Contributions of Augustus to the founding of the Roman Empire
With the research of the modern world, it has become quite clear that Rome was a massive military power in the Ancient World. They conquered all, and were unstoppable. Though, this only came to be through the change from a Roman Republic to the Roman Empire, and only one man could change this. Augustus. Augustus was the first Roman Emperor, and quite frankly the founder of the Roman Empire. Augustus commanded legions of Roman Soldiers, reformed the populous to run more efficiently and started the long reign of Emperors in Rome. Augustus was the sole reason the Roman Empire rose from the ashes of the republic.
Augustus was born into an equestrian family as Gaius Octavius at Rome on 23 September 63 BC. His father, also Gaius Octavius, was the first in the family to become a senator, but died when Octavius was only four. It was his mother who had the more distinguished connection. She was the daughter of Julia, sister to Julius Caesar. (Roman Empire.net, n.d.)
Octavius suffered from bad teeth and was generally of feeble health. Octavius served under Julius Caesar in the Spanish expedition of 46 BC despite his delicate health. And he was to take a senior military command in Caesar 's planned Parthian expedition of 44 BC, although at the time being only 18 years old. (Roman Empire.net, n.d.)
Octavian was with his friends Marcus Agrippa and Marcus Salvidienus Rufus in Epirus completing his academic and military studies, when news reached him of Caesar 's assassination. At once he returned to Rome, learning on the way that Caesar had adopted him in his will. (Roman Empire.net, n.d.)
Before Octavius achieved total efficiency of The Roman Empire, Rome was in utter chaos. Julius Caesar was murdered by the senate, causing widespread anarchy and civil wars. The men who murdered Caesar considered themselves “Liberators” of the Roman Republic. What they hoped to achieve did not matter, as they seemed to have little thought of how Rome would be governed after
Augustus was born into an equestrian family as Gaius Octavius at Rome on 23 September 63 BC. His father, also Gaius Octavius, was the first in the family to become a senator, but died when Octavius was only four. It was his mother who had the more distinguished connection. She was the daughter of Julia, sister to Julius Caesar. (Roman Empire.net, n.d.)
Octavius suffered from bad teeth and was generally of feeble health. Octavius served under Julius Caesar in the Spanish expedition of 46 BC despite his delicate health. And he was to take a senior military command in Caesar 's planned Parthian expedition of 44 BC, although at the time being only 18 years old. (Roman Empire.net, n.d.)
Octavian was with his friends Marcus Agrippa and Marcus Salvidienus Rufus in Epirus completing his academic and military studies, when news reached him of Caesar 's assassination. At once he returned to Rome, learning on the way that Caesar had adopted him in his will. (Roman Empire.net, n.d.)
Before Octavius achieved total efficiency of The Roman Empire, Rome was in utter chaos. Julius Caesar was murdered by the senate, causing widespread anarchy and civil wars. The men who murdered Caesar considered themselves “Liberators” of the Roman Republic. What they hoped to achieve did not matter, as they seemed to have little thought of how Rome would be governed after