The Palace and Park: Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian CourtLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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The Palace and Park: Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian Court
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England)
[From the marble in the Louvre; the head bound with a fillet of vine.
For account of the many beautiful statues of Antinous see Handbook to
Roman Court and Nave.]
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85. ANTONINUS PIUS. _Roman Emperor._
For life, see No. 47.
[From the marble in the Naples Museum.]
86. AUGUSTUS. _Roman Emperor._
For life, see No. 35.
[This very beautiful Bust is from the Florence Gallery.]
87. TIBERIUS. _Roman Emperor._
For life, see No. 37.
[This Bust is from the Berlin Museum.]
88. CLAUDIUS. _Roman Emperor._
For life, see No. 38.
89. HERENNIUS. _Roman Emperor_, A.D. 251.
[Date and place of birth unknown. Died near Abricium, in Thrace, A.D.
251.]
Little interest is connected with the history of this emperor. In 249,
he was declared Cæsar, and in 251, Augustus, as the colleague of his
father Decius. In a battle fought near Abricium, between the Emperor
Decius and the Goths, both he and his father were slain.
[From the Capitoline Museum.]
90. SCIPIO AFRICANUS. _Roman General._
For life, see No. 109.
91. JULIA MÆSA. _Roman Empress._
[Born at Emesa, in Syria, (date unknown). Died, probably at Rome, A.D.
223.]
Daughter to a Priest of the Sun. When her sister, Julia Domna, as wife
of Septimius Severus, became Empress, Julia Mæsa resided at the Imperial
Court. Her bold political intrigues placed her grandson Elagabalus on
the throne. Against law, she was made a member of the Senate. She bore
the title of Augusta to her death, and was afterwards deified. A woman
of powerful mind, unscrupulously ambitious, but using power well.
[From the marble in the Gallery of the Emperors, in the Capitol, at
Rome.]
92. SABINA.
[Died probably A.D. 137.]
Wife of the Emperor Hadrian, and grandniece of Trajan. Ill treated by
her husband, by whom, it is said, she was poisoned. Others assert that
in despair she put an end to her life. She was deified after her
decease.
[From the original in alabaster in the Capitoline Museum, at Rome.]
COURT OF THE ROMAN LADIES.
(_Numbers commencing on the right._)
93. LIVIA DRUSILLA. _Roman Empress._
[Born B.C. 56-54. Died A.D. 29.]
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