{"id":101021,"date":"2026-06-20T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101021"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:19:51","slug":"caesar-augustus-the-man-and-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/20\/caesar-augustus-the-man-and-his-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Caesar Augustus &#8211; The man and his story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PM-gSDR6lw0?si=cZtL9cyOf2adsRD8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 28 Jan 2026<\/p>\n<p>An overview of the career of the man who became Rome&#8217;s first <em>princeps<\/em> (or emperor as we would call him). Heir to Julius Caesar&#8217;s private estate, he somehow managed to make himself Caesar&#8217;s adopted son and political successor, plunging himself into Rome&#8217;s violent politics at the age of just nineteen and in turn beating all his rivals. Supreme master of the Roman empire in his early thirties, he then ruled for four decades, profoundly changing Rome, its empire &mdash; and by extension shaping the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>My biography of the man &mdash; <em>Augustus: First Emperor of Rome<\/em> is being released as a new edition from Basic Books in the USA on 27th January 2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Published 28 Jan 2026 An overview of the career of the man who became Rome&#8217;s first princeps (or emperor as we would call him). Heir to Julius Caesar&#8217;s private estate, he somehow managed to make himself Caesar&#8217;s adopted son and political successor, plunging himself into Rome&#8217;s violent politics at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,7],"tags":[1566,1340,1391,1111,1343,1345,553],"class_list":["post-101021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","tag-adriangoldsworthy","tag-augustus","tag-biography","tag-juliuscaesar","tag-romanempire","tag-romanrepublic","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qhn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101025,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101021\/revisions\/101025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}