![]() ![]() His dynasty was linked to Aeneas and Romulus by way of contemporary legends. Augustus, as Pater Patriae, controlled and ordered his empire as Roman fathers managed their families. ![]() His definition as an autocrat above the senate was made through a familial concept, Pater Patriae. He praised the Roman family as a traditional Roman institution within the context of the restoration of order and unity of the Republic. ![]() Augustus, within the process of his institution as the sole ruler of the empire, extensively employed familial concepts as a propaganda tool. ![]() These paraphernalia reminded the inhabitants of the household of the family pride, to which they must be loyal and whose expectations they must fulfill. The family pride in state affairs were advertised in the most public part of the Roman house, the atrium, by way of busts, wax masks and shield portraits of the notable ancestors trophies and wall-paintings illustrating the notable achievements of the family and family trees and shrines to the Lares, Penates and Genius. Since the Roman Republic was an oligarchic state, the governing class had always been identified with families. Family has always been an important aspect of the Italian way of life from antiquity to the present. ![]()
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