Browse Items (78 total)

Bluedog423, Segovia Aqueduct, 2005

Angle shot of a Roman aqueduct in Segovia, Spain.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, aqueduct, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Monument, Politics, roman empire, Segovia, Segovia Aqueduct, spain, Urbanism, water, Water management

Carole Raddato, Detail of Gladiator Mosaic Floor, 18 November 2012

Gladiators were often prisoners of war, criminals, salves, volunteers, and sometimes even women. Early battles were fought until the death, but later…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Art, Bad Kreuznach, Byzantium, Cities, Colosseum, Combat, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Entertainment, Fall of Rome, Fight, Germany, Gladiator, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Monuments, Mosaic, roman empire, Spectacle, Sport, Urbanism

Carole Raddato, Detail of Gladiator Mosaic Floor 2, 18 November 2012

Some gladiators, known as venatores, solely hunted animals for sport in the arena. On very special occasions, presenters would decorate the arena with…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Animal, Bad Kreuznach, Byzantium, Cities, Colosseum, Combat, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Entertainment, Fall of Rome, Fight, Germany, Gladiator, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Monuments, roman empire, Sport, Urbanism, Violence

Carole Raddato, Remains of the Peristyle which defined the Forum of Nerva., Wikimedia Commons, August 28 2011

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Nerva, Peristyle, Public Spaces, roman empire, Society, Urbanism

Carole Raddatto, Gladiator Mosaic Floor, 18 November 2012

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Art, Bad Kreuznach, Cities, Colosseum, Combat, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Entertainment, Fall of Rome, Fight, Germany, Gladiator, Home, late antique, Late Antiquity, Monuments, Mosaic, roman empire, Sport, Urbanism, Violence

CrniBombarder!!!, Valens Aqueduct, 2007

Front shot of the Valens Aqueduct with traffic running underneath.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cars, Cities, Constantinople, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, Istanbul, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Modern, Politics, roman empire, Turkey, Urbanism, Valens Aqueduct, War, water, Water management

Dave & Margie Hill, Relief of Poet & Comedy Masks, 27 December 2010

Different performances had various costumes and masks associated with them. This relief shows the comic masks.

Tags: Ancient Rome, Comedy, Costume, Culture, Decoration, Mask, Performance, Poet, Relief, Stone, Theater, Theatre

Dguendel, Circus Maximus in Rome, Present Day, 2015

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Athletics, Byzantium, Circus, Circus Maximus, Cities, City, Competition, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Entertainment, Fall of Rome, Hippodrome, Horse Racing, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Race Track, Racing, Roman Culture, roman empire, Rome, Spectacle, Sports, Urbanism

Doug Boin, Apotropaic Amulet from Ostia, Second to Fourth Century, 2016

Dated somewhere between the second and fourth centuries, this apotropaic amulet from Ostia exemplifies the eclectic, pragmatic, and individual nature…

Tags: Amulet, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Ostia, Paganism, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism

Doug Boin, Lulav, Ethrog, Menorah, and Shofar on the Corbel of the Ostia Synagogue, 2016

Close-Up of a corbel from the remaining structure of the Ostia synagogue, with a clearly discernible menorah

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Constantinople, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Hagia Eirene, Inscriptions, Istanbul, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Turkey, Urbanism