Gaius Octavius
Father of emperor Augustus. Roman general, praetor in 61 BC, praefectus propraetor in Macedonia in 60-59 BC · Italy · Politicians · Lived 100 BC to 59 BC · aged 41
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Something wrong?The father of Augustus and the bloodline behind Rome's first imperial dynasty - a wealthy provincial who never held the Senate but seeded five emperors.
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Gaius Octavius came from Velitrae, an old equestrian family with money but no senatorial pedigree - a novus homo in Rome's eyes. His grandfather had fought as a military tribune in Sicily during the Second Punic War; his father served as a municipal magistrate and lived to old age. Octavius himself rose through Roman politics in the early first century BC, but died in 59 BC before reaching the consulship. What he left behind mattered more than what he achieved: his son became Augustus, the first emperor, and through that son's marriages and adoptions, Octavius's blood ran through Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. Five emperors, one unremarkable father.
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