Weddell and his fellow British travelers would have referred to the statue’s subject as Minerva, the Roman goddess, rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek ...
Thirteen-year-old Yair Whiteson was recently hiking Israel's Mount Carmel with his father when he made an astonishing ...
The damaged sculptures dated to the 2nd century and depicted the head of the goddess Athena (the Roman Minerva) and what appeared to be a statue of a griffin clutching the wheel of fate ...
This head is one of the most significant finds from Roman Bath. It is all that remains of a full-size, gilt bronze statue of the goddess Sulis Minerva, and stood in the temple in the heart of ...
Minerva was the Roman Goddess of invention and intelligence. This altar was erected by the orderly room clerks of the second Cohort of Tungrians by order of their commanding officer, Caius Silvius ...
They sometimes combined Minerva with the local equivalent goddess, ever open to new gods and happy for the indigenous inhabitants to adopt the Roman ones. I chose this object because, aside from ...