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The Ludovisi Gaul (sometimes called "The Galatian Suicide") is an ancient Roman statue depicting a Gallic man plunging a sword into his breast as he holds up the dead body of his wife. This sculpture is a marble copy of a now lost Greek bronze original.
The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian [1] (Italian: Galata Morente) or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC) thought to have been made in bronze . [ 2 ]
The Galatians (Ancient Greek: Γαλάται, romanized: Galátai; Latin: Galatae, Galati, Gallograeci; Greek: Γαλάτες, romanized: Galátes, lit. 'Gauls') were a Celtic people dwelling in Galatia , a region of central Anatolia in modern-day Turkey surrounding Ankara during the Hellenistic period . [ 1 ]
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The Battle of the Caecus River or Battle of the Kaikos was a battle between an army of the Kingdom of Pergamon commanded by Attalus I, and the Galatian tribes who resided in Anatolia (Asia Minor). The battle took place near the source of the Caecus River ( Ancient Greek : Κάϊκος , romanized : Káïkos ) and resulted in a victory for the ...
Erik Menendez was never supposed to keep the 17-page, soul-baring letter his older brother Lyle wrote to him in May 1990 when they were being held in county jail.. Lyle wrote the letter two months ...
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The letter - now known as the "suicide letter" - refers to the leader of the civil rights movement as "sexually psychotic," "a dissolute abnormal imbecile"and a "fraud." It ends with the famous ...