The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Statue Of A Child Playing With A Goose, a Roman copy of a Hellenistic composition dated to the third century B.C. A passage in P ...

Coin Portraits Of Bactrian Kings: (Left) Antimachus (C.185 BC), (Right) Eucratides I (c.165-150bc). The portraits of this remark ...

Detail Of The Battle Of Gods And Giants: frieze of the Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamum (c. 166-159 B.C.). Athena seizes the ...

paintings of Alexander's battles (by Philoxenus of Eretria and a Graeco-Egyptian paintress Helen) and get hints of others. If, a ...

Painting Of Odysseus In The Land Of The Laestrygonians, part of a frieze depicting scenes from Homer's Odyssey found in a house ...

Detail Of A Pebble Mosaic At Pella in Macedonia (c.300 B.C.). The mosaic, which formed the centrepiece of a floor in a grand tow ...

Reconstructed Wall-Decoration From The House Of The Dolphins At Delos (late second century B.C.). This type of decoration, used ...

In architecture the meeting of Greece and Italy produced a vigorous new tradition. Among its products were new types of building ...

Sanctuary Of Fortune At Praeneste (Palestrina) (late second century B.C.): one of the monumental architectural complexes put up ...

The Borghese Crater (late second century B.C.) : a fine example of the grand marble garden-ornaments produced by Neo-Attic works ...

'Pseudo-Athlete': statue of an Italian merchant or official from the House of the Diadumenus on Delos (early first century B.C.) ...

A Roman military census: detail of a relief from the so-called Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus (actually the base of a statue-grou ...

Corner Of A Painted Bedroom In A Villa At Boscoreale, near Pompeii (mid first century B.C.), a classic example of the Second Sty ...

Rome The Founding Of The Empire (By David Stockton) ...

Map 9. The Roman Empire (Western Provinces) ...

Map 9. The Roman Empire (Central And Eastern Provinces) The future Emperor Augustus was born at Rome in September 63 B.C. His fa ...

his troops "were not ready to shed more blood for him and preferred Octavian. Though his life was spared, Lepidus was stripped o ...

In my sixth and seventh consulships [28/7 B.C.], after I had stamped out the civil wars, and at a time when by universal consent ...

Wall Of The Temple Of Rome And Augustus At Ankara, showing the Res Gestae. Augustus' propagandist account of his achievements wa ...

Map 10. The Growth Of Roman Rule It is plain that the ciuilis princeps Augustus understood the great importance of preserving an ...