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=__Octavian__=

Gaius Ocatavius was born in September 23, 63B.C in Illyria. He has a younger sister named Octavia. His dad was a member of the Roman senate and his mom was the niece of Julius Caesar. As a family, Octavian only had very little origin to become one of the most [|prominence] person in Rome. It all started when he was 12 years old. He was asked to do the “delivering funeral speech” for his grandmother, Julia. __Octavian__(right)

From the speech, he was invited to join the membership board about 3 or 4 years later. He fought in the civil war but because he was ill, he joined the dictator in Spain. When he went back to Rome, he was told that his great uncle, Julius Caesar had adopted him. He then got his adopted name, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus.

He completed his study of academics and military until he suddenly found out that Julius Caesar who had [|adopted] him was murdered. Octavian was 18 when his uncle died and at the same time, his mom sent him a letter to flee eastward but he went back to Rome. __Mark Antony__ (below) Octavian tried to become the new Julius Caesar, but it wasn’t as easy as it seemed. He met Mark Antony who was Caesar’s chief lieutenant and Octavian was unfortunate that Mark expected too much from him. He had forced Octavian to pay for the dictator’s banquet, which he had to pull lots of money out. Caesar’s assassins, Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus totally ignored him and withdrew to the east. Even the famous orator, Cicero was expecting to make use of Octavian but he was disappointed since he had underestimated his abilities.

In 27B.C. Octavian renamed himself, Augustus Caesar. He was finally successful in winning numbers of [|dictators]’ [|troops] of his own. 31B.C. is considered the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire. Augustus had some rivals to fight against and they were Marcus Aemilias and Mark Antony. He had to be under control of Mark since Augustus was sick. They won 2 battles of Philippi against Brutus and Cassius. Then Mark went to eastside of Greece to take over that part and Augustus went back to Italy. Augustus found that in order to fight off Mark Antony and his wife, Cleopatra, he had to fight against Sextus Pompeius. He decided to marry sextus’s relative Scribonia, that didn’t work out well and caused them to divorce.

Although Mark took over the eastside, he mostly spent time with his wife, Cleopatra in Egypt. Augustus wasn’t happy about this since Mark wasn’t taking care of his part of land. Augustus got his senates to start a war in Egypt but it was too bad that both Mark and Cleopatra escaped to Alexandria safely. In the Battle of Actium, he was finally able to defeate Mark Antony who was his all-time rival. From this battle, Augustus became the master of Rome and did quite a good job on the Republican Government.

He had passed away in A.d.14 on August 19 after the end of Augustus’s empire. The Roman Empire of Augustus were defeated by Germans at Rhine River in A.D.9. //Article Submitted by Saeri//

__Bronze Sculpture of Augustus__ (below) __The statue of Augustus__

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