Back of the hall marks the end of stability when emperors clung to musical thrones, trip to Jerusalem, declined into military anarchy as indicated by the bust of “Anon wearing corona civica 250-284” nearby youthful Severus Alexander and his Mamea Julia who held power for a decade before their inability to quell the Persian versus German conflict on the frontier spelled assassination by their own Praetorian guard in 235, marking the start of the crisis of the third century anno domini as the empire split into the European north, Eternal City center, and Egyptian south, with strong men usurping when they controlled a more powerful army, leading to the Year of Six Emperors in 238, life-sized Trebonianus Gallus only third-century Bronze statue to survive despite his death after two years on the throne from 251-253, miracle and testament to Rome’s endurance that it survived plagues, wars on multiple fronts, and economic turmoil until Constantin I rose to the throne, and baptized by the Nicene Creed, replaced the pugnacious Roman gods with Christ the pacifist, turn the other cheek, peace be with you.
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and up the staircase steps back in time to Etruscan civilization with gold jewelry, bronze armor and chariot, teracotta and alabaster urns, amphora, dinos and holmos for mixing wine, but writings erased so we have lost their language and history, left with luxury items that survived through private passdowns, or artifacts exhumed from subterraneous tombs, civilization subsumed into Rome as established by Aeneas after his odyssey around the sea between the land to find the place promised by the gods, and then fought a second illiad against the native inhabitants led by Turnus who Aeneas ultimately killed crudely by the blade so he could finally establish a new home for rest and repopulation of his people. Expand to incorporate all cultures, then curate the canon to live on forever in the archive, but first feed the core in Cura Annonae.
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and up the staircase steps back in time to Etruscan civilization with gold jewelry, bronze armor and chariot, teracotta and alabaster urns, amphora, dinos and holmos for mixing wine, but writings erased so we have lost their language and history, left with luxury items that survived through private passdowns, or artifacts exhumed from subterraneous tombs, civilization subsumed into Rome as established by Aeneas after his odyssey around the sea between the land to find the place promised by the gods, and then fought a second illiad against the native inhabitants led by Turnus who Aeneas ultimately killed crudely by the blade so he could finally establish a new home for rest and repopulation of his people. Expand to incorporate all cultures, then curate the canon to live on forever in the archive, but first feed the core in Cura Annonae.
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