The Oxford History Of The Classical World

known visit to Jerusalem as an adult, exchanged by an indifferent Pilate for a popular bandit chief and executed by a penalty re ...

rather than on mountain ranges, which prevent it, were far from impervious to the influence of foreign cultures. Yet the degree ...

Bridge Across The Danube, shown in a detail of the reliefs from Trajan's column (A.D. 113). Constructed by the greatest engineer ...

undertook the construction of subsidiary roads, way-stations, and bridges. Of the latter, the most 'stupendous' (Gibbon's word), ...

already receiving there an education in liberal studies-to pave their way (which, for reasons too complex to describe here, they ...

west, the initial colony of A.D. 96-7 is in the foreground, occupying a rocky spur between two wadis; the more irregular second- ...

Villa At Chedwokth (Gloucestershire): reconstruction drawing of the buildings about A.D. 300. This well-preserved example of a c ...

proper respect. At all levels of society, provincial and metropolitan, it was the landed interest that was most closely connecte ...

Shop-Keeper And Lady With A Dog: reconstructed funerary monument from Lillebonne (second century A.D.). The shopkeeper is shown ...

the constraints and inhibitions imposed by the political life and its values. The two brothers, Seneca and Mela, were prominent ...

Interior Of The Fricidar1um (Cold Room) In The North Baths In Paris (last quarter of second or first quarter of third century A. ...

Scenes Of Beast Hunts (Venationes) in the amphitheatre: mosaic from Smirat in Tunisia (mid third century A.D.). Four huntsmen na ...

There was also the pressing need to channel into legitimate forms of expression the social tensions which, left unchannelled, co ...

Aerial View Of The Amphitheatre At Arles (last quarter of first century A.D.). The elliptical auditorium was developed in centra ...

Circus Games, shown on a funerary relief of the second century A.D. At the left are portraits of the deceased couple, while in t ...

men whose activities were indicated earlier. Since it was usual for a craftsman to market his own products in a shop attached to ...

opportunities to make a living, and even to achieve a certain scandalous distinction, conflicted with a social disapproval that ...

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Roman Art And Architecture (By R.J.A. Wilson) The Augustan Principate When C. Octavianus (soon to take the title Augustus) eme ...

Interior Of The So-Called 'Temple Of Mercury' At Baiae, actually a circular bathing hall in a thermal complex (late first centur ...