Augustus, born Gaius Octavius in Rome in 63 B.C., was the great-nephew and adopted son of the Roman general and politician Julius Caesar, who was assassinated in 44 B.C. After Caesar's death ...

March 15 is associated with misfortune and doom. On this day, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered at the hands of ...

His father died when Augustus was four. His prospects were bleak: Rome was dangerous, engulfed by civil war between power-hungry factions. One of these was led by his great-uncle, Julius Caesar.

As Caesar's heir, this made Augustus the son of a god - a fact he ... northern Spain and much of central Europe. By his death, the empire was an enormous marketplace in which millions could ...