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Esculapius and the bald man

by Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti

Incubatio. Hereos of Mytilene the “hairy bald man” so called because, if on his head he had not a single hair, the rest of his body was covered by a kind of fur and his beard was something incredible. For this everybody always took him for a ride and he was ashamed of it. Then he went to sleep in Esculapios’ ... more


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BIOGRAPHY

 

ESPR In 1968, when she was already 46 year old, Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti, an architect who in 1946 graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the Roman University “the Sapienza, discovered a group of maritime villas built on a a series of promontory of the Lybian coast and dating from the II cent. She surveyed, studied and then published them in the “Atti della Pontificia Romana Accademia di Archeologia” and with this she began her work in the archaeological field... read more