Episode Synopsis "The D'Arpino frescoes"

How the 17th century Pope Innocent X stressed his own continuity with ancient Rome's foundational myths by commissioning these stunning pictures.

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• The foundation of Rome
• The House of Augustus
• The Ara Pacis
• The wolf and twins sculpture
• The Lapis Niger
• The D'Arpino frescoes
• A330: Myth in the Greek and Roman worlds
• Myth and the Roman Empire
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