[The Death of Caesar, 1798, oil on canvas, Vincenzo Camuccini, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples]
“Togas, however, were the formal, national dress: Romans could define themselves as the gens togata, ‘the race that wears the toga’, while some contemporary outsiders occasionally laughed at this strange, cumbersome garment.”
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Mary Beard











