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Portrait of Augustus as pontifex maximus, from the Via Labicana

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Description: Portrait of Augustus as pontifex maximus, from the Via Labicana
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Description: Roman Sculpture
~The man known to history as Augustus was born Gaius Octavius in Rome on 23 September 63 B.C. He was the son of Gaius Octavius and Atia, the niece of Julius Caesar. Octavian’s proximity to Caesar gave him early training in public life. At the...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.59-117
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00185.003
Description: Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome
When the Greek historian Polybius set out, in the middle of the second century BC, to satisfy such healthy curiosity he was writing for a Greek public that must have been amazed to see the citizens of a small town half-way up the coast of Italy conquering first the western and then the eastern Mediterranean. The Greeks had always thought that if they were good at anything it was at building successful cities...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.162-216
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00031.008

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