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To: lbryce
‘The Dying Gaul’ is wearing a Torc around his neck.

It's strange that what most of the world saw as a symbol of slavery, the Gauls saw as the badge of a free man.

18 posted on 01/27/2014 10:35:19 PM PST by exodus
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To: exodus

The torc led people to believe for many years that he was a gladiator rather than a warrior.


20 posted on 01/27/2014 11:42:11 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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