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CAESAR AUGUSTUS

Caesar Augustus
Caesar Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, was born Gaius Octavius at Rome on 
September 23rd. The nephew of Julius Caesar, Augustus was adopted in Julius's will and 
Became his sole heir after Julius's assassination. Arriving at Rome, Augustus found 
Julius Caesar's power divided between Marc Antony and Lepidus, Antony, Lepidus and
Octavian formed the second triumverit in order to maintain peace, but it was soon
dissolved when Antony refued to hand over Caesar powers to Octavian. Caesar and Antony
went to war and that war lasted for over a decade. Octavian won the support of many
Romans by convencing them that Antony was plotting with Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.
Octavians forces defeated Antony at the naval battle of Actium. Antony and Cleopatra
committed suicide. Now Octavian was the sole ruler of the Mediterranean world. Octavians
biggest worries were that he now has to turn Rome into a political system with out
offending the senate. The government that he was trying to establish was a traditional
government it had risen from both political reality in which the senat held power for
many generations and the Roman political theory. The Romans claimed that there form of
government was given to them by the gods, who conferred the authority on Romulus, the
mythical founder of Rome. Then later the authority was passed on to the senate and they
would ask the gods for advice about what actions Rome should take. Then the senate passed
the authority on to the remaining of the governmental bureaucracy in which it was given
to the male heads of the households. Only male households could sit in the senate because
they believed that they where the only people worthy enough to consult with the gods. The
many different ways that Octavian was 
going to reestablish the Roman government. Octavian was so favored in the eyes of the
senate that they appointed him commander-in-chief of the army, and gave him control of
the many outlying provinces. What these providences did was that furnished grain supplies
to the people of Rome as well as the soldiers and all of these people where grateful to
Octavian more than they where to the senate. The senate gave him title of princeps
.People thought that gods had left Rome after all the controversy but then they believed
that they had came back because of Octavian. Then he started to build and repair most of
Rome.
In conclusion Octavian mad a very big impact on Rome and cause Rome to recuperate to the
way that it should have been in the first place.