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Gaius Octavius Thurinus
(Caesar Augustus)
Made By: Hannah Durynski & Tori
Hagerty
Table of Contents
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Early Life and Childhood
Death
Time Line
Intersecting Facts
Character Traits with Examples
Accomplishments and Achievements
Family Tree
EU: Did they use or abuse power?
EU: Contributions to Rome or history of the world
Early Life and Childhood
• Born on September 23, 63 B.C with name of
Gaius Octavius.
• Adopted by Julius Caesar
• Birthplace is Rome, Roman Republic.
Death
• He died August 19th 14 A.D (age 75)
• Place of death-Nola, Italia,Roman Empire.
• Buried- Mausoleum of Augustus, Caesar,
Rome.
Time Line
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63: Octavian born September 23rd at Rome to Gaius Octavius and Atia, niece of Julius Caesar
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53: Crassus defeated and killed by the Parthians at Carrhae
50: Octavian delivers the funeral oration for his grandmother Julia
49: Caesar crosses the Rubicon in Italy, precipitating civil war; Pompey and the Senate flee to Greece
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Battle of Pharsalus: Caesar victorious; Pompey murdered in Egypt
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October 18: Octavian assumes the toga virilis and legally enters into manhood
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45: Octavian campaigns (at 17) in Spain with Julius Caesar: Battle of Munda
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March 15: assassination of Caesar; Caesar’s will names Octavian as principal heir and adopted son
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Early May: meets with Antony in Rome and attempts to collect his legacy from Antony (who has seized Caesarʹs papers and fortune).
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April 14: Battle at Forum Gallorum (Octavian defeats Antony)
April 14‐27: Octavian, invested with propraetorian imperium, leads legions in Battle at Mutina, along with consuls Hirtius and Pansa
April 21: Antony defeated at Mutina
May 24: Antony and Lepidus join forces
August 19: Octavian and his cousin (Caesarʹs nephew) Quintus Pedius become suffect consuls; Octavian recognized as Julius Caesarʹs adoptive son
under name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
October: Octavian meets with Antony and Lepidus near Bononia and form the Second Triumvirate (triumviri, or “three men”)
November 27: Second Triumvirate legislated at Rome, for 5 years via the lex Titia. Beginning of the proscriptions; the ancient sources provide figures for
the numbers who were executed and whose property was seized:
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o 130+ senators (Livy)
o 200 senators + 2000 equites (Appian)
o 300 senators + 3000 equites (Plutarch)
o Only one ex‐consul known (Cicero), out of nearly 100 known names
Interesting facts
• When Octavius was young when he came into
his inheritance after Caesar's assassination in
44 BC.
• Augustus’s reorganization of the provincial
Roman system created a stable environment
for collecting the taxes and the administrating
government throughout the empire.
Character Traits and Accomplishments
and Achievements
Character Traits With Examples
• Brave-because he always
fought in wars.
• Grateful-because he was
never selfish for not getting
stuff.
• Confident-because he did
many things for many
people and he never
messes up on anything.
Accomplishments and
Achievements
• A Accomplishment would
be that he fought in the war.
• A Achievement would be
that he helped many people
that needed help.
Family Tree
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Mother- Atia Balba Caesonia
Father- Gaius Octavius
Never Married and never had kids
Great Uncle- Julius Caesar
EU’S
Did they use or abuse power?
• They Abused power
because they made people
fight in the war and they
stabbed Julius Caesar 23
times and he bleed to
death.
Contributions to Rome or history
of the world?
Biography
• www.google.com/imigas
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