The Oxford History Of The Classical World

the rarity of window glass, not widely available before the first century A.D., created a lighting problem, since openings creat ...

The housing of a major commercial city of the high imperial age is best studied at Ostia, largely rebuilt according to new build ...

Painting Of A Seaside Villa of the early-imperial age. Unlike the town-houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum, which turned away from ...

Truly cultured householders, like the owners of the villa at Boscotrecase just north of Pompeii, preferred original paintings in ...

The other main art form found in private houses is sculpture. Here we must distinguish between the religious statuettes of the h ...

The Garden Of The House Of M. Lucretius At Pompeii, an excellent example of the use made by the early-imperial bourgeoisie of de ...

Bronze Lamp-Stand from the Villa of Diomedes at Pompeii (before AD 79): a particularly ornate example in which the lamps are sus ...

Wooden Cupboard-Shrine in the House of the Wooden Shrine at Herculaneum. The shrine, in the form of a little temple with finely ...

House of M. Lucretius Fronto at Pompeii shows an enclosed flower-bed on cither side of a focal tree, reflecting the symmetry of ...

Mosaic Fountain Niche in the House of the Bear at Pompeii. Such niches were a favourite feature of Pompeian gardens once running ...

Canal In The Garden Of D. Octavius Quartio at Pompeii (between AD 62 and 79). In imitation of the canals of villa-parks, this we ...

combining shrubs, fountains, decorative statuettes, and often frescoes on the enclosing walls, reflect the aspiration of the wea ...

Sleeping Pixie: marble statuette of a small boy wearing a hooded cloak, from the House of the Small Fountain at Pompeii (before ...

Garden Dining Area In The House Of The Ephebe At Pompeii (between AD 62 and 79). The masonry couches formed a []-shaped triclini ...

Still-Life Paintings Of Food, from Herculaneum. According to Vitruvms, such paintings were called xenia ('guest-gifts') after th ...

Embossed Silver Wine-Cup from the Hildesheim hoard (first century A.D.). The finely worked Bacchic reliefs, including theatrical ...

Female Hair-Style Of The Trajanic Period (A.D. 98-117). The honeycomb quiff of the preceding (Flavian) period now gave way to su ...

Carved-Ivory Toilet Box (third century A.D.). The wall is carved with Dionysiac reliefs: a reclining maenad (one of Dionysus' fe ...

Roman Life And Society (By John Matthews) Distances and Diversity In the year A.D. 333 a Christian pilgrim set out from his ho ...

Travellers: detail of a funerary relief from Arlon (Orolaunum) in Belgium (third century A.D.). The two figures, well wrapped in ...