> Octavian, Ceaser was already dead by this point... Only his enemies referred to him as Octavian. He referred to himself as Caesar as did all his men, and lat

> Octavian, Ceaser was already dead by this point... Only his enemies referred to him as Octavian. He referred to himself as Caesar as did all his men, and later Romans. >one or two particular rulers didn't have that much effect on the long term. Augustus as he became known was probably the single most consequential ruler in Rome. He was the transition between the upheaval of the Roman Revolution at the end of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Without Augustus, it is likely that Rome would have continually been racked by civil wars. The disaster of the 2nd century where Rome bled itself dry in a series of civil wars would likely have been moved up. If Antony and Cleopatra had won, I think what we saw later as the East/West split with the Eastern capital at Constantinople may have happened much earlier with the Eastern capital at Alexandria.