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The Scriptores Historiae Augustae Vol. 1.
Hardcover
Published January 1, 1953
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Augustus
55 books24 followersborn 23 September 63 BC
died 19 August AD 14
Gaius Octavius, born grandnephew of Gaius Julius Caesar, after whose assassination in 44 BC took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, to whom English texts often referred simply as Octavian, defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC, subsequently gained control over extensive territories of Rome, and reigned from 27 BC as its first emperor, given the honorary title Augustus.
The power struggle with Antony and Augustus at the battle of Philippi defeated Marcus Junius Brutus.
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus joined as a member of the triumvirate with Augustus and Antony from 43 BC to 36 BC.
Augustus founded Augsburg (now in Germany) as a Roman garrison circa 14 BC.
An Augustan relates to reign of Augustus, considered as a time of great prosperity in the Roman Empire and great refinement in Latin literature.
After Augustus, people named August, the eighth month of the year in the calendar.
Also named:
- Gaius Octavius Thurinus
- Octavius, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
- Gaius Julius Caesar Divi Filius
- Imperator Caesar Divi Filius
- Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus
He, the founder, thus laid the foundations of a regime that lasted for nearly fifteen centuries until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
died 19 August AD 14
Gaius Octavius, born grandnephew of Gaius Julius Caesar, after whose assassination in 44 BC took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, to whom English texts often referred simply as Octavian, defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC, subsequently gained control over extensive territories of Rome, and reigned from 27 BC as its first emperor, given the honorary title Augustus.
The power struggle with Antony and Augustus at the battle of Philippi defeated Marcus Junius Brutus.
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus joined as a member of the triumvirate with Augustus and Antony from 43 BC to 36 BC.
Augustus founded Augsburg (now in Germany) as a Roman garrison circa 14 BC.
An Augustan relates to reign of Augustus, considered as a time of great prosperity in the Roman Empire and great refinement in Latin literature.
After Augustus, people named August, the eighth month of the year in the calendar.
Also named:
- Gaius Octavius Thurinus
- Octavius, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
- Gaius Julius Caesar Divi Filius
- Imperator Caesar Divi Filius
- Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus
He, the founder, thus laid the foundations of a regime that lasted for nearly fifteen centuries until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
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