Portrait of Octavian in the Capitoline Museums

Essays

So far, these essays are my college papers, some of my articles I wrote for Suite 101.com and a couple of my posts from forums and lists. The Suite 101 articles are for a wider audience and had length constraints, thus there are things that I had held back. Forum posts are off-the-cuff and not researched in detail. I like my college papers the best, but it has been a while, and thus, the papers would not included recent material. Al Schlaf will also be contributing his infamous ancient porn article.

Teachers, I have a page which I listed down search terms that I find suspicious and their results.

Students who come to this site to get free essays, there is a difference between taking a look at one perspective of your topic and plagiarizing. Have some pride.

The Achievements of Augustus Caesar

Like the Sphinx engraved upon his signet ring, Augustus Caesar was an enigma. He has been idolised and he has been villainised, but [e]ven his most vocal critics could not place his political achievements in doubt. Peace, prosperity, security, and justice were the noble objectives of Augustus’s reign and he provided a firm and stable basis from which sprang the expansion and success of the next two centuries.

Apollo and the Romans

The multifaceted god
The development of the cult
Apollo in political propaganda—Marians vs. Sullans
Coming some day:
- Apollo in political propaganda
  —Republicans vs. Caesarians
- Apollo in political propaganda
  —Octavian vs. Antony
- The Golden Age of Rome
- Epilogue

Did Augustus attempt to take the authority of the Senate?

Marius and Sulla

Marcus Aurelius and his humanitarian ideas

The Myth of Augustus and February

Octavian’s Campsite Memorial at Nikopolis

...Pace parta terra marique...

One Ring to Destroy the Roman Republic?

Role of the Roman Imperial Cult During the Augustan Age

What is a god? Wielding of power.
What is a king? Like a god.

Tacitus and Tiberius

[H]istory’s highest function [is] to let worthy action by uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil and deeds.

- Tacitus Annals III.65

The Use of the Tribunate for Reforms

For, you see, the death of Ti. Gracchus and indeed earlier the whole conduct of his tribunate divided one people into two parts.

- Cicero, de re publica i, 31

Violence and the Romans: The Arena Spectacles

The people which once bestowed imperium, fasces, legions, everything, now foregoes such activities and has but two passionate desires: bread and circus games.

- Juvenal X.78-81

Ling Ouyang