Assassination and Another Caesar

• Caesar had become a Greek-style tyrant
• On the Ides of March (March 15), 44 B.C., Caesar appeared in the Senate house, unarmed and unguarded, according to his custom, and a crowd of senators struck him down with daggers 
• The murdered dictator had become a founding hero, whose memory would inspire all future supreme rulers of Rome 

The Roman Peace

• Augustus's new system of government kept many features of the Roman Republic, allowed subject peoples a good deal of self-rule, and brought Rome's destabilizing expansion to a halt. The result was twp hundred years of stability that modern scholars call The Roman Peace
• Unlike Sulla and Caesar, Augustus refused the offer of a long-term dictatorship and referred to himself simply as princeps ("first citizen") 
• In 27 B.C. Augustus was confirmed as commander in chief of the armed forces
• After Augustus won supreme power, Greek cities in Anatolia began building shrines and sacrificing to "Rome and Augustus"
• Augustus also acquired the title of Father of the Fatherland and took seriously that fatherly duty of supervising the behavior of his "household" 
• Caesar-the imperial title given to the designated successor of a reigning emperor
• Augustus-the imperial title given to a reigning emperor
• Roman Peace-a term used to refer to the relative stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the Mediterranean world and much of western Europe during the first and second centuries A.D.