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Key Topic: Augustus,[object Object],Main Idea # 1:  Revenge for the Death of Julius Caesar,[object Object],Main Idea # 2:  The Second Triumvirate,[object Object],Main Idea # 3:  Who is Augustus?,[object Object],Main Idea # 4:  Finally Pax Romana for Rome & the Great reforms of Augustus,[object Object]
March 25, 2011,[object Object],Warm Up:,[object Object],Who would you put in a triumvirate with yourself?  Why did you choose them?,[object Object],Objective:,[object Object],Caesar – Dictator or Reformer,[object Object],Revenge for Caesar ,[object Object],Another set of three rulers…didn’t the first one do horrible?????,[object Object],Who is Augustus??,[object Object],Homework: ,[object Object],Due Monday – make sure you have a Quia account…you will have to give Miss Rice your user name and password (directions are under homework again),[object Object]
Main Idea # 4: The fall of Julius Caesar by the Senate.,[object Object]
What do you think???,[object Object],Live you amazing reformer         Die you horrible dictator	,[object Object]
BITE,[object Object],Set up a plot to kill him,[object Object],When Caesar enter the Senate - 60 Senators stab him 23 times on the Ides of March (March 15th  44 BCE),[object Object]
Caesar was killed because….,[object Object],The Senate thought he wanted to be…,[object Object],KING,[object Object]
Octavian,[object Object],Brutus,[object Object],Cassius,[object Object],Antony,[object Object],Main Idea # 1:  Revenge for the Death of Julius Caesar,[object Object],VS,[object Object]
Main Idea # 1 – Taking Sides,[object Object],Octavian,[object Object],Antony,[object Object],Octavian -Grandnephew of Caesar & Heir to the throne,[object Object],Antony –Trusted general of Julius Caesar,[object Object]
“I will avenge my uncle’s death!”,[object Object]
Octavian -Grandnephew of Caesar & Heir to the throne,[object Object],Octavian,[object Object]
Brutus,[object Object],Cassius,[object Object],Main Idea # 1 – Taking Sides,[object Object],Brutus- trusted friend to Caesar, very liked patrician, Senator, & helped plan Caesar’s death,[object Object],Cassius-  Senator, lazy patrician & helped plan Caesar’s death,[object Object]
Main Idea # 1 ,[object Object],Antony tries to build a road through the swamp – Cassius figures it out and builds a dam to stop Antony.  Antony attacks Cassius’s camp – Cassius commits suicide,[object Object],Same time Brutus beats Octavian ,[object Object],Several days later Antony & Octavian beat Brutus (Ships defeat Octavian and Antony,[object Object],Battle of Phillipi,[object Object]
Emperor Augustus & the Problems that face Rome once his influence wears off,[object Object]
Main Idea # 2:  The Second Triumvirate,[object Object],Antony,[object Object],Octavian,[object Object],Lepidus,[object Object],43 BCE,[object Object]
Main Idea # 2:,[object Object],What is a Triumvirate?,[object Object],Political Alliance between 3 people,[object Object],Did the first Triumvirate work?,[object Object],What went wrong with the first Triumvirate?,[object Object]
Augustus
Main Idea # 2:,[object Object],Octavius Caesar: Is the nephew or heir of Julius Caesar after he dies.He also makes a pact with Marcus Antonius and Aemilius Lepidus that they will all three become the Roman powers. ,[object Object],Octavian,[object Object]
Main Idea # 2:,[object Object],Antony,[object Object],Marcus Antonius: Is one of Caesar's good friends. Is like his side kick. Turns everyone against the conspirators and Brutus. Also defeats Cassius, Brutus and their army at Philippi. Does not like Lepidus. He thinks he should stay being a servant. ,[object Object]
Main Idea # 2:,[object Object],Aemilius Lepidus: Also is involved in the Roman ruling after Caesar's death. Thinks that the other two members like him and that he is treated equally as the other two. Octavius and Marcus think he is just a servant.,[object Object],Lepidus,[object Object]
Main Idea # 2:,[object Object],Why are these guys trying to rule.  I am the real heir of Rome!,[object Object],What a loser!  I am better than both of these guys!,[object Object],They really like me! Go me!!,[object Object]
Main Idea # 2:,[object Object],The triumvirate will not last because they fight a lot,[object Object],Octavian forces Lepidus to retire from politics for good (promises him a small part of Africa),[object Object]
Main Idea # 2:,[object Object],Antony,[object Object],Octavian,[object Object],In the beginning Octavian & Antony are happy to split Rome,[object Object]
Main Idea # 2:,[object Object],Problems between Octavian & Antony,[object Object],Women problems,[object Object], To make their bond stronger Antony married Octavia (Octavian’s sister),[object Object]
Main Idea # 2: Woman Problems,[object Object],BUT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>,[object Object],Antony then falls in love with Cleopatra ,[object Object],He wants nothing to,[object Object],   do with Octavia,[object Object],Octavian is not happy,[object Object],                ,[object Object]
Main Idea # 2:,[object Object],Octavian rallies Rome and tells them that Antony & Cleo are going to try to take over Rome and rule it together.,[object Object],Rome wants to stop Antony,[object Object]
                    ,[object Object],Battle of Actium – 31 BCE,[object Object],Cleo & Antony V Octavian ,[object Object]
Main Idea # 2: Battle of Actium,[object Object],Octavian crushes Cleo & Antony’s navy & army,[object Object],The couple flees to Egypt for safety,[object Object],1 year later Octavian pursues them and they commit suicide (Romeo & Juliet style),[object Object],Octavian wins and Antony & Cleo are dead,[object Object]
The News,[object Object],CAIRO (AP) - Archaeologists will begin excavating sites in Egypt next week in an attempt to solve a mystery that has stymied historians for hundreds of years: Where is the final resting place of doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony?,[object Object],Archaeologists looking for the tombs of the celebrated queen of Egypt and the Roman general will begin excavating three sites at a temple where tombs may be located, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement Wednesday.,[object Object],Cleopatra and Mark Antony, whose relationship was later immortalized by William Shakespeare and then in a movie with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, could have been buried in a deep shaft in a temple near the Mediterranean Sea, the council said.,[object Object],Archaeologists last year unearthed the alabaster head of a Cleopatra statue, 22 coins bearing Cleopatra's image and a mask believed to belong to Mark Antony at the temple.,[object Object],The three sites were identified last month during a radar survey of the temple of Taposiris Magna, the council's statement said. The temple is located near the northern coastal city of Alexandria and was built during the reign of King Ptolemy II (282-246 B.C.).,[object Object],Egypt to look for Cleopatra's Tomb,[object Object]
Main Idea # 3:  Who is Augustus?,[object Object]
Main Idea # 3:,[object Object],What happened to Octavian?,[object Object],He tried to restore the Republic but realized it was too weak,[object Object],Changes he made to the government:,[object Object],Gave the Senate almost no power,[object Object],Made himself in charge of most things.,[object Object]
Main Idea # 3:  Who is Augustus?,[object Object],Here is Augustus!,[object Object],Who does he look like?,[object Object],Augustus is arguably the single most important figure in Roman history.,[object Object],~ PSU Prof. ,[object Object],G. Fagan,[object Object],Does he look like this man?,[object Object]
Main Idea # 3:  Who is Augustus?,[object Object],Octavian is Augustus!!!,[object Object],Renamed himself because Augustus means “the revere or majestic one”,[object Object],He also called himself the imperator ,[object Object],aka Commander in Chief,[object Object],We call it emperor today,[object Object]
Main Idea # 4:  Finally Pax Romana for Rome & the Great reforms of Augustus,[object Object]
Main Idea # 4: Peace,[object Object],Augustus was a good Emperor to Rome. He was very private and did not want fanfare. ,[object Object],50 million people now live in Rome,[object Object],He paved the way for 200 years of peace & prosperity even if the following Emperor were not very capable,[object Object]
Main Idea # 4:,[object Object],Those 200 years or peace are known as:,[object Object],Pax Romana,[object Object],AKA Roman Peace,[object Object]

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