Autun and Aosta all derive from Augustus. His head was on coins, and everywhere there were statues. But the British Museum's head is a head from no ordinary statue, it takes us into another story ...

With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a remarkable ...

Ovid’s playful poetry made him a favorite among Rome’s elite, but angered Emperor Augustus. Just as he was producing his finest work, Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD) was exiled to the darkest corner of ...

The Halsted curator Karen Manchester notes that the statue is an amalgam of two sculptures from different eras—the head from one made during the reign of Augustus (31BCE-14CE), and the body ...

An archaeologist determined that the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period, which lasted from 323 B.C. until 31 B.C., between the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of Augustus in Rome.

Autun and Aosta all derive from Augustus. His head was on coins, and everywhere there were statues. But the British Museum's head is a head from no ordinary statue, it takes us into another story ...