HIS 101 NVCC Roman Society under Augustus Analysis

PLEASE READ ALL LINKS AND ATTACHMENTS BEFORE STARTING

• 6.3 Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Sources for Cultures of the West, Volume 1 (Read the screenshot attachments)
• 7.2 Pliny the Younger, Sources for Cultures of the West, Volume 1 (Read the screenshot attachments)
• Livius.org: Res Gestae Divi Augusti (“The achievements of the deified Augustus”) (Links to an external site.)
• The Divine Augustus

Please answer the following questions:

• Compare the “Res Gestae Divi Augusti” to the “Lives of the Twelve Caesars” (source 6.3). How is the power of the emperors portrayed? Are there significant differences from Augustus to Caligula or Claudius?
• Compare how Augustus portrays power over his religiously diverse empire to the same authority displayed in the letters from Pliny the Elder to Tacitus. How do the two emperors address their authority over religious matters? Are they the same or are their approaches different? Why do you think this?