Did he save the republic or destroy it?

Did he save the republic or destroy it?

what the fuck do you mean did he save the republic? are you retarded?

He claims to have saved it

and I claim you're and idiot, you do realize that the "republic" was only a formality after Augustus took power right

What was there to save?
Sullas Purges, the endless civil wars and the resolute refusal by the aristocracy to even let some land reform bill through nearly ruined the nice system the roman republic had going.
Augustus saved what he could. He knew that even a neutered senate as well as the people, would hat ethe idea of a king so he became the pricneps: the guardian of the republic.
He also namend himself after Caesar and caused a LARP streak for nearly 2000 years where people whop wanted to better than kings called themselves also Caesar.

how so? Wasn't there still the senate and all the former institutions?

they existed but only held marginal to no power compared to the princeps, and only really had power because the princeps allowed them to. There still might have been elections for the positions, and the positions of consul and tribune, Augustus was given all of this power when he became the first emperor. He had to allow the republican traditions to hold immediately after he took power, as such a large change in tradition and government would have led to major unrest in many places in the emipre. But as history got further and further away from Augustus, the repubican traditions of Rome were lost, and more and more power was given indirectly to the princeps.

who is that babby?

Cupid. He's riding a dolphin

He saved Rome by destroying the Republic.

He saved it from itself.

Augustus was the greatest of all Romans; a true Son of Mars.

I love Augustus but in my opinion G. Julius Caesar was a greater man.

Rome fell with Cicero

he was the first white roman emperor so of course he did

good post

Augustus surpassed Caesar by essentially replicating the latter's actions, without any of the pitfalls - certainly didn't get himself killed.

Caesar was head of Roman state religion and created a new calendar system, he also wrote a book on grammar. Caesar did many things other than win battles. Caesar only got him self killed because he showed too much clemency.

The "Republic" died a slow death ever since Rome started expanding beyond the Italian Penisula. It was fully established as an empire by the time Caesar formed the Triumvirate, if not earlier with the declaration of Dictator-For-Life Sulla.

He destroyed the republic to save Rome

Wow, the Roman really presented some weird ass imagery as art didn't they?

This
The republic was a shit hole

There was nothing to save and Augustus reaching back to their past and pulling out the abstracted form of a king cloaked in the guise of a republic was the only thing that kept rome going for another 300 years