PAX ROMANA

PAX ROMANA

• Pax Romana stands for Roman in peace
• The Pax Romana started after Octavia (Augustus) defeated Mark Anthony in the battle of Actium on 2 September 31 BC.
• The first historical record of the term Pax Romana was a writing of Seneca the Younger in 55 AD.

PAX ROMANA

• Ludi saeculares in 17 BC the concept of peace was publicized
• The Romans regarded peace not as absence of war
• Romans that the prosperity they could achieve of absence of warfare
• Also it was better for the empire than the potential wealth and honor require

PAX ROMANA EMPERORS

• Augustus
• Tiberus
• Caligula
• Claudius