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Augustus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) was the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. Born Gaius Octavius Thurinus ...
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Antony, Octavian, Cleopatra: The End of the Republic ... coin minted by Octavian with head of Caesar to emphasize his adoption ... October, 42 BCE: Antony and Octavian, leading 19-20 legions, met the 19 legions of Brutus and Cassius at Philippi in Greece. In the first battle, Antony's forces defeated Cassius's troops,
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A site of the, arguably, single most important figure in Roman history--Augustus Caesar. ... On January 13, 27 BCE, Octavian astonished the Roman world by coming before the Senate and announcing his intention of laying down all his powers, constitutional and extraconstitutional. He said he desired to live as a private citizen.
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Lucidcafé's Profile of Augustus Caesar ... In his will Caesar had adopted Octavian and made him his heir. Octavian was a shrewd, brilliant and astute politician. Through cold, hard political calculation he was able to achieve ultimate power in Rome. At the time of Caesar’s assassination, Octavian held no official position.
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By virtue of his adoption, following Roman custom, Octavius now assumed the name C. Julius Caesar Octavianus (hereafter "Octavian"). To identify himself fully with his adoptive father and to lend his subsequent actions a veneer of legitimacy, he simply called himself "Caesar," and is usually so named in ancient sources.
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(London 1984) 264. In 31 B.C. Octavian, the great-nephew and adopted heir of Julius Caesar, brought an end to the civil wars that had plagued the late Roman republic since the assassination of Caesar when his forces defeated the huge navy of his rival Marc Antony and Kleopatra of Egypt and he emerged as sole ruler...
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This denarius celebrates the successful conclusion of Octavian's Egyptian campaign. The campaign began with the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., at the Gulf of Ambracia on the western coast of Greece, in which he defeated the fleet of his rival Marc Antony and forced Antony and his ally Kleopatra to flee to Egypt.
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