Augustus Caesar

Augustus Caesar

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Augustus Caesar, the Rome's first true Emperor was the historical

figure who had the greatest impact upon the western world between the

dawn of civilization and the end of the middle ages. Augustus Caesar

(31B.C. - 14 A.D.) was originally named Gaius Octivian, the name

Augustus was granted by the Roman Senate, which means magnificent. The

success of Augustus was he developed an honest government, and during

his reign, he rebuilt many structures to improve the Roman Empire,

which included temples and roads with classical style. He created an

efficient postal service that encouraged free trade among the region.

The soul power of Augustus had established him to distribute the long

standing of Rome.

Augustus Caesar did not gain his position easily. He was the adopted

heir of Julius Caesar, and he attained his position and held it

without meeting with the same fate as his Uncle Julius Caesar.

Augustus had to bring the people to his side and win the support of

the military in order to gain his trust from the senate. He had

raised his own military. Meanwhile, many of the senate was against

Mark Antony, who was the right hand man of Julius Caesar and also

wanted to become the heir. The leader of the senate, Cicero, realized

Augustus was a useful alley, ordered Angustus to make war on Antony

and forced him to retreated to Gaul, but Cicero failed to do so

(Scarre, 17). Because during 43B.C. "Augustus marched on Rome with

his army, and compelled the senate to to accept him as a consul"

(Scarre, 17). Later on, Augustus met Antony and Lepidus and the three

of them started to form a triumvirate, which excluded the senate

power. They divided three parts of the Roman Empire. Antony took the

east, Augustus took the west, and Lepidus away to Africa, since he was

no long an equal partner (Scarre, 17). Augustus started to gain some

reputation in the west; meanwhile Antony had left and conquered Egypt

in order to gain his popularity. Unfortunately he married the queen

of Egypt, Cleopatra, which was a disgraceful to Rome. Augustus raised

an army of his own to fight Antony. The battle took place in Actium,

and Augustus won the battle. In addition, Egypt was also conquered by

Augustus and it became a new territory of Rome. "Augustus's overall

policy was to keep the military establishment at the minimum ne...

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... had brought people a better living.

Augustus developed a very efficient postal service before the end of

his reign, which gave the Romans the advantage to trade freely with

other provinces. But the postal system was only used for imperial use

and not for public use. He create the postal services by choosing a

"Commissioner of the Roads near Rome", and their duty was to discharge

to the assigned leader for each trunk road, and "carried out by

couriers stationed along the main roads, which the couriers would

answer questions relating to the dispatches that he carried, performed

the whole journey, with changes of horses, in the same carriage"

(Homles, 35). Even though, the postal systems were only for imperial

use, the letters that they wrote were indebted.

Augustus Caesar was a sole ruler during his reign; he stayed in power

for almost half a century. He worked for the past and the future

consciously, brought peace and prosperity to the people in the past

and also in the future. Augustus succession was to control Rome in a

wise way, without affecting the senate. After he died at the age of

seventy-five, the people of the Roman Empire worshipped him as a god.