12-13-2007, 08:52 PM
Figurati Paolo, non c'è di che!
Mainly from about I century Aera Vulgaris.
They all represent Medusa. Greek an roman soldiers, after Athena, loved to believe that applying a Medusa face on the chest of the armour, they would be protected from enemies by turning them to stone. Of course it was rather a fashion but a must with deep roots of belief.
Read all the Myth at: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/finALp.html
VAle,
Mainly from about I century Aera Vulgaris.
They all represent Medusa. Greek an roman soldiers, after Athena, loved to believe that applying a Medusa face on the chest of the armour, they would be protected from enemies by turning them to stone. Of course it was rather a fashion but a must with deep roots of belief.
Read all the Myth at: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/finALp.html
VAle,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10