List of Illustrations.

List of Maps.

1. Augustus’ Career in Overview: The Res Gestae.

2. Modest Origins, Powerful Relatives.

3. Seizing Power and Legalizing Usurpation.

4. The Triumvirate: Dictatorship Sanctioned by Law.

5. The Path to Formal Legitimation as a Ruler.

6. The Final Battles for Power: Actium and Alexandria.

7. A New Political Order: The Principate Takes Shape.

8. The Principate Develops Further.

9. The Princeps and the Roman Elite.

10. The Practical Implementation of Political Power: Governing the Empire.

11. Shaping the Lives of Men.

12. A Standing Army.

13. War and Peace: Expanding the Empire.

14. Rome, the Augustan City.

15. The Quest for Political Continuity: The Succession.

16. Augustus’ Death and the Future of the Empire.

Time Line.

Appendix: The Res Gestae of Augustus.

The Res Gestae of Augustus by Sarolta A. Takács.

Select Bibliography.

Index