What’s So Triumphal About an Arch, Anyway?
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The triumphal arch was a Roman innovation conceived to honor those of good deed who “should be lifted up,” wrote Pliny the Elder, “above the rest of mortals.” Only later did it become associated with victorious generals returning from battle, a symbolic city gate through which triumphators …
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