Although their lives may have been different, they did have some things in common. In any Roman family life, the head of the household was a man. Although his wife looked after the household ...

The statue, now known as the Halsted Athena, portrays the goddess wearing a warrior’s helmet ... the stage for “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection ...

and probably belonged to a Roman soldier who lost his life in battle. Few examples of this type of shield have survived over the millennia, even though it is well known from depictions in art.