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    Roman mythology, the Palladium or Palladion (Greek Παλλάδιον (Palladion), Latin Palladium) was a cult image of great antiquity on which the safety of...
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  • Palladium, The Palladium or Paladium may also refer to: Palladium (classical antiquity), a statue that protected Troy and later Rome Palladium (protective...
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    purposes other than visual depiction are the Palladium (protective image), the Palladium (classical antiquity), the acheiropoieta, and various "folk" traditions...
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    A palladium or palladion (plural palladia) is an image or other object of great antiquity on which the safety of a city or nation is said to depend. The...
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    Palladium Books. ISBN 978-0-916211-58-5. Siembieda, K.; Sumimoto, M. & Cartier, R. (1998). Rifts World Book 18: Mystic Russia. Taylor, MI: Palladium Books...
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    recognized as an ideal. This association is ancient, and consistent from classical antiquity to modernity. The caduceus is also a symbol of printing, by extension...
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  • Library. Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press...
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    down from heaven by Jupiter to Numa. The Ancile was, as it were, the palladium of Rome. Numa, by the advice, as it is said, of the nymph Egeria, ordered...
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    Orichalcum – another distinct metal or alloy mentioned in texts from classical antiquity, later used to refer to brass Panchaloha Shakudō – a Japanese billon...
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    including a helmet). In Greek and Roman mythology, a "palladium" was an image of great antiquity on which the safety of a city was said to depend, especially...
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    the paper was the Nebraska Palladium and Platte Valley Advocate; its name came from the palladium in classical antiquity, in which a xoanon of Athena...
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    Claire; Lissarrague, François (1996), "Minerva", Gods and Heroes of Classical Antiquity, Flammarion Infographic Guides, Paris, France and New York City,...
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    C. A. (1999). Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity. City University of New York. p. 92. Johns, C. (1982). Sex or Symbol...
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    Vesta (mythology) (category Pages with Classical Latin IPA)
    Vesta (Classical Latin: [ˈwɛs.ta]) is the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion. She was rarely depicted in human form, and...
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    In classical antiquity, the cornucopia (/ˌkɔːrnjəˈkoʊpiə, ˌkɔːrnə-, ˌkɔːrnu-, ˌkɔːrnju-/), from Latin cornu (horn) and copia (abundance), also called...
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    that they were easy to carry in processions at festivals. The Trojan Palladium, famous from the myths of the Epic Cycle and supposedly ending up in Rome...
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    did not curb the popularity of the myths. With the rediscovery of classical antiquity in the Renaissance, the poetry of Ovid became a major influence on...
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    art during the classical period. Led by the engravers Kimon and Euainetos, Syracuse produced some of the finest coin designs of antiquity. Amongst the first...
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    Brothers. p. 22. The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Loeb Classical Library, 1937, Book 3, 68. The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of Halicarnassus...
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  • Greek origin), with Aemilianus his cognomen (of Roman origin). In late antiquity, the convention of the tria nomina ("three names") for Roman men was no...
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    of Pope Paul II, which included the "Felix gem" of Diomedes with the Palladium, was acquired by Lorenzo il Magnifico; the Medici collection included...
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    their final design. The techniques of repoussé and chasing date from Antiquity and have been used widely with gold and silver for fine detailed work...
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    Roman Antiquities (John Murray, London, 1875). Long, George. Entry "Manumission" in William Smith's A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (John...
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    Pallas and wrapped the Aegis (goat-skin) around it, thus creating the palladium. In Apollod. 1.6, Frazer ed., the Pallas who Athena slew and whose flayed...
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    attributes, the snake and the staff, sometimes depicted separately in antiquity, are combined in this symbol.[full citation needed] The most famous temple...
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    Mos maiorum (category Pages with Classical Latin IPA)
    Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Huber Cancik and Helmuth Schneider. Brill, 2008 Brill Online. Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd Revised...
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    Natura Deorum. p. 1.40. Ruth E. Leader-Newby, Silver and Society in Late Antiquity: Functions and Meanings of Silver Plate in the Fourth to Seventh Centuries...
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    products before 107Ag are palladium (element 46) isotopes, and the primary products after are cadmium (element 48) isotopes. The palladium isotope 107Pd decays...
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    "Playing with Antiquity: Videogame Receptions of the Classical World", in Lowe, Dunstan; Shahabudin, Kim (eds.), Classics For All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass...
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    Hellenic Studies 19: pp. 265–272. Seyffert, Oskar, A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature and Art, from the German of Dr...
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