AS Caesarism to die when Julius, pierced with twenty-three wounds, fell dead in the Senate House of Rome ... Firth, the writer of "Augustus Caesar," tells his readers at the outset that Octavian ...

The great Roman emperor Augustus, grandnephew of Julius Caesar, was frightened of thunder ... He lived, according to the historian Suetonius, in a modest house on Rome’s Palatine Hill.

Caesar’s republican opponents considered him a tyrant and assassinated him in 44 B.C., whereupon his grand-nephew Gaius Octavius, or Octavian (the future Augustus), whom he’d designated as his ...

Augustus claimed it was the spirit of Julius Caesar entering heaven ... He let people know that he lived in a modest house, slept on a low bed and, when he wasn’t fasting, ate only very plain ...

Adopted by Caesar, Augustus (c.62 BC – 14 AD / Reigned 31 BC – 14 AD) had to fight for his throne. His long rule saw a huge expansion in the Roman Empire and the beginnings of a dynasty that ...