Augustus

person · 5 episodes

214The Early Life of Christ 7 Apr 2025 5:24¶ 19 “Herod was a master politician. When Julius Caesar dies, is assassinated, Octavian – soon to be Augustus – and Marc Antony step in, take…” 6:03¶ 21 “Antony and Cleopatra collide with Octavian, barely, because Cleopatra does a quick back-row on her boat and takes off for Egypt, and Marc Antony…” 6:38¶ 22 “Herod is the master politician. He goes out to Octavian and says, “Hey boss, about all of that – sorry about that. I don’t…”

213Birth of the Savior 24 Mar 2025 24:24¶ 72 “We go from there back to Luke. While they’re thinking about this, things are happening in far-off Rome. We tracked Octavian as far as…” 25:18¶ 73 “He had his own epiphany ceremony. There was some kind of star in the sky or a comet, and the people celebrated. “Oh, this…” 25:50¶ 74 “Augustus meanwhile decides he’d like to know how many people he has so he can tax them all.”

208Cynic, Epic, Stoic, Skeptic 21 Oct 2024 36:27¶ 84 “There are a couple other things I guess we should say if we haven’t said them already. Pax Romana – with the defeat of…” 38:19¶ 91 “I cannot speak with authority here because I’ve never heard that question before, not that it isn’t an obvious one. Obviously Octavian was the…” 38:52¶ 92 “Virgil comes along and writes the Aeneid as one grand celebration of Rome’s great role in universal salvation or redemption. When Augustus took the…”

207From Republic to Oligarchy to Empire 7 Oct 2024 40:36¶ 101 “Octavian is from a rare family. He must have had seven siblings. The history of the world remembers him not as Octavian but as…” 42:34¶ 107 “Whatever the real historical details were, in the end Octavian and Mark Antony manage to expel the conspirators, or kill them by the hundreds…” 45:43¶ 116 “Octavian does not follow by sea. He has armies and he takes them the long way around, the very long way around – up…”

61Liberty and Responsibility 28 Feb 2021 37:47¶ 111 “Yeah, Augustus tried that one when he was ascending the throne, as it were, although he technically never did, but you know. He actually…” 38:30¶ 112 “They saw the problem, but they still didn’t want to get married and stay faithful and have kids, so along came Christians who started…”