Afterward, Mark Antony formed an alliance with Caesar 's lover, Cleopatra, intending to use the fabulously wealthy Egypt as a base to dominate Rome. A third civil war broke out between Octavian on one hand and Antony and Cleopatra on the other. This final civil war, culminating in the latter 's defeat at Actium, resulted in the permanent ascendancy of Octavian, who became the first Roman emperor, under the name Caesar Augustus, a name that raised him to the status of a deity.
who became emperor of rome after the death of caesar and the civil war
Octavian, who became the first Roman emperor, under the name Caesar Augustus