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  2. History of Roman and Byzantine domes - Wikipedia

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    Domes were a characteristic element of the architecture of Ancient Rome and of its medieval continuation, the Byzantine Empire. They had widespread influence on contemporary and later styles, from Russian and Ottoman architecture to the Italian Renaissance and modern revivals. The domes were customarily hemispherical, although octagonal and ...

  3. Ares in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    In Planet Comics there was a strip called Mars God of War, featuring a character based on Ares under his Roman alter ego Mars. This character was a villain who took over people's bodies in various attempts to cause war. A bat named Ares, who is a skilled combatant, is a main character in the book series The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins.

  4. Architecture of Rome - Wikipedia

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    Altare della Patria, the best-known symbol of Roman neoclassical architecture. In 1870, Rome became the capital city of the new Kingdom of Italy. During this time, neoclassicism, a building style influenced by the architecture of classical antiquity, became a predominant influence in Roman architecture. During this period, many great palaces in ...

  5. Ancient Roman architecture - Wikipedia

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    Roman architecture covers the period from the establishment of the Roman Republic in 509 BC to about the 4th century AD, after which it becomes reclassified as Late Antique or Byzantine architecture. Few substantial examples survive from before about 100 BC, and most of the major survivals are from the later empire, after about 100 AD.

  6. Architectural mythology - Wikipedia

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    Mythology in architecture is a deliberate strategy, they try to design something timeless and universally relatable. The value of a built environment, therefore, is a conglomerate of its actual physical existence and the historical memories and myths people attach to it, bring to it, and project on it.

  7. Demonology - Wikipedia

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    Like other demons, however, galla could also be benevolent [17] and, in a hymn from King Gudea of Lagash (c. 2144 – 2124 BC), a minor god named Ig-alima is described as "the great galla of Girsu". [17] Demons had no cult in Mesopotamian religious practice since demons "know no food, know no drink, eat no flour offering and drink no libation ...

  8. Byzantine architecture - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great established a new Roman capital in Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453.

  9. Medieval architecture - Wikipedia

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    Although the style did draw on ancient Roman architecture, it was ultimately an original style and had a wider range of influences than the name suggests. [2] Examples of Romanesque architecture survive across Europe, including in England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. [1]