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Augustus (Gaius Octavius / Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus)

person · earth · Rome and the provinces

The man who converted a republic's civil-war victory into a durable monarchy without ever admitting he had done so. His settlement kept republican offices and vocabulary while concentrating army command, provincial appointment and finance in one person. He is the reason the empire has an institutional architecture at all: standing army with fixed terms and a discharge fund, a census-based provincial tax system, and a hereditary-in-practice succession. His own account, the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, is a first-person political document and must be read as such.

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  1. Story
  2. The man who converted a republic's civil-war victory into a durable monarchy without ever admitting he had done so. His settlement kept republican offices and vocabulary while concentrating army command, provincial appointment and finance in one person. He is the reason the empire has an institutional architecture at all: standing army with fixed terms and a discharge fund, a census-based provincial tax system, and a hereditary-in-practice succession. His own account, the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, is a first-person political document and must be read as such.
  3. Knowledge
  4. The Roman Legion
  5. Augustus (Gaius Octavius / Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus)
  6. Connections
  7. The Roman Legion
  8. Assassination of Julius Caesar
  9. Battle of Actium
  10. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
  11. Rome
  12. Roman Citizenship (civitas Romana)
  13. The Roman Road Network
  14. Hadrian's Wall
  15. Augustus (Gaius Octavius / Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus)
  16. Gaius Julius Caesar
  17. Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
  18. The Punic Wars
  19. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
  20. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
  21. Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
  22. The empire reaches its greatest territorial extent
  23. The Antonine Constitution (Constitutio Antoniniana)
  24. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
  25. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
  26. Evidence
  27. Augustus's own account of his achievements, in Latin and Greek, listing offices, benefactions, conquests and the claim that he 'transferred the state to the free disposal of the Senate and People'. It is the founding document of the Principate's self-presentation and simultaneously a piece of political advocacy, not a neutral record.
  28. Augustan coinage circulated imperial titulature, portraiture and slogans (CIVIBVS SERVATEIS, SIGNIS RECEPTIS, AEGYPTO CAPTA) to a largely non-reading population across three continents. Coinage is the empire's highest-volume communication medium and one of its few genuinely empire-wide standardisations.
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