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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 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 ]
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 Epistle to the Galatians [a] is the ninth book of the New Testament.It is a letter from Paul the Apostle to a number of Early Christian communities in Galatia.Scholars have suggested that this is either the Roman province of Galatia in southern Anatolia, or a large region defined by Galatians, an ethnic group of Celtic people in central Anatolia. [3]
Summary Description Perrier, after The Galatian Suicide, 1638.jpg English: Perrier, after The Galatian Suicide ("Segmenta nobilium signorum e statuaru: quæ temporis dentem inuidium euasere Urbis æternæ ruinis erepta, typis æneis ab se commissa perptuæ uenerationis monimentum", 1638)
Galatians 6 is the sixth (and the last) chapter of the Epistle to the Galatians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle for the churches in Galatia, written between 49–58 CE. [1] This chapter contains Paul's exhortations and also a summary of the key points in the epistle. [2]
Galatians 2 is the second chapter of the Epistle to the Galatians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle for the churches in Galatia , written between 49 and 58 AD. [ 1 ]
Galatia (/ ɡ ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλατία, Galatía, "Gaul") was an ancient area in the highlands of central Anatolia, roughly corresponding to the provinces of Ankara and Eskişehir in modern Turkey.