It may also have been where Augustus' biological father – Gaius Octavius – died, according to Dr Andrew Sillett, a classics lecturer at the University of Oxford, who is not involved with the ...

Octavius also convinced Tiberius Senior ... Agrippa too was buried in the Mausoleum of Augustus. The very young Gaius was given a command in the eastern provinces in 1 BCE, and he was made consul ...

Until Gaius Octavius took power, becoming the first emperor, Emperor Augustus, which is when the republic became an empire. The senate still gave advice, but the emperor, rather than the people ...