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under marble colonnades’ hush, gods wake in twilight’s gold: apollo strums, diana glows, vulcan’s embers flare, ceres blooms—soon jesus christ’s light dawns.

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"Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot deflect the superior powers, then I shall move the River Acheron." -The Aeneid
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Marble bust of a Roman statesman from the late 2nd century AD.
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Maison carrée, Nîmes, France, one of the best preserved Roman temples.
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Bust of Sulla.
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Pantheon, Rome.
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Marble head of Emperor Augustus, Louvre Abu Dhabi.
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Roman bronze sculpture showing Alexander the Great on horseback.
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The Portland Vase, crafted in Rome between AD 5 and 25.
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Augustus of Prima Porta.
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A bust of Agrippa.
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Manuel II Palaiologos.
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Head of Venus, 2nd century CE.
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1st-century fresco from the Villa di Arianna in Stabiae, depicting Flora or an allegory of spring.
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Portrait of the Roman Emperor Augustus.
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Newly photographed portrait of Mercury on this gorgeous Roman Republican denarius serratus. The coin was minted in 82 BC by the moneyer Gaius Mamilius Limetanus who, in typical fashion, claimed descent from Odysseus, and by extension his great-great grandfather, Mercury himself.
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Augustus at the tomb of Alexander the Great.
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Minerva by Jean Raoux (1730)
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Discovery of Nero crowned by his mother Agrippina, the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, Turkey, 1979
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The Tusculum Portrait of Julius Caesar.
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Hagia Sophia.
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Callipygian Venus.
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