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.

And though Julius is remembered as a great general ... That passage reads: In those days, Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c ... Without a son of his own, he needed an heir. Caesar quickly adopted his great nephew, Augustus. He also moved fast to strengthen the northern ...

Augustus was the first Roman emperor and led the transformation from republic to empire after his great-uncle and adoptive father Julius Caesar was murdered. He was born in 63 BC with the name ...

Mark Zuckerberg wants to be just like Augustus Caesar. Zuckerberg told The New ... that would be his great uncle and adopted father, Julius. While Augustus had room to be worse, that didn't ...

The glory of Augustus is not quite as unalloyed as he wanted us to believe. Augustus was Julius Caesar's great-nephew. The assassination of Caesar in 44 BC left Augustus the heir to his fortune ...

Roman proconsul Julius Caesar conducts a series of military campaigns ... later becoming the Emperor Augustus. Under this brilliant, implacable leader, the new Roman Empire buried the old ...

Julius Caesar squared off against his rival Pompey. And, of course, Augustus himself seized power through violence, and snuffed out his rivals along the way. But it's inaccurate to think of the ...

The glory of Augustus is not quite as unalloyed as he wanted us to believe. Augustus was Julius Caesar's great-nephew. The assassination of Caesar in 44 BC left Augustus the heir to his fortune ...