Augustus
First emperor of the Roman Empire and founder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty · Italy · Politicians · Lived 63 BC to AD 14 · aged 76
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Something wrong?He turned Rome from a murder-riddled republic into an empire and ruled it for four decades without calling himself king. The title he took instead - princeps, first citizen - became the template for every emperor after him.
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![An idealized Roman sculpted portrait of Octavius as a teenager, possibly produced posthumously or when he was much older, now located in the Vatican Museums[23]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/GaiusOctavius.jpg/500px-GaiusOctavius.jpg)
An idealized Roman sculpted portrait of Octavius as a teenager, possibly produced posthumously or when he was much older, now located in the Vatican Museums[23]
Denarius from 44 BC, showing Julius Caesar on the obverse and the goddess Venus on the reverse of the coin. Caption: CAESAR IMP. M. / L. AEMILIVS BVCA
The Death of Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini, 1805, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
Bust of Octavian, c. 30 BC. Capitoline Museums, Rome
Flavian-era bust traditionally identified as Mark Antony, Vatican Museums
Bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1st century AD, Capitoline Museums, RomeIn their own words 9
, Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Born Gaius Octavius into an equestrian family in 63 BC, he was nineteen when his great-uncle Julius Caesar was assassinated and left him everything in his will. He took the name, fought for the legions' loyalty, marched on Rome at twenty, and became the youngest consul in its history. He formed a triumvirate with Mark Antony and Marcus Lepidus to crush Caesar's killers at Philippi in 42 BC, then spent a decade dismantling his partners - exiling Lepidus in 36 BC, defeating Antony and Cleopatra at Actium in 31 BC. With Egypt his personal property and no rivals left, he struck a deal with the Senate: restore the republic's façade while he held the armies and half the provinces. He expanded the empire into Egypt, the Balkans, and Spain, reformed taxes and roads, built a standing army, and oversaw forty-one years of relative peace. He died of natural causes in AD 14 at seventy-five, though rumors of poison by his wife Livia never died, and the Senate made him a god.
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