Ovid’s playful poetry made him a favorite among Rome’s elite, but angered Emperor Augustus. Just as he was producing his finest work, Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD) was exiled to the darkest corner of ...

The villa contains huge elaborate pillars, ancient pots known as amphora that likely held wine and even a statue of Dionysus ... the very villa in which the emperor Augustus (and before him ...

Our head comes from this time, a year or two after Augustus became emperor. It was once part of a full-length statue that showed him as a warrior, slightly larger than life-sized. It's broken off ...

Augustus was Rome’s first emperor. In so becoming, he dismantled the republic and founded a monarchy that would last for more than a millennium. In Rome, most aristocratic men were also senators ...

This head of the emperor Augustus was originally part of a statue in Egypt. The Romans used statues to remind the empire's largely illiterate population of the power of the emperor. Augustus is ...

In 2002, the University of Tokyo team and local archaeologists started work at the site and recovered many beautiful marble statues ... Roman emperor. After a long and prosperous reign, Augustus ...