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    The Mausoleum of Augustus (Latin: Mausoleum Augusti; Italian: Mausoleo di Augusto) is a large tomb built by the Roman Emperor Augustus in 28 BC on the...
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    rostra. Augustus's body was coffin-bound and cremated on a pyre close to his mausoleum. It was proclaimed that Augustus joined the company of the gods...
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    Italy. He would be the first member of the imperial family whose ashes were placed in the Mausoleum of Augustus. Despite dying at a young age, Marcellus'...
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    the fascist regime to enhance the Mausoleum of Augustus. The demolitions of buildings around the Mausoleum of Augustus began in 1934, following the Rome...
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    BC) was the niece of Julius Caesar (through his sister Julia Minor), and mother of Gaius Octavius, who became the Emperor Augustus. Through her daughter...
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    Batthyány's Mausoleum in Budapest, Hungary Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, Italy. Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome, Italy Pantheon, Rome in Italy Mausoleum of Theodoric...
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    However, the emperor was cremated, and his ashes were placed in the Mausoleum of Augustus. In his will, Tiberius nominated Caligula and Tiberius Gemellus...
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    August 2 AD) was a grandson of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. The son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder, Augustus' only daughter, Lucius...
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    Augustus D. Juilliard (/ˈdʒuːli.ɑːrd/ JOO-lee-ard, French: [ʒɥijaʁ]; April 19, 1836 – April 25, 1919) was an American businessman and philanthropist, born...
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    Anna Maria (1995). "A Garden of Statues and Marbles: The Soderini Collection in the Mausoleum of Augustus" (PDF). Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes...
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    Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (category Burials at the Mausoleum of Augustus)
    Augustus oversaw the education of Agrippa's children. Agrippa had built a tomb for himself but Augustus had Agrippa's remains placed in the Mausoleum...
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    similar to the Mausoleum of Augustus erected by the first Roman Emperor Augustus in Ancient Rome. Augustus began constructing his mausoleum between 29 BC-27...
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    age of military service to be hung in the Senate House. The caskets containing their ashes were stored in the Mausoleum of Augustus alongside those of their...
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    port of Ostia. There, they were transferred back onto barges and pulled up the Tiber River to Rome. After being unloaded near the Mausoleum of Augustus, the...
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    Agrippina the Elder (category Burials at the Mausoleum of Augustus)
    ashes to Rome where they were interred at the Mausoleum of Augustus. Agrippina was vocal in claims of her husband being murdered in order to promote...
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    The Mausoleum of Hadrian, also known as Castel Sant'Angelo (Italian pronunciation: [kaˈstɛl sanˈtandʒelo]; English: Castle of the Holy Angel), is a towering...
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    then placed in the Mausoleum of Augustus. Caligula lived with his mother Agrippina in Rome, in a milieu very different from that of his earlier years....
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    great-granddaughter of Emperor Augustus, great-niece and adoptive granddaughter of the Emperor Tiberius, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece of the Emperor Claudius...
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    Livia (category Burials at the Mausoleum of Augustus)
    the wife of emperor Augustus. She was known as Julia Augusta after her formal adoption into the Julian family in AD 14. Livia was the daughter of senator...
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    Nero Claudius Drusus (category Burials at the Mausoleum of Augustus)
    was brought back to the city, and his ashes were deposited in the Mausoleum of Augustus. He remained extremely popular with the legionaries, who erected...
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    Britannicus (category Children of Claudius)
    poisoned but died of a seizure. Britannicus was cremated and his ashes placed with those of his father in the Mausoleum of Augustus. Nero held his funeral...
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    May 2018. Powell, Lindsay (2015). Marcus Agrippa: Right-hand Man of Caesar Augustus. Pen and Sword. p. 198. ISBN 978-1473854017. Retrieved 21 May 2018...
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    universality of the accusations in ancient texts lends credence to the crime. Claudius's ashes were interred in the Mausoleum of Augustus on 24 October...
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    day of reflection. The Mausoleum of Augustus measured 90 m (295 ft) in diameter by 42 m (137 ft) in height. The tomb was placed at the centre of a public...
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    The seven hills of Rome (Latin: Septem colles/montes Romae, Italian: Sette colli di Roma [ˈsɛtte ˈkɔlli di ˈroːma]) east of the river Tiber form the geographical...
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    monumental stairway of 135 steps is linked with the Trinità dei Monti church under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, at the top of the steps, and...
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    Drusus Julius Caesar (category Burials at the Mausoleum of Augustus)
    was interred in the Mausoleum of Augustus, alongside other deceased members of the imperial family. Like Germanicus, stories of poison abounded, with...
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    Drusus Caesar (category Burials at the Mausoleum of Augustus)
    considered a potential heir by Augustus, but Augustus later decided in favor of his stepson Tiberius. As a result, in June AD 4, Augustus adopted Tiberius on the...
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    Regio IX Circus Flaminius (category Topography of the ancient city of Rome)
    limits of the city. Chief amongst these was the Mausoleum of Augustus, built to house the remains of the emperor and his family. This mausoleum also included...
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    Mausoleum of Augustus. Drusus delivered one funeral oration from the rostra and Augustus gave her the highest posthumous honors (building the Gate of...
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