It may also have been where Augustus' biological father – Gaius Octavius – died, according to Dr Andrew ... great-uncle and adoptive father Julius Caesar was murdered. He was born in 63 ...

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.

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 ...