[swain_forkbeard]

“it’s the Prima Porta statue of the Roman emperor Augustus.”

Yes, but it’s in the Greek style and may have been sculpted by a Greek.

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, as Vergil tells them in the Aeneid, the Romans' job is to rule...they tended to outsource things like art and philosophy to the Greeks. They did like having some Greek statues around their villas--a lot of the famous examples of Greek art were found in Italy.