Augustus Biography - Life of Augustus

The rise to power of Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus who became known as the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar.

Octavius was the adopted son of Julius Caesar who succeeded him in 27 B.C. when he became Augustus. Augustus was the first emperor of Rome.

A biography of Augustus, contributed by Adrian Dorrington.

The second triumvirate and the Battle of Actium, both important events in the life of Augustus.

Short biography of Augustus, the first of the Julio-Claudian emperors who outlived several of the men he groomed for the succession.

The relationship between Julius Caesar and his adopted heir Augustus.

Irene Hahn's reading lists, primary sources, fiction and non-fiction on Augustus designed to facilitate book discussions of Augustus.

List of the various positions Augustus held in his personal, religious, magisterial, and political lives.

Nicolaus of Damascus' account of the early life of Augustus, translated in 1923 by Clayton Hall.

De Imperatoribus Romanis thorough biography of Augustus, with bibliography, by Garrett G. Fagan.

Chapter three of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire covers Augustus.