Augustus Caesar I chose to do my research paper on Augustus Caesar. The reason I chose him is because there are few people in history to reach his level of dominance and authority that he possessed. It was over two thousand years ago and his name is still very well known in history. He left his mark on history like very few people that have ever live. In this research paper, I will first write about his story to leadership and how he abstained power. Following this will be an in depth breakdown of his leadership style and how he chose to lead others. Before I get in depth into his history, you need to understand that he holds many names: Octavius, Octavian, Augustus, and Augustus Caesar. The name Octavius was given to him at birth, and his …show more content…
At age 16, he began to take on work that involved his royal family. He worked under his great uncle Julius Caesar, and this is where he began to gain respect from the people. Just a year later at age 17, his great uncle Julius Caesar was assassinated which gave power and rule to Octavius, which was then renamed Octavian. Julius had placed many games and other securities in place for his army. Octavian was fortunate to win these and ultimately win over the majority of the remaining army form Julius. This in ultimately was the foundation that was set to create a historic army that would propel his time in rule. Over the next period of time alliances were mad to keep peace in the near land and the surrounding land. However, romantic relationships began to arise and affairs started. Then Octavian declared war on his two alliances for betraying him behind his back. In the end they were defeated, which gave Octavian power to all of Rome. The two army’s leaders, Mark Antony and Queen Cleopatra, ultimately fled to Egypt to eventually commit …show more content…
While in his rein he implemented many incentives to build his army and to keep their loyalty. He first began to pay his soldier, and doing this gave a reason to want to be a part of his army. Then to gain respect and popularity within his city he began build up the city itself to make it more beautiful. He also passed laws to help stabilize marriages, and did things to make his people want have families. Doing this he raised the population tremendously, and the result only benefited him and his power. He was so serious about the laws he passed regarding marriage, he banished his own daughter for committing adultery. Before Augustus’ rein, Julius ran a wrecked ship when it came to politics. So when Augustus stepped into his role he saw the need to restore and gain a foundation. Throughout his time as ruler he knew it was crucial to keep the respect of his people and to keep intimidation in all of the close by rival rulers. He continued his rule continuing to concur land each and every chance he
Octavius- Caesar’s adopted son and the next king of Rome. Octavius comes to Rome to see Caesar again only to find out that Caesar is dead. Octavius teams up with Antony to kill the conspiracy. Octavius tries to follow Caesar's footsteps and take the glory for killing the conspiracy. Octavius rises in power and becomes
Rome started to become overrun with crime and people were so scared, they stayed off the streets. People started to become unemployed and taxes started to increase. The Roman people became angry with the government. They demanded that the government do something. Caesar heard the pleads of the people and convinced them he knew what to do. The Roman people began to trust and rely on him to fix Rome’s problems. (Julius Caesar for kids, May 1st 2014)
Around 71 B.C.,a few years before Augustus was born, Gaius Octavius started pursuing a job within the senate, but because of his latin instead of roman descent the pursuit of the job was very difficult for him. He continued pursuing the job in senate till around 70 B.C. when he won a quaestorship, a lower place in the government that entails supervising tax collection and doing special tasks for consuls in Rome, and joined the senate. Based on his latin descent winning a questorship was no small feat so it was no surprise when he was offered a spouse from one of Rome’s great trician clans. The only problem with this was he was already married to Ancharia who is not very well recorded in history so people have no firm evidence for why Gaius Octavius suddenly married Atia, a member of the Julian family making Julius Caesar his great-uncle. Together Atia and Gaius had two children, Octavius the younger and Gaius Octavian, named after his father, along with the one from Ancharia the second of the two being who we know as Augustus.
Augustus Caesar demonstrated military leadership skills, both in battle and in non-war related military matters. In The
In Shakespeare’s play, Caesar is a highly respected man that holds great power, and as he gains more power there are men who stand to oppose him. This is how Caesar shows so many good qualities of leadership, like keeping an open ear to the people, being observant and proud, as well as being honest. The attributes that Caesar shows has gained him the trust of all of the people, already proivng just how worthy he is to be called the greatest authority figure in Shakespeare’s drama The Tradgedy of Julius Caesar.
Octavian Augustus is one of the fiercest leaders in the history of the Roman Empire because of his successful military expansion, his Control of Finance, and his political leadership.
Octavian enabled the long, nonviolent time of the Pax Romana, (Latin for Roman peace) by changing Rome from a frail, collapsing republican government to a powerful empire. He is known as the first, and one of the greatest, Roman Emperors ever. Octavian was born on September 23, 63 BC, and died in 14 AD. Born with the name Gaius Octavius Thurinus, he was adopted posthumously by his great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar via his will, and then was named Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus. This happened in 44 BC when his great uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated by a group of conspirators. Additionally, he received the name “Augustus” a term meaning “the revered one” from the Roman Senate in 27 BC. Because of the various names he had, it is
To what extent was Augustus ' achievement of power a continuation of the phenomenon we have been examining throughout this course? How was Augustus different? By the time of his death in AD 14, what had changed since the epoch of Scipio Aemilianus?
In 27 BCE the Senate awarded him the honorific Augustus ("the majestic one"), and he was then known as Gaius 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
Julius Caesar's reign was an unfavorable and chaotic period for Rome, and after his death, a large portion of the empire was handed down to his adopted son, Gaius Octavian. From the ashes of his father, Octavian was able to build an Empire unparalleled. Later, the name Augustus was given to him by Senate. Augustus ostensibly maintained the form of the Roman Republic while in actuality creating the Roman Empire. He introduced the administrative reforms that led to the Pax Romana with its flourishing of trade and the arts. Although Augustus's ascension to power could have not been without it bequested by Julius, it was his use of art and propaganda that reinforced the legitimacy his position.
Octavian Caesar, more commonly known as Augustus Caesar, was born to his adoptive father Julius Caesar as a successor to him in 63 BCE (BBC). Following his father’s assassination, he raised to the demands of Rome under heavy pressure from Lepidus and Marc Antony, as they formed the Second Triumvirate (History Channel), which determined how the power of Rome would be divided among the three. Following the Triumvirate, Marc Antony, a rival to Octavian (PBS), travelled to Egypt, where he was ultimately seduced by the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra (PBS). Plotting against Rome, this forced Octavian into fighting against both Marc Antony and Cleopatra, openly declared enemies of the Roman State. Both Antony and Cleopatra were defeated in the decisive
to break free, Antony lost the battle but he and Cleopatra managed to flee the battle early
Julius Caesar’s exceptional leadership skills begin with his victories in the Gallic Wars. The Gallic Wars were battles in Gaul with Caesar and his men fighting various rebelling Gallic tribes. These Gallic rebellions were caused by a population boom within the tribes of Gaul, causing them to leak into Roman territory (Gallic
In this section I will be analysing how Octavian/Augustus rose to become the first Emperor of Rome and his reign thereafter. I will also be looking at how he gained his position and what being and
Gaius Octavius, better known to historians as Augustus, succeeded his great uncle Julius Caesar following his assassination. In his wake, Augustus would become the first Emperor of the newly formed Roman Empire and bring massive, sweeping revisions to Roman law as well as centralize the government, military and economic currency of the Empire. He also reemphasized the importance of art, music and literature in Roman culture, bringing about a new era of historically important artists, poets, sculptors, scribes and philosophers. While the beginnings