similar to statues of Minerva. Her head, in gilt bronze, is a little larger than life-size. The statue it belonged to probably stood in the temple, and may have been there since the founding in the first century AD. Another statue does show Sulis wearing a hat made out of a bear’...
I dared to descend into the dark abode of Hades, leaving behind the light of Sun, the bright Moon and the vault of Heaven, out of love for you, divine child.” Thus Lady Kypris spoke, and again and again joyfully greeted her sweet child, embracing him with her arms. Fragment 3:ἀ...
Whenever Dionysos appears, he does so attended by wild vegetation, whether it is with the vines of ivy and lush grapes he wears in his hair (Orphic Hymn30), or that entwines itself around pillars and altars (Euripides’Antiope203), a face appearing in a plane tree that has been split a...