Who Is Augustus Propaganda?

Propaganda is a valuable tool in the influencing of a society or an empire. Thus was the case during the rule of Augustus in Rome. Debate 3 was a heated battle of discourse over the viability and morality of Augustus enacting censorship and rewriting parts of Roman history. Propaganda has been used across centuries and continents to sway the populace of a ruling nation into a certain belief pattern. Censorship also has been enacted to keep the people from breeding discontent towards those in power. One side of the debate praised the actions of Augustus and was in favor of permitting censorship and his propaganda for the continues success of Rome. The other side however felt that these limitations of freedoms and the changing of history were signs of bad things to come for Rome.
These speakers used their oratory abilities well by appealing to the Pathos, Ethos, and Logos of the audience to try to impress their opinion upon them. These six speakers vehemently argued in favor of Augustus rewriting the history of Rome and allowing the censorship to be in place. One speaker in favor of this cause was the Roman Governor of Egypt, who had been made Egyptian governor by Augustus. This governor states that people in Egypt have begun to speak ill of Roman values and of Augustus, which he found to be an appalling situation and as such felt the need to speak in favor of Augustus and Rome. This governor argued that Augustus has always desired the best for Rome, saying that he has worked to end the bad precedents set by previous leaders who left Rome in negative