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A crumbling, long-forgotten statue with an unusual erect phallus might be a Michelangelo. Renaissance scholars want hard evidence.
In a place of honor was a life-size marble statue of the Greek god Pan with a wicked expression, a forked beard, and an 8-inch erect penis leaning left. The cardinal, it appears, built a pillared ...
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Smell like a god: Ancient sculptures were scented, Danish study shows
Cicero for example spoke of a ritual treatment of a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, the forest and animals in Greek mythology, in the Sicilian city of Segesta which was anointed with ...
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The diffusion of civilization
But as we absorb the influences of global culture today, one must ask: Are the values we embrace truly worthy of preservation ...