The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Mosaic Fountain Niche in the House of the Bear at Pompeii. Such niches were a favourite feature of Pompeian gardens once running ...

Canal In The Garden Of D. Octavius Quartio at Pompeii (between AD 62 and 79). In imitation of the canals of villa-parks, this we ...

combining shrubs, fountains, decorative statuettes, and often frescoes on the enclosing walls, reflect the aspiration of the wea ...

Sleeping Pixie: marble statuette of a small boy wearing a hooded cloak, from the House of the Small Fountain at Pompeii (before ...

Garden Dining Area In The House Of The Ephebe At Pompeii (between AD 62 and 79). The masonry couches formed a []-shaped triclini ...

Still-Life Paintings Of Food, from Herculaneum. According to Vitruvms, such paintings were called xenia ('guest-gifts') after th ...

Embossed Silver Wine-Cup from the Hildesheim hoard (first century A.D.). The finely worked Bacchic reliefs, including theatrical ...

Female Hair-Style Of The Trajanic Period (A.D. 98-117). The honeycomb quiff of the preceding (Flavian) period now gave way to su ...

Carved-Ivory Toilet Box (third century A.D.). The wall is carved with Dionysiac reliefs: a reclining maenad (one of Dionysus' fe ...

Roman Life And Society (By John Matthews) Distances and Diversity In the year A.D. 333 a Christian pilgrim set out from his ho ...

Travellers: detail of a funerary relief from Arlon (Orolaunum) in Belgium (third century A.D.). The two figures, well wrapped in ...

known visit to Jerusalem as an adult, exchanged by an indifferent Pilate for a popular bandit chief and executed by a penalty re ...

rather than on mountain ranges, which prevent it, were far from impervious to the influence of foreign cultures. Yet the degree ...

Bridge Across The Danube, shown in a detail of the reliefs from Trajan's column (A.D. 113). Constructed by the greatest engineer ...

undertook the construction of subsidiary roads, way-stations, and bridges. Of the latter, the most 'stupendous' (Gibbon's word), ...

already receiving there an education in liberal studies-to pave their way (which, for reasons too complex to describe here, they ...

west, the initial colony of A.D. 96-7 is in the foreground, occupying a rocky spur between two wadis; the more irregular second- ...

Villa At Chedwokth (Gloucestershire): reconstruction drawing of the buildings about A.D. 300. This well-preserved example of a c ...

proper respect. At all levels of society, provincial and metropolitan, it was the landed interest that was most closely connecte ...

Shop-Keeper And Lady With A Dog: reconstructed funerary monument from Lillebonne (second century A.D.). The shopkeeper is shown ...