https://cgmr.carleton.edu/files/original/97ab665475b627dfbdcc07e8db98ca6b.jpg 418d74db3661dd33381877390c5a6e70 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Dioscuri Statue Subject The topic of the resource Marvels of Rome Description An account of the resource This is one of the pair of statues gracing the top of the steps leading to the Campodoglio. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaelan Felknor-Edwards (2020), Rita Khurshudian (2020), Abbie Smith (2020), Orlando Zuniga (2020) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/2/2019 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Rights held by creator. https://cgmr.carleton.edu/files/original/2776e7022ed1f49799dee355bbc114ff.jpg 206cb1b6a15583d24e979b6a0bfa160b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Other Half of the Celestial Pair Subject The topic of the resource Marvels of Rome Description An account of the resource This is the other half of the pair of statues which some think are Castor and Pollux. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaelan Felknor-Edwards (2020), Rita Khurshudian (2020), Abbie Smith (2020), Orlando Zuniga (2020) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/2/2019 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Rights held by creator. Place A location with a street address or larger region. Examples include building, statue, piazza, fountain, port, neighborhood, paintings, sculptures, frescoes, floors. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaelan Felknor-Edwards (2020), Rita Khurshudian (2020), Abbie Smith (2020), Orlando Zuniga (2020) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context dioscuri_2019 Title A name given to the resource The Dioscuri Description An account of the resource According to Benedict, the supposed author of Mirabilia Urbis Romae, the statues are of two young men named Praxiteles and Phidias during the time of Emperor Tiberius. The Emperor respected their wisdom and kept them in his palace. One day Emperor Tiberius asked his young sages why they were always naked. They responded “Because all things are naked and open to us. We hold the world of no account, therefore we go naked and possess nothing.” They told him as well that whatever he devised in his chamber, whether by day or by night, they would know. The following day they told the Emperor exactly what he had been thinking that night and he made a memorial to them, as they had requested one as their only payment. The statues he made are the ones you see at the top of the stairs leading to the Capitoline Hill. “The naked horses which trample on the earth, that is on the mighty princes of the world that rule over the men of this world. And there shall come a very mighty king who shall mount the horses, that is, upon the might of the princes of the world. Meanwhile there are two men half-naked, who stand by the horses with their arms raised high and with fingers bent who tell of the things that are to be, and they are naked as all world knowledge is naked and open to their minds” (The Marvels of Rome 19). Under a Christian lens, the prophecy of the mighty King who shall mount the horses that trample the earth is a foretelling of the coming of Christ. What is fascinating, however, is that if you look up the name Dioscuri in the dictionary you will see it comes from the Greek Διός κούροι meaning the sons of Zeus. This appellation normally refers to Castor and Pollux who make up the Gemini constellation. They are often associated with horses and are the patrons of the equites which were a Roman order of Mounted knights whose membership was originally based on wealth, birth, and education. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Benedict. <em>The Marvels of Rome</em>. Edited by Francis Morgan Nichols. Second. New York, New York: Italica Press, 1986. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1588 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1100s Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Piazza del Campidoglio, 00186 Roma RM Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1100s marvels