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Rome 2
Assignment 13
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02/04/2004

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Desertions
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this and famine and illness of Antony's army lead to his and Cleopatra's defeat
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Res Gestae Divi Augustus.
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At the end of Octaviana's life, he wrote a bunch of memoirs down about being leader. He included a lot of times when he turned down power and honer so that he wouldn't look greedy, and like a king
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famine
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Once when there was a famin in Rome, the senate offered Octavian dictatorship so that he would have all say, and be able to fix things fast, but instead he took the role of "grain suppervisor"
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purged
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Octavian purged eh membersof of the senate that were too smart, and thought too much, and he kept the few members that he could manage easily
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morality
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Agustus wanted to go back to old Roman morals of family and stuff, and even practiced this himself
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redeemer
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Rome wanted a redeemer to come and save them from their bad sins, and they accepted Agustus as that redeemer
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Virgil
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A roman poet- Agustus's favorite, and wrote a lot of stuff to Glorify rome and agustus
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Georgics
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this is one of Virgil's early pieces- wroe about Octavian's victories
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Aeneid
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Virgil's most famous work- (look to latin notes), Virgil actually said on his deathbed that he wanted the "unfinished work destroyed" but Augustus didn't listen to him
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deified
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Augustus was made to look like the savoir
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