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Posted: 01 Jul 2024

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The famous Augustus of Prima Porta -- every inch a confident leader
and close to god
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The most important sculpture image of the emperor is known as Augustus of Prima Porta. In a way that is strikingly reminiscent of Polycleitus’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polykleitos ‘Doryphorus,’ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doryphoros#:~:text=The%20Doryphoros%20(Greek%20%CE%94%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%85%CF%86%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82%20Classical,balanced%20on%20his%20left%20shoulder. The greatness of the emperor is expressed through a godlike beauty that is at the same time physical and mental, as indicated by Augustus’s firm yet calm and confident demeanor – a demeanor to which a sp[ecial touch has been added: the raised arm typical of an orator. Why is the detail so important? To answer, we have to return against to the Greeks, who since the time of Homer, had always deemed oratory a political necessity, especially among military leaders, who in order to encourage their soldiers to face death with dignity, had to remind them of the eternal glory of their sacrifice would earn them. ~ Page 132

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