Ajax On A Large Mount Augustus the generals Pescennius Niger and

the generals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus

Madame Recamier

In 27 BC the Senate awarded him the honorific Augustus ("the revered one")

believed to have been one of the main inspirations for the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) when he wrote his immortal "Ode on a Grecian Urn" in 1819:

It is dedicated to the deified Vespasian and his son

Ajax On A Large Mount Augustus the generals Pescennius Niger andAjax, a bust, on a large mount, after Gian Lorenzo Bernini, italian, 1660. Ajax was ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as "Ajax the Great". The original was looted by Napoleon and is now in the Vatican collection. 57 cm tall.