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    The Victoria Romana from Hadrian's Library (Greek: Νίκη της Βιβλιοθήκης του Αδριανού) is a large sculpture of the Greek goddess of victory Nike (known...
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    portal Ancient Greece portal Visual arts portal Athena Nike Victoria Romana (Hadrian's Library) Nike Fixing her Sandal Nike of Paros "Nike of Paionios"....
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    marble statues found in Greece include: Nike of Callimachus Victoria Romana (Hadrian's Library) Moscophoros Antenor Kore "Νίκη Σανδαλιζόμενη" [Nike Wearing...
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    more likely that it was a victory monument. Nike of Megara Victoria Romana (Hadrian's Library) Nike of Epidaurus Alexandra Gulaki. Klassische und Klassizistische...
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    broken. Ancient Greece portal Greece portal Visual arts portal Victoria Romana (Hadrian's Library) Nike of Paionios Nike of Paros Nike of Marathon Chisholm...
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    representing Victoria, 100 - 200 A.D., found in Tongeren Gallo-Roman museum, Tongres Victoria Romana from Hadrian's Library, c. 18 BC Roman goddess Victoria in...
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    emperors Trajan and Hadrian. Marcus was three when his father died, and was raised by his mother and paternal grandfather. After Hadrian's adoptive son, Aelius...
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    myths and iconography under the names of their own gods. Interpretatio romana is comparative discourse in reference to ancient Roman religion and myth...
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    arrived in Britain with around 40,000 men and marched north to Hadrian's Wall. Once at Hadrian's Wall Severus initiated a massive rebuilding project which...
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    the Forum Baths at Ostia Antica and the so-called Heliocaminus Baths at Hadrian’s Villa. The garden was designed along an axis which maximised views of...
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  • Democratic Republic of Congo. Colossal Nike statue of the Victoria Romana type from Hadrian's Library in Athens, Greece. Lisa Lodwick, British archaeologist...
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    assimilation which made the Roman Empire possible"; entry on "Interpretatio romana" in Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 2006), p. 974....
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     340.; Opper, Thorsten (2008). Hadrian: Empire and Conflict. Harvard University Press. p. 64.; Fields, Nic (2003). Hadrian's Wall AD 122–410, which was,...
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    "head"). Mars Belatucadrus is named in five inscriptions in the area of Hadrian's Wall. The Celtic god Belatucadros, with various spellings, is attested...
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    who first told him of the existence of the mysterious Lydia, known as Romana: "Lydia, female liberation! Lydia, my dear! Lydia, his wife immortal! I...
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    Cambridge, 30–31 July 2005. Varner, Eric R. (2004). Monumenta Graeca et Romana: Mutilation and transformation: damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture...
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    now lost encaustic painting was discovered in the Temple of Serapis at Hadrian's Villa, near Tivoli, Lazio, Italy, that depicted Cleopatra committing suicide...
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    forestry viewpoint (Part 1)", Dacia, 29: 81–98 Claridge, Amanda (1993), "Hadrian's Column of Trajan", Journal of Roman Archaeology, 6: 5–22, doi:10.1017/S1047759400011442...
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    Latin (section Libraries)
    an especially extensive set having been discovered at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall in Britain. Most notable is the fact that while most of the Vindolanda...
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    and bank headquarters. Of this last, regional headquarters of the Banca Română pentru Dezvoltare is the tallest office building in Cluj-Napoca, with 50...
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    (and thus Victoria) and with Libera as a female aspect of Liber. No native Roman myths of Ceres are known. According to interpretatio romana, by which...
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    northern Britain at his father's side, campaigning against the Picts beyond Hadrian's Wall in the summer and autumn. Constantius' campaign, like that of Septimius...
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    for the first books of the Annals; Tacitus could have lived well into Hadrian's reign, and there is no reason to suppose that he did not. See Dudley,...
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  • would prove an enduring model for Roman imperial virtues. The emperor Hadrian's Hispano-Roman origins and marked pro-Hellenism changed the focus of imperial...
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  • Belisarius by Robert Graves (the Byzantine general Belisarius, 6th century) Pax romana by Yeyo Balbás Memorias de Escipión Emiliano by José Enrique López Jiménez...
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  • versions in the Breviary of Alaric, and were cited as sources in the Lex Romana Burgundionum attributed to Gundobad, king of the Burgundians (473–516)....
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    chains, the parallels with Roman garrison towns built on the Rhine, or on Hadrian's wall in England, where the remains are strikingly visible on the landscape...
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  • men" at the empire's territorial peak in the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian (r. 117–138). This estimate probably included only legionary and auxiliary...
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    to the springtime blossoming of trees and flowers. In the interpretatio romana of the Germanic pantheon during the early centuries AD, Venus became identified...
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    who commissioned a complete standardisation of imperial decrees since Hadrian's time and resolved conflicting legal opinions of the jurists. The result...
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