He had clear, bright eyes ... His teeth were wide apart, small, and ill-kept; his hair was slightly curly and inclined to golden; his eyebrows met. [117][118] Marching into Rome, Octavian and Marcus Agrippa were elected as consuls by the Senate. [179], Augustus chose Imperator ("victorious commander") to be his first name, since he wanted to make an emphatically clear connection between himself and the notion of victory, and consequently became known as Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus. [253] The relief sculptures decorating the Ara Pacis visually augmented the written record of Augustus's triumphs in the Res Gestae. His government being strengthened by time and mastery, and himself successful in all things and revered … [237] Tacitus, however, records two contradictory but common views of Augustus: Intelligent people praised or criticized him in varying ways. Octavian, the step-son and heir of Julius Caesar, marched into the city of Rome a hero. [91], Octavian and Lepidus launched a joint operation against Sextus in Sicily in 36 BC. This union produced five children, three sons and two daughters: Gaius Caesar, Lucius Caesar, Vipsania Julia, Agrippina the Elder, and Postumus Agrippa, so named because he was born after Marcus Agrippa died. In addition, occupation of Sabaea would give the Romans control of both sides of the entrance to the Red Sea, the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, since Cornelius Gallus had established a garrison at Arsinoe (near Assab, Eritrea) on the Ethiopian shore. [218] Shotter states that Tiberius focused his anger and criticism on Gaius Asinius Gallus (for marrying Vipsania after Augustus forced Tiberius to divorce her), as well as toward the two young Caesars, Gaius and Lucius—instead of Augustus, the real architect of his divorce and imperial demotion. Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar's July, but this is an invention of the 13th century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco. [98] Octavian became consul once again on 1 January 33 BC, and he opened the following session in the Senate with a vehement attack on Antony's grants of titles and territories to his relatives and to his queen. Thanks to his great-uncle, Augustus was able to join the patrician aristocrac… [203] Augustus also showed favor to his stepsons, Livia's children from her first marriage Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (henceforth referred to as Drusus) and Tiberius Claudius (henceforth Tiberius), granting them military commands and public office, though seeming to favor Drusus. Even his Mausoleum of Augustus was built before his death to house members of his family. The story of his career shows that Augustus was indeed ruthless, cruel, and ambitious for himself. [9], SPAIN: Augustus, although in nominal command of the campaign against the Astures and Callaeci, is incapacitated by illness. [181], By the end of his reign, the armies of Augustus had conquered northern Hispania (modern Spain and Portugal) and the Alpine regions of Raetia and Noricum (modern Switzerland, Bavaria, Austria, Slovenia), Illyricum and Pannonia (modern Albania, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, etc. The Senate granted Augustus a form of general imperium proconsulare, or proconsular imperium (power) that applied throughout the empire, not solely to his provinces. Both his adoptive surname, Caesar, and his title Augustus became the permanent titles of the rulers of the Roman Empire for fourteen centuries after his death, in use both at Old Rome and at New Rome. [124][125], The provinces ceded to Augustus for that ten-year period comprised much of the conquered Roman world, including all of Hispania and Gaul, Syria, Cilicia, Cyprus, and Egypt. [141][148] When he annually held the office of consul, he had the power to intervene with the affairs of the other provincial proconsuls appointed by the Senate throughout the empire, when he deemed necessary. [234], The longevity of Augustus's reign and its legacy to the Roman world should not be overlooked as a key factor in its success. 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[37], Mark Antony was amassing political support, but Octavian still had opportunity to rival him as the leading member of the faction supporting Caesar. Both Tacitus and Cassius Dio wrote that Livia was rumored to have brought about Augustus's death by poisoning fresh figs. An enormous funerary procession of mourners traveled with Augustus's body from Nola to Rome, and on the day of his burial all public and private businesses closed for the day. 2. Private contractors who collected taxes for the State were the norm in the Republican era. This man was leader in a war with a neighbouring town ..." [16], Due to the crowded nature of Rome at the time, Octavius was taken to his father's home village at Velletri to be raised. He had made many concessions to Anthony and to Lepidus for the sake of vengeance on his father's murderers. [103][104] In late 32 BC, the Senate officially revoked Antony's powers as consul and declared war on Cleopatra's regime in Egypt. He first appeared on coins at the age of 19, and from about 29 BC "the explosion in the number of Augustan portraits attests a concerted propaganda campaign aimed at dominating all aspects of civil, religious, economic and military life with Augustus's person. Augustus was an administrative genius who brought consistent taxation and implemented many … Brosius (2006), 97; see also Bivar (1983), 66–67. [145] It was not until AD 8 that a food crisis of this sort prompted Augustus to establish a praefectus annonae, a permanent prefect who was in charge of procuring food supplies for Rome. The cult of Divus Augustus continued until the state religion of the Empire was changed to Christianity in 391 by Theodosius I. Consequently, there are many excellent statues and busts of the first emperor. [152] Later, Primus testified that the orders came from the recently deceased Marcellus. However, for his rule of Rome and establishing the principate, Augustus has also been subjected to criticism throughout the ages. 40% of the Roman Senate, together with both consuls, left Rome and joined the war on Antony's side. GAUL: The Morini and Treveri tribes of Gallia Comata province (Pas-de-Calais region of NE France), rebel against Roman rule and the Suebi Germans cross the Rhine to give them support. His biographer Suetonius, writing about a century after Augustus's death, described his appearance as: "... unusually handsome and exceedingly graceful at all periods of his life, though he cared nothing for personal adornment. Ring, Trudy; Salkin, Robert M.; Boda, Sharon La (1 January 1996). There had certainly been peace, but it was a blood-stained peace of disasters and assassinations.[239]. The wars of Augustus are the military campaigns undertaken by the Roman government during the sole rule of the founder-emperor Augustus (30 BC – AD 14). This list displays the battles Augustus fought in alphabetically, but the battles/military engagements contain information such as where the battle was fought and who else was involved. Citizens of Rome and Italy paid indirect taxes, while direct taxes were exacted from the provinces. But the closure could not have been less appropriate. This was a period of 45 years when almost every year saw major campaigning, in some cases on a scale comparable to the Second Punic War (218–201 BC), when Roman manpower resources were stretched to the limit. "[128][134], By 23 BC, some of the un-Republican implications were becoming apparent concerning the settlement of 27 BC. The lengthy civil wars had finally ended. The expedition consists of 10,000 troops including allies, and 130 freight-ships. Adultery was commonplace in Rome when Augustus took over, so in response he put laws in place that punished those who committed adultery. [8], EGYPT: Responding to a directive from Augustus, the prefectures Aegypti, Aelius Gallus (no relation to his predecessor, Cornelius Gallus) leads an expedition across the Red Sea against the Sabaeans of Arabia Felix (mod. [216] Shotter suggests that Augustus's deification obliged Tiberius to suppress any open resentment that he might have harbored, coupled with Tiberius's "extremely conservative" attitude towards religion. [160] Julius Caesar had been granted similar powers, wherein he was charged with supervising the morals of the state. He ended a period of lengthy civil wars in the Roman Republic and started a period known as Pax Romana or Roman Peace, which would last for over two centuries. Moreover, the Senate augmented Augustus's proconsular imperium into imperium proconsulare maius, or proconsular imperium applicable throughout the empire that was more (maius) or greater than that held by the other proconsuls. "The Political History of Iran Under the Arsacids", in. His illness of early 23 BC and the Caepio conspiracy showed that the regime's existence hung by the thin thread of the life of one man, Augustus himself, who suffered from several severe and dangerous illnesses throughout his life. Ando, p. 140; Raaflaub, p. 426; Wells, p. 53, Syme, p. 333; Holland, p. 300; Southern, p. 108. [180], Augustus also promoted the ideal of a superior Roman civilization with a task of ruling the world (to the extent to which the Romans knew it), a sentiment embodied in words that the contemporary poet Virgil attributes to a legendary ancestor of Augustus: tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento—"Roman, remember by your strength to rule the Earth's peoples! [75], On 1 January 42 BC, the Senate posthumously recognized Julius Caesar as a divinity of the Roman state, Divus Iulius. [231], One of the most enduring institutions of Augustus was the establishment of the Praetorian Guard in 27 BC, originally a personal bodyguard unit on the battlefield that evolved into an imperial guard as well as an important political force in Rome. [204] Drusus's marriage to Augustus's niece Antonia was considered an unbreakable affair, whereas Vipsania was "only" the daughter of the late Agrippa from his first marriage. [223] Historians are able to analyze excerpts of letters penned by Augustus, preserved in other works, to others for additional facts or clues about his personal life. Vespasian was the fourth man to win power in a civil war that raged for over a year after Nero’s death. The careers of many clients and adherents depended on his patronage, as his financial power was unrivaled in the Roman Republic. Rome had conquered nearly all the lands bordering the Mediterranean, and Caesar's conquest of Gaul in 49 B.C. [100], The breach between Antony and Octavian prompted a large portion of the Senators, as well as both of that year's consuls, to leave Rome and defect to Antony. ), and had extended the borders of the Africa Province to the east and south. [80] There was no more government-controlled land to allot as settlements for their soldiers, so Octavian had to choose one of two options: alienating many Roman citizens by confiscating their land, or alienating many Roman soldiers who could mount a considerable opposition against him in the Roman heartland. It was there that Antony's fleet faced the much larger fleet of smaller, more maneuverable ships under commanders Agrippa and Gaius Sosius in the Battle of Actium on 2 September 31 BC. [249], The month of August (Latin: Augustus) is named after Augustus; until his time it was called Sextilis (named so because it had been the sixth month of the original Roman calendar and the Latin word for six is sex). [177] If he were to die from natural causes or fall victim to assassination, Rome could be subjected to another round of civil war. ALPS: Augustus despatches an army under Aulus Terentius Varro Murena against the Salassi tribe of the Val d'Aosta region of the northwestern Alps. In fact, he dated his 'reign' from the completion of the Second Settlement, 1 July 23 BC. [95], Meanwhile, Antony's campaign turned disastrous against Parthia, tarnishing his image as a leader, and the mere 2,000 legionaries sent by Octavian to Antony were hardly enough to replenish his forces. Marcellus Augustus Stovall (September 18, 1818 – August 4, 1895) was an American soldier and merchant. He did so by courting the Senate and the people while upholding the republican traditions of Rome, appearing that he was not aspiring to dictatorship or monarchy. He then marches against a major fortress held by the Moesi people. Antony besieged him at Mutina[57] and rejected the resolutions passed by the Senate to stop the fighting. The first battle was fought on the 3rd of October and the second was fought on the 23rd of October in the year 42 BC. [30] Mark Antony later charged that Octavian had earned his adoption by Caesar through sexual favours, though Suetonius describes Antony's accusation as political slander. [188], A prime example of Roman loss in battle was the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, where three entire legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus were destroyed by Arminius, leader of the Cherusci, an apparent Roman ally. The double battle was fought between the forces of Brutus and Cassius, the two main men behind Caesar’s assassination, against the combined forces of Mark Antony and Augustus … Also, Octavian's control of entire provinces followed Republican-era precedents for the objective of securing peace and creating stability, in which such prominent Romans as Pompey had been granted similar military powers in times of crisis and instability. "Empire" as a description of foreign policy, This page was last edited on 3 March 2021, at 16:16. After a … [184] Horace dedicated an ode to the victory, while the monumental Trophy of Augustus near Monaco was built to honor the occasion. The contemporary Roman jurist Marcus Antistius Labeo (d. AD 10/11), fond of the days of pre-Augustan republican liberty in which he had been born, openly criticized the Augustan regime. [188] Tiberius was responsible for restoring Tigranes V to the throne of the Kingdom of Armenia. However, Augustus had put the state in order not by making himself king or dictator, but by creating the Principate. Octavian sent only a tenth of those promised, however, which Antony viewed as an intentional provocation. Under his consulship, however, the Senate had little power in initiating legislation by introducing bills for senatorial debate. [63] He encountered no military opposition in Rome, and on 19 August 43 BC was elected consul with his relative Quintus Pedius as co-consul. International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe. The event was celebrated in art such as the breastplate design on the statue Augustus of Prima Porta and in monuments such as the Temple of Mars Ultor ('Mars the Avenger') built to house the standards. This came about because it was overseen by Agrippa when he served as aedile, and was even funded by him afterwards when he was a private citizen paying at his own expense. [146], This power allowed him to convene the Senate and people at will and lay business before them, to veto the actions of either the Assembly or the Senate, to preside over elections, and to speak first at any meeting. He establishes a puppet-state called Triacontaschoenos under a local petty king to act as a buffer-zone between Egypt and Aethiopia (i.e. [122], According to H. H. Scullard, however, Octavian's power was based on the exercise of "a predominant military power and ... the ultimate sanction of his authority was force, however much the fact was disguised. This desire, as well as the Marcus Primus Affair, led to a second compromise between him and the Senate known as the Second Settlement. [84], While in Egypt, Antony had been engaged in an affair with Cleopatra and had fathered twin children with her. [193] Augustus retaliated by dispatching Tiberius and Drusus to the Rhineland to pacify it, which had some success although the battle of AD 9 brought the end to Roman expansion into Germany. Persistent rumors, substantiated somewhat by numerous deaths in the imperial family, have claimed his wife Livia poisoned him. Augustus - Augustus - Government and administration: Remembering, however, that Caesar had been assassinated because of his resort to naked power, Octavian realized that the governing class would welcome him as the terminator of civil war only if he concealed his autocracy beneath provisions avowedly harking back to republican traditions. Filial duty and a national emergency, in which there was no place for law-abiding conduct, had driven him to civil war—and this can neither be initiated nor maintained by decent methods. brought transalpine Europe into the sphere of … He assumed to himself an authority like Cæsar's over the country and the subject nations, and even greater than Cæsar's, not needing any form of election, or authorization, or even the pretence of it. Feigning reluctance, he accepted a ten-year responsibility of overseeing provinces that were considered chaotic. Fulvia's death and the mutiny of their centurions allowed the two remaining triumvirs to effect a reconciliation. Under oath, Augustus declared that he gave no such order. [204] In that year, Tiberius was also granted the powers of a tribune and proconsul, emissaries from foreign kings had to pay their respects to him, and by AD 13 was awarded with his second triumph and equal level of imperium with that of Augustus. [73] Rewards for their arrest gave incentive for Romans to capture those proscribed, while the assets and properties of those arrested were seized by the triumvirs. [147] For some years, Augustus had been awarded tribunicia sacrosanctitas, the immunity given to a Tribune of the Plebs. Born Gaius Octavius and also known as Octavian, Augustus Caesar is famous for transforming the Roman Republic, marred by civil wars, into a stable monarchic Empire which would last for around 1400 years. The Italian Peninsula was left open to all for the recruitment of soldiers, but in reality, this provision was useless for Antony in the East. [217], Augustus's reign laid the foundations of a regime that lasted, in one form or another, for nearly fifteen hundred years through the ultimate decline of the Western Roman Empire and until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. His maternal great-uncle Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, and Octavius was named in Caesar's will as his adopted son and heir, after which he took the name Gaius Julius Caesar, though later historians would take to calling him Octavian to avoid confusion with his great-uncle. Born on September 23, 63 B.C., Augustus grew up in a town about 25 miles southeast of Rome. [84] Perusia also was pillaged and burned as a warning for others. Taylor & Francis. The campaign is brought to a successful conclusion, with the last rebels crushed, by the governors of Hispania Citerior and Ulterior, respectively Gaius Antistius Vetus and Publius Carisius.[8]. Both campaigns were successful, as Drusus's forces reached the Elbe River by 9 BC—though he died shortly after by falling off his horse. All of the powers accumulated by Augustus were awarded to Vespasian, and he was followed as emperor by his two sons in turn, giving the empire three decades of stability. [19] His mother married a former governor of Syria, Lucius Marcius Philippus. [21][22] From this point, his mother and stepfather took a more active role in raising him. [98] In 36 BC, Octavian used a political ploy to make himself look less autocratic and Antony more the villain by proclaiming that the civil wars were coming to an end, and that he would step down as triumvir—if only Antony would do the same. [85] Both Antony and Octavian were vying for an alliance with Pompeius. [102], Octavian forcibly entered the temple of the Vestal Virgins and seized Antony's secret will, which he promptly publicized. [14][15] Suetonius wrote: "There are many indications that the Octavian family was in days of old a distinguished one at Velitrae; for not only was a street in the most frequented part of town long ago called Octavian, but an altar was shown there besides, consecrated by an Octavius. Mark Antony and Cleopatra had been soundly defeated. [214] Tiberius and his son Drusus delivered the eulogy while standing atop two rostra. To further cement relations of alliance with Mark Antony, Octavian gave his sister, Octavia Minor, in marriage to Antony in late 40 BC. He continued to say that, with Augustus's death and swearing of loyalty to Tiberius, the people of Rome simply traded one slaveholder for another. Augustus Louis Chetlain (December 26, 1824 – March 15, 1914) was a United States Army soldier who was the first man in Illinois to volunteer at the outbreak of the American Civil War… [188] Before the final fight with Antony, Octavian's campaigns against the tribes in Dalmatia were the first step in expanding Roman dominions to the Danube. [4] Despite his success, Gallus incurs Augustus' displeasure by erecting monuments to himself and is recalled to Rome, tried by the Senate and convicted of various unspecified charges and banished. In 59 BC, when he was four years old, his father died. [232] They had the power to intimidate the Senate, install new emperors, and depose ones they disliked; the last emperor they served was Maxentius, as it was Constantine I who disbanded them in the early 4th century and destroyed their barracks, the Castra Praetoria. Octavian chose the former. [50][51], With opinion in Rome turning against him and his year of consular power nearing its end, Antony attempted to pass laws that would assign him the province of Cisalpine Gaul. It was a title of religious authority rather than political authority. [208] This continued the tradition of presenting at least two generations of heirs. [73][93] The Roman dominions were now divided between Octavian in the West and Antony in the East. Proconsular imperium was conferred upon Agrippa for five years, similar to Augustus's power, in order to accomplish this constitutional stability. This in effect gave Augustus constitutional power superior to all other proconsuls in the empire. Augustus dramatically enlarged the Empire, annexing Egypt, Dalmatia, Pannonia, Noricum, and Raetia, expanding possessions in Africa, and completing the conquest of Hispania, but suffered a major setback in Germania. [156], The Second Constitutional Settlement was completed in part to allay confusion and formalize Augustus's legal authority to intervene in Senatorial provinces. He achieved this through various means of generosity and a cutting back of lavish excess. [143], The situation was so serious that Augustus himself appeared at the trial, even though he had not been called as a witness. Publicly, though, his last words were, "Behold, I found Rome of clay, and leave her to you of marble" ("Marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset"). [137] This was a clever ploy by Augustus; ceasing to serve as one of two annually elected consuls allowed aspiring senators a better chance to attain the consular position, while allowing Augustus to exercise wider patronage within the senatorial class. To ensure stability, he needed to designate an heir to his unique position in Roman society and government. Januar 27 v. Chr. [92] Despite setbacks for Octavian, the naval fleet of Sextus Pompeius was almost entirely destroyed on 3 September by General Agrippa at the naval Battle of Naulochus. He was immensely hardworking and tried as hard as any democratic parliamentarian to treat his senatorial colleagues with respect and sensitivity. Both his adoptive surname, Caesar, and his title Augustus became the permanent titles of the rulers of the Roman Empire for fourteen centuries after his death, in use both at Old Rome and at New Rome. Neither related to Augustus nor from the old Roman aristocracy, he came from the local gentry of Italy. Battle of Philippi and division of territory, Primary reasons for the Second Settlement, The dates of his rule are contemporary dates; Augustus lived under two calendars, the, He acted on the orders of Marcellus and Augustus – see Southern, p. 108 and Eck (2003), p. 55. [237] The poet Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (AD 39–65) was of the opinion that Caesar's victory over Pompey and the fall of Cato the Younger (95 BC–46 BC) marked the end of traditional liberty in Rome; historian Chester G. Starr, Jr. writes of his avoidance of criticizing Augustus, "perhaps Augustus was too sacred a figure to accuse directly. [187], To protect Rome's eastern territories from the Parthian Empire, Augustus relied on the client states of the east to act as territorial buffers and areas that could raise their own troops for defense. The attrition of the civil wars on the old Republican oligarchy and the longevity of Augustus, therefore, must be seen as major contributing factors in the transformation of the Roman state into a de facto monarchy in these years. [256] To celebrate his victory at the Battle of Actium, the Arch of Augustus was built in 29 BC near the entrance of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, and widened in 19 BC to include a triple-arch design. "[241], The Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), in his Discourse on the Contests and Dissentions in Athens and Rome, criticized Augustus for installing tyranny over Rome, and likened what he believed Great Britain's virtuous constitutional monarchy to Rome's moral Republic of the 2nd century BC. Then applaud as I exit" ("Acta est fabula, plaudite")—referring to the play-acting and regal authority that he had put on as emperor. Armies, provinces, fleets, the whole system was interrelated. Rising to prominence after the death of Julius Caesar, Octavian became consul and then a part of the Second Triumvirate. He ruled for a period of 41 yea… : „der Erhabene“), so dass sich als vollständige Form Imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus ergab. [5], GAUL: The Treveri revolt is quelled by the new proconsul of Gaul, C. Nonius Gallus, who is rewarded with the title of imperator ("supreme commander"). Of the many factors which led to the civil wars, two are of crucial importance for understanding his career. Although there is some truth in the literal meaning of this, Cassius Dio asserts that it was a metaphor for the Empire's strength. Like his tribune authority, the consular powers were another instance of gaining power from offices that he did not actually hold. Augustus held them all at once by himself, and with no time limits; even those that nominally had time limits were automatically renewed whenever they lapsed. 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