History vs. Augustus - Peta Greenfield & Alex Gendler

Augustus = FDR

Some time the prosecutor attorney argument are based in our present standard. Like in the Genghis Khan video. "He was a bloodthirsty ruler that killed his enemies without mercy" That's how things were there!!

He did nothing wrong

He was...perfect

peasants talking about the greatest Emporer the World has ever produced.

He was still very much a Republican dictator rather than a monarch. North Korea has a leadership dynasty, but it's certainly not one would call a monarchy.

Meh Augustus was the best for the time he was in, to make moral judgements 2000 years later is folly

Many mistakes

punishing adultery is bad? wtf

Kangaroo courts

This was probably the dumbest video I've ever watched.

And I watched Veggie Tales, once.

tbh i feel bad for the judge

This seems wildly inaccurate? Anyone with a knowledge of the classics can point out the many inaccuracies in this videos

B.C.E.?

This was a horrible prosecution of Augustus. Ted Ed is so pathetically liberal centrist its not even funny. Imagine talking about this guy wanting to avenge Caesar when he actually turned around and murdered his only son (adoptive brother basically) so that his power could be consolidated. I'll leave it at that, you take your guess at how many omissions were made by this sham trial🙄

Punishing adultery is the act of a tyrant? I’m not buying it.

This creator would probably defend biden lol

Woke video lol augustus was a g

lastname

his mom was ceasor nice or cousin that made him orphant by linage

using alias step dad

haha a slaves owner pretending cardinal

u sure ceasor brought a 2-3 years old with him for he was in gaul for 8-12 yrs while the boy barely a teen never knew him

The late Republic was dying, the Ceasar, Popmepi and Crasus, the Triumvirate saw to save it, but alas it was in vain, the cancer of traitors ruined it all,
It was Octavian who saved ROME, had he not done so, the fall would have happened thousands of years early,

Augustus g l o o p
augustus g l o o p
the great big greedy n i n c o m p o o p

average barbarian "unbiased" (clearly barbarian biased) apologetic modern sources historian vs average chad unbiased roman/historical sources historian

Absolute power corrupts absolutely

Any country in any era with any type of government is always an oligarchy.

Central argument wanders around too much, rattling off bullet point factoids without context. It would be a better use of the 4 minutes to explain what the actual roles of the senate, consuls, tribunes and governors were; and then describing the departure from that under Augustus, than what was accomplished here.

Why didnt the lawyer talk about how Augustus used to crash weddings and would marry many and i mean MANY women just to divorce them after a couple of days because he was bored of them. Oh yeah and he slept with many women.

Is there a single soul on this good earth that prefers the corrupt republic to Augustus?
If so, come forth and fight me.

Until it collapsed. Yeah after a Thousand years.

Here roman republic is depicted almost like an ideal democracy, while it was just an oligarchy/aristocracy, furthermor the one who really destroyed roman republic was Julius Caesar. But he was indeed an autocratic brutal (roman republic was quite brutal too)leader as was julius and everyone around and before him.

The people would only have Augustus rulling since the senate killed Gaius Caesar. The people love Caesar today as much as they did back then and were hurt when the senate backstabbed him.

Pleb historians would like you to believe ceaser was a tyrant

Peta griffin

I've lived under a dictator. No matter how benevolent his rule might have been to some people, the country still felt like a prison. In the end, when his regime was overthrown, he left a nation with weak institutions and rampant corruption. Perhaps Augustus was a better ruler than the dictator I had lived under, but dictatorships of any kind rarely allow people to be free.

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Bro i got scared when the intro started cause i was sleeping

I think this video needs a better remake, it's pretty flawed as many comments pointed out.

I sometimes wonder if the series was written under the idea that we were meant to always agree with the skinny lawyer.

My teacher makes me watch this😭😭

Augustus started the Pax Romana. The government he began brought literal peace and happiness to the world and his people. Just for that, he was successful.

Obviously a legendary production. But probably would have been equally as good without the southern lawyer - northern lawyer stereotypes.

the skinny lawyer should be the one defending augustus.