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Title: Sources for the Death of Augustus.
Description: Written for OCR GCE/A-Level Ancient History.
Description: Written for OCR GCE/A-Level Ancient History.
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Sources: Death of Augustus
Reference
Tacitus
‘Annals’ 1
...
53
Date of
Event
Augustus’s
general
reign;
Julia’s death
– AD14
Content
Purpose
Theme
Marcellus; Agrippa;
Tiberius & Drusus;
Gaius & Lucius →
treatment, deaths;
Restoration of the
Republic; slight unrest;
issues with successors;
issues with family;
Julia’s death
...
A plot; Marcellus &
Agrippa; Tiberius; Julia
...
Succession,
family,
Senate
relationship
Tell what
happens; to
entertain
...
To inform; to
praise the
emperorship
...
To suggest
good strategy
for an
emperor
...
Advisors,
family
...
To
(sycophantic
ally) praise
Augustus and
Rome –
Augustus was
Virgil’s
patron
...
Succession
...
Succession
...
93-96 2
...
32
General –
Augustus’s
reign
2BC
(dramatic
date)
Maecenas & Agrippa –
advisors; Julia
...
860-885
Rule of
Augustus
Criticism of Maecenas
...
During
Augustus’s
reign
Praising Marcellus
(Augustus’s potential
successor) – linking him
to Rome and its history
...
Suetonius
‘Life of
Tiberius’
Augustus’s
later reign
Criticism of Tiberius,
reasoning behind
Augustus’s decision
...
Succession,
family
...
Title: Sources for the Death of Augustus.
Description: Written for OCR GCE/A-Level Ancient History.
Description: Written for OCR GCE/A-Level Ancient History.