Teatro di Marcello

Teatro di Marcello, originally uploaded by Jarod Carruthers.

The theatre was begun by Julius Caesar, but finished by Augustus, the first of Rome's emperors, who claimed that he had found Rome in clay and left it in marble. He dedicated the theatre to his favourite nephew Marcellus. Instead of inheriting Augustus's empire, Marcellus died young and was the first to be laid in Augustus's mausoleum.