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Laurens wasn’t just painting the past ... and Ovid — a Rome shaped by Augustus Caesar. If Honorius marked the empire’s decline, Augustus announced its ascent. As Rome’s first emperor ...

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. announced today that it will lend major works from its collection to 10 regional museums across the country in 2025 and 2026 as part of a new ...

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(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images ... Following the deaths of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, the victorious Octavian changed his name to Augustus Caesar and assumed sole control of ...

The world does not need another general biography of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor from 31 BC till his death in AD 14, unless it has something special to offer. Anthony Everitt’s selling point is ...