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Meeting his former colleagues and co-workers and acknowledging how many of them spent many more years working at the Vatican ...

Photograph by DAGLI ORTI/ART ARCHIVE At age 14 ... During Elagabalus’s reign, it was assimilated with the Roman god Sol Invictus. On coins, the stone figure is adorned with crowns and garlands ...

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According to ancient writers and Greek mythology, the muses are the sources of inspiration for the arts and knowledge.

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