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Author: Jennifer Lantrip

A silver coin depicting Julius Caesar.

Myth as Propaganda-Roman Venus

  The Goddess known to the Romans as Venus was originally a minor goddess of fertility in the Italian peninsula. Scholars believe that it was not until contact with the…

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