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Lucilla was the daughter of Marcus Aurelius and the wife of his co-ruler, Lucius Verus. She happily fulfilled her role of empress until her husband’s death in 169 CE. She was then married to Claudius Pompeianus, a powerful Roman senator. Cassius Dio…

The story of Medusa as recounted by Ovid, first century BCE, is a sad one. Medusa starts out as a beautiful young maiden whose long, golden hair enticed the god Neptune. She was violated in the temple of Minerva - of course angering the chaste…