The Deeds of the Divine Augustus



The Deeds of the Divine Augustus

Augustus was the 1st Emperor of Roman Empire, who ruled 40 years. He was born as Gaius Octavius Thurinus and became Gaius Julius Caesar after the adoption posthumously by his great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44BC. In 27BC, the Senate awarded him the honorific Augustus ("the revered one"), and thus consequently he was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus. The young Octavius came into an inheritance after the Caesar assassination in 44BC.

Initially he joined Marc Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus for a dictatorship called Second Triumvirate. After the death of Antony (in ...