Roman Portraits : “L’Età dell’Angoscia. Da Commodo a Diocleziano (180-305 d.C.)”

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The exhibition 'The Age of Anguish. From Commodus to Diocletian (180-305 A.D.)" was held in Rome in 2015.
"The title of the exhibition takes its cue from a work by Eric Dodds entitled 'Pagans and Christians in an Age of Distress'. published in 1965, dedicated specifically to the 3rd century AD. Dodds was a friend of the Anglo-American poet W.H. Auden, who in 1947 had published The Age of Anxiety, a poem capable of shedding light on the emptiness of existence in the period of the Second World War, characterised by the conversion or return to Christianity and the desire to adhere to a religious creed, by a 'leap of faith'."
https://museicapitolini.org/it/guida-catalogo/l-et-dell-angoscia-da-commodo-diocleziano-180-305-dc

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