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Aricia (Arricia)
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The terrace of the temple of Diana at Aricia. Photo Jona Lendering. The square terrace of the temple of Diana at Aricia near the Lake of Nemi (if you fail to recognize it, here is a hint). It has become famous because the priest had to be a runaway slave who had to kill his predecessor. The Scottish anthropologist James Frazer used this custom as the prologue to his famous study The golden bough (1890). Here is a satellite photo.
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