Augustus was the great-nephew and sole heir of the great Caesar.Get the name of the murdered emperor, and having inherited it, with the support of friends of his adoptive father, in the 44th BC, was presented to the people.
However, the real power in those years belonged to the consul Mark Antony, who for a long time, too, claimed to be the successor to the dictator.By bringing national assembly, he blocked the ability to become a tribune Octavius.
But a year later Caesar Augustus, with the support of Cicero and relatives of the deceased emperor was able to legalize their status.
political situation in Rome was troubled, brewing civil war.In the provinces much more active conspirators, who after the murder of Caesar fled from the capital.
against Antonio made Decimus Brutus, who managed to "take a triumph", and now by the decision of the senate Augustus was to send troops to destroy your opponent.
However, the choice could not be the last in favor of Caesar's murderers.And in this it supported the army: the soldiers of the Roman legions refused to fight against Antony.
In the same year three Triumvir - Oktavin Augustus, Antony and Lepidus have made a covenant to destroy their opponents.And in September of the following year, their armies defeated the Republicans.Cassius and Brutus committed suicide.There was a new redistribution of territories captured Rome.
Anthony married the "queen of kings" and Cleopatra with his wife and her son from Caesar began to manage the Roman provinces - Syria, Cilicia and Cyprus.But people began to grumble than immediately took advantage of Octavian, who, with the support of the Senate announced triumviratora traitor.
In September, 32-year BCActium was a great naval battle that Cleopatra and Antony was lost.The couple fled back to Egypt, where he died.
Two years later solemnly Octavian Augustus entered Alexandria, thereby ending a long civil war.He became a full-fledged master of the giant Roman Empire.
Its main merit was something that did not have the rest of the emperors of Rome, he was able to make peace, by which is meant the end of unrest and civil war, which lasted for almost a hundred years, and strengthened external borders.
He made quite cruel laws that fight rebellious slaves at the same time allowing the authorities to use submissive protection from cruelty of their masters.Rural plebeians, having no land for his service in the army received as a gift of money or parcels.
This was the beginning of a new era of the traditional social order, in which the Emperor Augustus embodied the new form of government - a compound of the authoritarian type, able to support the unity and order in the empire, with the legality based on respect for national methods of government.
Augustus in the bud suppressed individual plots from time to time arise among disaffected aristocrats.As a result, he was able to smooth out the sharp contradictions of a social nature, so in the empire was at peace and tranquility.
However, the last ten years of life, Octavian, and he died in the 14th BC, lived only 49 years, were the worst.Successive uprisings and when the national assembly chose him objectionable undergraduates, he issued a decree abolished the election.
Now emperor lost his courtesy and flexibility rarely left the palace.
Thus, it is quite clearly outlined its purpose, skillfully taking advantage of any means.He is kind to the sciences, especially poetry.It is no coincidence whole era was named after him, it was the epoch of flourishing of art.
political system, strengthen when Octavian Augustus, provided the Roman Empire two centuries of prosperity, exerting influence on subsequent European history.
