Augustus

====Residences====

The official residence of Augustus was the ''[[Domus Augusti]]'' on the Palatine which he made into a palace after buying it in 41/40 BC.{{sfn|Suetonius||loc=''Augustus'' 72}} He had other residences such as the ''[[Gardens of Maecenas|horti maecenati]]'' in Rome where Augustus preferred to stay whenever he became ill and which Maecenas left to him in his will in 8 BC.  The great villa of [[Vedius Pollio]] at [[Posilipo]] near Naples was beqeathed (probably forced) to him in 15 BC.{{sfn|Cassius Dio|loc=Book LIV 23}}

Augustus built the [[Palazzo a Mare]] palace on [[Capri]].<ref>Ring, Trudy; Salkin, Robert M.; Boda, Sharon La (1 January 1996). International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe. Taylor & Francis. pp. 121–. {{ISBN|978-1-884964-02-2}}. Retrieved 5 July 2012.</ref> He also built the immense [[Villa Giulia (Naples)|Villa Giulia]] on the island of [[Ventotene]] as a summer residence early in his reign. The family home of Augustus was probably the villa at [[Somma Vesuviana]], [[Nola]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJAcZ8CWVMA | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211027/AJAcZ8CWVMA| archive-date=27 October 2021|title=Villa where Augustus probably died is unearthed |date=16 November 2016 |medium=Documentary |work=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=9 April 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> This was the location where he died and where his father also died.<ref>Tacitus, [[Annals (Tacitus)|The Annals]] 1.5</ref>