The Venus of Capua is a sculpture made during the empire of Hadrian (117 to 138 AD). It is presumed that the Venuses of Milo and Capua are copies of an...

The Amphitheatre of Capua was a Roman amphitheatre in the city of Capua (modern Santa Maria Capua Vetere), second only to the Colosseum in size and probably...

restoration is correct, her arms are in a pose reminiscent of the Venus of Capua or Venus de Milo, and like them she may have held a mirror. It was sold to...

(also here) Venus, Pan and Eros Venus Genetrix Venus of Capua Venus Kallipygos Venus is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies...

1472 – 7 September 1537) was a German Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Capua. Born in Rothschönberg (now part of Klipphausen) near Meissen to a noble...

Naples and Capua, defended by Prospero and Fabrizio Colonna. On 24 June 1501, Borgia's troops stormed the latter to end the siege of Capua. In June 1502...

Footprint Focus Guides. Footprint Travel Guides. p. 53. ISBN 978-1908206947. "Capua & Caserta Day Tour". February 6, 2024. Guiotto, Gianluigi (June 2009). La...

in the theory. On 1 November 1536, Nikolaus von Schönberg, Archbishop of Capua and since the preceding year a cardinal, wrote to Copernicus from Rome and...

(love goddess Venus), instead prayed and made offerings to her. It was rumored that she was the second coming of Venus, or the daughter of Venus from an unseemly...

of Rhodes, but also became Grand Prior of Capua. In 1492, when Lorenzo the Magnificent died and Giovanni de' Medici assumed his duties as a cardinal,...

(by then deceased) friend Nikolaus von Schönberg, Cardinal Archbishop of Capua, urging Copernicus to publish his theory. Then, in a lengthy introduction...

appointed Gran Conestabile of the Kingdom and received the fiefdoms of Capua and Foggia. However, when the Queen of Naples abandoned the Aragonese and...

(1944), p. 302. M.J. Vermaseren, Mithraica I: The Mithraeum at S. Maria Capua Vetere (Brill, 1971), p. 14; Jaime Alvar, Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth...

Nola. Sulla was closely associated with Venus, adopting the title Epaphroditos meaning favored of Aphrodite/Venus. Sulla played an important role in the...

Archived from the original on 23 July 2016. Coleman 2006, p. 105; Capua 2003, p. 47. Capua 2003, p. 48. Coleman 2006, pp. 107–108. Coleman 2006, p. 102. "The...

BC, he was praetor in 212 BC, propraetor in 211 BC during the siege of Capua, before being sent to Spain that same year. He became consul in 207 BC....

personally led an attack against the Lombard duchies of Beneventum and Capua, presumably to reclaim parts of the Papal States which had been lost to...

taste of state-sponsored "barbarian combat" demonstrated by gladiators from Capua, as part of a training program for the military. It proved immensely popular...

Nero and his wife Poppaea visited Pompeii and made gifts to the temple of Venus (the city's patron deity), probably when he performed in the theatre of...

lararia, or household shrines, surviving from Pompeii. An inscription from Capua to IOVI VESVVIO indicates that he was worshipped as a power of Jupiter;...

Normandy (died 1026), son of Richard I of Normandy Richard I of Capua (died 1078), King of Capua and Count of Aversa Richard I of England or Richard the Lionheart...

R. de Mambro, "The Beer of Bacchus. Visual Strategies and Moral Values in Hendrick Goltzius’ Representations of Sine Cerere et Libero Friget Venus", in...

blue and his cloak red. In the relief from Marino and the wall fresco from Capua Vetere (CIMRM 181), the bull is white. At Marino, Mithras' the tunic is...

Liber(o) Capua). Fasti Arvales ad 1. September. Monumentum Ancyranum IV 7; CIL XI 657 Faventia; XIV 2579 Tusculum. Wissowa (1912), p. 106. de Cazanove...

theory. On 1 November 1536, Cardinal Nikolaus von Schönberg, Archbishop of Capua, wrote to Copernicus from Rome: Some years ago word reached me concerning...

that has yet to be explored, decorated with frescoes depicting Neptune, Venus and several athletes, that were removed by the Bourbons and are now at the...

a description of Capua. Pacuvius persuades the citizens to ask Rome if one of the consuls can be a Campanian, which is refused. Capua joins Hannibal, but...

Cucinotta (July 1968), is a model, actress, producer, and screenwriter. Roberta Capua (December 1968), is a former model and television personality. Mara Carfagna...

Lampadephoros. The tale is preserved in the Suda. As Hecate Phosphorus (the 'star' Venus) she is said to have lit the sky during the Siege of Philip II in 340 BCE...

which was spread by the Phoceans among the Greek towns of Campania Cuma and Capua, who in turn had passed it over to the Etruscans and the Latins by the 6th...