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UNNATURAL UNION This first-century A.D. fresco from the House of Vettii in Pompeii depicts the inventor Daedalus showing Queen P ...
14 young Athenians (seven maidens and seven youths) for the Minotaur to devour. Theseus volunteers as one of the sacrificial vic ...
VANQUISHED This sixth-century B.C. amphora depicts Theseus at the moment of victory. He plunges his weapon into the Minotaur’s n ...
TRODDEN UNDERFOOT Discovered in 1815, the Theseus Mosaic, found in the fourth-century A.D. Roman villa at Loigerfeld near Salzbu ...
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and the Minotaur is covered in great detail in this work, no doubt providing a strong basis for accounts that followed. Many of ...
MEINRAD RIEDO/AGE FOTOSTOCK PAINTING THE PAST Following his 1900-1903 excavation of Knossos, Arthur Evans restored the “charging ...
The name Minos does not appear to be a mythical invention. When tablets found at Knossos were deciphered, scholars were excit- e ...
HERALDING A HERO In a fresco from Pompeii, one of the young Athenians who has been released shows his gratitude to Theseus. The ...
EVA TOBALINA The glorious city of Jerash was a multicultural trading hub that grew prosperous off the commerce flowing through t ...
WELCOMING ARMS Viewed here from the ruins of the Temple of Zeus-Jupiter, the magnificent, colonnaded Oval Plaza of Jerash linked ...
T he Old Testament of the Bible describes the journey of the Israelites to the Prom- ised Land. They needed to cross the kingdom ...
K in g’ s H ig hw ay TARSUS ANTIOCH CESARAEA MARITIMA BOSTRA (BUŞRÁ AL ḨARĪRĪ) Laodicea Beroea (Allepo) Emesa (Homs) Berytus (Be ...
That same year, Pompey the Great of Rome vanquished the king of Pontus, Mithridates VI Eupator, who controlled lands in what is ...
STEVE DAVEY/AGE FOTOSTOCK FIT FOR A GODDESS Fronted by six columns, the second-century Temple of Artemis, dedicated to Jerash’s ...
ILLUSTRATION: JOSEP RAMON CASALS Hippodrome Hadrian’s Arch Oval Plaza Temple of Zeus- Jupiter South Theater JERASH IN THE SECOND ...
Chrysorrhoas River JERASH’S INCORPORATION INTO the Roman Empire heralded a high period of splendor for the Hellenistic city. The ...
The upper section (attic) was rectangular, divided into two stories and fronted with pilasters. HADRIAN’S ARCH THE ROMAN EMPIRE ...
Four niches with triangular pediments adorned the facade. They each housed a statue of Hadrian. A commemorative inscription of t ...
PERFORMANCE ART JERASH’S SOUTH THEATER is one of the most remark- able of all Roman theaters in the ancient world. With the capa ...
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