Introduction to World History to 1600 (Terran) - #6

[abe-no-seimei.livejournal.com]

Introduction to World History to 1600 (Terran)
Wednesday 1:00-3:00 pm

Into the classroom, Seimei glides effortlessly, posting his scroll for the class discussion. Stepping back, he moves to the corner of the room to monitor the conversations with an idle smile.

Discuss the positive impacts emperor Augustus had on Rome during his reign.

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[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

((ooc: Augustus was a title, not a name.))

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

[ooc: In 27 B.C., the Roman Senate granted Octavian the name Augustus. Title AND new name, basically. Same time they gave him the power to rule the empire pretty much. Either is acceptable when speaking about him.]

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

((ooc: Mundanely: Roman historian. Being pedantic because "emperor Augustus" was the same term for all the Caesars. *g*)

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

[ooc: That is true, however, I've never run across a modern text that didn't refer to Octavian as Augustus after 27 B.C. So any professor would use the title as the name. And it was after his death that his surname and title (Caesar and Augustus) were both used to describe the rulers of the Empire for the next blah blah 500 years or whatever it was. So he has dibs. They adopted his name. I am not disagreeing with your point that it was a title, but the professor of this class was not wrong to use it as his name.]

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

((ooc: Actually, I haven't seen any that either didn't use a date reference or the entire name. It's like when people use Caesar to mean Iulius without the full name or date reference, when it could mean any of them. It's one of the pet peeves that causes me to foam at the mouth. *g*))

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Caesar Augustus or Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus? Damn, I guess going to public high school did put me at a disadvantage, because I never had a text that ever used either over and over. :) I can see how later misuses are frustrating, and even how this commonly not being more clear could be annoying, but it is standard for this level. Pull a Google search and see what you find- I'm sure you'll get 100 Encyclopedia Blahblah entires that list him as Augustus and refer to him as such multiple times. I've never gone through slogging through time-period texts or advanced coursework, but this isn't an upper-level collegiate seminar. I'm sure more technical terms are used in those cases.]