Illustration
Marble statue of Eros stringing his bow. This statue is a 2nd century CE Roman copy after a 4th century BCE Greek original by Lysippos (Capitoline Museums, Rome).
About the Author
Carole maintains the popular ancient history photo-blog Following Hadrian, where she travels the world in the footsteps of emperor Hadrian.
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Original image by Carole Raddato. Uploaded by Carole Raddato, published on 15 February 2014 under the following license: Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
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