http://www.tomrichey.net This PowerPoint is designed to accompany a lecture on Augustus Caesar, the Golden Age of Latin Literature (Virgil, Horace, Livy, and Ovid), and the Julio-Claudian Emperors (Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero).

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Augustus
and the Principate
PART I
Julio-Claudian
Emperors
PART III
The Golden Age
of Latin Literature
PART II

4. AVGVSTV
SFather of the Roman Empire

5. Desperate for peace…
People were so
desperate for peace,
they would give up
certain republican
rights to restore
peace
Over 60 years
of civil unrest

6. Octavian
Princeps
“the first
among equals”
Augustus
“illustrious one”
Too much
power?Calendar Reforms

7. Pax Romana
Civil
Peace
• A period of relative peace
within the borders of the
Roman Empire
• Began with Augustus.
CLOSED
“Roman Peace”

8. Pontifex
Maximus
Treasury
Consul
Tribune
Augustus

9. Praetorian Guard
Led by the
Praetorian Prefect

10. Augustus’ Religious
&
Moral Reforms
Marriage Laws
Religious Revival
Bothered by the new
extravagant lifestyle,
Augustus made several
religious and moral
reforms.

11. At the time of Augustus
Augustus established a professional
army and stationed them at the frontier.
The army provided a “Romanizing”
influence.

12. Virgil Horace Livy Ovid

13. Virgil
Portrays agrarian lifestyle as the
happiest and most virtuous
PATRONIZ
ED
by Augustus
Farm Poetry
Back

14. Horace
Themes in Writing
PATRONIZED
by Augustus
Back

15. Livy Extremely Patriotic
Historian
Back

16. Livy
Back
“I hope my passion for Rome’s
past has not impaired my
judgment; for I do honestly believe
that no country has ever been
greater or purer than ours or richer
in good citizens and noble deeds;
none has been free for so many
centuries from the vices of avarice
and luxury; nowhere have thrift
and plain living been for so long
held in such esteem.”

17. Ovid
Ovid wrote about themes
that were NOT endorsed
by Augustus and was
exiled to Tomis
Back
Metamorphoses

18. Echo and Narcissus, John William Waterhouse (1903)

19. Source: http://list-of-birthstones.com/birth%20flowers/Daffodils%20birth%20flowers.html
Narcissus
(Daffodil)

20. There is no denying that
Augustus restored empire
from bloody wars and saved
Greco-Roman civilization
from extinction. But did his
power pave the way for
corruption??

21. Augustus 27 BC -14 AD
Tiberius 14-37 AD
Caligula 37-41 AD
Claudius 41-54 AD
Nero 54-68 AD

22. Frustrations
with the Senate
14-37 a.d.
Praetorian
Prefect
Capri

23. Not a natural political
leader, he self exiled
himself to the island of
Capri and let Sejanus
rule.

24. “Little Boots”

25. Incitatus
37-41 a.d.
A Living
God

26. Avid Scholar
Poisoned by 4th wife
41-54 a.d.

27. 54-68 a.d.
The Great Fire (64 AD)

28. The Great Fire
64 A.D.

29. Henryk Siemiradzki, A Christian Dirce (1897)

30. http://orbis.stanford.edu/