CAESAR AUGUSTUS

TUESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER (2.15pm-4.15pm) CLASSICS: CAESAR AUGUSTUS –
Rome’s First Emperor: The Monster Behind the Myth with Dr Christopher
Burden-Strevers, Lecturer in Roman History at the University of Kent. Caesar
Augustus is known to us today as Rome’s first emperor, the adopted son of Julius
Caesar and the man who ordered the census for which Mary and Joseph returned to
Bethlehem. He stabilised the Roman Republic after 100 years of bloody civil war,
eventually giving the words ‘august’ and ‘emperor’ to the English language. He is
remembered as one of Rome’s best emperors. But was Caesar Augustus really a hero,
or a bloody tyrant?
This talk shows that Augustus was the ultimate spin-doctor of his day, and had more in
common with the disrupters, Donald Trumps and demagogues of our own time than
some historians would like to believe.    

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