At the current time of day, the Earth has seen billions upon billions of people enter and leave it. While most are completely forgotten, the historians and victors of war have seen several people worthy of being noted. Many people, myself included, have wanted to live a day as a famous person, simply to see what their lives were like in their day-to-day experiences. For myself, I would love to live a day as the first Roman Emperor, Augustus Caesar. If I could live a day in the life of Augustus Caesar, I would find out what the golden age of Rome was like. In its prime around two thousand years ago, Rome has come to see many great leaders. Some leaders only reigned for a few years while others reigned for what seemed like a lifetime. Augustus Caesar stands out in that he was the longest, and first, reigning Roman Emperor. He also stands out in that he brought Rome back to its former glory after the civil war. But, was Rome really that grand of city, let alone nation and empire, after it had recovered from the civil war? In the day I could spend as Augustus, I would ultimately …show more content…
Rome is, today, considered the greatest nation that ever came to be. Not only that, but the most powerful and most influential. While I believe most of this to be true, I wonder just how true it really is. In its prime, Rome surely had its own flaws. It must have had mass crime and mass imprisonments that weren’t written down in the history books. So many things must have been left out, as large as the empire was. My goal would be to see who really wrote the history books, who really saw Rome for it really was. I would want to prove if the authors – the writers of the history books that determined our view of Rome - lived in posh houses with the most extraordinary of luxuries, or if they were the average commoner with a, somewhat, realistic view of the