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Nola is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, southern Italy. It lies on the plain between Mount Vesuvius and the Apennines. It is traditionally credited as the diocese that
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Samnite soldiers from a tomb in Nola 4th century BC
Greek vase showing Theseus and Prokroustes, from Nola 470–460 BC (Staatliche Antikensammlung, Munich)
A 2nd-century bronze parade mask from a Roman tomb at Nola (British Museum)
Gaius Octavius was a Roman politician. He was an ancestor to the Roman emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was the biological father of the Emperor Augustus, step-grandfather of the Emperor Tib
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…including the amphitheatre. The emperor Augustus died nearby at his sumptuous villa at Somma Vesuviana on 19 August AD 14, in allegedly the same room his father died in 72 years earlier. Augustus and Vespasian settled colonies in the area. In the Roman road network, Nola lay between Capua and Lower Nocera on…
Head of statue, thought to be Gaius Octavius
Head of statue, thought to be Gaius Octavius, father of Octavian, c. 60 BC, Munich Glyptothek
Atia from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum