The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Fragments Of A Bronze Calculator recovered from a shipwreck off Anticythera, south of Greece. Part of a consignment of metal-wor ...

apart from the old alliance with isolated Massilia, and was uninterested in the East: during the Hannibalic War her treaty with ...

fighting for a triumph', and he was himself shamefacedly eager for one. Admittedly, generals were often also anxious to end a wa ...

from Campania and elsewhere may have sometimes begun operations abroad by investing the profits of war. Pompeii documents the pr ...

male bust representing the Spirit of the Roman People (Genius Populi Romani). The growing evidence for commerce after the Hannib ...

corn to Rome; however, till the city became dependent on Egypt in the imperial age, the East was not often drawn on. Private mer ...

The Treasury became increasingly dependent on foreign revenues. At first Rome did not, it seems, always impose taxes, but just d ...

nations, and cities', even if technically 'free', were an integral part of the Empire. Some kings already claimed in the second ...

Some peoples, too, were attached to their native rulers and better left to them. And where the Greek cities were concerned, Rome ...

oligarchic, as they tended to become; but we have on stone a letter from a governor of Macedon to a Peloponnesian city, of the l ...

to deal with the ringleaders of a revolutionary movement: two of them have been condemned to death and a third sent to stand tri ...

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 ...