Site Report: Forum of Augustus - Rome The forum of Augustus was built by Emperor Augustus as the second imperial fora in order to provide more room for the law courts and the increasing population. ... (Unkown; www.geocities.com/calivs/vr/forumaugustum/forum.augustum.html, accessed March 3, 2004) The forum was built just to the north of the Forum Romanum, adjoining the Forum Iulium on the north east side (see Figure 2-Roman Fora, where B' is the Forum of Augustus, and A' is Caesar's forum). ... The Forum was rectangular measuring approximately 125m x 90m and seemed to be...

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Julius Caesar, his uncle, sent him to study in Apollonia. After Caesar's assassination, Augustus was uncertain about accepting his inheritance, but, nonetheless, he did with the purpose of avenging his uncle's death. At the age of nineteen, he joined the Consulship of Gaius Pansa and Aulus Hirtius in 43 B.C., Augustus, previously known as Octavius, allowed the Senate to use his family name Caesar to gain the confidence of the soldiers and people. ... Augustus victoriously accomplished the goal Caesar failed to achieve that of creating an empire. ... Augustus's work created ...

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By the reign of Julius Caesar, Rome had all the Problems of a big city metropolis. ... The Arch of Triumph of Orange was built in the early reign of Augustus Caesar and was dedicated to Julius Caesar, Augustus" adopted father. ...

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In 47 BC, Caesar, who was one of such chosen rulers, had won the civil war against Pompeii and was to become the dictator of Rome. ... Caesar helped spring Rome up to it's golden age as the rising or good times. ... With respect, Caesar's old partner, Mark Antony, stepped forward to take with on the power and position that Caesar left off with. to power; however, Octavian, Caesar's son stood before the senate to read his fathers will. ... Octavian who changed his name to Augustus, meaning: to look up to or exulted, now created a new form of government called the princeps. The na...

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A senior Augustus and junior Caesar ruled each half of the empire. ... In 383 A.D., Magnus Maximus attacked Gaul, banished Valentinian II, and declared himself Augustus of the west. ... Theodosius, the Eastern Roman Emperor, did not accept Maximus as Augustus in the west, so he attacked Maximus in a bloody civil war. ... In 475 A.D., Orestes rose to power and appointed his own son Romulus Augustus as emperor. ... Orestes was killed and Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus, installed himself as ruler over Rome without an election from the senate. ...

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Charlemagne: Man and Myth In 476 ad the Roman Empire was under attack from Germanic barbarians from all around. The city of Rome itself had already been sacked. In 476 the Saxons and Lombards attacked the last strong city of the empire. Romulus Augustus the last emperor of Rome wa...

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The Roman state continue to prosper for two and a half centuries after Emperor Augustus's reforms. ... An ever shrinking army drove Julius Caesar to provide citizenship as an incentive for joining the army, but this reduced incentive. ...

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