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February 3, 2008
Life is a battle
This past Wednesday I got to see one of my favorite things in Rome, the Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus - click to go to flickr to see the whole thing!
Some (most?) scholars feel secure in identifying the central figure as the son of the emperor Trajan Decius. The general popularity of battle scenes on 3rd Century sarcophagi makes an identification kind of unnecessary - the general theme of life as a battle is most of what we need to see here to think about the 3rd Century.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at February 3, 2008 11:47 AM