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. She notes that the last actual Roman triumph took place sometime between the fourth and sixth century but that didn\u2019t stop imitators: <\/p>\n \u201cRenaissance princelings launched hundreds of triumphal celebrations. Napoleon carted through the streets of Paris the sculpture and painting he had seized in Italy, in pointed imitation of a Roman triumph. As late as 1899 the victories of Admiral George Dewey in the Spanish-American War were celebrated with a triumphal parade in New York. True, no live captives or spoils were on show; but a special triumphal arch was built, in plaster and wood, at Madison Square.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s hard to stop once you get a good ceremony going, Mary Beard shows in her 2007 The Roman Triumph . She notes that the last actual Roman triumph took place sometime between the fourth and sixth century but that didn\u2019t stop imitators: \u201cRenaissance princelings launched hundreds of triumphal celebrations. Napoleon carted through the streets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"yoast_head":"\n
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