Personifications especially of cities become a major part of numismatic iconography. At some point I want to return to this detailed treatment of the subject from a literary perspective focusing on Republican texts.
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Personifications especially of cities become a major part of numismatic iconography. At some point I want to return to this detailed treatment of the subject from a literary perspective focusing on Republican texts.
[…] issue comes up again and again (old blog posts: a Lararium in Stabiae, RRC 403/1, Roma as Amazon, Literary treatments). There is some stuff on this in my coin book […]