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Ceremonies of the ancients: among the treasures of the collection of classical sculpture at Wilton acquired by the 8th Earl of Pembroke in the 17th and 18th centuries are four marble Roman sarcophagi. As Elizabeth Angelicoussis explains, they embody the Earl's intellectual curiosity as well as his aesthetic discrimination.(ROMAN SARCOPHAGI AT WILTON HOUSE) Apollo (7/1/2009) ...death and family bereavement aptly suited a tomb. (8) The saga begins with the Calydonian hunt. Oineus, king of Calydon in Aetolia, failed to honour Artemis, whereupon the angry goddess sent a monstrous boar to ravage his realm. His son, Meleager, set...

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