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Eclectic Exoticism and Funerary Bling: The Pyramid of Gaius Cestius

Eclectic Exoticism and Funerary Bling: The Pyramid of Gaius Cestius

Archeology, Architecture, Augustus, Empire

Tweet If you find yourself entering Rome by the via Ostiense, you might be surprised to see a large white marble pyramid, not perhaps a form one associates with the city. It certainly struck Thomas Hardy, and in his poem Rome at the Pyramid of Cestius Near the Graves...

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Next week’s new talk is called “All Roads lead Next week’s new talk is called “All Roads lead to Rome: Pilgrims and the Urbe”. So I’m trawling pilgrim spots. This is the church by what was once the largest plague hospital in Europe, along the via Francigena.
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