Are the Events So Important for Augustus?

There's not that much evidence that peace was worshipped as a goddess in the roman state before augustus. But, you know, after this period of return, and after further successes in the wider empire, this is when the senate technically vote and dedicate the altar of augustine peace. It's certainly a way of presenting him in the state, rather than above it, because the way he's depicted in the reliefs on the arch. And idea of almost impossible abundance that we see displayed there and elsewhere. The idea of the new golden age, which has been set up with the ludo seculars, is further perpetuated in the concept of augUSTine peace, or

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