Augustus — First Emperor of Rome

He found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble. He ended a century of civil war, created the Roman peace that would last two hundred years, reformed the calendar, reorganized the army, built the Pantheon, and ruled so skillfully that the Romans never noticed they had traded their republic for an empire. Augustus Caesar was the greatest political genius in the ancient world — and he never once called himself king. He called himself Princeps: first citizen. It was the perfect con. It lasted five hundred years.

These signs carry the Prima Porta Augustus, the laurel wreath of victory, the breastplate of divine authority, and the Pax Romana that he gave the world.