The Oxford History Of The Classical World

was open for the gradual extension of privilege, ultimately even of senatorial rank, which was to hold the Empire together in su ...

Round temple by the Tiber, probably to be identified as the temple of Hercules Victor: one of the rare examples of a Greek-style ...

philosopher doubling as drawing master. He also brought the royal library of Macedon to Rome, the first great Greek library to r ...

Spain in the time of Augustus is illuminating here. In fact, Balbus and his nephew from Gades (admittedly an ancient and civiliz ...

The First Roman Literature (By P.G. McC. Brown) Plautus Latin literature begins with a bang, with a dazzling display of virtuo ...

Detail Of The Alexander Mosaic (2nd century B.C.). The Persian king Darius, in his chariot, looks back in consternation as the o ...

Hellenistic Earrings. The smaller example (second or first century B.C.) is decorated with a cock coated with enamel: the larger ...

Interior Of The Tazza Farnese (first century B.C.). This dish, carved from sardonyx, and possibly commissioned by Cleopatra, pre ...

after the girl) in which one of the tricks used to thwart the father is the impersonation of Casina in the bedroom by a male sla ...

Mosaic Panel From Pompeii (second or first century B.C.) showing a scene from the beginning of Menander's play, the Synaristosai ...

Marble Relief Illustrating A Scene From New Comedy (first century A.D.?). The situation is typical of Menander and his Roman imi ...

Theatre At Pompeii: Initially constructed during the second century B.C., it is the earliest surviving theatre in Italy outside ...

army and outstanding warriors, and with their thousand ships they overcame after ten years Priam's town of Troy, its fortificati ...

The effect of such passages is to focus our attention on Chrysalus' trickery as an achievement on its own account rather than as ...

The element of social comment in this last passage is not typical. Plautus was above all an entertainer and a poet. He uses coll ...

"widely appreciated than it had been by Plautus' less cultured audience. But there is a danger of exaggerating this difference. ...

ring which is generally absent from Plautus. Scene From Terence's Adelphoe: illustration from a ninth-century manuscript in the ...

Within a century of his death, Terence's plays had become school texts; and they have continued to be so for as long as we know ...

adolescent sons should be handled with openness and tolerance. Micio's method seems to be presented for most of the play as the ...

Bronze Bust Of A Poet, from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. Long identified as Seneca, it is now generally regarded as a ...