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Vol. V · Deified Humans
Nero
Roman emperor whom Christians identified as the beast of Revelation
his lyre raised as Rome burns beneath a lurid sky, his divine profile on coins sent to every corner of the earth
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This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.