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27 BCE -14 CE | reign of emperor Augustus |
"Augustus" | awarded this title by the Senate |
Second Triumvirate | Augustus, Antony, Lepidus; killed their rivals and Caesar's assassins |
Brutus and Cassius | committed suicide |
Lepidus | stripped of titles and power; out of the triumvirate |
Octavia Minor | sister of Octavian becomes wife of Antony |
Cleopatra | becomes Antony's lover; Antony declares Caesarion, not Ocatavion, true heir of Julius Caesar, |
Antony | consulship revoked; at war with Rome |
Actium | 31 BCE; fought between forces of Cleopatra/Antony and Octavian; Octavian wins; Antony and Cleopatra commit suicide |
Caesarion and son of Antony | murdered by order of Octavian |
Princeps (=First Citizen) | title preferred by Octavian |
Julia | daughter of Octavian banished for adultery along with his granddaughter |
Augustus' last words | "I found Rome a city of bricks but left it a city of marble." |
Deification | Augustus proclaimed a god. |