AUGUSTUS

SOCIAL LIFE

• Married 3 times
• 1 daughter
• Was adopted
• Had an affair with Cleopatra

WHAT HE WAS KNOWN FOR...

• First Roman Emperor
• He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family.
• Augustus restored the outward facade of the free Republic.
• Augustus' reign laid the foundations of a regime that lasted for nearly fifteen hundred years through the
• ultimate decline of the Western Roman Empire and until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.

UNDER HIS EMPIRE

• He established the principate,
• the form of government under which Rome
• ruled its empire for three hundred years
• As emperor Augustus concerned himself with every detail of the empire

HIS ARMY

• He secured its boundaries,
• provided for the defense of remote areas,
• reorganized the army, and created a navy

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• Augustus was also interested in
• encouraging a return to the religious
• dedication and morality of early Rome.

UNDER HIS RULE

• He made adultery (when a married person has a sexual
• relationship with someone other than his or her spouse) a criminal offense
• And he encouraged the birthrate by granting privileges to
• couples with three or more children.

HIS DEATH

• Augustus suffered many illnesses,
• But he outlived his preferred choices for legal heir. He was finally
• forced to appoint as his heir Tiberius, his third wife's son
• by her first marriage. Tiberius took power upon Augustus's death
• on August 19, C.E.