The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Hylas Seized By Water-Nymphs: painting by William Etty (1833). This romantic episode from the voyage of the Argonauts was descri ...

Silver Dish From Kaiseraugst (fourth century A.D.) depicting scenes from the early life of Achilles, the subject of Statius' Ach ...

own life at the age of twenty-six; by this time he had already composed numerous works, all of which have perished except for th ...

it a sardonic and even a satiric tone. The blend of political passion and rhetorical conceits is the essence of the Pharsalia. I ...

most intriguing 'ifs' of Latin literary history: had he survived, would he have developed into a great master, or was he by natu ...

The Death Of Astyanax: terracotta relief of the late first century B.C. or the early first century A.D. In front of a typical th ...

Martial (c.40-101), as we have seen (above, p. 680), also took trouble to set himself at a distance from the grander poets; but ...

on display. Juvenal, by contrast, reveals very little of himself. His voice is exceedingly distinctive, but we learn next to not ...

What a sight it was, what a picture it would make, when the Gaetulian monster carried the one- eyed commander. And the great man ...

Portrait Of A Woman from Roman Egypt (first half of second century A.D.). Juvenal's denunciation of women in his sixth satire in ...

splendour of his rhetoric but are the very essence of that splendour. The kind of sardonic grandeur that was achieved fitfully b ...

Eumolpus is allowed to tell the story of the widow of Ephesus in dashing style; Trimalchio's foolish astrology has a sharp edge ...

Silver Beaker With Skeletons Of Greek poets and philosophers (first half of first century A.D.). Several works of art in late He ...

recounted by various of the characters who figure in the main narrative. The longest of these, the tale of Cupid and Psyche, occ ...

The Worship Of Isis: painting from Herculaneum (mid first century A.D.). Lucius' conversion to the Egyptian which enjoyed such s ...

Nile Boat-Trip: mosaic panel from Tivoli (second century A.D.). General Nilotic subjects were popular in the Roman decorative ar ...

Arretine Bowl Made By M. Perennius Tigranus (late first century B.C.). Relief-moulded pottery superseded painted ceramics as the ...

Decorated Glassware Prom The Rhineland (third century A.D.). The so-called 'snake-thread' glass, pioneered in the eastern Medite ...

tacita secreta cistarum et per famulorum tuorum draconum pinnata curricula et glebac Siculae sulcamina et currum rapacem et terr ...

Cupid And Psyche: marble statue-group from the House of Cupid and Psyche at Ostia, copied from a second- century B.C. original. ...