What Is Augustus's Legacy

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The Emperor Augustus wrote Res Gestae to make sure his achievements were remembered as he saw them. His document represented “an account of the deeds of his public life,” including thirty-five accomplishments beginning when he was nineteen years old and concluding shortly before his death. Augustus championed his legacy much as he did his reign, through planning and implementation. In Res Gestae, Augustus attempts to control his legacy by decreeing that he has served as an unassuming statesman, noble warrior, and beloved benefactor; ironically, his attempt reveals a dictator who is consumed with controlling everything from people to history. Augustus’ 31 B.C. reign followed a hundred years of civil unrest, with citizens not being allowed

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said to have grown serious and driven by age 14. In Tiberius’s upbringing, he was pressured to become emperor by his mother, but never really wanted to. By age 22, he was assigned to his first wife, Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Agrippa, Augustus’s son-in-law and lieutenant. While this was a forced marriage, it was a loving one. That same year he distinguished himself in the military by strategy and care for his men. When he returned to Rome, he was a well-liked man, and was awarded a Triumph…

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Augustus Caesar made an image of himself that made his people believe that only gods could create, and truthfully he was a man that fulfilled the image so much it is almost impossible to think that the gods did not create him. Although Augustus was not the first choice to be the ruler of the rising Roman Empire, Julius Caesar did see the potential of Augustus and fathered it. Augustus broke new ground in the empire by becoming the first emperor in the empire, rather than becoming dictator unlike…

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Veergil's Influence On The Aeneid

complex work that covers the origins of the Roman people from the fall of Troy to Aeneas’s landing in Italy. It drew inspiration from many works including Homer’s Iliad, Odyssey, and contemporary Roman politics. Vergil’s writing took place during Augustus’s ascension to First Citizen with the devastation of the civil wars still in living memory. Therefore, The Aeneid was heavily influenced by the political events that Vergil experiemced, including the personal patronage of Augustus, the chaos and death…

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