- Augustus
Augustus When Augustus entered upon secure possession of absolute power, the Roman Empire included the fairest and most famous lands on the face of the globe and all the civilised peoples of the ancient world found a place in its ample bosom. - Roman Trophies
- Roman Trophies
- Hannibal's Elephants crossing the Rhone on rafts
The animals are steadying themselves by gripping a special rail with their trunks. - Roman
- Amphoræ, Rhytons, etc.
(British Museum) The modern jars in any of the wine districts of Italy, such as Asti Montepulciano or Montefiascone, thin earthen two-handled vessels holding some twenty quarts, are almost identical with the ancient amphoræ. Suetonius speaks of a candidate for the quæstorship who drank the contents of a whole amphora at a dinner given by Tiberius. This amphora was probably of a smaller size. - Bacchus
- Triumphal Procession from the Arch of Titus
- Toga
From Hope's "Costume of the Ancients." The material of the toga was wool, in the earlier time and for the common people; afterwards silk and other materials were used, coloured or bordered according to the `rank` or station of the wearer. - Bacchus
Bacchus was the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, equivalent to the Greek god Dionysus. - Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (From the Bust in the British Museum.) - Roman General
Roman General - Gladiators
Gladiators (from a wall-painting at Pompeii) In 264 B.C., the very year in{v1-490} which Asoka began to reign and the First Punic War began, the first recorded gladiatorial combat took place in the forum at Rome, to celebrate the funeral of a member of the old Roman family of Brutus. This was a modest display of three couples, but soon gladiators were fighting by the hundred. The taste for these combats grew rapidly, and the wars supplied an abundance of captives. The old Roman moralists, who were so severe upon kissing and women’s ornaments and Greek philosophy, had nothing but good to say for this new development. So long as pain was inflicted, Roman morality, it would seem, was satisfied. - Roman Coin Celebrating the Victory over Pyrrhus
Roman Coin Struck to Commemorate the Victory over Pyrrhus and His Elephants. - Italy after 275 B.C
Map of Italy after 275 BC - Julius Cæsar
It is the custom of historians to treat these struggles with extreme respect. In particular the figure of Julius Cæsar is set up as if it were a star of supreme brightness and importance in the history of mankind. Yet a dispassionate consideration of the known facts fails altogether to justify this demi-god theory of Cæsar. Not even that precipitate wrecker of splendid possibilities, Alexander the Great, has been so magnified and dressed up for the admiration of careless and uncritical readers. - Roman As
Roman As (bronze, 4th Cent. B.C.) - Roman Power after the Samnite Wars
Roman Power after the Samnite Wars - Ariadne from the Vatican
- Ares
- Arch of Titus
- Venus
- Apollo
- Natural amphitheater
- Amphitheater
- Zeus
- Groups from Titus' triumphal procession over the Jews (Arch of Titus)
- Theatrum at Aspendus
- Floor plan of the theatrum at Herculane
- Roman temple (maison carrée) in Nîmes
- Temple ruins in Paestum
- Silenus with little Dionysus, Louvre Museum
- Sistrum
- Signia
- Poseidin
- Pantheon, seen in section from the inside
- Pilum
- Niobe with her youngest daughter
- Mausoleum
- Laocoon
- Hestia
- Hercules
- Bronze Hermes statue of Herculaneum
- Gladiator barracks at Pompeii
- House of Pansa at Pompei
- Plan of House of Pansa - Pompeii
- Dionysis
- Dionysus from the Louvre Museum
- Demeter
- Columbarium
- Circus Maximus
- Chlamys
- Circus Maximus - Plan
- Cerae (closed and sealed)
- Cerae (open)
- Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs (Apollo temple at Bassa
- Basterna
- Balneum (Roman Bath)
- Balteus
- Roman Atrium