Octavian

This investigation evaluates the question, to what extent did Julius Caesar 's assassination affect Rome, politically and socially. Gaius Julius Caesar, famously known for his brilliant military strategies and shrewd political expertise, helped transform the Roman Republic into one of the greatest civilization in the western world. During his reign, Julius Ceasar expanded Rome’s geographical territory across Ancient Europe immensely, conquering areas of present-day France and Britain. The investigation

Augustus Caesar, born in 63 B.C.E in Velletri, Italy as Gaius Octavius, was Rome’s first emperor. Throughout history there have been outstanding characters. Alexander the Great, Winston Churchill, George Washington and so much more. Their names will stand the test of time. One name, life, and legacy will survive until the end of time. The actions and ideals of Augustus Caesar have been seemingly mimicked in history, creating the idea of a “Ghost of Augustus”. In the Western Civilization course,

for the length of his session as an emperor. After the assassination of his adoptive father, Julius Caesar, Octavian introduced himself in the political leadership in 44 BC. During this time, the army was loyal to their general therefore Octavian paid all of Caesar’s armed forces to transfer their loyalties over to him as Julius Caesar had already chosen Octavian as his heir. In 43 BC, Octavian, Lepidus and Antony formed an alliance called the Second Triumvirate. One of the original aims of the Second

in 42 BCE. This was around the same time her first son, Tiberius, was born. Her husband fought alongside her father and Julius Caesar’s assassins against Octavian. Even when her father committed suicide at the Battle of Philippi, her husband keep fighting against Octavian. In 40 BCE, her family had to leave to avoid the triumvirate of Octavian; they later moved to Greece. After peace was established between the Triumvirate, a general amnesty was announced, and

When Caesar was killed, the intention was to make Rome back into a republic. Caesar had different values than the Senate, which was shown in his actions towards equality between Patricians and Plebeians. The problem recognised by most of the party who went to kill Caesar was that the control of the Rome was being handed over to a single person and that person didn’t favour the Optimates as they would have liked. Having one person with so much power was a threat to everyone else in the business, but

Julius Caesar Augustus. Owing to the various names the man passed by in his life, it is fundamental to call him Octavius when discussing the events some place around 63 and 44 BCE, Octavian when discussing

the carrion that now seemed to be ubiquitous. An omen, Octavian thought, as he lumbered onward to town, to of course, meet with— Having been distracted by the ravens, he bumped into the very person he was looking for. Brie. Well, Brieanna. She just had to be (partially) named after the cheese. Brie once said she would’ve chastised her parents for naming her so, if they were alive. Yeah, she was orphaned. But she was better off than Octavian, whose parents were both alive, but were farmers whose

“So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.” This is what Cicero must have thought when Octavian ultimately betrayed him during the purge, Octavian, Lepidus and Antony decided to remove anyone that may pose a threat to their rule. After the purge almost 300 Senators and as many as two thousand lower level aristocrats were killed. Cicero, a supporter of Octavian, was designated for execution by Antony under this arrangement. How did it come to this, how could Cicero’s beautiful Roman

One of the most defining moments in Roman history was the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar on the 15th of March, 44 BCE. It sparked the transition from a republican to an imperial system of government for Rome. Caesar admired the idea of a government that was controlled by an individual (Imperialism), and not by senators constantly jostling for power (Republicanism). There are three points that suggest why his assassination was the key moment for the transition to take place. Firstly, Caesar

‘The astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the nation, Volume 1: The pox party’ is an American historical novel by M.T Anderson that illustrates the life of a young African American boy and his mother sold into slavery in the 1760’s. The protagonist, Octavian, is raised in Boston by rationalist philosophers in the Novanglian College of Lucidity, where him and his mother, Cassiopeia an African princess, are isolated from the rest of the world and the other slaves. It is only later in his