Baron Von Steuben Friedrich Wilhelm Augustus von Steuben was born to a military family in the Prussian garrison town of Magdeburg in 1730. King Friedrich Wilhelm II was one of his godfathers, which indicated that the family stood high in royal favor at that time (Lockhart 2)
The Campus was a busy place, a place where the remains of Augustus would have been a constant reminder of a once great emperor. The view from Augustus' Mausoleum is looking out upon the garden side of the Campus Martius, not the city side (Lanciani; 1897)
153). The area around Augustus' Mausoleum has the remains of other monuments and places dedicated to emperors and gods (Robathan, 1950)
I built the theatre which was to bear the name of my son-in-law M. Marcellus (Sear, 1998, p
The Funeral According to historian and author Beth Severy (2003), Caesar Augustus, himself, made the arrangements for his funeral. The funeral itself was meant to convey to the people, and certainly to the Roman leaders and, of course, his two main heirs, Tiberius, who would succeed him as Emperor of Rome; and Tiberius' wife, Livia, who actually inherited parts of the government through the will of Augustus (Severy, 2003)
From an aerial shot, we see that the Campus Marius is large, and that there were at one time many monuments, and that Augustus' mausoleum was probably one of the largest structures. The mausoleum, it is believed in some scholarly circles, was built about the same time as was the Temple of Apollo, next to Augustus' house (Southern, 1998)
E.), was once described by Aristotle as being much more than a statue, for it had "manifested sculpture itself and stands as the embodiment of proportional rationality" for all Greek sculpture of the period (Chase, 1987, 156)
, is an outstanding example of "the sedate, idealized manner now recognized as Augustan," a reference to the Roman emperor Augustus of the early Roman Empire period. Thus, this marble statue symbolizes Augustus "proclaiming a diplomatic victory to the citizens of Rome" (Kjellberg, 1968, 245)