Augustus
c. 63 BCE–c. 14 CE · Rome
Founder of the Principate and first emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, author of the autobiographical Res Gestae Divi Augusti. After his victory at Actium (31 BCE), he confirmed Herod the Great as king of Judea and enlarged his realm, restoring territory Cleopatra had taken and adding several cities. In return Herod honored his patron by naming the rebuilt port of Caesarea after him and dedicating a temple to Roma and Augustus there.
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What they did here
Gaius Octavius, the future Augustus, was born at Rome on 23 September 63 BCE.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Augustus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Cornelius Nepos· 110 BCE–25 BCE
- Tryphon I Grammaticus· 95 BCE–25 BCE
- Diodorus Siculus· 90 BCE–30 BCE
- Sallust· 86 BCE–35 BCE
- Parthenius of Nicaea· 85 BCE–14 CE
- Philoxenus of Alexandria· 85 BCE–25 BCE
- Aenesidemus· 80 BCE–10 BCE
- Vitruvius· 80 BCE–15 BCE
- Virgil· 70 BCE–19 BCE
- Didymus Alexandrinus· 65 BCE–10 CE
- Horace· 65 BCE–8 BCE
- Strabo· 64 BCE–24 CE
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus· 60 BCE–7 BCE
- Livy· 59 BCE–17 CE
- Tibullus· 55 BCE–19 BCE
- Seneca the Elder· 54 BCE–39 CE
- Propertius· 47 BCE–15 BCE
- Ovid· 43 BCE–17 CE
- Tiberius· 42 BCE–37 CE
- Isidore of Charax· 40 BCE–20 CE
- Aristonicus of Alexandria· 35 BCE–25 CE
- Celsus· 25 BCE–50 CE
- Valerius Maximus· 20 BCE–50 CE
- Phaedrus· 15 BCE–50 CE
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Christian world
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