Yo, Hadrian

..., and you didn't have to fight your way through a bunch of posh, cane-wielding old people or cough up the £12 admission fee. Some other stuff we saw while we were there: The Knidos Lion in the Great Court. He came from Turkey originally. Antoninus, Hadrian's boyfriend, dressed as Osiris. A modern Chinese sculpture. It's supposed to represent the scholar's rocks found in Chinese ...

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Greco-Egyptian quote of the day

... even in danger of my life. Then I prayed to him and promised that, if he would make me well, I should undertake the mission and carry out his command. Just when I had recovered, someone came from Knidos and began building a Serapieion at the place, and had ordered the stone brought there. Later on, the god forbade him to build, and he went away. When I came to Alexandria and hesitated to go to ...

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