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Augustus had outlived his preferred heirs - his two grandsons. So when he died, it was his son-in-law, Tiberius, who became emperor. Tiberius knew he was not first choice. So did everybody else.
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 ...
After a months-long legal battle, the sculpture is on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art ahead of its repatriation to Turkey ...
The emperor's statue has disappeared ... or an even older one drawn by Agrippa, aide-de-camp to Augustus, at the dawn of Roman dominance. Whatever its origins, the Table of Peutinger, as it ...
It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and marble ... which began in 27 B.C.E. with the reign ...
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.
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.