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

Sources:
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Sir William Hamilton, "Lake Avernus from the road between Puzzoli and Cuma," 1776
Richard Wilson, "Lake Avernus and the Island of Capri," 1760

Music:
"Divider," by Chris Zabriskie
"Heliograph," by Chris Zabriskie
"I Don't See the Branches, I See the Leaves," by Chris Zabriskie
"Wonder Cycle," by Chris Zabriskie
"Hallon," by Christian Bjoerklund

[brankeane]

The image of Octavian lying on his back on the beach having hit "autoresolve battle" is sending me.

[Aleksitaly]

Dude the friendship between Agrippa and Octavian is something else. He renounced a TRIUMPH just because his friend would look bad. Wow

[y.r._]

That face when "Tiberius Claudius Nero" is none of the three people you think about when hearing that name

[protonjones]

He wouldn't be a true heir to Caesar if he didn't have miraculous plot armor like Caesar. How Octavian was able to come back from his massive unpopularity, the deadly state-wide famine, the losing war against Sextus, the (brief) rebellion with Lepidus, while doing practically nothing himself, having Agrippa do most of the campaign work, it's all just damn insane

[lukaszex]

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it, but this video was released on the anniversary of Octavian being proclaimed as Augustus, Jan 16th 27 BC

[GenMaj_Knight]

"Please, send my body back to Rome..."
"Sorry, I can't, I have to find this Tribune Aquila guy, and I dunno why I have to ask him permission for everything, but I have to and I can't find him."

[AudieHolland]

When Octavian lay flat on the beach, doing absolutely nothing.
He was doing so because in his experience, any battle in which he had actively taken part in, had ended in disaster.

Doing absolutely nothing and let Agrippa sort things out was the best thing Octavian ever did.

[MrAlexkyra]

I'm impressed how Tiberius Claudius Nero kept picking the losing side and somehow kept his head and ended up being the ancestor of the first dynasty of Roman Emperors.

[ryantoth]

Octavian: ends a famine he caused
The people of Rome: Give that man an award

[mcglynn]

"Enter Marcus Agrippa"
Oh yeah, it's all coming together now.

[yoissy]

Agrippa was a goddamn legend. Military master, amazing friend, and made fun zoomy sounds whenever he moved. We all need an agrippa in our lives

[AzureLazuline]

Boat King Sextus Pompeius might be my favorite minor character in the series. Just, absolute video game boss energies, "I'm the boat-themed commander and you'll need to win against me in a boat battle to continue" 😆

[Fonblockland]

Agrippa's back must have hurt from carrying Octavian so much.

[CreepsMcPasta]

I live for this series. Please never stop

[antoninuslarpus]

21:09
Once getting encircled by the fire. Tiberius Claudius Nero abandoned those principles of being a good husband and became a loyal servant of fire itself

[drswag]

Agrippa once begged Octavian to ask Caesar to spare one of his family members to which he agreed to. Agrippa has been loyal to Octavian ever since becoming his second in command.

[tyrannicfool]

Roman political intrigue, a good way to start the day

[daviddavis]

Honestly it’s incredible that Octavian, the guy with the least political/military experience and most disliked of the three Triumvirs, was the guy able to come out on top in the end...

[denpadolt]

"You merely adopted the navy. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see a legion until I was a man!"
– Boat King Sextus Pompeius

[godfreyofbouillon]

Tiberius was so extremely loyal probably more loyal than any other person in history, at least if we combine all the different sides he's been loyal to