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Augustus (31 BC - 14 AD)
Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman empire, was born on the 23rd of September of the year B. C. 63, in the consulship of M. Tullius Cicero and C. Antonius. He was the son of C. Octavius by Atia, a daughter of Julia, the sister of C. Julius Caesar, who is said to have been descended from the ancient Latin hero Atys. His real name was, like that of his father, C. Octavius, but for the sake of brevity, and in order to avoid confusion, we shall call him Augustus, though this was only an hereditary surname which was given him afterwards by the senate and the people to express their veneration for him, whence the Greek writers translate it by Sebastos. Various wonderful signs, announcing his future greatness, were subsequently believed to have preceded or accompanied his birth. (Suet. Aug. 94; Dion Cass. xlv. l, &c.)
Augustus lost his father at the age of four years, whereupon his mother married L. Marcius Philippus, and at the age of twelve (according to Nicolaus Damascenus, De Vit. Aug. 3, three years earlier) he delivered the funeral eulogium on his grandmother, Julia. After the death of his father his education was conducted with great care in the house of his grandmother, Julia, and at her death he
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Classical Drama and Theatre
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SECTION 3: ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY
Chapter Later Greek Comedy
I. Drama in the Post-Classical Greek World and the Hellenistic Age
During the Classical Age, Greece was cast into a new and different—and not necessarily wiser or more liveable—world. Although Athens had suffered an ignominious defeat and the loss of the Delian League at the end of Peloponnesian War, it quickly recovered both its autonomy and prestige, due less to anything the Athenians did and more because the victorious Spartans almost immediately proved incompetent at managing international affairs. Their regimented way of life proved poor soil in which to raise diplomats and, if only by comparison, Athens began to look good in its neighbors' eyes.
Nor was Greece polarized around Sparta and Athens any longer, as the Thebans returned to the national scene. After nearly a century, the stigma of their ancestors having "medized" during the Second Persian War (i.e. having voluntarily capitulated to Xerxes and the invading "Medes") finally started to heal over. The re-emergence of Thebes precipitated a three-way tug-of-war for power, resulting in smoldering civil strife which erupted only intermittently into full-scale mil