CLAA04H3 Lecture Notes - Carpe Diem, Ars Amatoria, Orthopraxy
Document Summary
People outside of rome accepted augustus as the son of a god (julius caesar). This led to a type of religious control during his rule of rome. Augustus formally annexed egypt, an extremely wealthy area. The area shall never be governed by a senator but by a member of the equestrian league. He gets all of the taxes from egypt, adding to his other riches, setting himself up as the sole source of state funds. This became the new imperial treasury, straight from the treasury of augustus. This made him the supreme military leader of. All roman soldiers had to draw their pay from this treasury, making them loyal to this new type of control. Whole point of writing his history is to affect the moral renewal that augustus implemented. So livy played up the importance of augustus family. Was extremely well-favoured by the royal family.
