Picture No | 10082298 |
Date | 100 - 44 BC |
Description | JULIUS CAESAR AS A COMET |
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GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR The murdered statesman is given a new lease of life by Aphrodite, who turns him into a comet who will illuminate the skies as he did the Earth
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Source | engraving by I Briot in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 461 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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