Tuesday, October 2, 2018

This May Be the Best Monument to Caesar Augustus

Reputedly, the last public words of Caesar Augustus were ‘Behold, I found Rome of clay, and leave her to you of marble.’ Augustus also left us a magnificent, exquisitely carved cameo whose double-narrative all but deifies him.



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