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- Outline plan of Pompeii
The Regions are given as they were laid out by Fiorelli, the boundaries being marked by broken lines. The Insulae are designated by Arabic numerals. Stabian Street, between Stabian and Vesuvius gates, separating Regions VIII, VII, and VI, from I, IX, and V, is often called Cardo, from analogy with the cardo maximus (the north and south line) of a Roman camp. Nola Street, leading from the Nola Gate, with its continuations (Strada della Fortuna, south of Insulae 10, 12, 13, and 14 of Region VI, and Strada della Terme, south of VI, 4, 6, 8), was for similar reasons designated as the Greater Decuman, Decumanus Maior; while the street running from the Water Gate to the Sarno Gate (Via Marina, Abbondanza Street, Strada dei Diadumeni) is called the Lesser Decuman, Decumanus Minor. The only Regions wholly excavated are VII and VIII; but only a small portion of Region VI remains covered. The towers of the city wall are designated by numbers, as they are supposed to have been at the time of the siege of Sulla, in 89 B.C. - Artemis
- Athena
- Parthenon
- Floor plan of the Erechtheum
- Plan of Parthenon
- Atrium
- Roman Atrium
- Balneum (Roman Bath)
- Balteus
- Basterna
- Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs (Apollo temple at Bassa
- Cerae (open)
- Cerae (closed and sealed)
- Chlamys
- Circus Maximus - Plan
- Circus Maximus
- Columbarium
- Demeter
- Dionysis
- Dionysus from the Louvre Museum
- Plan of House of Pansa - Pompeii
- House of Pansa at Pompei
- Gladiator barracks at Pompeii
- Hercules
- Bronze Hermes statue of Herculaneum
- Hestia
- Laocoon
- Mausoleum
- Niobe with her youngest daughter
- Pantheon, seen in section from the inside
- Pilum
- Poseidin
- Signia
- Silenus with little Dionysus, Louvre Museum
- Sistrum
- Temple ruins in Paestum
- Roman temple (maison carrée) in Nîmes
- Floor plan of the theatrum at Herculane
- Groups from Titus' triumphal procession over the Jews (Arch of Titus)
- Theatrum at Aspendus
- Zeus
- Amphitheater
- Natural amphitheater
- Venus
- Apollo
- Arch of Titus
- Ares
- Ariadne from the Vatican
- Roman Power after the Samnite Wars
Roman Power after the Samnite Wars - Roman As
Roman As (bronze, 4th Cent. B.C.) - 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. - Italy after 275 B.C
Map of Italy after 275 BC - Roman Coin Celebrating the Victory over Pyrrhus
Roman Coin Struck to Commemorate the Victory over Pyrrhus and His Elephants. - 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 General
Roman General - Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (From the Bust in the British Museum.) - Bacchus
Bacchus was the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, equivalent to the Greek god Dionysus. - 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. - 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.