"Augustus" Gaius Julius Octavius Augustus was born plain Gaius Octavius at Rome on September 23rd. His father was the first in the family to become senator, but died when Octavian was only four years old. It was his mother who had the more distinguished connection. She was the daughter ...

Augustus Caesar's rise to power and transformation of the Roman Republic into the great Empire was able to happen because of his great ability to gain support from his military soldiers, the senate, and the people. His relationship with each varied, but ultimately lead to him becoming known as ...

Both Asoka in India and Augusta in Rome brought a period of peace through their rule as emperors. These periods of peace were both implicated after military victory. Asoka, conquered new lands for ancient India, but unlike Augustus saw the horror and destruction his war brought. After seeing what...

Gaius Octavius, the great-nephew of Julius Caesar, was born in Rome on the 23rd of September, 63 BC (Southern 1). After Julius Caesar's death on the Ides of March in 44 BC, a struggle for power in Rome ensued, even though 18 year old Octavian was the heir. Marc Antony, a good friend of J...

" Ancient Rome" The founding of Rome began in 753 BC. The establishment of the Roman Republic occurred in 509 BC and lasted 500 years, during which time Julius Caesar was one of the rulers. Emperor Augustus brought Rome out of the Republic and unified ancient Italy. Rome was founded...

The power and prestige of the Roman Emperor's were apparent in everything from the large, extravagant palaces of Rome, to Roman art and sculpture, and even in Roman coinage. Julius Caesar was the first emperor to put his own image on the face of a coin within his own lifetime. In this way, he ...

Throughout history there has been thousands of dominate empires, but none as dominate as the Roman Empire. Rome's great empire included over one million people, and ran in a stretch of over two million miles. Rome's government was very public oriented. Rome had huge public buildings tha...

Virgil spent a substantial amount of time and research on his masterpiece, The Aeneid. His goal was to create a piece of literature that would be praised by King Augustus Caesar of Rome. In order to properly display his devotion and gratitude towards his gracious leader, Virgil wrote The Aeneid as...

The Julian Emperors were the emperors of Rome that were related to Julius Caesar, hence the name. There were four of them that ruled from A.D.14 to A.D.68. Some of them were related to him vaguely, but legally they were still related to him. The first person in the Julian Empire was Tiberius....

Augustus Julius Caesar was assassinated by his colleagues due to treachery and fear of his rule, which led to a civil war. His death brought about a war between two strong political figures, Octavian, the step son of Julius Caesar and protégé, and Mark Antony, a once ally to Oct...

As most of the emperors of ancient Rome were given different names then the names they had at birth Caligula was no different. Caligula's real name was Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus and he was born at Antium, 25 miles from Rome, in 12 AD Gaius was a turning point in the history of the Principat...

The Byzantine Empire While Caesar Augustus was establishing Rome's greatness, Christianity was beginning in the Roman province of Judea. After 476 A.D., the end of the Roman Empire in the West and the start of Germanic rule, a new Christian Rome emerged in Byzantium. Christian leaders after...

Constantine was not a religious man. In fact, most of his cares rest upon his power over the Roman Empire and the Roman Empire's power over the rest of the world. He stood by any god or force that would gain him victory in the battlefield or prosperity at home. (Sayers 280) He did not look at a...

During the Greek-Roman period there was a time span that began with the reign of Augustus Caesar to the death of Marcus Aurelius known as the Pax Romana. This time span which covered more than 200 years brought many changes to the Roman Empire. It was a time for unity, peace, and national s...

Revolution in Expansion In Florence, and also in the surrounding cities, the Renaissance was a time of awakening and rebirth. A time of examining the present and looking towards a future that would turn out to seem entirely different from the past, but at the same time hold striking similarities. ...

Emperor Galerius was the ruler of Rome. He was born in 250 and died in 311. He served a military career and is best remembered for issuing edicts ordering tolerance of Christianity. In upper Moesia, near Florentine, there is a small Danube village where Galerius was born. His parents came from an...

The Roman Republic 1000 B. C. – 27 B. C. -know the myth of Romulus and Remus (pg. 130 – 131) -Rome is a central point between the Alps and Sicily -at point where it was easy to cross the Tiber river -key point for trade routes Three Main Culture Groups 1) The Latins - ...

Phases of the Roman Empire The Romans dominated the ancient world for almost 500 years. At their zenith, they controlled a majority of land in the European region. It was an area that extended from the Atlantic coastline of Spain in the west, to the shores of the Caspian Sean in the east; from ...

During the Imperial Rome era, the lifestyles were quite different in which we in the present are very much used to. The civilization of the Roman Empire depended on the vitality of its cities. This meant that the society was based upon the strength that its cities contained. Almost all cities durin...

It was a mess, 2nd century BC and Rome had no army. Troops were drawn periodically from the population of male, property-owning citizens between 17 and 46. Men were ranked by age and height to ensure that no one legion monopolized the prime candidates, officers from various legions took their...

The Fall of the Roman Empire An essay on the effect of acqueducts in ancient Rome A basic fact of life: humans need water to survive. Therefore, it is not surprising that water has played an important role in history. All of the ancient civilizations, including Rome, had to deal with the probl...

The Aeneid was a literary epic written by Vergil. The Roman people as their national epic quickly accepted the Aeneid. Vergil's greatest influence was Homer. The Aeneid is about the Trojan hero Aeneas traveling to eventually start the Roman Empire. After the fall of Troy, Aeneas sailed for Italy ...

It can be maintained that Christianity marked a departure from the values and belief structures of the Greco-Roman cultures to the extent that the first tended to emphasize the importance of expansive teaching and conversion of followers, monotheism and a separation of church and state, while the l...