November 19, 2019 - Both the pre-war escalation between Octavian and Antony and Octavian's justification for the civil war itself were heavily founded on propaganda. The first major turning point occurred in 35 BCE when Octavia (l. 69 - 11 BCE), Octavian's sister and Antony's wife, took a trip to Athens to visit ...

February 11, 2025 - And war was indeed declared by ... two sides met in battle in 31BC at Actium, Octavian’s victory and the subsequent suicide of Antony and Cleopatra left him as the sole ruler of Rome, and he would become Rome’s first emperor, taking the name Augustus....

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February 1, 2024 - As an officially recognised coin provided by the Principate, Augustus' idealised image of himself was imbued throughout the currency. These were also known as imperial coins which have been used as a method to estimate how the emperor intended to see themselves.

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June 12, 2022 - Illustrated scene from the Aeneid, a fantastic work of propaganda by Vergil to exalt the Roman Empire and

The parallels to the Augustan age, more than two-thousand years earlier, are fascinating: just as John Kerry tries to paint himself as a Vietnam War hero with a flashy thirty-second television commercial, Octavian erects an equestrian statue in the Senate chambers; and like Swift Boat Veterans ...

November 21, 2024 - Octavian convinced the senate via a propaganda campaign to start a war against Cleopatra, since they were reluctant to declare war on Antony, as he was a true Roman and the last thing Octavian or the senate needed was a mutiny.

March 14, 2023 - Through his use of propaganda, Octavian also implied that Mark Antony had been corrupted by his affair with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra and had become Cleopatra’s puppet. This early use of disinformation campaign had allowed Octavian to change the republican system once and for all and led to his road to becoming Augustus, the first Roman Emperor...

But while Augustus's buildings ... his propaganda. In his book The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, Paul Zanker deems Augustus's coins "a good example of the effective use of the new visual language used by Octavian's supporters," pointing out how one coin had a "strikingly oversized dedication 'Divo Julio'" (Zanker 35). Augustus's coins use such visual cues as size to emphasize the current emperor's connection ...

June 12, 2022 - The future emperor Augustus was born Gaius Octavius (commonly referred to as Octavian before being granted the title of Augustus) in the town of Velitrae (now velletri) in 63 BCE.[5] Before he became Augustus, Octavian was being groomed for leadership by his adoptive father, Gaius Julius Caesar, ...

May 17, 2022 - Through his use of propaganda, Octavian also implied that Mark Antony had been corrupted by his affair with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra and had become Cleopatra’s puppet. This early deployment of a disinformation campaign allowed Octavian to impact the republican system once and for all and to such an extent that it led to him becoming Augustus, the first Roman Emperor...

August 7, 2024 - It switched to position number ... it was given its modern term in honor of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor. Perhaps Augustus picked the now eighth month in reverence to his pre-Imperial name of Octavian......

March 12, 2022 - Propaganda played an important role in Octavian (l. 63 BCE – 14 CE) and Mark Antony’s (l. 83 – 30 BCE) civil war, and once victorious at the Battle of Actium (31 BCE), Octavian returned home to become the first Roman emperor. The decade preceding their civil war was a decisive one.

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September 30, 2021 - By Madison Moulton Fake news has become a popular buzzword. However, the phenomenon is not new. Before the invention of the printing press, and even before the popularisation of ‘objective’ news, fake news or propaganda was used to manipulate audiences across the globe.

2 days ago - Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Latin: Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire. He reigned as the first Roman emperor from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. The reign of Augustus initiated an imperial ...

January 17, 2017 - Octavian’s strong but fabricated narrative helped him defeat Mark Antony

With the last of his rivals dead and defeated, Octavian occupied Egypt as a Roman conquest and won the honorary name "Augustus" from the Senate and called himself the first Princeps (First Citizen) rather than Emperor of Rome (Stockton 56). Augustus had direct control over the aesthetics of ...