Biography of Augustus

The foundations of an empire

23 September 63 Bc August 19, 14 Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus was born in Rome in 63 BC, her father was Gaius Octavius and the mother is Azia, the daughter of Giulia, sister of Julius Caesar. In 45 BC Caesar adopts him, because he does not have male descendants. While located in Apollonia, in Greece, in order to study waiting to leave for the expedition against the Parthians, Octavian Caesar receives news of the death of Julius Caesar took place on 15 March of 44 BC he returned to Rome to avenge the killing of Caesar and to gather the legacy he left. At the age of nineteen Octavian shows great determination and courage, managing to hold his own with his two bitter enemies, Marcus Antonius and the Roman Senate. The disagreement between Octavian and Mark Antony is immediately evident, since the latter refuses to deliver immediately in the hands of the first Caesar's legacy. The most bitter conflict you have in Modena, where Octavian supported by veterans of Caesar and the Senate gets the victory against Mark Antony. In 43 BC, realizing that the Senate strongly supports the oligarchic form of Government and to try to find a truce with Mark Antony, Octavian, as Consul, agree with the latter and Lepidus to create with them the triumvirate. During the years of the Triumvirate the three ordering to kill their enemies, seize assets, distribute land to the Veterans of Caesar and enlist the military forces to be deployed in the battle against supporters of Brutus and Cassius, who took refuge in Greece. The three men share the Roman lands. In 42 BC, the armed forces of Octavian Caesar and Mark Antony are reporting a huge victory against the men of Brutus and Caesar in Philippi. Despite a second agreement between the triumvirs and the territorial partitions made, the clash between Mark Antony and Octavian is rekindled, leading to the battle of Actium of 31 BC, ended in 29 BC with the victory of Octavian Augustus in 27 BC receives the appellation. He has the task of reorganizing the Roman Empire from the perspective of political, economic, military and religious. Respectful of the old Roman Institutions, he is preparing to run in an exemplary way the Roman Empire. He also appointed Roman Consul also accumulates those princeps Senates and Imperator, first name that can pass on to heirs. Augusto realizes that the time has come to put an end to the Republican form of Government, because the territory of the Empire is vast. In fact, he realizes that the time has come to carry out a constitutional reform in the Empire, it is for this reason that in 27 BC he chastises end of military emergency. Octavian Caesar Augustus carries out within the Empire a whole series of major reforms including constitutional reform, the reorganization of the armed forces, decreasing the number of Legions by fifty to twenty-eight and eighteen, from orders to build many public works to adorn the Imperial capital, Rome. Also administratively creates new colonies, Provinces and prefectures, with the objective of romanizzarle. Augusto has in his hands all the economic power of the Principality, but seeks to ensure that resources are distributed fairly, so that you have the support of all populations subject. In the provinces it makes build roads, commercial ports, new port facilities. In 23-15 BC also rearranges the monetary system. His Principality, known for his peaceful characters, actually was marked by numerous threats and conflicts such as the conflict affecting the North-Western Iberian Peninsula from 29 BC to 19 BC, which then became part of the Empire. After countless military clashes also the border of the Danube and the Rhine are incorporated permanently into the domains. Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian Augustus died on 19 August 14 ad, leaving it in the hands of Tiberius a great empire.
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