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Nero and the magic.

by Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti

Magic and Nero Speaking of prophecy, astrology, magic and so on, and remembering which were the Romans laws condemning these arts, one can be astonished by the fact that even an emperor was one of their follower. This emperor was Nero who so firmly believed in all this sort of things that he filled ... 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