Augustus Caesar's voice is a bit...
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fugazi
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I like the visuals of Augustus, haven't paid much attention to his voice but when you compare all the leaders to Nebuchadnezzar .. he simply demolishes them. My gf found him to be a scary mean guy when she first met him haha.
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
Yes, they pulled someone off the street to speak Latin.
This guy speaks like he really had a chat with Augustus, come on I am pretty sure you dont own a time travel machine, sheesh
Seriously, one useful tool as a historian (or anyone thinking about history) is to try and place yourself in their shoes and see things from their perspective. When the historical record is quite clear, you can almost get a psychological profile of a person. Thankfully, the 1st century BC to the 1st Century AD has among the most abundant primary and early secondary sources of any Roman period. You can get a good picture of how complex (and sometimes disturbing) an individual C.I.Caesar Augustus was.
OK, that's a good point too. He didn't have to do something himself, really, he had loyal followers. Teddy Roosevelt is a guy you could actually picture going around with a big stick to hit foreign officials with. Augustus would probably give a slight nod with his head and a Roman Legion would do his bidding.
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He would perhaps be considered "bisexual" today because he married women, but there is little doubt among historians that he enjoyed sexual relations with men, chief among them Hephaestion and Bagoas.
Regardless, I still don't see what being gay would have to do with someone being an emperor or ruler of some kind. We also have certain examples such as Hadrian (and more ignominious ones like Elagabalus).
It's a bit contradictory to say that there's nothing wrong with being gay and then aver that gay people can't be rulers of empires...
r_rolo1
King of myself
Dunno about Augustus ... that LH looks awfully with RL Julius 
maybe firaxis pulled another "João II" on us ( use a LH of other leader that didn't got in as the LH of a leader that got it )
BTW, the latin text of the war dec made
first time I heard it ... a very well composed guy saying something like "You must die. " with all the calmness of the world
maybe firaxis pulled another "João II" on us ( use a LH of other leader that didn't got in as the LH of a leader that got it )BTW, the latin text of the war dec made
first time I heard it ... a very well composed guy saying something like "You must die. " with all the calmness of the world And had sex with his sister, if the Tv series ROME is anything to go by..
It depends on the gay I mean, the one with pink nails can't be a conqueror, the one with a female brain neither
Louis XXIV
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Dunno about Augustus ... that LH looks awfully with RL Julius
Nah, he has too much hair to be the real Julius.
BTW, the latin text of the war dec made
I think the sigh is a nice touch
MadRat
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The problem with ol' Orange Julius is he looks stoned and lethargic on this throne .. reminds me more of a caricature of Caligula
I do like Katherine's voice, I know enough Russian to understand it. However, it has a wierd nordic twang to it, but then again the real katherine probably had a wierd high pitched twangy accent as well. LOL
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I do like Katherine's voice, I know enough Russian to understand it. However, it has a wierd nordic twang to it, but then again the real katherine probably had a wierd high pitched twangy accent as well. LOL
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Syagrius
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Ahaha! Careful there, your becoming too emotional again
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MadRat
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Louis XXIV
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Quite a few don't have American names, which makes me wonder if they're actually not native speakers.
There's also difficulty in finding native speakers for dead languages (Alexander speaks Classical Greek, for example, Augustus is another example). The voice actor for Alexander has a Greek first name, but an Italian last name, so I'm not sure what to read into that. I felt Augustus seemed natural considering he's speaking a language that no one speaks as their first language and I believe only one person in the world speaks regularly.
There's also difficulty in finding native speakers for dead languages (Alexander speaks Classical Greek, for example, Augustus is another example). The voice actor for Alexander has a Greek first name, but an Italian last name, so I'm not sure what to read into that. I felt Augustus seemed natural considering he's speaking a language that no one speaks as their first language and I believe only one person in the world speaks regularly.
The spoken latin of Augustus is definitely not fluent , it is also closer to a robot
PibbZ
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Am I the only one hearing Augustus saying "f0ck off something" with a bit of accent when he starts a diplomacy session? :O
katipunero
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Speaking softly or wimpyish can be a sign of true power and authority. Case in point.
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This thread reminds me of this stand up by Eddie Izzard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQggmX_c6GU&p=A5D5A0BDEBC11772&playnext=1&index=38
Go to 7:15 of the video.
Go to 7:15 of the video.
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
The spoken latin of Augustus is definitely not fluent , it is also closer to a robot
I don't know. It's not perfect, but there's some emotion too. It doesn't sound like it's memorized phonetically. I think the criticisms come from the "acting." The character is supposed to be highly indifferent, so he comes off emotionless and stuttered.
Certainly better than Nebuchadnezzar, who just shouts his three word dialogue. Makes him very caveman-like (then again, I could possibly see Nebby having been brutish in real life). I also feel Augustus is better than Alexander when it comes to representing their classical language (Alexander does come off as something memorized, possibly phonetically).
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