augustus

• Wallace-Hadrill - "Augustus' transformation of Rome was a long and gradual process"
• Zanker - Octavian’s association with Apollo opposed Antony’s association with Dionysus
• Clark - Julius Caesar's name was “vital to recruit troops, money and followers”
• Syme - “The avenging of Caesar had been the battle-cry and the justification of Caesar's heir."

  • Links to Mets which names his "burden" of being the "most courageous avenger"
• Williams - being masculine (virtus) means exerting imperium over women and foreign people, and that is a birthright of every Roman man