The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Portrait Of A Woman from Roman Egypt (first half of second century A.D.). Juvenal's denunciation of women in his sixth satire in ...

splendour of his rhetoric but are the very essence of that splendour. The kind of sardonic grandeur that was achieved fitfully b ...

Eumolpus is allowed to tell the story of the widow of Ephesus in dashing style; Trimalchio's foolish astrology has a sharp edge ...

Silver Beaker With Skeletons Of Greek poets and philosophers (first half of first century A.D.). Several works of art in late He ...

recounted by various of the characters who figure in the main narrative. The longest of these, the tale of Cupid and Psyche, occ ...

The Worship Of Isis: painting from Herculaneum (mid first century A.D.). Lucius' conversion to the Egyptian which enjoyed such s ...

Nile Boat-Trip: mosaic panel from Tivoli (second century A.D.). General Nilotic subjects were popular in the Roman decorative ar ...

Arretine Bowl Made By M. Perennius Tigranus (late first century B.C.). Relief-moulded pottery superseded painted ceramics as the ...

Decorated Glassware Prom The Rhineland (third century A.D.). The so-called 'snake-thread' glass, pioneered in the eastern Medite ...

tacita secreta cistarum et per famulorum tuorum draconum pinnata curricula et glebac Siculae sulcamina et currum rapacem et terr ...

Cupid And Psyche: marble statue-group from the House of Cupid and Psyche at Ostia, copied from a second- century B.C. original. ...

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Later Philosophy (By Anthony Meredith) General Tendencies The period with which this section is concerned is bracketed by the ...

Posidonius Of Apamea (c.135-50 B.C.), the last of the great polymaths of the Hellenistic age; he wrote on geography, astronomy, ...

a Platonic anthology, now lost, from which these excerpts were taken. It does not seem necessary to postulate such a book, but i ...

The Nymphaeum Of Herodes Atticus At Olympia (reconstruction model). The immensely wealthy Athenian sophist (c. A.D. 101-77) was ...

that the age saw the rapid expansion of Christianity, but it would be hardly fair to label all Christians as either pathological ...

Plato's Academy: mosaic panel found near Pompeii (late second or first century B.C.). According to a recent theory, the figure a ...

some Platonists, who might have been happy to admit the possibility of knowledge, regarded the proposed alliance between Plato a ...

Opinions about his philosophical seriousness vary from the declared and consistent, if not always orthodox Platonism attributed ...