History Agustus Caesar
Octavian was one of the first of the roman emperors, in 63 B.C - 14 C.E After Julius Caesar died. Octavian was adopted by his granduncle, Octavian admired his granduncles political and militray work and aspired to be like him. Octavian claimed to be a descended from a goddes called venus, which made people believe he was a living god.During his 40-years reign, Augustus nearly doubled the size of the empire, adding territories in Europe and Asia Minor and securing alliances that gave him effective rule from Britain to India. He spent much of his time outside of Rome, consolidating…show more content… He divorced in 39 B.C. to marry Livia Drusilla, who had two sons—Tiberius and Drusus—by her first husband, Mark Antony’s ally Tiberius Claudius Nero. The family tree became more complicated after Augustus had his stepson Tiberius briefly marry his daughter, and then adopted Tiberius outright as son and successor in A.D. 4. back then there were people staying in these things called insulates and had to rely on charcoal braziers for warmth, there was also no capasity in these buildings so it got quite crowded although most romans lived in conditions way worse than overcrowding it was like the worst places in new york at the height of immigration during the 1870's Rome's streets were full of/ with horses, pigs, cows, dogs and donkey's and dead babies and corpse's of the murders and mugging and all of the left over kitchen scraps from everybody in the town. They would dump their garbage in the timber and that's what they used for drinking water in most houses! people rarely had pipes to bring up good water. but there were a lot of public toilets unlike newyork the typical toilets had no stalls just long concret blocks with holes in them. A statue of Octavian was exhumed in a villa, it is really not a great work of art, but 3 a memorable copy of him in a military dress potraying him, giving a speech, there are very few equals to this scuplture, In A.D The Romans renamed him and gave him the name Agustus Caesar, Agustus means and he was named after the other