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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8150617, member: 110504&quot;][USER=4298]@Cucumbor[/USER], that&#039;s brilliant.&nbsp; The design looks like nothing Hellenistic or Hellenic with which I have any acquaintance.&nbsp; ...I&#039;m stuck thinking of Charles DeGaulle&#039;s cap. </p><p>Right, maybe by way of some intervening Celtic /Gaulish precedent, but I&#039;m making all of that up. </p><p>...Never mind the freaking she-wolf!&nbsp; (Where&#039;d the babies go?)&nbsp; The level of naturalism (never mind, for one minute, detail) eloquently evokes the increasing level of realism you can see in sculpture and (--? redundancy alert) coins from the Hellenic to the Hellenistic periods --and how, in both media, the Romans took the realism of Hellenism, and ran with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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