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Loeb accounts print completion of the Temple of Augustus and other public works

Completion of a predecessor’s temple is a different instrument. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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The dated Loeb is the carrier. Dynastic temples can glue an elite and exclude others.

Context

Piety toward Augustus is also a legitimacy tool. Split living-self-cult onto the worsening temple row. Completion of a predecessor’s temple is a different instrument.

Caligula is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Printed completion of Augustus’s temple is a civic-cult cohesion path, not a living-god decree.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Caligula

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · verified

    Princeps as named in later editions and objects. Historians, museums, and later states publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactLoeb accounts print completion of the Temple of Augustus and other public works
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1914 · verified

    Printed completion of Augustus’s temple is a civic-cult cohesion path, not a living-god decree.

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — CaligulaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Suetonius, Caligula — LacusCurtius (Loeb English)LacusCurtius / University of Chicago · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Suetonius lists finishing the Temple of Augustus and other building as early public piety.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCaligula
  2. contributed toFactLoeb accounts print completion of the Temple of Augustus and other public works
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Loeb accounts print completion of the Temple of Augustus and other public works. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-temple-of-augustus

https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-temple-of-augustus

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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