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2020-12-29 02:54:27
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2026-06

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Sextus Pompeius and the Sicilian War (42 to 36 B.C.E.) 

It's a Christmas Miracle!  

Boats, Pirates, Famine, Incompetence, Being Bad At Things, Bravely Running Away.

This video follows Octavian, and clearly it covers *a lot* of ground.  When I began the research process, I thought that I would be able to cover Antony & Cleopatra as well, which in retrospect seems like madness.  That stuff's all mostly researched and kinda-sorta-maybe in a first draft, so... that's coming as well!

I've been hinting on Twitter for like 6 months that I've been doing a bunch of research about "boats," and believe it or not, this is *not* that video!  Still readin bout boats.  Also readin bout diplomats.  I probably shouldn't say any more since I don't entirely know what shape that topic will take, but... that's an ongoing thing on the back burner.

Other than that...have a ~*~*~RELAXING~*~*~ holiday!  We just entered Second Lockdown here in Canada, so I anticipate a lot of boat readin taking place over the coming weeks.

(Be advised that I always wait to trigger the Patreon payment until the video goes live to the public.  This video will go live in January, which means the Patreon payment will be for February 1st.  Just so 'ya know.)

All the best!

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Sextus Pompeius and the Sicilian War.mp4

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Comments

James Bush

This is where the fun begins

Jack Downes

LET'S GOOOOOOO MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Erik Bourre

OOOOoOOOOoooOOOOooooo YEAaaaaaaa

s10w10rr1s

dude you made my night! this is going right to the living room tv

Darth Meteos

Now THIS is the Christmas gift I was waiting for.

Alex7899

Let's (and I cannot stress this enough) fucking GOOOOOOOOOO

Alex7899

And it's on my birthday as well.

Dang Quang

Octavian and Caesar are truly related, they brought themselves a hopeless blockade situation

razgriz

Things are looking up for my boy, the first citizen! Merry Christmas HC!

Mike

Coby Tang

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

asdfzxcv

The more I hear about this Octavian guy, the less I like him. I hope that he doesn't become too much of a recurring character.

Patrick Siu

One of the problems of the 22-year worth of pay was that Octavian had not been that old yet! Halfway into the video I thought I was watching Caracalla instead of Octavian. And finally, yay, Hallon is back!

teaxor

ITS THE BOAT GOD

Patrick Siu

From what I see HC takes a pretty anti-Caesarian narrative. Partly because the Caesarian were the winners, this stance is necessary to balance things out (as HC said, the records from Caesar and Octavian apologists were often embellishing things), but I also believe that we need to take account of this and interpret the history as, possibly, something in the middle.

aspjr2013

Absolutely amazing like always

Oriskó Norbert

The Historia Civilis series continues. Could it be that it's Christmas? :D

SamuraiSob

everytime the agrippa sound hits i almost fall out my chair, love it

Patrick Siu

Allow me to acknowledge two important facts. 1. HC has full rights to present what he believes is true or right. 2. I think most kinds of oppression or slaughtering are wrong, and patriotism is one of the worst excuses. In fact, I find patriotic fever the worst kind of fever because it is so easily hijacked by power grabbers. I *am* living under such kind of oppression if it interests you. What I want to say is that, comparing HC's narrative with, say, Wikipedia, it's easy to find that HC is way more anti-Caesar and anti-Octavian than other sources, and it's easy to see most of their enemies are portrayed as sympathetic at least (aside from probably one or two criticism on Cato and Brutus, IIRC). If, as you said, HC is not biased, then my perception is most articles about Caesar and Octavian on the internet (including Wikipedia, which is well sourced) are little more than fairy tales. P.S. Sorry I still did not make my words clear. One more observation I made from HC videos is that Caesarian or Octavian defeats are often presented as bigger than what's written in, say, Wikipedia.

Patrick Siu

A side note: In this video the colours of Octavian's land and Lepidus's land seems to have swapped with each other?

Harrison Martin

I think it's fair to say HC has a slight personal bias against the Caesarians, but as Wild Dragon said, the vast majority of sources are biased in favour of Caesar. I don't think he misrepresents any facts due to any bias, he's pretty impartial in the information he shows, but he does speak a little more harshly on them. I'm fine with that though, there's plenty of pro-Caesar content to consume.

Harrison Martin

this video was great. best joke of the episode was definitely "What?". these videos are worth way more than what i pay for them. keep up the good work :)

Anton Ingi Sveinbjörnsson

It may have taken 6.5 years of waiting, but finally my boy Agrippa makes his appearance!

JustlookingCQ

Wow.... Octavian did some disgusting stuff huh? Looks like Historia Civilis dislikes him considerably more. Also, what's up with the whirling sound everytime Agrippa enters LMAO.

JustlookingCQ

He's lucky that he has Agrippa. If Agrippa wasn't in the picture he would've ended like any of the failed emperors

Emperor Claudius

8:27 Up in the sky it's a bird, it's a plane...... Its Marcus Agrippa!

Emperor Claudius

HC's anti Caesarian stance is hardly unjustified, later regimes spent decades in vain trying to repair the damage done by late Republican politics and the Civil Wars that followed ultimately leading to Rome completely transitioning from an almost democracy to a full blown milltary autocracy which by the 3rd century had Rome fall into an even more devastating Civil War period. It's probbable that what he's been trying to tell us with this series all along is how lack of legitmacy in the goverment doomed the Roman Empire from its very inception.

Jack Casey

Great video! Well worth the wait!

LiterallyJudas

God, I always liked the Republic more than the Empire, but I never expected to sincerely Hate Octavian as much as I do.

Olli Sinerma

Great video! Can't wait for the Antony sequel with debauchery. I especially enjoy that you have a critical view on the character's (especially Octavian on this one) and don't buy into later propaganda that was created to honor them. His beginning like his actual reign was not just from glorious deed to another.

Olli Sinerma

What software do you use for these animations?

Nathan J Harvanko

*cue new girl music* whose that guy? (whose that guy?) whose that guy? (whose that guy) Its Agrippa!

Michael Rück

Yesss; finally another historia civilis video. The withdrawal symptoms were starting to become unbearable.

Luka

wish u uploaded more all of ur videos are fire i watched all of em

mjrBowie

So, about the Octavian thing in the beginning, does anyone know the reason he did this? I don't really buy "he did it because he was evil." Even if that was the case, what was the public excuse for it?

Astrofix

I remember the good ol' days when Caesar could do no wrong and he referred to him as "my boy" 😄😂

ShamPowWow

My boy Agrippa getting some mention. Loved the video!

Jack Pieper

Another totally banger video worth every penny of my patreon donation. Is it just me or is Octavian kind of "Meh" at everything and gets bailed out by the actions of others, but his "father" Julius was amazing at everything and was the one bailing out everyone else.

Patrick Siu

To be specific, Octavian mostly relied on Agrippa to bail things out for him, but he would not hesitate to make a deal with his enemies if it was the most efficient way to address his immediate problems.

Ethan Alfman

I feel like this is a ‘color by number’ activity of the Mediterranean, but the child coloring is color blind.

VR

Another awesome video! I look forward to seeing how Antony made this incredibly messy period even messier! One question: in the aftermath of Philippi, why did Lepidus just roll over when Octavian and Antony reallocated control of the provinces? Didn’t he still hold power overseeing Rome during the campaign in addition to being Pontifex Maximus?

Glenn Boswell

Agrippa is part Jetson, apparently. :)

Joe Cohen

Like the growing snark of these newer videos. The fact that Octavian ended up emperor of Rome really goes to show that competence isn't everything.

Eugen Efros

Amazing video, bro! Are you considering talking more about Marius and Sulla, or the Gracchi brothers?

frostedflakes

Boats boats boats. This is the second time i'm getting hte vibe of the dreadnought era of battleships and its implications on diplomacy. Could be entirely wrong, but that's the only well documented naval arms race involving diplomats i can think of off hand. If anybody else knows of any I'd love to learn though

Kyle Laffey

I’m so happy to be able to donate this month. I hope you start making good money off your vids. This is one of the best history channels on YT(and my personal favorite).

Kyle Laffey

Also IK this would be far off. But have you ever considered getting into midieval English times. It’s another super cool and interesting time and place in history with a ton of the history shrouded in myth. Just an idea.

Reer123

great video as always

Erilobar

SEXTUS POMPEIUS BOAT KING WE GOT INTO IT

teaxor

I'd love to eventually see a "Roman senate during the principate" video similar to the old ones you made on its respective roles during the republic and monarchy.

Jean Hautier

Awesome video as always. I hadn't realised how big of a deal sextus pompei was (nor how psycho Octavian was). looking forward to Antonius'part :)

LiterallyJudas

I heard of Belisarius being made a consul by Justinian, and it made me very curious as to what the senate did for 500+ years after Emperors became the centre of power.

Russell Watters

Awesome video, really glad to be a part of your patreon! I wonder how different our history would be if Caesar was never assassinated or if succession went to Caesarion instead of that coward bitch-boy Octavian

Russell Watters

Please do more videos on Alexander the Great! :D

Patrick Siu

Antony is not particularly competent himself, and in some sense, managing the right people at right times is itself a type of core competence. Octavian doesn't need to be competent himself, but he has the super-competence from his loyal friend Agrippa.

Damien Ur

Great work as usual, i wish there were more quality content about Roman history in french. ( At least i work my english with you, thanks ! )

Oriskó Norbert

Just so you know, you inspired me to buy Adrian Goldworthy's book about Ceasar and I read 100 pages of it in a single day. I am already browsing other stuff the author wrote. I'm going full time Ancient Rome :D

Samar Rao

So strange to watch this clumsy political maneuvering after seeing Caesar's 4-d chess moves. Great video!

Elisha McClellan

Well, Caligula did talk about making his horse a senator, saying that it was just as up to the task of performing the duties of the senate as everyone else there. It is worth noting that he was assassinated.

Naomi Skilling

The little jet noise when Agrippa does anything made me laugh every time. I love it!

Eric Stefen

Awesome as always. Interesting to note Octavian started the "tradition" of most members of the Julio Claudian dynasty have a sadistic streak a mile wide. It is interesting that once all rivals were dead, all needed loot was stolen from murdered people, and the Senate was cowed, he became a seemingly decent (great? the greatest of the Roman emperors? we'll see how much more revision that view should be given) ruler. It's always interesting trying to figure out what absolute power will do to someone. Obviously it didn't agree with most of the early emperors.

Gordian III

He was the best roman emperor out of its 109 emperors, by far. Name me one good emperor who didn't do as he did and who wasn't as ruthless as he was? He read his Machiavelli.

Léo Ricca

Arguably Marcus Aurelius was the last great emperor before they all were insane. For Octavianus it didn't take long for him to fall apart, especially with the death of Varus. I wonder what may have been if Germanicus had become emperor instead of Tiberius (I think it was Tiberius?)