Statue of Emperor Caesar Augustus

The character known to the Elizabethans as the Machiavel, someone out to secure power by any means, appears as Iago (Othello), Edmund (King Lear), and Claudius (Hamlet), and in Augustus Caesar (in Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and even in the background of Cymbeline). This statue of the first Roman Emperor Augustus (r. 27 BC - 14 AD) as a younger Octavian (or Octavius as he would be in Julius Caesar), can be dated to around 30 BC. It is located in the Museo Capitolino of Rome, Italy. Picture and some data courtesy of the Yorck Project, under Creative Commons Attribution-Share- Alike License (Wikipedia). The relevance of Machiavelli to Caesar (and Richard III) is made explicit in the Prologue to Marlowe's play The Jew of Malta, spoken by Machiavelli himselF:

Many will talk of title to a crown.
What right had Caesar to the empire?
Might first made kings, and laws were then most sure
When, like the Draco's, they were writ in blood. (18-22).