Augustus: The Last Contradicting Side Of Love?

In both readings we receive a picture of Rome that the writers paint for us. Augustus provides for us a very biased view on Rome. In “ The Deeds of the Divine Augustus”, Augustus makes a point that Rome is superior to all other places. He takes pride in Rome, so much so that he does not point out the faults in Rome, rather he praises it for all its glory. In contrast, Juvenal’s “Satires”, takes a more realistic approach and explains to us the downfalls of Rome. He explains the good and the bad of Rome and writes with sense of truth. He explains to us that Rome is not perfect by any means. Through his writings, Juvenal is hoping to help the citizens realize their faults and return to their traditional Roman values, through this we can come to an understanding of the true Rome.

Portrait of Augustus as General is a 2.03m high white marble sculpture that made in the 1st century AD, and was discovered on April 20, 1863 at Prima Porta near Rome. Nowadays, it located in the Vatican MuseumIt. The original copy is bronze that made in c.20 B.C.E. Augustus appears as a great winner leader, and a supporter of Roman religion. The sculpture is in contrapposto position, and he is leading his army. He is standing with his right foot forward and his left foot lifted slightly backward. His right hand is upward pointing to his target, and his left hand is relaxed as he were calm and confident. Augustus displays the perfect body of Roman athlete, and it is based on Doryphorus a statue by Polykleitos depicting the perfect proportions

After Julius Caesar’s death in 44 BCE, Rome needed a new ruler. Octavian, later known as Augustus, became the first Roman Emperor in 27 BCE. He was adopted by Caesar at the young age of nineteen and took over Caesar’s ruling at the age of thirty two. Throughout his ruling Augustus claimed many military victories, expanded the territory of Rome and brought peace to his citizens. He established himself as the princeps or the first citizen of the Roman Empire along with his roles of imperator (commander in chief) and pontifex maximus or the chief priest of Rome. He was seen as a military victor, bringer of peace to his people, and a supporter of the Roman traditions. His successes were rewarded with portraits and monuments that displayed his victories all over his empire. Through these artworks Augustus expressed his

The power of Rome for many centuries was held by the senate, which is a group of men of the wealthiest families in Rome. They made all the political and military decisions for Rome. Under the Senate the romans conquered many lands such as the entire Italian peninsula, southern france, Spain, and northern Africa. After the conquering of many of these lands the armies became independent and created civil wars in the land. Much of the Roman empire was corrupt and falling apart. Three generals Crassus, Pompey, and Julius Caesar formed an alliance, they kept the senate but left it with little power and say. The senate was worried about Julius Caesar he was power hungry and very

The Deeds of the Divine Augustus By Augustus can answer all sorts of questions regarding how Augustus portrays himself. Augustus views himself almost as the greatest among men. After the Julius Creaser was declared a deity he demanded that he be called creaser and saw himself as “Divi filius” or “the son of the divine”. Almost like he was trying to use godliness of the former emperor to ensure to be viewed more highly or even be considered a deity himself. Upon Augustus’s death, Augustus left behind three scrolls. One of which scrolls instructed to have all of his accomplishments on a list, to be inscribed upon tablets made out of bronze and to be placed in front of the entry to his mausoleum. This inclines that he wants to be remembered for

Lindner (2007) also points out that a key component of the services Augustus offered was his meticulous record keeping. Although obviously time consuming, he kept a written record of every person he supervised. It’s also why we can accept from his book that he supervised for a season of probation 1,152 men and 794 women and girls (Augustus, 1972). Furthermore, that leads to another important aspect of his work. After establishing his bailing out with men, he then began to help women and finally children.

Augustus, during his reign as emperor proved effective in ruling through the ideas he implemented to solidify his country. Tacitus stated “nullo adversante” which translates into English “Wholly unopposed” (http://janusquirinus.org/Quotes/QuotesHome.html) this identifies the effectiveness of his reign and the strength he had politically over Rome. Important actions such as the creation of religious and moral reforms, the constitutional agreement and the implementation of the building programme all succeeded in creating stability within the Roman Empire.

I'm going to be writing about the life of Augustus. I chose to write about his life because he was a strong and powerful leader. Even Though Rome had many emperors, but Augustus is one of the well known emperor. He took Rome away from Mark and the government from a Republic government. He moved the capitol to a new location to make it harder for people to attack. He rebuild the city after the civil war and made so improvements as well. His death was long, but he was well taken care of. Augustus accomplished many things when he ruled as emperor, some of those things are taking over Rome, changing the government, rebuilding Rome, and changing the capitol.

In the age of Augustus myth played a large role in Roman identity, with myths being used to justify alliances and political activities. The search for a common mythological ancestor amongst cities or countries offered a sense of legitimacy to the alliances that were struck because of these links. On a smaller scale, Romans sought to find familial links that meant that they were more qualified to make a decision, and Augustus was no exception to this. Augustus’ family were an old and distinguished family, however were not patrician, and he was ashamed of the fact that his great-grandfather was an ex-slave, the lowest on the social chain in Rome. In order to justify his leadership, and offer a more glamourous family background Augustus worked hard to establish his and Julius Caesar’s link to the Prince of Troy, Aeneas. Not only that, but Augustus was focused on establishing divine familial ties,

Therefore, every love story shows the relationship between the characters and how they are attracted to one another. In the Fault in Our Stars, Hazel and Augustus have more in common with each other they both suffer from cancer and know how to deal with it and live their life’s a certain way. They both know they are a ticking bomb but decide to risk it all. Having this attraction with each other shows how much they care for one another knowing that any day could be there last to just live in the moment. Hazel and Augustus both evolve with each other by having a deeper

A ruler’s strength and longevity in power can be predicted by how content his people are with the system that is implemented by him. During the first century B.C.E., Rome experienced a period of political and social instability when Augustus came into power determined to bring social order, political stability, and most importantly, bring glory to Rome. In Aeneid, the epic poem translated from Latin into modern English by Frederick Ahl, one can see portrayed the legend of a righteous hero, deserving of his destiny as a conqueror and determined to establish a city; a story intended to portray Augustus’ role as a ruler of Rome and to revere the glory of the city.

I believe that Augustus used Art the most effectively in his pursuit of power. Even though Alexander the great might have been the first to use once own face as a symbol, Augusts took this technique and improved it. He not only used this technique to take control over Rome when it was divided he also fooled everyone into not only thinking that he actually looked like the statue, but that he was a humble down to earth leader when in fact he was a dictator.

Hazel grace is a dynamic character because she changes throughout the story. In the beginning, Hazel doesn’t want to get close to Augustus, because she was afraid he is going to be shattered when she dies. But towards the ending, hazel finds out it doesn’t matter if you die in the middle of a relationship, it’s about the moments you spend together. A quote in the book, on page 214, “Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.”

Nevertheless, Tacitus also wrote after the time of Augustus at the end of the first century AD, however unlike other sources he conveys a very bias perspective on Augustus and his rule. This may be due to the change that Augustus made to the government, especially when the empire was left to be run by power hungry successors after Augustus’s death. This in hand would of left Tacitus blaming Augustus as he was the first roman emperor, leaving Tacitus to experience tyranny, corruption and decadence which may explain his bitter and ironic political analysis. This is also seen as his writings are filled with snide remarks (innuendo) of Augustus and essentially how he created corruption, governmental scandal and innocent people being destroyed because of his lust for power. Overall, these three sources are equally biased because they were all issued after Augustus’s reign yet still show a depiction of Augustus which is an opposing view to that found in other sources, as all three of the primary sources believed that an emperor

Augustus makes an impact on Hazel’s life. Augustus and Hazel meet at Support Group and grow a close bond. Augustus and Hazel fall deeply in love throughout the story. When Augustus’ cancer sprung up again, he asked Hazel to write him an eulogy. In Hazel’s eulogy she says, “My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears”(Green 259). This shows that when Augustus dies he will leave a (mental) scar on Hazel, because Hazel will deeply miss Augustus when he dies. Augustus transformed Hazel