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Made from highest quality Carrara Marble with genuine bronze plated armor, this Caesar Augustus bust is sure to illuminate almost any room. The original bust was made from marble and was done after his death.

Caesar Augustus became the first Roman emperor after the republic was destroyed by the dictatorship of his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar. His autocratic regime is known as the principate because he was the princeps, the first citizen, at the head of that array of outwardly revived republican institutions that alone made his autocracy palatable. With unlimited patience, skill, and efficiency, he overhauled every aspect of Roman life and brought durable peace and prosperity to the Greco-Roman world.

Caesar Augustus was born Gaius Octavius on September 23, 63 BC to a prosperous family that had long been settled in Velitrae (southeast of Rome). His father, who died in 59 BC, had been the first of the family to become a Roman senator and was elected to the high annual office of the praetorship, which ranked second in the political hierarchy to the consulship. His mother, Atia, was the daughter of Julia, the sister of Julius Caesar. It was Caesar who launched the young Octavius in Roman public life. At the age of 12 he made his debut by delivering the funeral speech for his grandmother Julia. In 46 he accompanied Caesar, now dictator, in his triumphal procession after his victory in Africa over his opponents in the Civil War. He was at Apollonia (modern day Albania) completing his academic and military studies when, in 44 BC, he learned that Julius Caesar had been murdered.