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Venerating Antiquity: Rome - Tempio di Minerva Medica
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Art, Archaeology and Mythology come to life through travel. Saturday, February 28, 2009. Rome - Tempio di Minerva Medica. It was days later that I found out what it actually was, thanks to my expansive Rome bus route map that I had picked up at the station. There it was, staring me right in the face - a little picture of the dome marked the “. One of my favorite deities, is the Italian goddess of wisdom and warriors who corresponds to the Greek goddess Athena. In this instance, being named. Welcome to my...
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Venerating Antiquity: Rome - Tiber Island & the Temple of Aesculapius
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Art, Archaeology and Mythology come to life through travel. Sunday, March 8, 2009. Rome - Tiber Island and the Temple of Aesculapius. Sitting atop Rome’s only river, the river Tiber, is a small boat-shaped land mass called Isola Tiberina. Due to its negative connotations, Tiber Island grew to become a place of condemnation for the city's worst criminals. But in 300 BC, when the plague struck Rome, it turned into an island of containment for the city's contagiously sick and dying. The temple was inaugurat...
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Venerating Antiquity: Rome - La Porta Magica (The Magic Door)
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Art, Archaeology and Mythology come to life through travel. Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Rome - La Porta Magica (The Magic Door). In 1873, demolition on the villa began in order to make room for the new public square of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele. Hidden from the outside view, was discovered when an exterior wall of the villa was knocked down. Upon inspection, the door itself was found to be “magically” sealed shut, possibly by the esoteric inscriptions that it boasts, and could not be opened&...While we ...
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Venerating Antiquity: February 2009
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Art, Archaeology and Mythology come to life through travel. Saturday, February 28, 2009. Rome - Tempio di Minerva Medica. It was days later that I found out what it actually was, thanks to my expansive Rome bus route map that I had picked up at the station. There it was, staring me right in the face - a little picture of the dome marked the “. One of my favorite deities, is the Italian goddess of wisdom and warriors who corresponds to the Greek goddess Athena. In this instance, being named. Or “the...
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Venerating Antiquity: Aesculapius, God of Healing & Medicine
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Art, Archaeology and Mythology come to life through travel. Thursday, March 12, 2009. Aesculapius, God of Healing and Medicine. Photo from the Botanical Gardens in Palermo, Sicily. As the Romans called him, was known to all as the father of medicine. According to writings as far back as 1500 BC, he was the child of the god Apollo. It is believed that around 1237 BC, Zeus killed Aesculapius with a thunderbolt because he had revived the dead, thus threatening the laws of the major deities. Who saw how the ...
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Venerating Antiquity: March 2009
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Art, Archaeology and Mythology come to life through travel. Sunday, March 22, 2009. Rome - Truth Unveiled by Time. This week I have decided to switch it up a bit and write about a piece that has recently inspired me. I’m going to fast-forward through Classical times for this post to the times of the Italian Renaissance and introduce you to “ La Verita Scoperta dal Tempo. 8221; or The Truth Unveiled by Time. Sculpted in 1645 by the leading artist of the Renaissance period, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. This was B...
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Venerating Antiquity: Rome - Truth Unveiled by Time
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Art, Archaeology and Mythology come to life through travel. Sunday, March 22, 2009. Rome - Truth Unveiled by Time. This week I have decided to switch it up a bit and write about a piece that has recently inspired me. I’m going to fast-forward through Classical times for this post to the times of the Italian Renaissance and introduce you to “ La Verita Scoperta dal Tempo. 8221; or The Truth Unveiled by Time. Sculpted in 1645 by the leading artist of the Renaissance period, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. This was B...