Augustus Caesar of Rome (Julius Caesar Research Project)
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.” ~ Augustus Caesar
Early Life
Augustus was born on the 23rd of September in 63 B.C.E as Gaius Octavius Thurinus 20 miles away from Rome in Velletri, to Atai, Caesar’s niece, and Gaius Octavius. He went by Octavius from his birth in 63 B.C until his adoption in 44 B.C, which then he took up the name of Octavian, and finally in 26 B.C, he went by the name of Augustus, which was conferred onto him by the Roman Senate. The man donned the toga at 16 years of age, and took on responsibilities through the families connections. He went to Hispania (now known as Spain) in 47 B.C to fight alongside his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, but had gotten shipwrecked along the way to him, so he had to go crawl through the enemy territory to reach him. This act impressed Caesar so much, that he decided to name Octavius as his heir and successor in the emperor’s will.
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Rise to Power
When Augustus had returned to Italy at age 18, he learned through Caesar’s will that he was adopted as Caesar’s son and that he was now his chief personal heir.
He went against his families (mainly his stepfather’s) and others advices, and decided to take up his inheritance, and went to back to Rome to claim his position.
Mark Antony, Caesar’s former chief lieutenant, took control of the heir’s papers and all of his assets, as he believed that he (Antony) would be the heir to the former ruler, but when learning that he was not, the general took the funds given to Augustus from...
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...d to his friends that had stayed alongside him through his rise to power, added in the quote “Have I played the part well? Then applaud me as I exit.”. After acknowledging human frailty, Rome's senate officially declared the departed emperor, much like the previous emperor before him, Julius Casear, to be a god.
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Augustus was born in Rome on September 23, 63 B.C. He was originally named Gaius Octavianus, but when his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, was murdered, he took his name. Augustus’ real father died when his son was only four. Augustus was adopted in Julius Caesar’s will and was left to be his heir at the age of eighteen. Caesar was very fond of his grand-nephew and he sent him to the College of Pontifices at the age of sixteen. When Caesar was assassinated, Augustus was in Illyria, where he was sent to serve. It was only when he returned to Italy that he learned he was his great-uncle’s heir.
Augustus was born on 23rd of September 63 B.C., he was born during the civil war when he, unfortunately, lost his father who was a Roman Politic. Luckily he was adopted by his uncle Julius Caesar was a Roman general and politician at the time. Caesar was in desperate need of an heir to take his place in becoming the Empire of Rome. At the age of 19, Augustus great-uncle was slain by his own advisors, which influenced Augustus to engage in Roman politics. Before Augustus became the emperor of Rome it was ruled by the Republican government, which was one of the reasons why Augustus lost his great uncle Caesar to conspiracy in the government. So in order to keep from being assassinated like his great uncle, Augustus brought an end to the Republic rule and felt that it was best for the Roman Empire to give all of the supreme power to the Emperor, in the imperial palace. He made a partnership with a general name Marc Antony to avenge his great-uncle's death, they defeated enemies of Rome. Both Marc Antony and Augustus were the most powerful and successful men in Rome divided the empire amongst each other, Augustus kept the west and Antony took control of the east Egypt. Octavius took the name Augustus in 27 B.C. when he discovered the participate (princess Latin word
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Gaius octavius or well known as Augustus caesar was born on september 23, 63 BCE in Rome, Italy. Caesar was the first ever roman emperor following the republic. This republic was destroyed by his great uncle or adoptive father Julius caesar. Julius caesar was a lawyer first then he became a ruler in rome. Octavian and his heritage comes from the greeks octavian
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