MMW 12 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Lowkey

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 12
• Professor: Richard Cohen

Document Summary

Augustus was very precocious and took on a lot of responsibility not normally expected of a person his age in many situations. He was exceptional and attracted the attention of julius. Caesar who named him his heir upon his death. Augustus took the job without thinking twice even though there was a lot of danger associated with it (especially given the way caesar died), and he did a stand up job. Augustus killed caesar"s son by cleopatra, but raised antony"s and cleopatra"s kids as. He fought the civil wars to avenge caesar and to help protect his the empire from instability. Antony = marc antony, and he used to be friends with augustus but they were constantly fighting and eventually augustus had enough. Augustus had antony"s will read in public and exposed the fact that he had kids with cleopatra. Cleopatra was lowkey a hoe and also had kids with caesar.