Augustan Roman Fashion Relating to the Aeneid

Statue of a Young Woman Wearing a Peplos - Roman Copy of a Hellenistic Original

Rome, Museo Montemartini (Capitoline Museums). Credits: Barbara McManus, 2003

Altar of the Gens Augusta from Carthage; Roman, c. 14 CE

The first side depicts Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius leaving Troy; this scene is thought to imitate the statue group in the Forum of Augustus, with the addition of a gnarled tree with a bull's skull in its fork.

The third side depicts the goddess Roma seated on a pile of arms, reminiscent of the Roman panel on the Ara Pacis. Here she holds a pillar on which a winged Victory has just placed a shield, the clipeus virtutis; on the left is an altar with a large cornucopia, caduceus, and globe.

This altar was built by the freedman P. Perelius Hedulus in a sacred precinct on his private property
Tunis, Bardo Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2010

Marble Statue Group of Bacchus and Spes, Roman, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, c. 27-68 CE

The god of wine leans on an statue of the allegorical goddess Spes (Hope), who has a high headdress and long sausage curls; she holds a flower in her right hand and lifts up the side of her tunic with her left hand, as shown on coins. The group has extensive restorations by the eighteenth-century Italian sculptor Vincenzo Pacetti--the legs, feet, neck, and arms of Bacchus and and the feet and arms of Spes; the head of Bacchus is ancient but does not belong to this statue group.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2012

These are just some examples.It's quite hard to identify specific Augustan clothing from other Roman eras. This is particularly because the dates on many of the statues and such art have quite large time frames. However, because I am creating costumes from the Aeneid my designs can be a mixture of Augustan/ other Roman eras and Bronze Age Greek (which is also hard to identify) because I Virgil was invisioning a fantasy which I can incorporate creative licence. 

All information and images was copied from http://www.vroma.org. This is because I couldn't describe the images better than their existing descriptions.They are an organisation with the best supply of images of various Roman and Greek artefacts I have found. Their Project Co-Directors are Barbara F. McManus (The College of New Rochelle) and Suzanne Bonefas (Rhodes College) and their Web Designers are Barbara F. McManus and Daniel Jung (University of Bergen).