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Sunday, October 16, 2016

The Christian Myth Still Haunting Pompeii

In the late nineteenth century a fresco depicting Priapus, the Greek god of fertility, complete with enlarged phallus was unearthed in the foyer of a villa belonging to two freedmen. It’s easy to see why nineteenth-century authors saw life in Pompeii as ...


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