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🏛️ the Rostra (Rome)

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  • Information
    large platform in Rome where speakers stood to face the senate and deliver orations
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q426372
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/796942355
    In
    🌍 the Roman Forum (Rome)
    Encompasses
    🎨 Bronze Statue of Heracles Dying (Not Extant)
    Reported to have depictions of
    👤 Heracles greatest Greek hero🏺 the Robe of Deianeira infused with blood from Nessos, mistakenly thought to be a love potion
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pliny, Natural History 34.93
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