# Augustus Caesar — Leviathan character guide

> Augustus Caesar in Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Caesar

**First appearance:** 0003-part-i-of-man

## Who they are

First Roman emperor, used as an example of sovereign authority.

## In the story

### [Of Imagination](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leviathan_se/chapters/ii-of-imagination)

Referenced as the opponent Brutus faced at the Battle of Philippi.

### [Of Demonology, and Other Relics of the Religion of the Gentiles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leviathan_se/chapters/xlv-of-demonology-and-other-relics-of-the-religion-of-the-gentiles)

Noted for taking the office of Pontifex Maximus and the tribunician power, uniting supreme civil and religious authority.

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