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Gaius Octavuis?
When was Gaius Octavius(Not Augustus aka gaius julius caesar octavius) born and where?
Gaius Octavius (d. 59 BC) was the biological father of Augustus. He descended from an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Octavii family, of whom he was the first to enter the Roman Senate.
His great-great-grandfather fought as a middle-ranking officer in the Second Punic War. His father was a municipal magistrate who lived to an advanced age. Like his father, he bribed voters during elections.
After his praetorship, he subsequently became governor of Macedonia. He was commissioned by the Senate on his way to Macedonia to disperse a rebellion of slaves who had previously taken part in the rebellions under Spartacus and Catiline. He proved a capable administrator in Macedonia, governing "courageously and justly", his deeds including victory in a battle against the Thracian Bessian tribe. Cicero had high regard for his diplomatic dealings.
Octavius died in Nola on his way to stand for the consulship in Rome in 59 BC, supposedly in the same bedroom where Augustus would later pass away. By his first wife, Ancharia, he fathered Octavia Major; by his second, Atia Balba Caesonia, he fathered Octavia Minor and Augustus.
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Gaius Octavius was a great-nephew of Julius Caesar (grandson of Caesar's sister Julia). His father Octavius was of undistinguished birth, but reached the praetorship and married Atia, a daughter of Caesar's only daughter Julia before his premature death when Gaius Octavius was four. Octavius grew up outside Rome in a small provincial city. His first public appearance was in 51 BCE when his grandmother Julia died and he delivered the eulogy at her funeral.
Reaching maturity in 48 BCE he embarked on a normal patrician career (as normal as it could be under Caesar's dictatorship), which included political, military and religious offices. Caesar must have noticed him early and advanced his career, but their relationship is not clear. It is not known why and when Caesar decided on Octavius as his successor.
Octavius was elected to the pontifical college in 48 BCE, and he participated in the four triumphs Caesar celebrated in 46 BCE. In 45 BCE he followed Caesar to Spain and fought honourably in the battle of Munda against the last of the followers of Pompey. In 44 BCE Octavius was in Illyricum in preparation for the Parthian campaign Caesar had planned.
When Caesar was murdered in 44 BCE, Octavius decided to return to Rome, but when he heard of the way Caesar was killed and that Caesar had adopted him as principal heir, he knew that he was in danger. Yet he returned to Rome as a private citizen to obtain the recognition of his adoption and to take possession of his vast inheritance.
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Alaric I, Tiberius and Gaius, Marcus Aurelius,
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Caesar is remembered as one of history's greatest generals and a key ruler of the Roman empire. As a young man he rose through the administrative ranks of the Roman republic, accumulating power until he was elected consul in 59 B.C. Over the next 15 years he led Roman armies against enemies abroad, especially in Gaul, while fighting Pompey and others for political control at home. In 45 B.C. he reached his ultimate success, being named dictator of Rome for life. That rule was short-lived: the next year he was stabbed to death in the Senate by a group led by his follower Marcus Junius Brutus. Caesar's life and death were dramatized in the William Shakespeare play Julius Caesar, with Caesar's famous death line: "Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar!"
Caesar is thought to have been assassinated on March 15th, a date known in the Roman calendar as "the Ides of March"... The ruling titles Kaiser and Czar are derived from the name of Caesar... Caesar had a famous romance with Egyptian ruler Cleopatra, and he fathered her son Caesarion... One of Caesar's trusted generals was Marc Antony, who became a lover and ally of Cleopatra after Caesar's death... Caesar's adopted heir was Octavian, who later defeated Antony and became the emperor Caesar Augustus.
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Military History Companion: Caius Julius Caesar
Top Home > Library > History, Politics & Society > Military History CompanionCaesar, Caius Julius (100-44 bc). Probably the greatest general in Rome's history, and among the most successful of all time, Caesar was also a skilful author who wrote detailed accounts of his campaigns. His seven books of Commentaries on the Gallic wars, three on the civil war, along with several books written by some of his officers to fill the gaps in the narrative, provide more information about Caesar's campaigns than those of any other ancient commander. The style of these works has had a massive influence on the writing of military history, down to the present day.
It is important to remember that Caesar was not simply a general, but also a politician. In Rome politics and war were inseparably linked. Success in war promoted a political career, which in turn led to greater opportunities for military command. Up until the year 58, Caesar's career followed the normal pattern for a Roman aristocrat, mixing military with civil posts. He served as a junior officer (tribune) in the east (80-78), being awarded Rome's highest decoration for gallantry, the corona civica, for saving a soldier's life at the siege of Mytilene. His first independent command came with his appointment as governor of Further Spain, where he led a small army in some successful police actions (61-60). However, after his political alliance with two of the most powerful politicians in Rome, Pompey and Crassus, Caesar received the consulship for the year 59 and an exceptionally large provincial command including Illyria, Cisalpine, and Transalpine Gaul in 58. At first his term of office was for five years, which was later extended to ten, an unprecedentedly long period.
Caesar was massively in debt and needed the profits derived from a successful war of conquest. He may well have contemplated marching from Illyria against the Dacian kingdom on the Danube, but the migration of the Helvetii offered him a perfect excuse to intervene in Gaul, an opportunity he accepted with alacrity (58). In eight years he conquered all of Gaul, defeated several rebellions, and advanced Rome's power to the Rhine. His victories were celebrated with public thanksgivings in Rome, and he took care to seize every chance to perform the spectacular, twice bridging the Rhine and leading expeditions to the strange and distant shores of Britain. Every winter he returned to Cisalpine Gaul to perform his judicial duties as governor, but also to keep an eye on the political climate at Rome. Vast quantities of booty and huge numbers of slaves covered Caesar's debts and made him exceptionally wealthy. He lavished much of this on his victorious soldiers, further increasing their loyalty to him.
Crassus had fallen at Carrhae in 53 and by the end of the Gallic wars, Pompey was unwilling to accept Caesar as a political equal and rival. He sided with Caesar's ardent opponents in the Senate who were determined to prosecute him as soon as the Gallic command expired. This led to the outbreak of the civil war in 49, when Caesar led his troops across the Rubicon, the narrow stream separating his province, where he legally exercised command, with Italy,
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