HSC Ancient History: Augustan Age extended response (Section IV) quiz
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In what year was Julius Caesar assassinated, triggering the chain of events that produced the Augustan Age?
Who were the three members of the Second Triumvirate formed in 43 BC?
Where and when did the naval battle that ended the civil wars and left Octavian as sole ruler take place?
What did the Senate grant Octavian on 16 January 27 BC, marking the conventional start of the Principate?
Ronald Syme's 1939 book on this period, still the most influential modern study, is titled:
The Res Gestae Divi Augusti is best described as:
Which monument, commissioned by the Senate in 13 BC and dedicated in 9 BC, is the central piece of evidence for the Augustan religious and cultural program?
Augustus's reform program rested on four pillars. Which set captures them?
Which Augustan poet wrote the national epic that linked Rome's foundation to the Julian house?
What was the central problem Augustus faced in the last two decades of his reign that historians term the 'succession problem'?
Pat Southern's biography of Augustus (1998) and Anthony Everitt's biography (2006) generally:
What was the constitutional fiction of the Principate?
Which named primary source provides a hostile retrospective on the Augustan settlement at the start of Tiberius's reign?
By the time of Augustus's death in AD 14, how long had he ruled (counting from his victory at Actium)?
Which set of dates correctly marks the major constitutional settlements of Augustus's reign?