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A detail of an Attic lekythos vase, c. 450 BCE showing Charon, the boatman who ferried souls across the river Styx to Hades. To the right is Hermes, identified by his kerykeion or herald's staff and fulfilling one of his functions as guide...

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Tragedy mask from the South Theatre (odeum) of Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy). Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican Museums, Rome.

Monumental bust of the goddess Isis-Sothis-Demeter, from the Palestra at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy), 131-138 CE. Now in the Vatican Museums, Rome.

The Hospitalia at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) was a two-story building with 10 guest rooms on the first floor off a long and wide central hallway, at the southern end of which was a hall. The structure dates to the first phase (118-125...

The Small Baths at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) is a thermal complex built between 121-125 CE.

View of one of the gardens of the Three Exedras building at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy). The building was a semicircular arcaded triclinium (dining room) with a large, rectangular fountain located to the north of the structure at the...

The Stadium Garden at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) was an elaborate garden of artistic and aesthetic retreat - effectively, a statue gallery.

One of the most striking and best preserved parts of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (Italy) consists of a pool named Canopus and the so-called Serapeum, a monumental summer cenatio with a nymphaeum set at the southern end of the Canopus.

The Maritime Theatre at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) was a complex with 35 room built on a circular island surrounded by a moat. It is generally thought to have been dedicated to Hadrian’s personal use.