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Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
Octavian
• Grand-nephew & posthumously adopted by Julius
Caesar
• Reading of Caesar’s Will
– Octavian is appointed heir and inherits two-thirds of
Caesar’s estate
• Marcus Antonius is furious
• Second Triumvirate
– An alliance with Marcus Antonius & Marcus Aemilus
Lepidus to defeat conspirators of Caesar’s assassination
and political enemies
Second Triumvirate
M. Antonius
C. Julius Caesar
Octavianus
Final War of the Roman Republic
• The members of the
Second Triumvirate
begin to distrust one
another as they pursue
their own political
ambitions
• A civil war breaks out
between Octavian &
Antony
• Octavian’s forces under
the command of Agrippa
defeat Antony in 31 BCE
Pax Romana
• Octavian is awarded the honorary title of “Augustus”
by the Senate
– Augustus  “revered one”
• Augustus becomes an autocrat & Rome’s first
emperor (27 BCE – 14 CE)
• Pax Romana  “The Roman Peace;” a period of some
200 years in which the Roman Empire prospered,
was united, and “Romanized” the world.
Res Gestae
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
• August
Augustan Family Values Reforms
• A father could kill his
daughter and lover if he
caught them in the act of
adultery.
• In his own home, a husband
could kill his wife’s lover if
he caught them in the act of
adultery
• A husband must divorce his
wife in 60 days if it is proven
she has committed adultery
• A woman who has
committed adultery is
subject to the following
additional penalties
– Banishment
– Loss of one-half dowry
– Loss of one-third of any
additional wealth she
possessed