With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a remarkable ...

By the time Augustus came ... of land near remote Roman forts. Rome was not always able to honor the important promise of land. In 14 AD, just after Tiberius had become emperor, a mutiny broke ...

Ovid’s playful poetry made him a favorite among Rome’s elite, but angered Emperor Augustus. Just as he was ... A good start in life Like many Roman writers, Ovid was born outside Rome, to ...

The Halsted Athena, Roman, first half of the 1st century ... The head, carved during the reign of Emperor Augustus (31 BC-14 CE), has been joined with a body dating to the time of Emperor Claudius ...

The forgotten statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ancient Greece.

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman ... that the statue is an amalgam of two sculptures from different eras—the head from one made during the reign of Augustus (31BCE ...

This is the Emperor Augustus. He has recently ... part of Rome - and then turned the Roman Republic into his personal empire. Across that empire, statues of the new ruler would now be erected.

A large bronze statue would most likely ... A coin found deep in the well portrays the emperor Augustus and the letters “VAR” for the vanquished Roman general Quintilius Varus.(© ...

This is the Emperor Augustus. He has recently ... part of Rome - and then turned the Roman Republic into his personal empire. Across that empire, statues of the new ruler would now be erected.