History & The Arts
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
...c. 120 CE.] Map 2 Map of the Roman Empire in c. 120 CE showing the location of different provinces. Second, as it symbolised specifically Roman citizenship, the toga was, at the same time, a key emblem of Roman identity, a bit like the kilt for the Scots or the kimono for the Japanese today. This is why the poet Virgil called the Romans ‘the masters of the world, the...