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Caesars Palace is a luxury hotel and ... View from Flamingo Road in 2012 The Winged Victory of Samothrace copy in the Caesars fountain. An expansion of the Forum ...
Augustus of Prima Porta. The Augustus of Prima Porta (Italian: Augusto di Prima Porta) is a full-length portrait statue of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. The statue was discovered on April 20, 1863, during archaeological excavations directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi at the Villa of Livia owned by Augustus' third and final wife, Livia Drusilla ...
Founded. Inauguration 18 August 29 BC. The Temple of Caesar or Temple of Divus Iulius (Latin: Aedes Divi Iuli; Italian: Tempio del Divo Giulio), also known as Temple of the Deified Julius Caesar, delubrum, heroon or Temple of the Comet Star, [1] is an ancient structure in the Roman Forum of Rome, Italy, located near the Regia and the Temple of ...
Coordinates: 45°26′03″N 12°20′23″E. Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs. Missing heel portion kept in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. The Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs is a porphyry sculpture group of four Roman emperors dating from around 300 AD. The sculptural group has been fixed to a corner of the façade of St Mark's Basilica in ...
The Twelve Caesars. De vita Caesarum (lit. 'On the Life of the Caesars') De vita Caesarum (Latin; lit. "About the Life of the Caesars"), commonly known as The Twelve Caesars or The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.
House of Augustus. The House of Augustus, or the Domus Augusti (not to be confused with the Domus Augustana), is situated on the Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy. This house has been identified as the primary place of residence for the emperor Augustus (r. 27 BC – AD 14). [1]
Cultural depictions of Augustus. The Augustus of Prima Porta, one of the best-preserved examples of a standard type of official portrait. Caesar Augustus (63 BC – AD 14), known as Octavian before he became emperor, was the first and among the most important of the Roman Emperors. As such, he has frequently been depicted in literature and art ...
Also in southern California, a resident of the Hancock Park neighbourhood in Los Angeles has decorated his house and grounds with twenty-three reduced scale replicas of the statue, all retaining different facial expressions. [13] A replica may be found at the "Appian Way Shops" at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. [14]