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By Künker GmbH ......   Orders and medals from the estate of the Silesian line of the House of Württemberg as well as a spectacular private

Caesar Augustus loved his family, and his penchant for monumentality manifested this on a grand scale.

The hall was once owned by a Roman Knight and passed down to Emperor Augustus.

The villa was built by Publius Vedius Pollio in the first century BCE.

Researchers have unearthed an ancient Roman mosaic in a luxury seaside villa at Posillipo that once furnished the living room of a horrendous human who fed slaves to parasitic worms!

The enduring fascination of a monstrous and brilliant society Toward the end of  SPQR, her survey of ancient Roman history, Mary Beard writes, “I no longer think, as I once naively did, that we have much to learn directly  from the Romans—or, for that matter, from the ancient Greeks, or from any other ancient civilization.” Quite an admission, this, on the part of an English classicist who has spent the better part of her adult her life acquiring as much knowledge as possible about Ro...