2000 Years Ago Today
In Rome Augustus Caesar was in the final days of his rule. August 19 will be the 2000th anniversary of his death. Augustus was the first Roman emperor, the adopted son of Julius Caesar who pretty much had stuck a fork in the Roman Republic and paid for it with his life. Augustus would establish a peace throughout the Empire, Pax Romana, that would last for 200 years. He also spread the empire from Egypt to Spain and across the continent to Germany.
Augustus Caesar died at age 75 – either of natural causes or by poison figs given to him by his wife Livia depending on who you believe. While the histories and writings of dead white men have fallen from popularity, Augustus Caesar’s legacy lives on in modern Europe and from that continent to ours today. It’s woven into the very fabric of our identities.
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