Carinus…another of the later Roman Emperors who was a victim of unsubstantiated and scurrilous historiography generated via the supporters of his successor Dicoletian and later regimes, as embodied in the Scriptores Historiae Augustae
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So called “Alexander Rondanini”. Ancient copy, the original belongs to a group created by Euphranor: King Philip of Macedon on his chariot lead by 4 horses; his son Alexander, taking on the chariot, holds the reins in both hands (armor and garb added the copist). Creation of the group after the Battle of Chaeronea, 338 BC.
Courtesy & currently located at the Glyptothek, Munich, Germany. Photo taken by Bibi Saint-Pol
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The Oath of Spartacus,
Louis-Ernest Barrias, 1871
Jardins des Tuileries, Paris
Roman head of a goddess, 2nd century AD. Height: 40 cm. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey.