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July 4, 2022 • 24 mins

TRIGGER WARNING: suicide, p3dophilia, and sexual assault


In this episode I talk about how Augustus sneakily stole the entire Republic and made himself king, as well as how his successor Tiberius had a "pleasure villa", which oddly sounds like a certain island that existed not too long ago.


source: gregory s aldrete -- university of wisconsin, prof. of history & humanistic studies -- amazon prime great courses -- the roman empire from augustus to the fall of rome.

https://www.livius.org/sources/content/suetonius/suetonius-on-tiberius-sex-life/


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