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The political evolution of Augustus was promptly reflected in official art, as evidenced by the series of imperial portraits. Typical features of his portraits are the steady eyes, the straight nose, the rather hollowed face, the well-pronounced cheekbones, the thin mouth, and a lock of hair "with a pincer" on the right side of the forehead.
Augustus is a supporting character in Margaret George's 1997 novel The Memoirs of Cleopatra. Augustus is a significant figure in Edward Burton's 1999 historical novel Caesar's Daughter. Augustus, under the name of Gaius Octavius, plays a key role in the last two novels in Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series.
It is done similar to the Augustus of Prima Porta, also held in the Capitoline's collection. A bust of a similar style is present in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , with a characteristic style called the " Forbes type", which maintains a motif of comma-shaped locks brushed to one side of the forehead.
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The Deeds of the Divine Augustus) is a monumental inscription composed by the first Roman emperor, Augustus, giving a first-person record of his life and accomplishments. [1] The Res Gestae is especially significant because it gives an insight into the image Augustus presented to the Roman people.