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The honorific augustus was inherited by all future emperors and became the de facto main title of the emperor. [140] [144] As a result, modern historians usually regard this event as the beginning of his reign as "emperor". [i] Augustus himself appears to have reckoned his "reign" from 27 BC. [150] [j]
The Prima Porta statue of Augustus (r. 27 BC – AD 14), the first Roman emperor The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. [1]
The early life of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, began at his birth in Rome on September 23, 63 BC, and is considered to have ended around the assassination of Dictator Julius Caesar, Augustus' great-uncle and adoptive father, on 15 March 44 BC.
The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC. [2] The term emperor is a modern convention, and did not exist as such during the Empire.
Gaius Octavius was born in 63 B.C. in Rome. When his maternal great uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated for subverting the Roman Republic, the young Octavian, only 18 at the time, became his ...
The Pax Romana began when Octavian (Augustus) defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the Battle of Actium on 2 September 31 BC and became Roman emperor. [1] [9] [3] He became princeps, or first citizen. Lacking a good precedent of successful one-man rule, Augustus created a junta of the greatest
Marcia Euphemia married Anthemius, who became augustus in the west in 467, and had several sons: Anthemiolus was killed fighting the Goths in the west, but his brothers Romulus, Procopius Anthemius, and Marcianus, who married Leontia, sought to overthrow Zeno, as did the generals Illus and Leontius, though each failed to dislodge the emperor.
475–476), adopted Augustus not only as a title, but also as a proper name (becoming Romulus Augustus pius felix Augustus). [ 12 ] After the victory over the Sasanian Empire in the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 , the 7th century final phase of the Roman–Persian Wars , the emperor Heraclius introduced the Ancient Greek ...