Gaius Octavius was ... Over the next three decades, Octavian enacted a series of laws that made Rome an empire. Deifying his great uncle and renaming himself Augustus, Octavian brought down ...

Augustus received the name “Augustus” from the Senate after he defeated Mark Antony at Actium; he was born Gaius Octavius. He is, of course, the Octavius in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar ...

It may also have been where Augustus' biological father – Gaius Octavius – died, according to Dr Andrew Sillett, a classics lecturer at the University of Oxford, who is not involved with the ...

Caesar’s republican opponents considered him a tyrant and assassinated him in 44 B.C., whereupon his grand-nephew Gaius Octavius, or Octavian (the future Augustus), whom he’d designated as his ...

By studying models of his statues, researchers were able to modernize and revitalize Augustus Caesar's appearance. Born as Gaius Octavius and the nephew and protégé of Julius Caesar, Augustus ...

Previous work had suggested that the name of Gaius Cornelius Gallus had been inscribed in the cartouche (an oblong frame). Historians don’t believe that Octavian Augustus was ever crowned as the ...

As Rome’s first emperor, Octavian (Augustus Caesar) (63 B.C.–A.D. 14) is best known for initiating the Pax Romana, a largely peaceful period of two centuries in which Rome imposed order on a ...

Book V of Vergil’s Aeneid is set in Drepanum ... of Julian patricians leading up to Julius Caesar and his nephew Octavian Augustus. Take a close look at the content of Vergil’s Book V and ...

Adopted by Caesar, Augustus (c.62 BC – 14 AD / Reigned 31 BC – 14 AD) had to fight for his throne. His long rule saw a huge expansion in the Roman Empire and the beginnings of a dynasty that ...