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Age of Augustus

Age of Augustus. Hayley Cooke and Caitlin Kimball. Background Information. adopted by Julius Ceaser gave him the opportunity to be the leader of Rome became heir after Julius Caesar was assassinated changed his name from Octavian to Augustus . Age of Augustus (27 BC-AD 14). Political guy

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Age of Augustus

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  1. Age of Augustus Hayley Cooke and Caitlin Kimball

  2. Background Information • adopted by Julius Ceaser • gave him the opportunity to be the leader of Rome • became heir after Julius Caesar was assassinated • changed his name from Octavian to Augustus

  3. Age of Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) • Political guy • Created forty years of peace in Rome • Established new governing order • Empire expanded (East to the Euphrates River, West to the Atlantic Ocean and on the South by the African desert) • Military presence throughout empire

  4. Age of Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) • Spreading of Roman language and culture throughout the Mediterranean Sea and Europe • Extended Roman citizenship to Italians • restore order and justice to empire

  5. Augustus divides provinces Senate Control Augustus • Older provinces • New provinces • On frontiers • Tried ruling provinces like Rome • Separated them into two classes • Augustus had power over all the provinces • After provinces there was prosperity and peace

  6. Why did Augustus divide the provinces? Old Province: • Great deal of fighting within the provinces • Barbarian invasions on the frontier towns • Provinces suffered wasted land and heavy taxes to fund Rome’s wars • Rome’s way of ruling the provinces was not efficient • Augustus decided to reform how provinces would be ruled

  7. Age of Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) • Cultural excellence • Wanted to beautify Rome • Rebuilt roads and temples • Dedicated to beautifying Rome • Great poets (Virgil, Horace, and Ovid) • Greatest cultural period • Golden Age of Roman literature

  8. “I found Rome a city of wood and left her a city of marble” • Forum of Augustus • Mausoleum of Augustus • Theatre of Marcellus • Baths of Agrippa

  9. Poets during the Age of Augustus Virgil • Known for the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the Aeneid • Aeneid is the national epic for Rome

  10. Poets during the Age of Augustus Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C) • Known for the Odes • cover different experiences in life

  11. Poets during the Age of Augustus Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17) • Influenced other great writers and poets • Metamorphoses

  12. Death of Augustus • Died in 14 AD • Sudden illness • Ruled for forty years • Died at the height of Rome’s prosperity

  13. Source Citations • http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa09 • http://library.thinkquest.org/26907/emperors/augustus.htm • http://www.roman-emperors.org/auggie.htm • http://www.unrv.com/early-empire/principate.php • http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ROME/AUGUSTUS.HTM • http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture12b.html

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