Thursday, July 9, 2015

Keats & Shelley, Pyramid, Museum

Today was a short trip.  We began by visiting the non-Catholic cemetery in Rome, home of the graves of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley (famous English poets).

Here is Keats' grave:

Here is Shelley's:

Next to the cemetery is a pyramid erected by Gaius Cestius between 18 and 12 BC and served as the tomb for him and his family.
 Inside are some non-remarkable frescoes.

We then went to a branch of the Capitoline Museum.  Here we have a statue of Diana.
 The goddess Fortuna from the Torre di Largo Argentina temple seen earlier.
 Minerva
 A toga-clad Roman
 and possibly Domitius Corbulo, a famous general under Nero.


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