Ancient Texts Podcast

The Ancient Texts Podcast seeks to bring ancient source texts straight to your ears. You'll hear from kings and emperors, philosophers and historians as you discover the ancient world as told by those who were there.

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001 Res Gestae Divi Augustus

The Res Gestae Divi Augustus, the deeds of the divine Augustus, by Augustus. This episode is the first of the Ancient Texts Podcast. This podcast seeks to bring the ancient source texts into an accessible format for the modern world. ancienttextspodcast.com Translation: Copyright (c) 1998 Thomas Bushnell. This translation may be freely distributed or excerpted, provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are retained on all copies. Modified versions as well may be freely distributed...

Jul 20, 2018•29 min

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