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Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, 2007

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another auggy

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#irene papas #gorgeous

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I think when we talk about Augustus we all get wrapped up in the fact we simply do not know him because he clothed himself in so much propaganda we can only really see the version of him he needed to be to maintain power. I think we get so wrapped up in “Augustus: the really steady guy. (TM)” that we overlook the fact that he could only be that version of himself because he was “Octavian: the ambitious kid (TM)”.

Like I wish I was there when Octavian discovered he had been adopted by Julius Caesar just so I knew how he reacted an unhealthy amount. I need to know how he had that conversation with the rest of his buddies on a base level.

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listening to a song by a woman when the man’s solo comes on

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Il Sogno di Machiavelli

Machiavelli and his muses

Livy / Niccolò Machiavelli / Cesare Borgia

Remus / Romulus

Dante Alighieri / Virgil

Hannibal Barca / Scipio Africanus

Marcus Junius Brutus / Cicero / Lucius Junius Brutus

Augustus and Julius Caesar

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“Julia had been brought up strictly. Suetonius notes that she was under instruction “not to say or do anything, either publicly or in private, that could not decently figure in the imperial day-book.” Among other things, this meant not consorting with young men, and any who were so bold as to make even the most innocuous advance risked being told off by the princeps. He wrote to Lucius Vinicius, for example, a young man of good position and conduct: “You have acted presumptuously in coming to Baiae to call on my daughter.” Despite or perhaps because of her upbringing, Julia grew into a free-spirited woman, with contradictory personality traits. She was well read and reportedly had a gentle and humane personality. However, anecdotes also survive of her sharp tongue and willfulness. Once she entered Augustus’s presence wearing a revealing dress. On the following day she appeared in the most conservative of stolas. Her father expressed his delight and said: “This dress is much more becoming in the daughter of Augustus.” Julia replied: “Yes, today I am dressed to meet my father’s eyes; yesterday it was for my husband’s.” Augustus knew better than to shout at his daughter, but he repeatedly advised her to show more restraint. He believed she was just high-spirited, and once observed that he had two spoiled daughters to put up with—Rome and Julia.”

Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor, Anthony Everitt.