Augustus

The Building Blocks of Rome The government could learn several important lessons from Augustus Caesar such as improving Augustus passed a law that gave tax relief to those who were married and had children together. These laws made him hugely unpopular in Rome. According to “Information About Augustus,” “The state offered awards—such as political privileges and tax relief--to couples who stayed together and had many children, while unmarried adults and childless married couples lost the right…

collapse leaving the world to deal with centuries of dark ages. The importance of Rome must be understood in those terms, just like great Roman poet Virgil predicted in his epic work Aeneid.
 When Octavian, now called Augustus, assumed imperial power many institutions…

proved a sad time for the Romans; for it was the time when the great leader, Augustus Caesar, passed away. The long lasting peace established by him would however, survive for many years to come. Rome in this time was more politically stable than it would be in future years. The great civil war that the Romans took part in led to the annexation of Egyptian lands and the overall growth of the newly proclaimed empire. Augustus saw the threat posed by barbaric tribes in the annexed lands and thus…

The Augustus Prima Porta is a marble statue of himself which was discovered on the 20th of April in 1863 in the Villa of Livia which is situated in the Prima Porta near Rome. It is a statue that stands 2.03m tall and is now been moved to the Braccio Nuovo which is situated in the Vatican Museums.This sculpture is what seems to be very idealised to show that he is strong and young. The artist has portrayed him to be a God-like figure. This is shown by his Bare feet. Many People during the time…

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, more commonly known by his childhood nickname “Caligula”, is widely considered as one of the most vilest men to ever live. He is one of the most corrupt and irrational emperors to ever rule, and is representative of what we fear in totalitarian leaders. He literally “went mad with power” and is, to a certain extent, the epitome of evil. In Lives of the Twelve Caesar's Suetonius delves into the life of Caligula, describing both his brief reign as emperor…

Concurrent to the uprising of the Roman Empire, Augustus Caesar gained common support using various campaigning methods such as ethos. Ethos, from which derives the English word ethic, modes persuasion through authority, credibility, and character. Augustus appreciated and exercised this appeal, aiding his plausibility as a Roman dignitary. Further promoting conceivability, the statue Augustus of Primaporta illustrates authoritarianism through general physiognomy displayed in the sturdy stance…

While Augustus would rule Rome for the rest of his natural life, both he and Suetonius put forth the claim with evidence that he was, in fact, not a dictator. By his own words, Augustus did turn down dictatorship when offered to him multiple times in 22 BC (Augustus 5). He was not, however, shy of boasting about his immense power within Rome and his use of it (Augustus 5-7). And while “the Senate and Roman people consented that I alone…

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF AUGUSTUS CAESAR. This biographical sketch primarily looks at the life of Augustus Caesar from his birth to his death. Looking at achievements he made as an emperor of Ancient Rome and how he acquired power. In this paper we will discuss the immense impact Augustus had in shaping western civilization through his reign of the Roman Empire that endured for centuries after his death, “the first two of which were the centuries of the celebrated Pax Romana, the longest period of…

Augustus was an emperor who was doubted in the beginning and very few believed he had what it took to rule Rome. He quickly changed everyone's mind once they saw how he transformed Rome. He was an incredible ruler who took pride in everything he did and made sure to give his attention to any problem that Rome was presented with. He transformed Rome political system, he also changed Rome socially and improved their military as well. Under Augustus rule Rome was successful and also at peace.…

Roman Empire is one of the most interesting empires in world history; a lot of legacies were left by many Roman Emperors and one of them is Octavian Caesar or Augustus Caesar—the first Emperor of Rome. To gain the power of the most powerful man in Rome at that time, Octavian had been through a lot. He was Julius Caesar’s grand-nephew and was the one that Julius Caesar appointed to be his true heir. When seeing that Julius Caesar slowly turned himself to an absolute ruler, the Senators united and…