Marcus Aurelius takes to a favorite summer pastime.
Our August picture of Marcus Aurelius was not in fact staged by affiliates of the Joukowsky Institute. A wiffle ball bat appeared in Marcus’ hand earlier this month, and we captured a shot of it as the most recent addition to the Institute’s photo series.
While the campus community enjoyed the playful addition to our statue, a colossal statue of Marcus Aurelius was discovered at Sagalassos, in Turkey. Michelle Berenfeld provided us with the following links with news related to the discovery:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/arts/27arts-STATUEOFEMPE_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
http://news.yahoo.com/story/afp/20080826/wl_afp/turkeyarchaeologyroman_080826092334
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