Rome

Octavian was later called Augustus after his triumph AT Actium the senate called him that. Unlike Caesar, Augustus refused the offer of a long - term dictatorship and referred to himself simply as princeps which means first citizen. Augustus was convinced that if Rome's new peace and stability were to last, the changes he had made in its government system must continue after his death.

The rise of Latin began with a Greek ex slave, Livius Andronicus, who in the third century bc translated Homers Odyssey and several Greek dramas. Very Soon Roman authors began to write in the forms of literature like the Greeks and the Latin's did.

The first Greek writer to encounter Rome was Polbius, who came to Rome as a hostage in the course to conquest Greece during the second century bc