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Augustus was born Gaius Octavius in Rome on 23 September 63 BC. [1] He was a member of the respectable, but undistinguished, Octavii family through his father, also named Gaius Octavius , and was the great-nephew of Julius Caesar through his mother Atia .
On 16 January 27 BC [139] the Senate gave Octavian the new title of augustus. [11] Augustus is from the Latin word augere (meaning "to increase") and can be translated as "illustrious one" or "sublime". [140] [11] It was a title of religious authority rather than political one, and it indicated that Octavian now approached divinity. [134]
Drusus delivered one funeral oration from the rostra and Augustus gave her the highest posthumous honors (building the Gate of Octavia and Porticus Octaviae in her memory). [20] Augustus also had the Roman senate declare his sister to be a goddess. [21] Augustus declined some other honors decreed to her by the senate, for reasons unknown. [20]
Gaius Octavian: Max Pirkis (1.1–2.2) Simon Woods (2.4–2.10) Augustus: 1.1–2.2, 2.4–2.10 Son of Atia and grandnephew of Caesar, Octavian is presented as a cold and highly intelligent youth who is a student of power and politics. Octavian is alternately pampered and patronized by his mother; his manhood and masculinity are seen as ...
Imperium: Augustus is a 2003 joint British-Italian production, and part of the Imperium series. It tells of the life story of Octavian and how he became Augustus . Half the film takes place in the past (as Augustus explains to his daughter Julia how he became who he is) and the other half takes place in the later life of Augustus.
In 27 BC Octavian was named Augustus by the senate and given unprecedented powers. Octavian, now Augustus, transformed the republic into the Roman Empire , ruling it as the first Roman emperor . In the ensuing months and years, Augustus passed a series of laws that, while outwardly preserving the appearance of the republic, made his position ...
The Octavii originally came from the Volscian town of Velitrae, in the Alban Hills.The historian Suetonius writes, . There are many indications that the Octavian family was in days of old a distinguished one at Velitrae; for not only was a street in the most frequented part of town long ago called Octavian, but an altar was shown there besides, consecrated by an Octavius.
Augustus (as Octavian) appears in two of Geoffrey Chaucer's fourteenth-century works: The Book of the Duchess and The Legend of Good Women. Augustus (as Octavian) is the title character of a fourteenth-century Middle English verse translation and abridgement of a mid-13th century Old French romance of the same name by an unknown author. [28]