2: Augustus: First of the Emperors | I, Caesar

Duration: 48'58''

Synopsis

In 44 BC, a teenage relative of Julius Caesar stepped in and triumphed over Mark Antony and Cleopatra in a brutal civil war, becoming Rome's first Emperor.

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