This Etruscan fresco is thought to date to c. 475 BCE. It is part of a tomb decoration from Tarquinia, legendary home of the Roman king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus though long after his time!
A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome.
“This exciting and provocative book grabs the reader while supporting its arguments with careful classical scholarship.”—Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire.
Roman marble head of Constantine I ~ c. 325–370 CE
The style of this portraiture is thought to be designed to evoke a connection back to the optimus princeps himself, Trajan. It might be a couple of centuries later but he was still the one to emulate!
That’s a wrap on the Intelligent Speech Conference for 2023!
It was an absolute pleasure to chat about the challenges Augustus faced when thinking about who’d be his heir (in the elite family sense) and how his approach to this seemed to change as his political power became more entrenched with the principate. If only he and Livia could have had a son…
This fresco depicts Polyphemus and the nereid Galatea in a landscape. Galatea is sometimes also the name of the statue that Pygmalion creates, though these were likely different story traditions…
The first temptation is to assume the nude Pan has been up to no good, but he seems to be riding the mule with some modesty. Now, the same cannot be said for the mule…