A French politician has called on the US to give the Statue of Liberty back after suggesting that some Americans “have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants.” Raphael Glucksmann, a ...

It's the goddess Libertas, though it's the pagan symbol understood in the revival of classical paganism that came up in the Enlightenment, so it's got all these liberal Enlightenment ideas ...

A French politician has called on the US to give the Statue of Liberty back after suggesting that some Americans “have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants.” Raphael Glucksmann, a member of the ...

The statue was a gift of friendship to America from France. Inaugurated in 1886, it represents Libertas, the Roman liberty goddess, bearing a torch in her right hand and a tablet in her left hand with ...

Designed to represent Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty, the statue holds a torch and a tablet inscribed with the date of the US Declaration of Independence. Beneath its drapery lie broken ...

The robed lady also got a makeover to resemble what many historians have said was modeled after the Roman goddess of freedom Libertas. The completed head of the Statue of Liberty on display at the ...

The statue was a gift of friendship to America from France. Inaugurated in 1886, it represents Libertas, the Roman liberty goddess, bearing a torch in her right hand and a tablet in her left hand ...