Augustus' career in overview : the res gestae
Modest origins, powerful relatives
Seizing power and legalizing usurpation
The triumvirate : dictatorship sanctioned by law
The path to formal legitimation as a ruler
The final battles for power : Actium and Alexandria
A new political order : the principate takes shape
The principate develops further
The princeps and the Roman elite
The practical implementation of political power : governing the empire
Shaping the lives of men
A standing army
War and peace : expanding the empire
Rome, the Augustan city
The quest for political continuity: the succession
Augustus' death and the future of the empire.