Simon. I have enjoyed watching this three times. Keep up the good work.
Last time I was this early Remus and Romulus were planning a big art and craft project
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
Why do we all know of Himmler and not any of these people when some of them have killed three times more than him?
Oh boy!
I hope those two boys get along well. They have been fighting about where to put the lego bricks lately.
@@truth5705 What is going on and how is it related to Romulus and Remus?
@@hannibalburgers477 foolish people spouting hate for no real purpose. Seasoned with hate and ignorance.
Agustus's life plays out like a wild era in a Crusader Kings 2/3 playthrough.
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
@@truth5705 don't know why this is a reply to my comment. But I doubt it's that complicated. this channel is still producing content. There's a lot of people he hasn't gotten to yet. That's likely all there is to it.
You beat me to saying it lol. Also the other comment did indeed come out of nowhere
But Nero's life would be a player's Ck2 gameplay. *hint hint* ;)
@@darksteiner631 Nero just didnt get the chance at to marry his horse like I did in my ck2 playthrough. My new family knows not the needs of man, for they have risen above them.
I think, this might be my favorite CZcams video. I find Roman history so fascinating and Augustus was something extraordinary. I loved everything about this video thank you
Honestly one of the best videos I’ve seen. I love this channel so much and this just made it even better. His words on the first Emperor at the end were awe-inspiring
It really is not just one of Simon’s best videos, but one of the best videos ever published on CZcams - it is certainly the best biography on here. As you said, that closing monologue is awe-inspiring. I can quote it verbatim.
The conclusion of this video would make even Augustus himself proud. Chills, literal chills
Yeah this hard af
44 minutes on one of, to me, the most interesting persons that ever lived? Thank you Simon!
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
We all know of Himmler and Mengele, but few know anything about these men, when they've killed, in cold blood three times as many people.
Why is that???
@@truth5705 Feiran's 'Preticure' was published in...
From when I write this in the current time, that was 70 lunar cycles ago.
Much has changed since that time.
Not much of that change would likely please Feiran, who valued so much the independent spirit of the home estates of his age.
This contemporary culture spends more of its attention on distant communes than it does on the physical wonders of the natural world in which it inhabits.
Self-reliance has been all but replaced by the omnipresent crutch of reliance, whose bandages continue to wrap us in protection, usually at the expense of our remaining mobility and autonomy.
It might be best that he is gone.
But I do not want to idealize him; he was a product of his time and culture, and it is certain that many of his values would simply not be possible to preserve in today's age.
So, have we paid too much for our advances?
Should we want to go back?
In a pure exploration, for the purpose of seeking nothing but an unburdened soul, Feiran might spend hours and miles walking a single direction without anthropological encounter.
Such expanses of the estates have been replaced with our mostly paved conveniences- which feed perfectly our comfort, yet which allow our inner peace to starve at the same time.
See what I'm doing here?
I'm commandeering his assets by using it as a springboard to voice my own lofty views, amalgamated with his own under my exclusive discretion.
Sure, there's not necessarily anything wrong with doing that- but I just can't stand it when it comes right before the notary pad I am trying to visualize!
And don't let me become too much satisfied with the slack in my line, lest I become the maker of my own speculative and pretentious forward, or worse, to be the last-word loving creator of the after-the-fact reactionary argument, perhaps like Esther Bren Terse, who seemed to've fancied himself as Feiran’s more contemporary literary improvement.
As though post-hoc prose holds no advantage for the maker!
Just as history is necessarily written by the victor standing, whoever has yet to lift pen from paper (or in my case, whoever now has fingers to keys) remains, mouth still a flapping.
But seriously, Preticure will give you a feel for what that time was like.
In many ways, it was a time that was far less constrained than the lifestyle you and I may know, but it was no walk in a rose-garden, either.
Let's think realistically about the 'golden times,' where lives were shorter and illnesses were longer.
Feiran himself died in his 40th solar cycle by lungs weakened from unmitigated exposure to craterspawn, with no cure to lessen the spread.
Poverty and ignorance were an order of magnitude more severe.
A cure’s affect was anybody's quack guess.
Do not act enlightened post-hoc; you wouldn't have known if serpent oil was good for that rash or not, either.
Now and then, I might argue for a little regression, but I mean that only in the sense of trading in some of our disproportioned reliance on reliances for a little bit of a return to our natural ecology.
It is the well from which we have sprung, and from wandering too far from it we are certain to dry out.
But I like my assets. And I believe in the advancements of higher knowing; those usher in the new frontier, upon whose rim the Beyond may stretch farther into the distance than we can yet know.
Progress is unavoidable, and at least in the short term, it is a good.
Like it or not, subsistence (life) has improved.
As much as some relativists in the interactive-knowledge circles would have you believe that trading Avalar for a daily forage is a fair swap, it isn't.
We have sparse sounds and adorned cossacks now, instead of smashing in some of the heads of a neighboring order just to take their followers as objects.
So sure, journeying is not what it used to be, but that's prolly for the best.
Alright, I have gone too far back in time.
My point was that we should just be careful not to romanticize the past too much.
And let's also allow other people's ideas to stand for themselves, without trying to apply too much of ourselves to the story when we reference them.
So I hope I didn't do that too much just now.
Still, it's fun just to imagine.
It might be the place I'm currently at in my life, but between my mix of ennui, weariness, spiritual hollowness, and that strange sort of resigned exhaustion one feels just after consigning one's soul to the figurative devil itself, I read that, turned my gaze skyward and reverently intoned, "... beckon upon it and despair!"
Here is someone who understands, not the crushing nature of life, but instead the slow, constant grind of the cosmic ticking clock. Of each step, another slow plod towards an open grave. The question of "Why?" A small question but written with three letters each of which stretch from horizon to horizon, encompassing all the vast vaulting sky above that threatens to swallow us that live on this tiny spec of dust in the endless black ocean. The question that makes light-years and eons too small a measure to quantify the importance of it. "Why?" "Who am I?" "What do I want?"
...
And the knowledge that someone else has asked these questions gives an answer. Not the answer, but an answer.
"I am not alone."
Often there is a single image or concept which, by gift of precise language or striking juxtaposition, the poet seizes upon in such a way that the reader's attention is drawn to it and held there, like iron filings to a magnet. I mean something simple, something haunting -- as beautiful as two roads diverging in the yellow wood, or as bluntly insightful as "Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else." I see a little of that here, but not much more; there are occasional moments where I see an image beginning to coalesce out of the fog, but the author can't seem to hold on to it and it fades back into the morass of incomplete thoughts. The author will land on a striking statement -- "the me that can be seen" grabbed me -- but as I said, there's no serious development of any of this... The composition leaps from idea to idea in an almost panicked fashion; if the author was trying to portray fright, confusion, or a fading sense of identity, they aimed in the right direction. The repetition of phrases, however, fails to impress -- they're an old trick, hackneyed when in the hands of hacks or only-just-learning writers, and do nothing to create a sense of the profound.
We have here an author that is clearly still trying to break free of their artistic influences and find their own voice. I do not think they have done so yet. Instead of coming across as deep, this poem gives the impression of an untutored writer's attempt to imitate the depth of great poetry. There are some concepts here that catch the eye and the mind, if only momentarily, but the author does not yet have the experience or the vocabulary to articulate them fully. (Not to mention them having the possible wrath of fanatics coming down on them.) All the same, it shows talent, if a rough and unpolished talent, and I would encourage the author not to give up. True self-expression is difficult for even the best writers...
Alright, just reread all this and it seems all right, but I tend to get extremely voluble when I've had a few Jack and Cokes. I'm going to post this and then make myself another succulent vice. Pass it on to your correspondent and tell them again from me.
For each thing I do I rush through so I can do
something else. In such a way do the days pass-
a blend of stock car racing and the never
ending building of a gothic cathedral.
Through the windows of my speeding car, I see
all that I love falling away: books unread,
jokes untold, landscapes unvisited. And why?
What treasure do I expect in my future?
Rather it is the confusion of childhood
loping behind me, the chaos in the mind,
the failure chipping away at each success.
Glancing over my shoulder I see its shape
and so move forward, as someone in the woods
at night might hear the sound of approaching feet
and stop to listen; then, instead of silence
he hears some creature trying to be silent.
What else can he do but run? Rushing blindly
down the path, stumbling, struck in the face by sticks;
the other ever closer, yet not really
hurrying or out of breath, teasing its kill.
Great video on Agustus, well worth the extra length. I love the stuff that Simon does.
Also- 'Pom-pay' (Pompeii) is a place, a city that was wiped out by a volcanic eruption.
'Pom-pee' (Pompey Magus) was a person who was on the 1st Triumvirate with Julius Caesar and then later fought against him.
I love the way you bring History to life ! A throughly entertaining presentation again well done
I'd appreciate it if you guys did Aurelian he's seriously underrated.
One of the best emperors. I love the fact that he executed most of the mint officials for corruption when he found out they were stealing the silver that was supposed to go into the coinage.
RESTITVTOR ORBIS
amen!
the sandy koufax of emperors, peak value defined!
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
I watched the HBO series Rome expecting it to butcher history but was actually surprised. I mean it wasn’t 100% accurate obviously but overall, I think it did a good job. Thankfully they realized, the story of Rome doesn’t need dramatization, it’s fascinating on its own.
Next watch Roman empire on netflix.. it's damn good
I really wish it wouldn't have gotten cancelled. I loved both actors that played Octavian. Ray Stevenson is also great in anything. They were already setting up the rise of Jews in Rome in the second season, and I would've loved to see how far the show went into Roman history. We could of gotten Caligula's rise to power with HBO's budget. It was a fantastic show though.
@@vardhraj1 that show is terribly inaccurate
It's just too bad the second and third season got squished into one
God raises it up to put up the foundation of His One, Holy, Catholic (Universal) , Apostolic Church.
👍 a wonderful, full story Simon. Totally enjoyed it. Learned so much more. Thank you. Love the longer ones. So much more information. ❤️
Love how you narrate, makes an already interesting subject entertaining.
Funny, how Simon is massively fanboying over Augustus.
Ngl I am too.
He's too used to people doing really dumb moves, its kind of a breath of fresh air
He is arguably the most successful politician in history
How could you not? Augustus is literally one of the greatest men to ever exist in human history lmao
Everybody does. Personally I think Julius Caesar was more Impressive and is the reason Augustus was able to achieve anything, but none can deny his impact was much more long lasting.
And yet nobody asked Tribune Aquila about all of this..
I am stunned!
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
Goat comment right here.
if you know you know
❤️
Well done, a very detailed and accurate overview of Augustus' life.
I love how this guy can be so informative and fun at the same time
For those saying Augustus wasn't great because he wasn't nice, I've got news.
Greatness is measured by impact on history, not on niceness.
By the strocious standards of the time he was,extremely nice !!!
@@johnsaunders2109
Augustus seemed to have the interests of the people of the Roman world as the bases of his policy. He developed a durable governing system that enabled a long period of peace and stability, and no matter the details of governing, peace and stability are basic requirements of good government. It was a system that was able to govern despite incompetent, venal and corrupt leadership at the top, at least for a while.
*Genghis Khan enters stage left*
Was he great at doing the work of God or the devil?
@@NiclasLoof so you saying after they came from the flood on Noah's ark Shem, Japeth and Ham didn't know about God? 😂🤣 So what was the point of the flood?
"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble" - Augustus
"Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!" About the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, 9CE, where three legions were lost.
It's funny how the loss of these legions goes unemphasised considering how the historians put alot of emphasis on the movements of the legions in Britain.
And to think some call Augustus a tyrant. Well, what is one to do when a republic becomes so corrupt that it no longer represents the people in any way and the country goes into chaos?
@@thunderbird1921 the thing is Rome was never a republic and was just ruled by a voting body of oligarchs.
It's so great watching Simon talk about ancient history you can see the passion in his body language. This is a video of marble. Damn good watch 😃
I love watching you get so passionate at the end. This was awesome!
Flawed as he certainly was, Augustus is still one of my favorite historical figures
How many people stand like a true colossus in the pantheon of history? Precious few. Of all of them, Octavian towers above them all. He literally shaped what is now thought of as Western Civilization.
@@spudeleven5124 agreed!
Most great ancient leaders (and honestly a few modern ones) weren't good people by our standards as much as they were good at keeping order. At this point in history a little brutality was needed to keep things in check.
@@BP-dn9nv truly
Do one on Agrippa, he's a badass.
Yeses please🙏🙏🙏
Pfft... Was no Titus Pullo!
Is it just me or does ancient Rome sound like one the coolest fantasy settingd ever? Like sometimes the names, the politics, and the lives don't sound real. Like an impossible and imposing tale of a Kingdom unfathomable
Its just you !
Considering they existed and inspired before any story and romance and epic history fiction, no, its not just you.
@@nhienphan2808 He’s saying Rome is like a cool fantasy even if it was real (obviously). I’m sure others do think the same
The Algorithm had introduced me to your channel a while ago and I have often watched your videos. Now, having just started collage, taking Ancient History A levels, I have been learning about the formation of the Roman Empire and have just spent my evening preparing for an exam. Having done that and giving myself some downtime, I checked my youtube recommendations and found this video and honestly, after sitting through the whole thing (minus the sponsor),I don't think I could get bored about this subject (yet). Keep on making easy to digest and interesting/entertaining videos!
You just startled collage? Go back to middle school.
@@MaleviahBurned Why?
@@MaleviahBurnedAlso, what's middle school?
Can we all take a moment to appreciate Simon and the team at biographics for doing a 45 minute video ❤️
Why must they make such great historical videos and then add unnecessary explicit comments. I would love to show these to my kid but I can't. Please consider your possible audience and the impact your great work COULD have.
Thank you.
@@carymcfadden why won't you show it your kid??
Augustus: To show you my power, i turned Egypt into my backyard
I love these videos! Thank you! Can you also do videos on the Ancient Greeks? I would love to hear and compare them with their Roman Counterparts, especially their mad-crazy rulers. I'm sure they have a few to tell.
Well done. Excellent work. Well read. Loved it. I love your presentation style. When you use this style, you are possibly the best narrator of all CZcamsrs.
Marc Antony does anything
* benny hill theme plays *
That sparked a very vividly imagined scenario, well done!
Highly accurate description
Marc Anthony, historic proof that simping does not pay off
A video on Agrippa would be cool his right hand man
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
We all know of Himmler and Mengele, but few know anything about these men, when they've killed, in cold blood three times as many people.
Why is that???
@@truth5705 No one cares quit typing the same thing over and over again.
And Macaenas. He was the great.political brain!
@@truth5705 Feiran's 'Preticure' was published in...
From when I write this in the current time, that was 70 lunar cycles ago.
Much has changed since that time.
Not much of that change would likely please Feiran, who valued so much the independent spirit of the home estates of his age.
This contemporary culture spends more of its attention on distant communes than it does on the physical wonders of the natural world in which it inhabits.
Self-reliance has been all but replaced by the omnipresent crutch of reliance, whose bandages continue to wrap us in protection, usually at the expense of our remaining mobility and autonomy.
It might be best that he is gone.
But I do not want to idealize him; he was a product of his time and culture, and it is certain that many of his values would simply not be possible to preserve in today's age.
So, have we paid too much for our advances?
Should we want to go back?
In a pure exploration, for the purpose of seeking nothing but an unburdened soul, Feiran might spend hours and miles walking a single direction without anthropological encounter.
Such expanses of the estates have been replaced with our mostly paved conveniences- which feed perfectly our comfort, yet which allow our inner peace to starve at the same time.
See what I'm doing here?
I'm commandeering his assets by using it as a springboard to voice my own lofty views, amalgamated with his own under my exclusive discretion.
Sure, there's not necessarily anything wrong with doing that- but I just can't stand it when it comes right before the notary pad I am trying to visualize!
And don't let me become too much satisfied with the slack in my line, lest I become the maker of my own speculative and pretentious forward, or worse, to be the last-word loving creator of the after-the-fact reactionary argument, perhaps like Esther Bren Terse, who seemed to've fancied himself as Feiran’s more contemporary literary improvement.
As though post-hoc prose holds no advantage for the maker!
Just as history is necessarily written by the victor standing, whoever has yet to lift pen from paper (or in my case, whoever now has fingers to keys) remains, mouth still a flapping.
But seriously, Preticure will give you a feel for what that time was like.
In many ways, it was a time that was far less constrained than the lifestyle you and I may know, but it was no walk in a rose-garden, either.
Let's think realistically about the 'golden times,' where lives were shorter and illnesses were longer.
Feiran himself died in his 40th solar cycle by lungs weakened from unmitigated exposure to craterspawn, with no cure to lessen the spread.
Poverty and ignorance were an order of magnitude more severe.
A cure’s affect was anybody's quack guess.
Do not act enlightened post-hoc; you wouldn't have known if serpent oil was good for that rash or not, either.
Now and then, I might argue for a little regression, but I mean that only in the sense of trading in some of our disproportioned reliance on reliances for a little bit of a return to our natural ecology.
It is the well from which we have sprung, and from wandering too far from it we are certain to dry out.
But I like my assets. And I believe in the advancements of higher knowing; those usher in the new frontier, upon whose rim the Beyond may stretch farther into the distance than we can yet know.
Progress is unavoidable, and at least in the short term, it is a good.
Like it or not, subsistence (life) has improved.
As much as some relativists in the interactive-knowledge circles would have you believe that trading Avalar for a daily forage is a fair swap, it isn't.
We have sparse sounds and adorned cossacks now, instead of smashing in some of the heads of a neighboring order just to take their followers as objects.
So sure, journeying is not what it used to be, but that's prolly for the best.
Alright, I have gone too far back in time.
My point was that we should just be careful not to romanticize the past too much.
And let's also allow other people's ideas to stand for themselves, without trying to apply too much of ourselves to the story when we reference them.
So I hope I didn't do that too much just now.
Still, it's fun just to imagine.
It might be the place I'm currently at in my life, but between my mix of ennui, weariness, spiritual hollowness, and that strange sort of resigned exhaustion one feels just after consigning one's soul to the figurative devil itself, I read that, turned my gaze skyward and reverently intoned, "... beckon upon it and despair!"
Here is someone who understands, not the crushing nature of life, but instead the slow, constant grind of the cosmic ticking clock. Of each step, another slow plod towards an open grave. The question of "Why?" A small question but written with three letters each of which stretch from horizon to horizon, encompassing all the vast vaulting sky above that threatens to swallow us that live on this tiny spec of dust in the endless black ocean. The question that makes light-years and eons too small a measure to quantify the importance of it. "Why?" "Who am I?" "What do I want?"
...
And the knowledge that someone else has asked these questions gives an answer. Not the answer, but an answer.
"I am not alone."
Often there is a single image or concept which, by gift of precise language or striking juxtaposition, the poet seizes upon in such a way that the reader's attention is drawn to it and held there, like iron filings to a magnet. I mean something simple, something haunting -- as beautiful as two roads diverging in the yellow wood, or as bluntly insightful as "Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else." I see a little of that here, but not much more; there are occasional moments where I see an image beginning to coalesce out of the fog, but the author can't seem to hold on to it and it fades back into the morass of incomplete thoughts. The author will land on a striking statement -- "the me that can be seen" grabbed me -- but as I said, there's no serious development of any of this... The composition leaps from idea to idea in an almost panicked fashion; if the author was trying to portray fright, confusion, or a fading sense of identity, they aimed in the right direction. The repetition of phrases, however, fails to impress -- they're an old trick, hackneyed when in the hands of hacks or only-just-learning writers, and do nothing to create a sense of the profound.
We have here an author that is clearly still trying to break free of their artistic influences and find their own voice. I do not think they have done so yet. Instead of coming across as deep, this poem gives the impression of an untutored writer's attempt to imitate the depth of great poetry. There are some concepts here that catch the eye and the mind, if only momentarily, but the author does not yet have the experience or the vocabulary to articulate them fully. (Not to mention them having the possible wrath of fanatics coming down on them.) All the same, it shows talent, if a rough and unpolished talent, and I would encourage the author not to give up. True self-expression is difficult for even the best writers...
Alright, just reread all this and it seems all right, but I tend to get extremely voluble when I've had a few Jack and Cokes. I'm going to post this and then make myself another succulent vice. Pass it on to your correspondent and tell them again from me.
For each thing I do I rush through so I can do
something else. In such a way do the days pass-
a blend of stock car racing and the never
ending building of a gothic cathedral.
Through the windows of my speeding car, I see
all that I love falling away: books unread,
jokes untold, landscapes unvisited. And why?
What treasure do I expect in my future?
Rather it is the confusion of childhood
loping behind me, the chaos in the mind,
the failure chipping away at each success.
Glancing over my shoulder I see its shape
and so move forward, as someone in the woods
at night might hear the sound of approaching feet
and stop to listen; then, instead of silence
he hears some creature trying to be silent.
What else can he do but run? Rushing blindly
down the path, stumbling, struck in the face by sticks;
the other ever closer, yet not really
hurrying or out of breath, teasing its kill.
Yes, that's for sure. I doubt that without him Augustus would have become the great emperor he was.
Let me just say, that i absolutely LOVE this channel, thanks for the awesome content!
Really appreciated how you were able to explain the passing of time and timeline of events
We call this type of beard *The beard of wisdom*
Because foods not the only thing that falls out of it
That's the type of beard you find at the gloryhole.
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
But rick can only give you $30 for it, and he's taking all the risks
@@truth5705 you’re really boring aren’t you.
*Peace was never an option* - Augustus Ceasar
Quintili Vare, legiones redde!
Source?
@@bobfg3130it's a joke ;-;
@@katmannsson these are the correct Latin words "Vare, redde mihi legiones meas!""
@@bobfg3130 You're not very smart.
Thanks for making this! Was very enjoyable!!
I love these videos, you have a way of making them simple yet riveting. Thanks
1:40 - Chapter 1 - In his shadow
5:40 - Chapter 2 - The ides of march
9:10 - Chapter 3 - Frenemies
12:25 - Chapter 4 - "These many , then shall die"
16:25 - Mid roll ads
18:10 - Chapter 5 - The triumvirate's end
22:15 - Chapter 6 - Actium end
26:40 - Chapter 7 - The emperor awaken
31:00 - Chapter 8 - Building a superpower
35:10 - Chapter 9 - Lust & death
39:10 - Chapter 10 - The bitter end
Finally! Now you need to do Titus, Domitian, Nerva and Antoninus Pius to fill up the gaps in your "glory of Rome" playlist.
I wouldn't mind one on Septimus Severus. He did a lot to restore discipline after the disastrous reign of Commodus
@@12jswilson He left Caracalla in charge. Even after Caracalla tried to have him killed! After Septimius died, Caracalla killed his brother and co-emperor right in front of their mother.
Domitian was emperor when Saint John of Patmos wrote the Book of Apocalypse. Domitian persecuted Christians almost as bad as Nero. he was, also, a self-loathing homosexual that persecuted homosexuals for appearance's sake. Many believe that the "Whore that sits on the throne of Rome" mentioned in the Apocalypse is a put-down of Domitian.
@@jmchez were has it ever been said Domition was a homosexual as ive never seen any mention of that before.
And in fact Domition could arguably be one of the better roman emperors, he had many personal faults which are probably by the lack of attention his father gave him compared to Titus. However policy wise other than pissing pf the senate he did a fairly good job in many peoples opinions
don't forget Good Cincinnatus
I love this channel so much. Ever since a little boy I loved history so much. I work in medicine now, but love to come to this channel multiple times a day and learn.
The best Octavian bio on CZcams.. so much has been done on Caesar, Pompeii, Cato, etc, but not much on Augustus...
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
He was a god on hearth not much they can say on god.i really passionate about Octavian agaustau.
@@truth5705 Feiran's 'Preticure' was published in...
From when I write this in the current time, that was 70 lunar cycles ago.
Much has changed since that time.
Not much of that change would likely please Feiran, who valued so much the independent spirit of the home estates of his age.
This contemporary culture spends more of its attention on distant communes than it does on the physical wonders of the natural world in which it inhabits.
Self-reliance has been all but replaced by the omnipresent crutch of reliance, whose bandages continue to wrap us in protection, usually at the expense of our remaining mobility and autonomy.
It might be best that he is gone.
But I do not want to idealize him; he was a product of his time and culture, and it is certain that many of his values would simply not be possible to preserve in today's age.
So, have we paid too much for our advances?
Should we want to go back?
In a pure exploration, for the purpose of seeking nothing but an unburdened soul, Feiran might spend hours and miles walking a single direction without anthropological encounter.
Such expanses of the estates have been replaced with our mostly paved conveniences- which feed perfectly our comfort, yet which allow our inner peace to starve at the same time.
See what I'm doing here?
I'm commandeering his assets by using it as a springboard to voice my own lofty views, amalgamated with his own under my exclusive discretion.
Sure, there's not necessarily anything wrong with doing that- but I just can't stand it when it comes right before the notary pad I am trying to visualize!
And don't let me become too much satisfied with the slack in my line, lest I become the maker of my own speculative and pretentious forward, or worse, to be the last-word loving creator of the after-the-fact reactionary argument, perhaps like Esther Bren Terse, who seemed to've fancied himself as Feiran’s more contemporary literary improvement.
As though post-hoc prose holds no advantage for the maker!
Just as history is necessarily written by the victor standing, whoever has yet to lift pen from paper (or in my case, whoever now has fingers to keys) remains, mouth still a flapping.
But seriously, Preticure will give you a feel for what that time was like.
In many ways, it was a time that was far less constrained than the lifestyle you and I may know, but it was no walk in a rose-garden, either.
Let's think realistically about the 'golden times,' where lives were shorter and illnesses were longer.
Feiran himself died in his 40th solar cycle by lungs weakened from unmitigated exposure to craterspawn, with no cure to lessen the spread.
Poverty and ignorance were an order of magnitude more severe.
A cure’s affect was anybody's quack guess.
Do not act enlightened post-hoc; you wouldn't have known if serpent oil was good for that rash or not, either.
Now and then, I might argue for a little regression, but I mean that only in the sense of trading in some of our disproportioned reliance on reliances for a little bit of a return to our natural ecology.
It is the well from which we have sprung, and from wandering too far from it we are certain to dry out.
But I like my assets. And I believe in the advancements of higher knowing; those usher in the new frontier, upon whose rim the Beyond may stretch farther into the distance than we can yet know.
Progress is unavoidable, and at least in the short term, it is a good.
Like it or not, subsistence (life) has improved.
As much as some relativists in the interactive-knowledge circles would have you believe that trading Avalar for a daily forage is a fair swap, it isn't.
We have sparse sounds and adorned cossacks now, instead of smashing in some of the heads of a neighboring order just to take their followers as objects.
So sure, journeying is not what it used to be, but that's prolly for the best.
Alright, I have gone too far back in time.
My point was that we should just be careful not to romanticize the past too much.
And let's also allow other people's ideas to stand for themselves, without trying to apply too much of ourselves to the story when we reference them.
So I hope I didn't do that too much just now.
Still, it's fun just to imagine.
It might be the place I'm currently at in my life, but between my mix of ennui, weariness, spiritual hollowness, and that strange sort of resigned exhaustion one feels just after consigning one's soul to the figurative devil itself, I read that, turned my gaze skyward and reverently intoned, "... beckon upon it and despair!"
Here is someone who understands, not the crushing nature of life, but instead the slow, constant grind of the cosmic ticking clock. Of each step, another slow plod towards an open grave. The question of "Why?" A small question but written with three letters each of which stretch from horizon to horizon, encompassing all the vast vaulting sky above that threatens to swallow us that live on this tiny spec of dust in the endless black ocean. The question that makes light-years and eons too small a measure to quantify the importance of it. "Why?" "Who am I?" "What do I want?"
...
And the knowledge that someone else has asked these questions gives an answer. Not the answer, but an answer.
"I am not alone."
Often there is a single image or concept which, by gift of precise language or striking juxtaposition, the poet seizes upon in such a way that the reader's attention is drawn to it and held there, like iron filings to a magnet. I mean something simple, something haunting -- as beautiful as two roads diverging in the yellow wood, or as bluntly insightful as "Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else." I see a little of that here, but not much more; there are occasional moments where I see an image beginning to coalesce out of the fog, but the author can't seem to hold on to it and it fades back into the morass of incomplete thoughts. The author will land on a striking statement -- "the me that can be seen" grabbed me -- but as I said, there's no serious development of any of this... The composition leaps from idea to idea in an almost panicked fashion; if the author was trying to portray fright, confusion, or a fading sense of identity, they aimed in the right direction. The repetition of phrases, however, fails to impress -- they're an old trick, hackneyed when in the hands of hacks or only-just-learning writers, and do nothing to create a sense of the profound.
We have here an author that is clearly still trying to break free of their artistic influences and find their own voice. I do not think they have done so yet. Instead of coming across as deep, this poem gives the impression of an untutored writer's attempt to imitate the depth of great poetry. There are some concepts here that catch the eye and the mind, if only momentarily, but the author does not yet have the experience or the vocabulary to articulate them fully. (Not to mention them having the possible wrath of fanatics coming down on them.) All the same, it shows talent, if a rough and unpolished talent, and I would encourage the author not to give up. True self-expression is difficult for even the best writers...
Alright, just reread all this and it seems all right, but I tend to get extremely voluble when I've had a few Jack and Cokes. I'm going to post this and then make myself another succulent vice. Pass it on to your correspondent and tell them again from me.
For each thing I do I rush through so I can do
something else. In such a way do the days pass-
a blend of stock car racing and the never
ending building of a gothic cathedral.
Through the windows of my speeding car, I see
all that I love falling away: books unread,
jokes untold, landscapes unvisited. And why?
What treasure do I expect in my future?
Rather it is the confusion of childhood
loping behind me, the chaos in the mind,
the failure chipping away at each success.
Glancing over my shoulder I see its shape
and so move forward, as someone in the woods
at night might hear the sound of approaching feet
and stop to listen; then, instead of silence
he hears some creature trying to be silent.
What else can he do but run? Rushing blindly
down the path, stumbling, struck in the face by sticks;
the other ever closer, yet not really
hurrying or out of breath, teasing its kill.
I personally think that you should do more videos on these types of historical figures because these videos are great!!!
I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic/religious background and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
All of them are from the same ethnic/religious background and if you say that this background was over represented, you're marked as a conspiracy theorist and worse.
A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these people?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic/religious background and they might take offense.
We all know of Himmler and Mengele, but few know anything about these men, when they've killed, in cold blood three times as many people.
Why is that???
yeah, i don't like the murderer ones. probably because i listen to these before I slee and it's much more fun dreaming about taking over Rome with my boys Augustus and Agripa.
Great job Simon! Love your work, keep it up!
Really well done. I am always delighted by your presentation. Your crisp command of English is so nice to hear.
"If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain"- Augustus
PS: I didn't know Marc Antony was Octavian's uncle. I was actually really surprised about it.
Words of wisdom..
Oh wait, this is an actual quote.
Also rain is cool unless you live in Britannia.
Ceasars was Octavian's uncle.
Great uncle.
I’ve been waiting for the Augustus video for so long, thank you so much for giving him a 45min treatment!!!
you did a superb job making this video. i definitely enjoyed watching this. I love watching your videos, because they are jam pack on information.
Love the new Simon on these newer biographics videos one of the greatest speakers of history in history!
“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearken when he was young”
Augustus
You are a wildly superb narrator. Have either read or heard all the historical events before, but listening to this is like seeing it all afresh.
This is marvelous video, with so much information, stories, with atmosphere worth the man of the hour. Thank you for giving us this piece! :)
This is the best video on this channel. Thank you, Simon.
Also, what is the piece playing when the first segment begins? So beautiful.
I feel like he really likes octavian
A lot of folks do myself included. My favourite Roman next to Marcus Aurelius.
Thanks
@@rubberducky4074 Dude, me too! Aurelius was amazing. I do like Julius too, they are all awesome
@@DainHunter is anything not ' awesome ' to an American ?!?
@@johnsaunders2109 idk, im not american. Im from Norway which is a multicultural country heavily affected by EU which is heavily affected by US.
Thank god for HBO Rome for doing Augustus justice. Amazing show and amazing historial figure
I felt it portrayed Augustus as an icy psychopath.
@@blacbraun That's history for ya
@@blacbraun Roman Politics were cutthroat, Julius Caesar died for being compassionate and Augustus took that lesson to heart.
@@ChrisZukowski88 Julius Caesar was horrible. He achieved what he wanted by having paid men beat senators up. Caesar deserved what he got.
Thank you for all the work, I know Im not the only one enjoying it!!
By far the best out of a long list of awesome vids. Simon the orator, Olé!
Brilliantly told Simon.
Many thanks to the whole team on this video.
Augustus , the one who created the Praetorian Guard, had the longest reign. Constantine the Great, the one who abolished the Praetorian Guard, had the second longest one.
ahahhah others got stabbed in the back by them
huh. a very interesting thought...
Interesting... The Praetorians were kind of sandy buttflaps
And good riddance he got rid of them
Great video Simon. Thoroughly enjoyed this and it’s longer length 👌👏
Really good videos. I bet it’s really difficult to hold back your knowledge on some of these topics. Like watching a previous video, this guy has a wealth of knowledge on the overall situation but he kept it to the focus of the topic of the video. Super interesting overall.
Superb video. I can't imagine a long one like this is easy to research, edit and narrate. Well done Biographics team.
As always, a brilliant video. Honestly, you should do more of these extended videos. I'm sure everyone would agree.
I do, provided the material is as in-depth and yet still engaging as this was.
Who else is watching this the night before your classics exam ?
Helpful video though
This was fascinating to watch. I love your channel, sir, and you have more than earned my subscription.
Brilliant work. I have read a few biographies on Augustus and you handled his exceptional life excellently.
Have been waiting for this episode for years! Loved it Simon you are legend mate!
Thank you. This is brilliant for my A level classics.
I can't believe I've never paid attention to history with much interest at school. You're definitely doing something right!