Flavian Visual Propaganda : Building a Dynasty
In addition to demonstrating the application of the three themes in these instances, I would like to draw particular attention to the interrelation of the following: the misunderstood significance of the Temple of Isis in the Flavian triumph; the refiguring of Nero
What/When Is a Portrait? Royal Images of the Ancient Near East
Royal images of the ancient Near East
The Vengeance of Achilles: The Impact of Viewing Context and Reception on Visual Narrative
One of the most poignant scenes from Homer
The Parthenon Frieze: Viewed as the Panathenaic Festival Preceding the Battle of Marathon
The Parthenon frieze has been the subject of many debates and the interpretation of it leads to a number of problems: what was the subject of the frieze? What would the frieze have meant to the Athenian audience?
Studies in the Representation of Dwarfs in Hellenistic and Roman Art
As individuals who fell outside the prevailing norms of society, dwarfs were often regarded as prodigies in antiquity: living amulets as well as instruments of private and public entertainment.
Hellenism and the Shaping of the Byzantine Empire
While the role of Byzantine Hellenism on the art, literature, and society of the Empire has been the subject of tremendous study, the question of its origins has, nonetheless, rarely been raised, and the strongly Hellenic Byzantine identity seems, to a large extent, to have been taken for granted historiographically.
A Tale of Two Kitties
The extent to which various feline deities were venerated in Egypt is reflected in the large number of representations of the goddesses and, naturally, of cats.
Glass in the Roman Empire: History, Technology, and Typology
The Hellenistic society seems to have given less emphasis to glass than metal ware and pottery, but it still provided enough support to allow continuation of the trade on a smaller scale.
The Greek Achievement: The Birth of Classicism
This article is based on a lecture delivered at the The Greeks Institute, a series of lectures presented to secondary school teachers in the Bridgeport Public Schools during the spring of 1989. Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Humanities Council, Sacred Heart University, and the Bridgeport Public Schools, the purpose of the institute has been to provide teachers with an interdisciplinary exploration of classical Greece for the purposes of professional enrichment and curriculum development.
Sex and Lots of Erotic Art to Prove It: The Erotic art of Pompeii
The ancient Roman City of Pompeii is a spectacle of some of the worlds most beautiful and risqu