Ancient Rome

Hydria, 470-460 BCE, from Puglia, Italy. Home museum is the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. Last May, I had the pleasure of...

If you're looking at prestige art and architecture, it's likely that you're going to find lions in its decoration. I wouldn't be...

Modern representations of the snake-haired woman depict her as a dangerous beauty, but the Ancient Greek and Roman images show her as...

Ancient Roman sarcophagi were for the wealthy, and were created in workshops which concentrated on particular themes: demonstrating the...

Images of barbarians were created to support a narrative of Roman superiority, and to justify military aggression as a defense of...

The barbarians here are not a journalistic representation of a specific battle, just as the image of the decedent at the center of the...