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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.
Augustus's public revenue reforms had a great impact on the subsequent success of the Empire. Augustus brought a far greater portion of the Empire's expanded land base under consistent, direct taxation from Rome, instead of exacting varying, intermittent, and somewhat arbitrary tributes from each local province as Augustus's predecessors had done.
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Augustus is a playable leader in Civilization VII. [38] Augustus is a Main Character in the PS2 game, Shadow of Rome. Augustus is one of the playable factions in Total War: Rome II's "Imperator Augustus" Campaign pack, which depicts the Second Triumvirate War between Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus during the last years of the Roman Republic.
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The wars of Augustus are the military campaigns undertaken by the Roman government during the sole rule of the founder-emperor Augustus (30 BC – AD 14). This was a period of 45 years when almost every year saw major campaigning, in some cases on a scale comparable to the Second Punic War (218–201 BC), when Roman manpower resources were ...
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 .
Augustus was already a supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte when he succeeded his father in 1804, which proved to be an advantage during the Napoleonic wars. Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg joined the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. When the French Army marched into his duchy in this year, Augustus remained in Gotha and thus prevented a potential escalation.