May 18, 2017
Aeneas reflects Augustus in many ways – they both place duty and piety before their own comfort and interests. Both have to endure great hardships and […]
May 11, 2017
It would be a mistake to see Virgil’s poetry as purely political propaganda. It was a matter of self-respect for Augustus to allow artists to do […]
May 5, 2017
“I sing of arms and the man”. Get ready for that classical education you missed out on because your parents couldn’t afford to send you to […]
April 20, 2017
Augustus does a deal with the Parthian King Phraates IV to return the standards and prisoners from their previous encounters with Crassus and Antony. And Lucius Cornelius […]
April 14, 2017
While Augustus is out in the provinces, he tends to give his speeches in Greek rather than Latin, to show how much he respects their regional […]
April 7, 2017
One of the client rulers who is best known during these years is Herod The Great. He was brutal, but the Romans didn’t mind, as long […]
March 24, 2017
For the people in the provinces, Augustus was just the latest in a long line of foreign rulers, like the Greeks and the Persians before him. For […]
March 16, 2017
In the year 22 BCE, Augustus went to Sicily, Rome’s oldest overseas province. But the people aren’t prepared to let him go that easily. They start burning […]
March 9, 2017
Gary Arndt has been everywhere. Which is why his blog is called Everything Everywhere. Since 2007 he’s been travelling nearly non-stop, taking photos – and has […]