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Art and Archaeology of Ancient Italy

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Author: Siena Failla

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Augustus of Prima Porta Cuirass, early 1st cent BCE, found in Villa of Livia Prima Porta, lots of mythical imagery and allusions, sphinx on shoulders (Egyptian imagery adopted to reference Mark Antony, Cleopatra, and the Battle of Actium), Caelus and Sol (Caelus holding up the sky) on top of the cuirass, central figures represent a Roman and a Parthian, Parthian is holding the Roman Standards, Augustus was able to retrieve the Standard (symbol of returning valor and strength to the Roman army), Apollo and Diana pictured (Apollo is Augustus's patron god, prayed to him for victory against Mark Antony)


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