The Oxford History Of The Classical World

In the autumn of 69 Vespasian established himself as sole master of the Roman world. A man of plebeian stock, he was a down-to-e ...

Domitian's Palace (the Domus Augustana) in Rome (A.D. 81-92). The palace consisted of three main blocks: at the left the officia ...

Captured Spoils From Jerusalem, relief panel in the passageway of the Arch of Titus (soon after A.D. 81). The two reliefs in the ...

Trajan Addressing His Troops (adlocvtio). This relief from Trajan's column (dedicated in A.D. 113) demonstrates the concern of t ...

line. By contrast the friezes on a contemporary monument (the rebuilt temple in the Forum of Caesar) favour instead an ornate, h ...

portico and gable was very much run-of-the-mill for the temples of its time, and the radical conjunction of a rectangular porch ...

Domed Hall In The Gardens Of Sallust. Rome (engraving by Piranesi): a fine example of the ambitious vaulting techniques explored ...

Augustus' day, and evidence of their work can be detected in the embellishment of all the major projects associated with Hadrian ...

generally retained its conservative, late-Hellenistic flavour during the first century, sparks of originality were also there: t ...

Fountain-Building At Miletus (beginning of second century A.D.). The reconstruction reveals a number of features characteristic ...

Painted Marine Decoration from one of a pair of rooms excavated in the vicinity of the docks on the Tiber in Rome (c. A.D. 131). ...

Black-And-White Mosaic in the Baths of Neptune at Ostia (c. A.D. 140). While second-century mosaicists in parts of northern Ital ...

products, representative of sculpture in decline; but as the figures of the Seasons or the Victory spandrels on the same Arch-or ...

Adlocutio Of Marcus Aurelius. This scene from Marcus's column (A.D. 180-95) can be compared with the same subject on the column ...

Envoi: On Taking Leave Of Antiquity (By Henry Chadwick) The ancient classical world is a large entity to take leave of. How did ...

Diocletian (Emperor 284-306, died 316 at Split), then by Constantine the Great (Emperor 306-37). From about 250 there was drasti ...

Constantine The Great: fragments of the gigantic statue from the Basilica of Constantine, Rome (c. A.D. 313). The full-size colu ...

each half at the head of the civil services. They were responsible for justice and taxation, but not for the army. Under them we ...

Theodosian Code was transmitted with a supplement of additional edicts or 'novels' for the years 438-58. The 'end of the western ...

Mosaic Of Justinian With Guards, Officials, And Clerics, in the church of San Vitale at Ravenna (c. A.D. 547). The Emperor, who ...