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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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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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Maison carrée, Nîmes, France, one of the best preserved Roman temples.
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Roman bronze sculpture showing Alexander the Great on horseback.
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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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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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Bronze statuette of Jupiter
Roman, 2nd century AD, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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