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Football fans and eunuch priests –
Before I went to Madrid a couple of weeks ago, I had heard about the eighteenth-century statue and fountain of the goddess Cybele (otherwise known as Magna Mater) in Madrid’s central square (outside what is now the city hall). I hadn’t realised until I saw it quite how imposing it is — or quite how similar …
Publisher: TheTLS
Author: Mary Beard
Before I went to Madrid a couple of weeks ago, I had heard about the eighteenth-century statue and fountain of the goddess Cybele (otherwise known as Magna Mater) in Madrid’s central square (outside what is now the city hall). I hadn’t realised until I saw it quite how imposing it is — or quite how similar …