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- Julius Caesar. Admittedly Julius Caesar is better known to history as the penetrated rather than the penetrator. Sexually speaking, however, he was both.
- Augustus. Despite his sexual proclivities being so similar to his predecessor’s, Caesar’s successor, Octavian, enjoyed a much better reputation. Throughout his life Augustus (or Octavian as he was called prior to becoming emperor) used sex in a thoroughly Roman way: as a means of obtaining power.
- Tiberius. Among the pantheon of the early Roman emperors, Tiberius hold pride of place as the most perverted. As a young man, amidst the prying eyes of the capital, he was relatively restrained.
- Caligula. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (known to history as “Caligula” or “little boots” after the military attire his father paraded him in as an infant) had an upbringing that condemned him to cruelty and depravity.
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- Cleopatra, love and death
Known for initiating two centuries of peace in Rome, Augustus Caesar’s rise to political power was anything but amicable.
A marble bust of Roman emperor Augustus Caesar.
As Rome’s first emperor, Octavian (Augustus Caesar) (63 B.C.–A.D. 14) is best known for initiating the Pax Romana, a largely peaceful period of two centuries in which Rome imposed order on a world long convulsed by conflict. His rise to power, however, was anything but peaceful.
Octavian was only 18 years old when his great-uncle Julius Caesar named him heir. After Caesar was assassinated, Octavian forged an alliance with Mark Antony, famed general under Caesar, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Together they eliminated political opponents. Antony pursued Caesar’s assassins to Greece, defeating them at Philippi in 42 B.C.
From Greece, Antony ruled Rome’s wealthy eastern provinces. But Octavian and Antony turned from allies to adversaries. Antony entered a scandalous affair with Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. He had children by Cleopatra and acknowledged Julius Caesar’s son, Caesarion, as Caesar’s true heir in defiance of Octavian’s claim. Octavian denounced Antony as a man in the thrall of a foreign queen and waged war on the couple. When their fleet was defeated by the Romans at Actium in 31 B.C., Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide. (Follow Mark Antony and Cleopatra's decadent love affair.)
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She may have beguiled two of Rome’s most powerful men, but Cleopatra, herself a feared monarch, was far more than a pretty face. Through her Ptolemaic forebears, Cleopatra was Greek, and her capital, Alexandria, was the epitome of Hellenism. She spoke Greek but showed her Egyptian roots by learning the local language and worshipping Egyptian gods. (Here's how archaeologists are searching for the true face—and the burial place—of Cleopatra.)
Cleopatra seduced Julius Caesar to gain his help in reclaiming the throne from her brother Ptolemy XIII. After Caesar’s assassination, she next wooed Roman power in the form of Mark Antony. But Roman emperor Octavian brought that romance to a fatal end. Cleopatra’s suicide in 30 B.C.—purportedly via snakebite—marked the end of the Ptolemaic era in Egypt but the start of an enduring obsession with the fabled queen.
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