The Rise of Augustus Caesar and the Roman Empire He was the nineteen year old student who inherited a name and conquered a known world. While his great-uncle Julius Caesar was a man of the battlefield, this young heir was a master of the long game a strategist who dismantled a five hundred year old Republic to build an Empire that would endure for centuries. Born Gaius Octavius, he would die as Augustus, the "Revered One," having fundamentally altered the political geography of the Mediterranean

THE FIRST ROMAN EMPEROR The illustrious / The Sacred - (Augustus) Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus aka: Octavian *** Octavian (his original name) was replaced with Augustus, given to him by the Roman Senate as a symbol of his new imperial status. In ancient Rome, deification was a common practice for emperors, where they were granted divine honors and worshiped as gods, but not necessarily believed to possess supernatural powers. Augustus, as the adopted son and heir of Julius Caesar, inherited Ca