This brief final chapter examines Augustus’ attempts to fix his posthumous memory through his deathbed performance and his will. Suetonius and Cassius Dio report that the princeps left careful instructions for his funeral, a list of his accomplishments (the Res Gestae), and advice for future governance. On all these counts, however, audiences continued to modify the emperor’s plans and intervene in his public image. Augustus’ funeral procession, the Monumentum Ancyranum, and the object history of his bronze statue at Meroë illustrate audiences’ power over imperial signs even after the death of their author. This mirrors the co-authorial role and interpretive autonomy that subjects already enjoyed over images of the principate even during Augustus’ lifetime, as discussed throughout this study. This final chapter thereby confirms the poets’ and princeps’ shared dependence on their audiences, showing how this pivotal figure in world history remains the enduring, remarkably democratic collective creation of his subjects’ imaginations.