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Octavian -- Male

Octavia -- female

Basically, the story goes that Mark Anthony and Octavian were bitter rivals for the legacy of Julius Caesar after Caesar's assassination!. Through shrewd politics, Octavian had driven Mark Anthony out of Italy and Anthony came to control Gaul (Modern France)!. In their divided state, the conspirators against Caesar, Marcus Brutus and Gaius Cassius marched against them with 15 legions scrapped together from the east!. With both of them facing this threat, Mark Anthony and Octavian did the unthinkable; they joined forces!. To concrete this alliance, Octavian (the man) gave his sister, Octavia, to Mark Anthony in marriage!. Their combined 17 legions met the conspirators forces at the Battle of Philippi, defeating them and cementing their place as the masters of Rome

Octavian, Anthony, and the third member of their alliance, Lepidus, divided the world!. Octavian took Italy and everything north and west!. Lepidus was given Africa (the short end of the stick, despite Carthage being one of Rome's most prosperous provinces) and Mark Anthony was given Egypt and the east!.

While living in Egypt, Mark Anthony fell desperately in love with Cleopatra, a love that did not go unrequited!. Their love had been truly sincere, and not a political convenience as his first marraige to Ocatvia (Octavian's sister, remember) had been!.

Later on, Octavian (the man) was feeling the political pressure!. Italy was facing a chronic food shortage and he needed the grain from the prosperous Egyptian fields!. However, Mark Anthony would not send grain without concessions, and Octavian knew that he could not afford to tip the balance of power in Mark Anthony's favor!. His inclination was to go to war with Anthony, but this was not something that he could do on a whim!. Octavian was severely unpopular with the people, who saw him as a usurper of democracy, as well as unpopular with the army, as they thought he was a wimp compared to Mark Anthony, who was a soldier's soldier!. In a move that was sheer political brilliance (or ruthlessness), Octavian hatched a scheme!. He send his sister Octavia to Egypt, to meet with Anthony concerning the political crisis!. Anthony, who was in love with Cleopatra and not Octavia (the girl) didn't even let her inside his palace!. She was snubbed!.

This gave Octavian (the man) all of the political ammunition he needed!. He began a massive smear campaign against Mark Anthony, calling him a traitor who was consorting with eastern harlots and flirting with un-Roman religions, who viciously turned his back on his dutiful and loyal Roman wife (who in reality probably cared little for him), and who was starving true Romans into submission in a bid to make his foreign land the new rulers of the world and conquer all things good and Roman!. The people and the army swung wildly in his favor and Octavian got his war!.

In the resulting war, Octavian was triumphant, as Mark Anthony, Cleopatra, and Caesar Ptolemy (Cleopatra's young son with Julius Caesar) were all dead, and Octavian was now the undisputed master of RomeWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Male - a woman would have never been allowed to rule under Roman law!.

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The place of women had relatively little fluidity in ancient Roman civilization!. Women were typically confined to lead the lives of housewives, taking care of the state of affairs in the home; despite the degree of their education or their social status, they also had to stay home and complete the household chores!. Wool work, however, was a common occupation of women from all social classes, though this, too, was done in the home!. Furthermore, not only were the most noble of occupations (such as those in the military and in politics) off-limits to women, but even the wives of men with powerful positions in such occupations did little besides supervising the home, slaves, and staff!. There were a small number of women writers and poets; their work, however, was not taken seriously in Roman society!."

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Male, however, bisexual!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Augustus was a male, the son of Gaius Octavius and Caesar's niece Atia!. At birth he was given the name Gaius Octavius (the biographer Suetonius gives the name as Gaius Octavius Thurinus), but when Caesar posthumously adopted him in 44BC he took the name Gaius Julius Caesar!. We call him Octavian for the period 44BC-27BC because Roman tradition dictated that his adoptive name *should* have been Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Gaius Julius Caesar, who was adopted into the Julius Caesars from the family Octavius")!. He himself though never used the name Octavianus; he wanted to make his connection to Caesar as strong as possible in the minds of the Roman people and their legions!. Some political opponents, though, like Cicero, insisted on calling him by that name in an attempt to keep him in his place!.

After Caesar's deification he began calling himself Caesar Divi Filius ("Caesar the son of a god"), then appears to have started using the name Imperator Caesar ("Imperator" means "triumphant general" and is the root of the word "emperor")!. In 27BC the Senate awarded him the name Augustus, so that's what we call him from that period until the end of his life!. From then on his name is given as Imperator Caesar Augustus, followed by a long list of titles and honours!. Modern historians also generally assign 27BC as the first year of his reign, though Augustus himself dated it from 23BC, when the Senate gave him his tribunicia potestas (the "power of a tribune" of the plebs, without actually holding the office of tribune) and his imperium maius ("supreme power") throughout all the provinces of the empire, formally overriding even the authority of provincial governors!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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MALE -

Augustus Caesar of Rome was born with the given name Gaius Octavius on September 23, 63 B!.C!. He took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian) in 44 B!.C!. after the murder of his great uncle, Julius Caesar!. In his will Caesar had adopted Octavian and made him his heir!.

Octavian was a shrewd, brilliant and astute politician!. Through cold, hard political calculation he was able to achieve ultimate power in Rome!. At the time of Caesar’s assassination, Octavian held no official position!. Only after he marched on Rome and forced the senate to name him consul, was he established as a power to be reckoned with!.

In 43 B!.C!., Octavian, Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony—one of Julius Caesar’s top lieutenants) and another Roman General, Marcus Lepidus, formed the second Triumvirate to rule Rome!. After taking power, the Triumvirate proscribed and slaughtered thousands of political enemies, firmly establishing their control of the Roman government!.

In 40 B!.C!., Antony married Octavia, Octavian’s sister, and later deserted her for Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt!. When Antony gave Roman provinces to his children by Cleopatra, Octavian declared war on Antony!. In 31 B!.C!. the Roman Navy under Agrippa defeated the combined fleets of Antony and Cleopatra, and within a year both had committed suicide!.

In 27 B!.C!., the Roman Senate granted Octavian the name Augustus, meaning “the exalted!.” They also gave him the legal power to rule Rome’s religious, civil and military affairs, with the Senate as an advisory body, effectively making him Emperor!.

Rome achieved great glory under Octavian/Augustus!. He restored peace after 100 years of civil war; maintained an honest government and a sound currency system; extended the highway system connecting Rome with its far-flung empire; developed an efficient postal service; fostered free trade among the provinces; and built many bridges, aqueducts and buildings adorned with beautiful works of art created in the classical style!. Literature flourished with writers including Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Livy all living under the emperor’s patronage!.

The empire expanded under Augustus with his generals subduing Spain, Gaul (now France), Panonia and Dalmatia (now parts of Hungary and Croatia)!. He annexed Egypt and most of southwestern Europe up to the Danube River!. After his death, the people the Roman Empire worshipped Augustus as a god!.

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