CLAS 203 Lecture 11: CLAS 203 Lecture 11
4 Aug 2016
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No other story as elaborate and complex and famous as the aeniad from virgil. Roman poet virgil connects origin of the roman people with the gods and with the. Time in which the aeniad was written end of roman civil war. Octavian won the civil war against mark antony and his lover cleopatra. Octavian took the title augustus and became the sole ruler in rome and the first emperor in rome. From augustus onwards, what was previously the oligarchy (roman republic used for several hundred years) was replaced by a one-man rule. Eventually it will be come to known as an em- peror although it originally just meant victorious general. Roman seemed to have been ruled by kings (we know nothing about it) then ro- mans are allergic to the idea of kingship. King because he knows the romans are weary of tyrants.
