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Chapter 3: Fortuna and the late Republican dynasts: background and assessment .................................................................................................. 138 The Tychaion of Alexandria ...................................................................... 138 Further Hellenistic background and the cult of the individual................... 145 Western Greek influence: Timoleon and the Tychaion of Syracuse.......... 150 The early rise of the individual and the role of Fortuna in Rome .............. 153 Fortuna during the regal period......................................................... 154 Personal relations with Fortuna in Rome during the second century BCE .......................................................................................... 156 Aemilius Paullus and Fortuna Respiciens................................ 159 Felicitas .................................................................................... 162 Gaius Marius ............................................................................ 165 Fortuna and the Roman generals of the first century BCE: politics, religious architecture, and domestic context ..................................... 167 Q. Lutatius Catulus............................................................................ 169 Feeding Rome: the annona....................................................... 173 Cosmic implications of Catulus’ Temple of Fortuna ............... 175 Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix ............................................................. 180 Sulla and Fortuna ..................................................................... 181 Sulla and Venus........................................................................ 185 The Lucullan villa on the Pincio and the cult of Fortuna.................. 189 Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ................................................................ 196 Pompey’s Theater and residences ............................................ 198 Julius Caesar and the Fortuna Caesaris ............................................. 202 Julius Caesar’s gardens and the role of Fortuna....................... 208 Mark Antony and Octavian, vying for the Fortuna Caesaris ............ 210 Chapter 4: Fortuna after Actium: Guarantor of the Victoria Augusti and her related structures in the Campus Martius................................................... 217 A bronze statue group commemorating Octavian’s luck and his special affinity with Victoria and Fortuna..................................................... 218 xii
Fortuna “installations” in the Campus Martius .......................................... 224 Agrippa’s Pantheon: new research on the structure .......................... 225 The meaning of the Pantheon: Alexandrian Tychaion as model....... 227 The Pantheon and the tombs of Julius Caesar and Augustus............ 230 The Campus Martius and Alexandria................................................ 234 Isis cult in Rome related to Fortuna .................................................. 241 The Augustan Campus Martius related to Fortuna: Euripus and Temple of Bonus Eventus ........................................................ 250 Augustan and Vespasianic phases of a Fountain with statue of Fortuna in the Campus Martius .......................................................................... 253 Chapter 5: Fortuna in Augustan Rome: Fortuna as Fortuna Redux and Fortuna Augusta, kingmaker and guarantor of dynastic succession........................ 260 Fortuna as a Roman “Blessing” ................................................................. 262 Horace’s Ode I.35 ...................................................................................... 265 Greek background and influences on Fortuna in the poem............... 266 “Roman” qualities of Fortuna in the poem........................................ 267 Fickle Fortuna ................................................................................... 269 The Fortunae of Antium and Fortuna in Ode 1.35............................ 271 Fortuna as special companion of the emperor during his travels...... 272 Fortuna in the personal and private spheres: comes Lares, tutela, genius . 274 Fortuna as comes ............................................................................... 275 Lares and the household cult............................................................. 278 Tutela................................................................................................. 281 Genius................................................................................................ 282 Fortuna in the Mars Ultor pediment........................................................... 286 Fortuna and Mars .............................................................................. 287 Fortuna and Venus ............................................................................ 287 Fortuna and Roma ............................................................................. 288 Fortuna, the Tiber, the Palatine, and Romulus.................................. 291 The Altar of Fortuna Redux ....................................................................... 292 xiii
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Page 5 and 6: Acknowledgements This study of Fort
Page 7 and 8: the moment I arrived in Texas, this
Page 9 and 10: influenced the image of Tyche as mu
Page 11: Fortuna: multivalent (beneficent an
Page 15 and 16: The Antonines and Severans ........
Page 17 and 18: unique creation from Sparta, which
Page 19 and 20: slightly to the viewer’s left; th
Page 21 and 22: The mural crown of Tyche was derive
Page 23 and 24: Vergil’s Aeneid (6.626-670), whic
Page 25 and 26: shoulders his father, Anchises (who
Page 27 and 28: mural crown itself. Two gates are o
Page 29 and 30: The Sparta Tyche head, with the fig
Page 31 and 32: By virtue of the depiction of the w
Page 33 and 34: of Augustus. 51 The emperor also cr
Page 35 and 36: agora analogous to the Tyche statue
Page 37 and 38: The basic information about the sta
Page 39 and 40: figured prominently in other Seleuc
Page 41 and 42: vicinity of the Theater of Marcellu
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Page 45 and 46: Most scholars, instead, identify th
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Page 51 and 52: emperor. The first Tyche statue con
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Page 57 and 58: SCOPE OF THE STUDY Recent studies o
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goddess was a central feature in th
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Initial inquiries into the relation
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Chapter 2: The interrelationship be
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Fortuna” does not necessarily des
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conquered one’s own city). 154 Th
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Fortuna: multivalent (beneficent an
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Respiciens (Cicero, leg., 2.28), an
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cases, the two Fortuna goddesses ar
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adorned the bronze 178 cult statue
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econstruction of the entire site at
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Max. 1.8.11, Ovid, Fasti, 6.569-572
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Cornucopia The account of one of th
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chthonic deities. 213 By the first
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grain, e.g., the Tychai of Alexandr
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fourth century depict the goddess w
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the relief, has questioned the iden
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an independent symbol of power. 252
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The concept of Tyche standing preca
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statuary depicting Fortuna holding
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an apple tree branch in her left ha
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The wheel, in a negative sense, as
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Tyche in the sixth century BCE rema
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securely-identified Fortuna-type fi
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a term; indeed, the Romans never de
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artistic representations (discussed
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In particular, the Tabula of Cebes,
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Hellenistic depictions of Tyche, ac
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Writing in Greek, Plutarch defines
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two essays on Alexander served as a
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“ἤόόὶάὶίίίὴ
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depended on its dedicator, the circ
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disagreements on Plutarch’s trans
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features common to her artistic rep
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stormy sea crossing (319B-D). This
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individuals. 355 In Plutarch’s hi
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Arete-Tyche topos Plutarch’s essa
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Historians also recognized Tyche’
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In On the Fortune of the Romans, Pl
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protecting Rome throughout history
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Plutarch reveals that the reigns of
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the East as early as the second cen
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honor gods, speak to and for cities
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the demise of Greek power and the r
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defeats of Philip V and Antiochus I
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Fortune of the Romans, however, dem
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Chapter 3: Fortuna and the late Rep
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throne, another, naked, holding a g
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of the period immediately after the
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including Stoicism. Indeed, the Tyc
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individual identified as such. 439
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The Greek city states and citizens
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great influence in Caesarian and Au
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events that took place in the fifth
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Roman deities, 474 became less the
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Personal relations with Fortuna in
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Primigenia, Antium, and the Tyche o
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epiphany of the god, akin to appear
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goddess, successfully blended with
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(8.26.3). Both Greek terms underlin
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uncertain deity and ensurer of vict
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architectural complex, in particula
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had just been rebuilt recently, was
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of the round temple and long portic
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associative iconography of the Roma
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Pythagorean doctrines, which flouri
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to Dem, 153, 474). Triptolemus was
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and Augustus. 575 The Temple of For
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Sulla, 34.3). He designated Lucullu
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mural crown). 586 The affinity betw
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Sulla also fostered personal relati
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constructed a massive temple dedica
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essentially muscled in on Lucullus
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archaeological remains justify Coar
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Capitoline), thereby demonstrating
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the Augustan building program, in t
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This new attribution of the Fortuna
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symbolic ramifications. 639 Not onl
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his household in 12 CE to the shrin
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creation of the cult of divus Iuliu
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BCE. Indeed, recent study suggests
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tyche. 665 The association between
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Through his subsequent dedication o
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pietas, reflects Lucius’ fraterna
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Valeria and Sulla and to the Graeco
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In conclusion, the Late Republican
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of Hellenistic Alexandria, created
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According to the new study, the ter
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the sea with a fisherman’s vessel
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generals, that Victory and Good For
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eligio-political Augustan program i
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audience and context. As a result o
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With the victory of Octavian over M
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the fact that the entrances faced o
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entrance into Augustus’ Mausoleum
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studies, Caesar’s role in these p
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Agrippa, 741 would actually succeed
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libraries. In doing so, Caesar join
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Nile, a common feature of Isiac san
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echoed in the creation of the Tycha
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the Italian Fortuna cult by the end
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The planning (and possible construc
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The Augustan Campus Martius related
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and the sentiments of victory that
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The earliest mention of the water b
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dedicated on September 23, Augustus
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Apollo from nearby Seleucia; Apollo
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Chapter 5: Fortuna in Augustan Rome
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of dynastic succession, for the Jul
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complexity of these cults in Rome.
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two stanzas of I.35, Nisbet and Hub
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Fortuna as other deities of Rome, a
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asking Fortuna to protect Augustus,
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Rome (both of which utilized Antium
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with an actual prayer to the goddes
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Through her many epithets (90), 855
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In the second century CE, the priva
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predominant, private and public shr
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Aurelius Urbanus/ ex voto” next t
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well as goddess who could turn arou
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FORTUNA IN THE MARS ULTOR PEDIMENT
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The pairing of Fortuna and Venus in
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Lucan's choice of the mural crown f
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lituus, in the Mars Ultor panel as
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[Aram Fortunam Reducis ante ae]des
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Historical background: grain shorta
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The altar in relationship to nearby
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identified with the Muses and assoc
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the structure where the general cha
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he later celebrated this diplomatic
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to Parthia, Trajan stopped at Antio
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archaeological park of S. Omobono.
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i.e., without figural panels. 965 G
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of the altar, December 15 (Degrassi
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Apollo were paired in cult settings
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theme of Fortuna’s role in time,
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general. 984 Although the literary
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presents the double gate next to th
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Nova. 997 However, he flatly reject
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the “gate” (a triumphal arch ac
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esponse to the famine that was reco
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the early fifth century CE. 1022 De
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studies. 1027 The Marcus Aurelius
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elief, the relief has been dated to
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Nortia and Nemesis, were aspects th
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vengeance on imperial monuments, su
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second and third centuries CE, and
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administered by slaves (see below).
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later, they were both slaves and fr
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Fortuna Augusta are common in the A
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The association between non-elites
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society and was readily adopted by
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The inscriptional evidence for the
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demonstrates that the city became a
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society. The dialogue that began ce
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of plenty capped with a twin of Dru
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Sejanus and Galba represent two ind
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officially joined Fortuna Redux as
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The rise of the Flavians signaled a
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Hadrian, reminiscent of the scene f
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Many other episodes demonstrate the
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the cultural setting of Rome, accor
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