For this service of mine I was named Augustus by the decree of the senate …. Closing of the Doors of the Temple of Janus Quirinus: 29 BCEĪugustan aureus, 28 BCE:Augustus seated on the sella curulis LEGES ET IURA P(OPULI) R(OMANI) RESTITUIT “He restored the laws and the rights of the Roman people”Ģ7 BCE: First “settlement”:auctoritas, Imperator Caesar Augustus & princeps “In my sixth and seventh consulships, after I had extinguished civil wars, and at a time when with universal consent I was in complete control of affairs, I transferred the republic from my power to the dominion of the senate and people of Rome.“It was the will of our ancestors that the gateway of Janus Quirinus should be shut when victories had secured peace by land and sea throughout the whole empire of the Roman people from the foundation of the city down to my birth, tradition records that it was shut only twice, but while I was the leading citizen the senate resolved that it should be shut on three occasions” (RG13). 31: Octavian/Agrippa defeat Antony & Cleopatra at ActiumĬoin of Augustus celebrating the triple triumph in 29 BCE: Dalmatia, Actium, Egypt.37: Antony marries Cleopatra (having married Octavia in 40) and in two years, Octavian breaks with Antony.42: Caesar proclaimed a god, making Octavian divifilius – son of a god Philippi: “when both consuls had fallen in battle, the people appointed me consul and triumvir for the organization of the republic” (RG 1.4).Octavian succeeds Caesar & defeats Antony 43: forms 2nd Triumvirate with Antony and Lepidus proscriptions (e.g., Cicero).44: named in Caesar’s will as principal heir & adopted son.63: birth (grandnephew of Julius Caesar).Gaius OctaviusThurinus Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus Imperator Caesar Augustus Temple of Rome and Augustus, Ankara, Turkey (Monumentum Ancyranum) The new coinage system was more advanced than anything the ancient world had seen.Imperator Gaius Iulius Caesar Augustus, divifilius, first emperor of Rome63 BCE-14CE
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He continued to produce the gold aureus and the silver denarius, but introduced a series of new copper-alloy denominations. In about 23 BC, Augustus reformed the coinage.
In this way he cleverly preserved the ideals of the Roman Republic. He based his powers on traditional political offices and presented himself as the 'first man' of the Senate rather than as a king.
Augustus was anxious that his political position was acceptable to everyone. Rome had been a republic for centuries since the fall of its kings and was ruled by the Senate (its supreme political body) and the Roman people. By 31 BC Augustus had emerged as the undisputed victor: Rome's first emperor. Within a decade, however, relations between the two had broken down and the Roman World was plunged into civil war. In the years immediately after Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, Augustus and Mark Antony (q.v., Caesar's closest friend and ally) set out to avenge his murder. Julius Caesar in 44 BC, then Imperator Caesar Divi Filius (known as Octavian). Biography Born Gaiuis Octavius, adopted by Julius Caesar (q.v.) as C.
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