Augustus And The Creation Of The Roman Empire - 989 Words

The major problems with most of the sources in the book are the sources themselves, because most are writers, or biographers, that were hired and paid to follow Augustus by Augustus. Although some were Augustus own biographers, some are also opponents of Augustus and his entitlement and takeover of the Roman Republic/Empire. These sources are also the only real documented information about Augustus that have been found or retrieved, and unknown to be based on facts, or just opinion and conjecture, or promoted by Augustus himself. One of the sympathetic sources towards Augustus was, Suetonius, who thought Augustus was a great leader and honorable man in his position as emperor. According to Mellor in, â€Å"Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire, Document 14 explains how Suetonius was a biographer for Augustus and a Roman historical writer, that was much different from the â€Å"subjective judgments† taken from Tacticus. 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