Augustus: The Greatest Accomplishments Of Augustus

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Augustus had a tremendous amount of accomplishments in his lifetime. These accomplishments had a major impact on everyone around him at this time. He established a system of rule called the principate. The Principate conveyed the idea of a constitutional monarch co-ruled with the senate (Spielvogel p.144). After Augustus gave up the Consulship in 23 B.C.E., he was granted maius imperium- greater imperium than all the others (Spielvogel p. 144). Augustus was more successful with his power than his adoptive father Caesar because he portrayed himself just as anyone else would and not like he was a higher power than the citizens, and he executed his power by using the same methods of the traditional offices of the Roman republic. Some other achievements by Augustus were: When he was 19 years old he raised an army, he conquered those who assassinated his father twice, he refused to accept the position of a dictator, and he brought peace to the sea by silencing the pirates. In addition, when victorious in wars, both civil and foreign, he spared all citizens who sought to be spared. This is just some of his successful accomplishments, he had many more accomplishments. Augustus proved highly …show more content…
The Res Gestae could be considered propaganda because it was wrote by himself. Propaganda is defined as information, that is biased or misleading and used to publicize a particular point of view. This was an autobiography of his own achievements, so it could definitely be called biased. He could have wrote about himself in a way that made him sound far more greater than he actually was. More than likely, not all Romans felt that these were his achievements and that he was a great ruler. In my opinion, Augustus was a traditional Roman. I believe this because as a ruler, the first emperor of rome, he wanted to restore rome's traditional