The Oxford History Of The Classical World

the constraints and inhibitions imposed by the political life and its values. The two brothers, Seneca and Mela, were prominent ...

Interior Of The Fricidar1um (Cold Room) In The North Baths In Paris (last quarter of second or first quarter of third century A. ...

Scenes Of Beast Hunts (Venationes) in the amphitheatre: mosaic from Smirat in Tunisia (mid third century A.D.). Four huntsmen na ...

There was also the pressing need to channel into legitimate forms of expression the social tensions which, left unchannelled, co ...

Aerial View Of The Amphitheatre At Arles (last quarter of first century A.D.). The elliptical auditorium was developed in centra ...

Circus Games, shown on a funerary relief of the second century A.D. At the left are portraits of the deceased couple, while in t ...

men whose activities were indicated earlier. Since it was usual for a craftsman to market his own products in a shop attached to ...

opportunities to make a living, and even to achieve a certain scandalous distinction, conflicted with a social disapproval that ...

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Roman Art And Architecture (By R.J.A. Wilson) The Augustan Principate When C. Octavianus (soon to take the title Augustus) eme ...

Interior Of The So-Called 'Temple Of Mercury' At Baiae, actually a circular bathing hall in a thermal complex (late first centur ...

Porta Palatina At Turin, one of the monumental gateways of the Augustan colony founded c.25 B.C., and an early instance of brick ...

Composite Capital re-used in the Church of Santa Costanza in Rome. Dated on stylistic grounds to the early Augustan period (C.40 ...

Caryatid Order Of The Forum Of Augustus (end of first century B.C.). The upper storey of the colonnade enclosing the new forum w ...

Painted Wall-Decoration In The Villa Of Agrippa Postumus At Boscotrecase (c. 10 BC). A fine example of the early Third Style: ab ...

in 30 B.C., when the curiosity value of things Egyptian ran high in Italy for a time. Some of the recurrent decorative features ...

The Gemma Augustea, one of the finest examples of the large sardonyx cameos carved with propagandist reliefs by artists of the i ...

Relief From The Ara Pietatis In Rome (dedicated by Claudius in ad43 in belated thanks for the recovery of the Dowager Empress Li ...

Head Of Odysseus From Sperlonga. The hundreds of fragments of baroque sculptural compositions from a grotto identified as that w ...

The transition to the fully developed Fourth Style seems to belong to the 50s; certainly its use on the grand scale is brilliant ...