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Links Home Roads Entertainment Aqueducts Weapons Daily life Augustus Gaius Octavius Thurinus (a.k.a. Gaius Octavius Jr. by us), also known as Augustus Caesar, was the first Roman emporer who became the most powerful man in Rome.

Little is known about Octavius as a child, except that he was born September 23, 63 BC. He was the grandnephew of Julius Caesar. His father, also named Gaius Octavius, had been the governor of Macedonia, His father was a plebeian, so he considered himself a plebeian, until adopted by Julius Caesar in 44 BC, in which he became a patrician. When his father died at age four, his mother married the former governor of Syria, Lucius Marcius Philippus.

When Caesar was assassinated, Octavius assumed the role as his heir. He called himself Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (a lot of "//us//"). He had many conflicts with the Roman general Mark Antony and Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra, but defeated them at the Battle of Actium. Afterward, was called Augustus Caesar (Augustus meaning "The Exalted"). Under his rule, he expanded Rome to form the Empire.

He added Hispaniola (Spain and Portugal), the modern Alpine and Balkan regions, and Judea (modern Israel) to the Empire. He died on August 19, 14 AD. He was buried in the Mausoleum of Augustus.