The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

(Cult images refer to objects that are worshipped for representing gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, about the treatment of a statue of Artemis.

A life-sized statue ... god Neptune holding a trident. It was likely provided as a symbolic payment to Charon, the ferryman who took the dead across the River Styx according to ancient Roman ...

(Cult images refer to objects that are worshipped for representing gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, about the treatment of a statue of Artemis. People ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily. Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s ...