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Carved out of special pink marble used only on imperial edifices, this statue, it is believed, originally appeared in the temple or triumphal arch of Emperor Trajan, who reigned from...
Antioch's actress is Cynthia Mamuta, who had "a magnetic beauty which could attract, creating intense desire; but could not hold, for within that magnificent body lurked a spirit easily stirred, which sometimes repelled one." Together with her handsome scriptwriter, Marcus Macer, she was sent by the Emperor Trajan to Antioch to satirize the growing sect of Christians out of existence. After 263 pages of intrigue, violence and lust, the story erupts in a holocaust of earthquake and conversion. The earth literally swallows up Marcus, while Cynthia does a quick change from a lubricous actress to a contrite Christian...
...city of Abydos, the great Temple of Seti I, finished in the reign of Rameses II (1324-1258 B.C.), is settling into the soft subsoil while cracks in its walls grow dangerously wider. On the Island of Philae, close to the Aswan dam and artificial lake, the Kiosk of Trajan (1st Century B.C.), in recent years so submerged that often only its upper half could be seen, has collapsed completely. On the same island, the Temple of Isis is in such danger that Egyptians have planned to move it to a safer spot...
Some 8,000 spectators, including 2,000 American tourists, gathered for services around the base of the largest and costliest (approximately $500,000) of these memorials, a 175-ft. Doric shaft conceived in pink Italian granite by famed Architect John Russell Pope after the Emperor Trajan's column honoring his victorious Roman legions. Crowded about the still shell-torn hill of Montfaucon were armless and legless war veterans, three U. S. Congressmen and General John J. Pershing's American Battle Monuments Commission-which has spent $4,500,000 on memorials and cemetery chapels abroad. Absent were Senators Russell...
Another trophy was a fragment of a marble sign, probably from the Library of Trajan, which bore this warning: "No book shall be taken out. We have sworn it! The library will be open from the first hour until the sixth...