Photo credit: By Alexander Z. (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Mosaic from Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, 4th Century.
This ancient Roman mosaic is known to scholars as “The Coronation of the Winner.”
Am I nuts, or does it portray bikini-clad women playing volleyball and using modern aerobic hand-weights?
A gorgon’s head, from the “Monsters Exhibition,” Palazzo Massimo, Rome, 2014
Photo credit: “Antefissa circolare a testa di gorgone, 510-500 ac ca., da taranto (MAN taranto)” by Sailko – Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
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