To protect his person, he created his own personal army (Goodman, p. 38), and that the ever-growing empire, paranoia, and expanded army took a toll on the royal treasury. To compensate, Augustus must impose new taxes on overburdened citizen 's (Goodman, p. 40). This certainly caused dissension among the Roman common folk, especially those of lower class. Goodman confirms that historians are delving into the rule of Augustus with renewed focus, and instead of peace, finding the times filled with crisis after crisis. It is my intention to unravel the threads of this time and that of Augustus deeds revealing the emperor’s true motives behind his rule and veiled mannerisms with which he governed. Augustus claimed to have restored the Republican government as it had existed before the civil wars erupted with Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon. In retrospect, it appears that Augustus provided the foundations for the establishment of a new type of government, the absolute rule by a single individual. In other words, a monarchy and what they say of history is true. It is indeed written by the
To protect his person, he created his own personal army (Goodman, p. 38), and that the ever-growing empire, paranoia, and expanded army took a toll on the royal treasury. To compensate, Augustus must impose new taxes on overburdened citizen 's (Goodman, p. 40). This certainly caused dissension among the Roman common folk, especially those of lower class. Goodman confirms that historians are delving into the rule of Augustus with renewed focus, and instead of peace, finding the times filled with crisis after crisis. It is my intention to unravel the threads of this time and that of Augustus deeds revealing the emperor’s true motives behind his rule and veiled mannerisms with which he governed. Augustus claimed to have restored the Republican government as it had existed before the civil wars erupted with Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon. In retrospect, it appears that Augustus provided the foundations for the establishment of a new type of government, the absolute rule by a single individual. In other words, a monarchy and what they say of history is true. It is indeed written by the