The Oxford History Of The Classical World

visible world he sides with Albinus. The same may also be said for the great Christian theologian Origen (185-254), who perhaps ...

On one occasion he writes that being is 'not a corpse, and not not-life and not not-thinking.' The second feature of importance ...

such an opposition of soul and body. Again, therefore, the question must be asked: does such language express a profound metaphy ...

programme for a highly organized society making towards a goal of general improvement.' Nevertheless there is something inexpres ...

reign, to a career of almost continuous warfare. Marcus Aurelius, born in 121 A.D., was adopted by the Emperor Antoninus Pius in ...

Aerial View Of Carnuntum, where Marcus Aurelius wrote part of his Meditations. Occupying an important strategic position on the ...

always there in the background. On the whole Marcus prefers the more to the less personal expressions. He has less to say about ...

Part Of The Inscription Of Diogenes Of Oenoanda (second century A.D.). Over 200 fragments of this amazing philosophical text hav ...

As in the other systems here described, the central aim was one of offering the maximum of happiness. It must be admitted at the ...

The Arts Of Living (By Roger Ling) Introduction The object of the present chapter is to review those aspects of Roman art and ...

Isometric Diagram Of A Pompeian House. The tendency to an axial layout with a sequence of roofed and unroofed elements is clearl ...

the rarity of window glass, not widely available before the first century A.D., created a lighting problem, since openings creat ...

The housing of a major commercial city of the high imperial age is best studied at Ostia, largely rebuilt according to new build ...

Painting Of A Seaside Villa of the early-imperial age. Unlike the town-houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum, which turned away from ...

Truly cultured householders, like the owners of the villa at Boscotrecase just north of Pompeii, preferred original paintings in ...

The other main art form found in private houses is sculpture. Here we must distinguish between the religious statuettes of the h ...

The Garden Of The House Of M. Lucretius At Pompeii, an excellent example of the use made by the early-imperial bourgeoisie of de ...

Bronze Lamp-Stand from the Villa of Diomedes at Pompeii (before AD 79): a particularly ornate example in which the lamps are sus ...

Wooden Cupboard-Shrine in the House of the Wooden Shrine at Herculaneum. The shrine, in the form of a little temple with finely ...

House of M. Lucretius Fronto at Pompeii shows an enclosed flower-bed on cither side of a focal tree, reflecting the symmetry of ...