Augustus Caesar

1. The first emperor of Rome; the adopted son of Julius Caesar. In his reign, from 44 b.c. to a.d. 14, Rome enjoyed peace (see Pax Romana), and the arts flourished. The time of Augustus is considered a golden age for literature in Rome.

The month of August is named for Augustus.

A time when literature and the arts in a nation are at their height is sometimes called an “Augustan age.” The eighteenth century in England, when many excellent authors were at work, is called the Augustan Age of English literature.

Jesus was born during Augustus's reign.

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Mom told me that in 12 BCE, Emperor Augustus Caesar had the obelisk moved to Alexandria, which is not far from Heliopolis.

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They told me it was carved out of granite in Egypt many centuries ago & brought to Alexandria by Augustus Caesar.

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Queensland students were in 2024 taught about Augustus Caesar, the adopted son of Julius and the first emperor of Rome.

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Julius Caesar’s grand-nephew Octavian provoked and won a chaotic, decade-long power struggle in the republic, emerging victorious and intimidating the shaken senate into naming him Augustus Caesar and granting him the title of Imperator as he established an empire that would outlast him, in one way or another, for roughly a thousand years.

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Although Octavian’s power was now supreme, he exercised it shrewdly by dispensing selective doses of bribery, coercion and worse, turning Rome’s senators into sycophants who granted him the title of princeps, or "first citizen," of Rome in 27 B.C. and gave him the honorific name Augustus Caesar.

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