page_title: Cultural depictions of Augustus
hierarchical_section_title: Cultural depictions of Augustus
caption_attribution_description: English: The painting depicts (from right to left) the Roman Emperor Augustus, his sister Octavia the Younger, and his wife Livia listening to Virgil reading Book VI of the Aeneid. According to Aelius Donatus's biography of Virgil, when the poet read the lines about Octavia's son Marcellus who had died unexpectedly, Octavia fainted.
context_page_description: Caesar Augustus, also known as Octavian, was the first and among the most important of the Roman Emperors.
  Augustus' most visible impact on everyday culture is the eighth month of the year, which was renamed in Augustus' honor in 8 BC because several of the most significant events in his rise to power, culminating in the fall of Alexandria, occurred during this month.
context_section_description: Caesar Augustus (63 BC – AD 14), also known as Octavian, was the first and among the most important of the Roman Emperors.
  Augustus' most visible impact on everyday culture is the eighth month of the year, which was renamed in Augustus' honor in 8 BC because several of the most significant events in his rise to power, culminating in the fall of Alexandria, occurred during this month.
caption: Augustus listening to the reading of the Aeneid by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1814)
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