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How Did Augustus Get His Glory

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This showed the Roman people that Augustus was not about to enter them into a war for his own personal gains. It also allowed him to be seen as a peacemaker instead of a warmonger and that was vitally important to the Romans since they had suffered through civil war for the last seventy years. The people would remember Augustus as a man who protected their interests and looked out for them instead of just using them as fodder to attain more glory. This was precisely what Augustus wanted because the more people praised him for not chasing glory he actually gained more personal glory. Augustus found a way to mask his glory seeking behind other ideals and motivations and this is something that can be seen again several centuries later during the
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Wallace-Hadrill makes the argument that the seat of Augustus’s empire, the Imperial home on the Palatine Hill, was where the sovereignty of the emperor would become the most effective. When Augustus garnered control of the Roman Empire, the aristocracy of Rome—both the friends and enemies of the emperor-- flocked to his side in hopes of joining his Imperial court. Each courtier had a varying degree of intimacy with Augustus; the closer one was to him, the more of his borrowed authority they could access. Successful courtiers were masters of manipulation who could maneuver through positions and relationships to ingratiate themselves to the court and to the emperor. In the Imperial court, being close to the emperor and being powerful were synonymous.

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In discussion of Agrippa it is important to consider his beginnings. He was adopted by Augustus at the age of fifteen, when Germanicus was eighteen and Tiberius was forty-six. Due to Tiberius’ track record, he was the obvious choice for succession. He had been consul twice and invested with tribunicia potestas for a period of five years. The question of why Agrippa was even adopted by Augustus is raised by Pettinger, as it is obvious who was going to be succeeding Augustus as princeps.

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He did it all for the good of Rome. If he wouldn't have done any of this, Rome would've probably gone broke, or been taken over. If either of those things were to happen, Rome would've failed as a

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Augustus himself wanted to emphasise the period of his support of the state as Rome’s “Golden Age”. Through an extensive building program, the architectural use of space conveyed powerful elements of Augustan ideology that linked Augustus to great figures of Rome’s history and to the concepts of fate and posterity. A pertinent example is the Forum Augustum where the central monument was a statue of Augustus as pater patria (father of his country) looked upon by statues of legendary Romans including Romulus, Aeneas and Iulius (the reputed ancestor of the Julii), and facing the temple of Mars Ultor (Mars the Avenger), which contained the figures of Venus (the deity from which Augustus and the Julii claimed descent), Mars, and Roma. The symbolism

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Paul Richter History 104 Augustus and the Disguised Military Monarchy Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire, and a very successful emperor. Augustus was successful in creating a disguised military monarch because he was able to provide for people with his vast wealth, he managed to take Rome by conquest of land, and he declined any title that may have given him more power than other roman rulers. When Augustus was a young boy he was adopted by his great-uncle, Julius Caesar. When Caesar died in 44 BCE, Augustus was left with a very large sum of money, as well as two thirds of Caesar’s estate.

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Cicero’s speech was also used as a tool in advancing his political career, especially in terms of his future consulship, a position that requires the good will of many people in Rome. It is crucial to understand that this law was certainly going to be passed, with or without Cicero’s support. Also, it is important to note that this was Cicero’s first public speech to the people, mentioned when he says this is his first time speaking on the rostra (de imperio Cn. Pompei 1), so this served to introduce himself to the popular realm of Rome at this time. With this knowledge, Cicero’s decision to give this speech goes beyond simply wanting Pompey to be

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Augustus’ government was predominantly influenced by his relationship and reorganisation of the senate past 23 BC’s settlement. Augustus’ aim was to move the senate and magistrates from being chief organs of the state to being subordinate entities at Augustus’ disposal. Augustus’ relationship with the senate and magistrates was governed through his dominant aim to discretely consolidate his authoritative position. Augustus reorganisations of political roles and magistrates, as shown through his organisation of consuls, questors and praetors. Ultimately, Augustus’ auctoritas over the senate highlighted how tactically Augustus consolidated his position through discretion.

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Regardless of the personal motives, the decision was ultimately better for Rome than what it would have been with Caesar in ruling over Rome.

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By preselecting which events were to be released to the public, Augustus incorporated judgements of his own actions into the work. This directly prevented the people of Rome from effectively vetting the collection of exempla. It was impossible for Romans to judge negatively, for example, Augustus’ mercy in sparing the lives of foreign captives; yet if a Roman were witness to all the facts of the situation instead of the manipulated accounts of the Res Gestae, it is likely that Augustus’ exempla would have been less

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The book of Aeneid is writing by Virgil who tells a story about a legendary Trojan who traveled to Italy who became an ancestors of the Romans. The age of Augustus is also about a leader that ruled in the Roman emperor. Augustus told Virgil to write a story about a hero and Virgil did as he was told. I believe that the scholars were right about how the Age of Augustus was important to know and to understand it because that was a huge part in the making of The Aeneid. If it wasn’t for Augustus and Virgil then there wouldn’t be the story of Aeneid.

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Augustus asserted himself as a powerful and benevolent ruler through a variety of means, including his building program, propaganda, public appearances, military victories, and moral reforms. Overall, Augustus established himself as a powerful and benevolent ruler through a combination of building projects, propaganda, public appearances, military victories, and moral reforms. These efforts contributed to his image as a great leader who brought peace, prosperity and stability to Rome. The Forum Augustum and Virgil's Aeneid use Roman history and myth to represent the Roman past and reinforce Augustus' rule as a legitimate continuation of Rome's past glory.

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Seems like it’s not a first time when we hear that some African American kids are selling drugs in the bad neighborhood, it is a stereotype that we know for such a long time. We can find hundreds and hundreds of such stories, but Augustus’s story has something that people will not hear every day. Mother that decided to send her son back to Liberia knowing that there is war going on and doing it on purpose seems like something crazy to us. Who would do that? Mother that loves her son, someone will disagree.

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He made the crowd feel sympathy for him and Caesar. Antony was so persistent about how he worded his speech that he made the people of Rome think they were making their own decision, when really he was influencing them to go against the conspirators. Antony showed the crowd Caesar's body and the stab wounds. Antony says, “Look you here, Here is himself, marred, as you see, with traitors” (III,ii, 191-192). By saying that, it made the crowd connect emotionally to it and feel anger.

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Augustus was only 17 year old when he had a positive relationship with the Senate because Augustus wanted to raise the tone of the Senate, reduce, its numbers, restore its former dignity, increase responsibility of its members and improve its efficiency. This relationship with the Senate remained for the rest of the Julio- Claudian Dynasty. Thus shows that Augustus had a positive relationship with the Senate. One of Augustus main aims was to reduce the size of the Principate he would work with, Augustus had reduced its numbers from 1000 and 800 in 23BC and then 600 in 27BC, and then 400 in 18BC by removing disreputable members who entered the Senate prior to Augustus through bribery or influence. Augustus laid down a monetary qualification of one million sesterces and added worthy men from the equestrian class.

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From ancient times different societies have worshiped gods, believing in their power and being afraid of their fury. People have prayed and made sacrifices in order to achieve the gods’ mercy and generosity to the main gods and goddesses of both ancient Greek and Roman societies. While both cultures have difference they also have a lot of similarities that make their cultures appeared alike. There are a lot similarities between the Greeks and Roman gods, Roman religion was based on Greek religion. Greek mythology was founded just about a millennium before the Roman came to be.

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