Augustus and the Birth of the Roman Empire, 27 BCE - 14 CE | Calm Bedtime History

It is the Ides of March, and the dictator Gaius Julius Caesar lies bleeding on the floor of the theatre of Pompey. The republic he had dominated convulses in shock. In his will, to the astonishment of the assassins, Caesar has named a great-nephew: Gaius Octavius, a sickly eighteen-year-old studying in Apollonia across the Adriatic. The boy will cross stormy seas to claim his inheritance. No one yet suspects what he will become.