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Lupa Capitolina

Started by Mark, June 27, 2012, 09:21:53 AM

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Mark

I'm in Rome at the moment so interesting story for me at any rate. The famous she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus seems to be a medieval casting, rather than (as previously thought) Etruscan (this is the wolf, the babies are known to have been added during the Renaissance).

http://news.discovery.com/history/she-wolf-rome-icon-120625.html