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Gaius Octavius was born in 63 B.C. in Rome. When his maternal great uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated for subverting the Roman Republic, the young Octavian, only 18 at the time, became his ...
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]
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. [29]
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]
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 .
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 ...
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.
The political evolution of Augustus was promptly reflected in official art, as evidenced by the series of imperial portraits. Typical features of his portraits are the steady eyes, the straight nose, the rather hollowed face, the well-pronounced cheekbones, the thin mouth, and a lock of hair "with a pincer" on the right side of the forehead.