octavian

Caesar was murdered to stop him becoming a King; but the process continued, and Octavian became the first emperor.

Some academics hypothesize that her Roman political rival Octavian forced her to kill herself in a manner of her choosing.

In reality Republic died before Cezar, while Octavian played Weekend at Bernie's.

Roman leaders were often grifters, and Octavian was a particularly notable example.

> Augustus seized all the levers of power Octavian was given the levers of power by Julius Caesar.

Look at people like Genghis Khan or Octavian Augustus etc.

Like many of the young men who were in that army and lived, he returned to Rome and was not penalized or pursued by Octavian (later Augustus).

It was recorded that Octavian allowed for her and her husband, the Roman politician and general Mark Antony, who stabbed himself with a sword, to be buried together properly.

Julius Caesar marched on Rome with a hired army, then after his death Marc Antony and Octavian kept having to bribe their soldiers to fight and not switch side.

Furthermore, Horace had been fighting on the losing side, and he later found it necessary to receive pardon from the victor Octavian (aka Augustus), so better to sound like he supported the republicans only half-heartedly.

The Roman empire lasted considerably longer than 200 years - perhaps 500 years in its best understood form going from Octavian becoming emperor in ~30BCE to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in approx 470CE.

> Genghis Khan, Octavian Augustus Yea, we do need to do some more moral analysis to understand how this was negative even for them in the long run.

Baiae was very much an "imperial city" and it definitely kicked off with Octavian.

When Octavian was adopted he literally became Gaius Julius Caesar and technically lost the "Octavianus" part of his former name; roman names did not work like our modern day names.

On the surface level, it's about the events of the life of Augustus Caesar (better known in the book as "Octavian")—but on a deeper level, it's about the rarity of longtime friends in life, and dealing with aging and one's mortality.

As a time traveller you'd have little chance of making your case to Octavian, Divi filius (aka "son of a god") that he was bound by some modern rules applied to mere "heads of state".

So when the writer refers to Julius Caesar without any other qualifications, he refers to the adoptive father of Octavian.

Octavian as a young man could be brutal to his enemies, but in this case he wasn't.

Octavian would not have been in a position to end the republic if not for his uncle.