A digital reconstruction of the appearance of Augustus as he may have looked in the late 30's BCE, This hypothesis is based upon sculptural and literary evidence. By Kallistos Alexandros LINKS TO SITES ABOUT AUGUSTUS Augustus continues to fascinate the world. There are many excellent sites on the web devoted to studying him. I list some of the best here. De Imperatoribus Romanis Augustus Caesar and the Pax Romana Octavian / Augustus Augustus and the Roman army—Mutual Loyalty and Rewards Augustus at BBC History Augustus Wikipedi   I hope that for all those interested in the life of one of the greatest men in our history this shall provide a starting place to learn. These are but a few of the places to meet The Divine Augustus; there are many more. He was a part of the shaping of the society in which you now live. His story is an integral part of your story. It is all related to you, to who you are and where you are and what you are.

PRINCEPS PAR EXCELLENCE That September morning just before the sun rose, Atia bore her second child. This time it was a boy who would bear the same name as his father and his father’s father before him, Caius Octavius. It was by our reckoning the twenty third day of September, 63 BCE. The infant Atia bore would live for seventy seven years, eleven months, and nineteen days and would forever more be called, Augustus. His beginnings were not extremely auspicious. His father was a wealthy equestrian newly of senatorial rank and still to be considered a ‘new man”. On his mother’s side he was related to the Iulii, the oldest and most noble of Roman families. They were descended from Anaeus and therefore from the goddess, Venus. It was not at all a remarkable beginning for any upper class boy of his time and yet the tapestry of this life woven by Clotho, the weaver of the fates, was so singular as to stay the hand of Atropos, who cuts the thread of life. For more than seventy seven years Atropos watched with interest as her sister wove the extraordinary life of Imperator Caesar Augustus, Princeps Par Excellence. The tapestry can still be read. It is very old; some parts are obscure and others missing altogether, but the tale is still there for those who wish to read it. Historians have written many books about this life and archaeologists have uncovered artifacts and inscriptions which illuminate the narrative. It is a great tale which interweaves the lives of all the mighty and famous of the time at the beginning of The Roman Empire which would last in one form or another until the days of Columbus who discovered a new world. THE FOLLOWING IS A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE STUDY OF THE LIFE OF CAESAR AUGUSTUS AS PUBLISHED BY WIKIPEDIA • Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Participate, edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Mark Toher. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993 (paperback, ISBN 0-520-08447-0). • The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World). Edited by Karl Galinsky. Cambridge, MA; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005 (hardcover, ISBN 0-521-80796-4; paperback, ISBN 0-521-00393-8). • Eck, Werner; Takács, Sarolta A. The Age of Augustus. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003 (hardcover, ISBN 0-631-22957-4); 2004 (paperback, ISBN 0-631-22958-2). • Everitt, Anthony. Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor. New York: Random House, 2006 (hardcover, ISBN 1-4000-6128-8). As The First Emperor: Caesar Augustus and the Triumph of Rome. London: John Murray, 2006 (hardcover, ISBN 0719554942). • Reviewed by Alex Butterworth in The Guardian, December 23, 2006. • Galinsky, Karl. Augustan Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998 (paperback, ISBN 0-691-05890-3). • Green, Peter. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (Hellenistic Culture and Society). Berkeley, CA; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1990 (hardcover, ISBN 0-520-05611-6); 1993 (paperback, ISBN 0-520-08349-0). • Jones, A.H.M. "The Imperium of Augustus", The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 41, Parts 1 and 2. (1951), pp. 112–119. • Jones, A.H.M. Augustus. London: Chatto & Windus, 1970 (paperback, ISBN 0-7011-1626-9). • Osgood, Josiah. Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press (USA), 2006 (hardback, ISBN 0-521-85582-9; paperback, ISBN 0-521-67177-9). • Southern, Pat. Augustus (Roman Imperial Biographies). New York: Routledge, 1998 (hardcover, ISBN 0-415-16631-4); 2001 (paperback, ISBN 0-415-25855-3). • Reinhold, Meyer. The Golden Age of Augustus (Aspects of Antiquity). Toronto, ON: Univ of Toronto Press, 1978 (hardcover, ISBN 0-89522-007-5; paperback, ISBN 0-89522-008-3). • Scullard, H.H. From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 86. London; New York: Routledge, 2003 (paperback, ISBN 0-415-02527-3). • Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1989 (hardcover, ISBN 0-472-10101-3); 1990 (paperback, ISBN 0-472-08124-1) These are some of the books which help you to read the tapestry of the life of Augustus. They are all available to you at AMAZON BOOKS