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Augustus' propaganda aims (Recreate Golden Age architecture (Needs to…
Augustus' propaganda aims
Recreate Golden Age architecture
Needs to promote
Tries to bring the Golden Age back or that he has brought a Golden Age
Makes it seem if he goes, then things will get worse
Needs to spin
Pax Romana (peace of Rome)
Needs to promote
Fights Marc Antony after discovering he was going to leave Rome's eastern provinces to Cleopatra
Protecting Roman territory, Roman values, not a civil war as it was against Cleopatra
Fought Brutus and Cassius who killed his father Julius Caesar
Fighting enemies of the state
Needs to spin
Raising an illegal army against Rome
Fought Brutus and Cassius who were other Romans
Civil war was frowned upon
Pax Deorum (peace of the gods)
Needs to promote
Given the name Augustus which is a religious title
Links himself to Aeneas and Romulus (and therefore Venus and Mars)
Needs to spin
Going into the Temple of the Vestals despite not being Pontifex Maximus or a Vestal
Old Pontifex Maximus (Marcus Lepidus) is exiled
Given the name Augustus which is meant to be religious
Self and family promotion
Needs to promote
Links himself to Aeneas and Romulus (and therefore Venus and Mars)
Connected to Julius Caesar
Takes Julius Caesar's name into his own (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus/Augustus)
Needs to spin
Julius Caesar wanted to be king