The Oxford History Of The Classical World

of the Empire, powerfully expressing the relationship of Rome to its loyal subjects. A collection of privileges, honours, even h ...

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Citizenship Diploma Of Gemellus. Dated 17 July 122, the two bronze tablets, wired together through holes at the adjacent corners ...

concept of numeracy. Book-keeping, hindered by the number systems of Greek and Latin, always remained primitive. It is very stra ...

Philip The Arab (AD 244-9), one of a new breed of soldier Emperors who came to the fore in the third century. Their portraits ex ...

Augustan Poetry And Society (By R.O.A.M. Lyne) This is perhaps the most eventful period of Roman history, witness to civil war ...

group of poets comprising Catullus, Calvus, Cinna, and others. These are men of the provincial or Roman upper classes who take t ...

technically panegyrics, devote themselves to the celebration of Messalla and his family (1.7 and 2.5), and scatters his other po ...

Agricultural Scenes, mosaic at Cherchel (Algeria). Early third century A.D. The upper scenes show ploughing and sowing; the lowe ...

not in the patronage of Maecenas. While writing the Georgics he is; and the Georgics, instigated or at least encouraged by Maece ...

Remains Of Horace's Villa At Licenza in the hills 40km east of Rome. The identification of the site as the Sabine farm bestowed ...

knowing it to be leisure poetry, marginal poetry. Thus the image, and it was indeed useful to Horace. Committed at this time to ...

intemptata nites! ... What slim boy, Pyrrha, drenched in liquid scents presses you in an abundance of roses under some pleasing ...

Breastplate Of The Statue Of Augustus From Prima Porta (early first century A.D.). The imagery of the reliefs is closely related ...

Propertius is socially grander than Virgil and Horace and strikes a provocatively unconventional stance in life and literature ( ...

For example, poem 2 of Book 1 is a speech to Cynthia dissuading her from meretricious behaviour, in particular the use of cosmet ...

Achilles Surrenders Briseis to the emissaries of Agamemnon: Pompeian painting (between A.D. 62 and 79) from the House of the Tra ...

is perhaps one of his best compositions. In another fine poem the moral story of Tarpeia is given an erotic motive-again pleasur ...

learn that she is part of Tibullus' vision of rural life, indeed as poem 2 reveals to us, an essential part of his vision of rur ...

It has often been said that Ovid was anti-Augustan. The label is not exactly appropriate. Ovid was indeed irreverent towards Aug ...