My Name Is Augustus
I was not always known as the great savior of the Roman Republic. My name is Augustus, but I was born Gaius Octavius, and throughout my life many of my friends and enemies often called me by the name Octavianus. I was born in the city of Velitrae, into a very wealthy family, and I had two older sisters, both of which were named Octavia. My father, Gaius Octavius, was a praetor who served in the Senate as well as…...
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Coins of the Roman Empire During the Reign of Nero
This sample essay on Coins Of Nero provides important aspects of the issue and arguments for and against as well as the needed facts. Read on this essay's introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Throughout history there has always been a need for trade. This has come in ways such as bartering or more commonly as time progressed, through the use of a currency such as coinage to pay for the goods. One potential issue with coinage is that it has…...
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Reflection Essay On Augustus
Octavian better known as Augustus was the adopted son of Julius Caesar. Caesar was assassinated by a group of senators led by Brutus and Cassius on the steps of the Roman senate on March 15, 44 B.C. The assasin's thought that Caesar was hiring uneligible people as representatives. The senators thought by killing Caesar it would bring peace upon Rome, but it just brought upon a civil war. After the assassination a long time associate of Caesar's, Mark Antony and…...
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Novel “Augustus” by John Williams
"Send the boy to Apollonia" Gaius Julius Caesar writes v in 45th Chr. To his niece Atia. The "boy", which is her son, who soon eighteen Gaius Octavius, who has just returned from a Spain-campaign on the side of the powerful great-uncle to her. At his birth Caesar had chosen him as his successor. Now it's down to business. Atia has when it comes to her son, nothing more to say; Caesar determined his future career and has "arrangements" made…...
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