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| Ancient Rome Gable Fragment from Library of Celsus in Ephesus AD 113-117 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Sarcophagus Fragment - Dionysiac Scene AD 150-200 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Sphinx from Roman Egypt AD 150-200 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from Hellas: Chorus
Oh, write no more the tale of Troy,
If earth Death's scroll must be!
Nor mix with Laian rage the joy
Which dawns upon the free:
Although a subtler Sphinx renew
Riddles of death Thebes never knew.
Another Athens shall arise,
And to remoter time
Bequeath, like sunset to the skies,
The splendour of its prime;
And leave, if nought so bright may live,
All earth can take or Heaven can give.
Saturn and Love their long repose
Shall burst, more bright and good
Than all who fell, than One who rose,
Than many unsubdued:
Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers,
But votive tears and symbol flowers.
Oh cease! must hate and death return?
Cease! must men kill and die?
Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn
Of bitter prophecy.
The world is weary of the past,
Oh might it die or rest at last!
– Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821)
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| Ancient Rome Discobolus 2nd century AD marble statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Child with Duck 2nd century AD marble statue Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Dionysus / Bacchus 2nd century AD marble statue Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Portrait Bust of a Matron AD 50-75 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Head of a Youth AD 120-130 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Torso of Eros 2nd century AD marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Aphrodite 1st century BC marble statue Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Head of Discobolus 2nd century AD marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Torso of Doryphoros 2nd century AD marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Torso of Youth 1st century AD marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Sarcophagus - Lion Hunt AD 270-290 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |