Etruscan warrior or Mars (mid 400s BC) bronze
Florence, Museo Archeologico

Ambush of Prince Troilus by Achiles – Detail of painted wall
Etruscan Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquina (540-530 BC)

Etruscan Sarcophagus of the Spouses (late 500s BC) polychrome terra cotta – from Cerveteri
Paris, Musée du Louvre

The "Capitoline" she-wolf (early 400s BC) bronze
(the twins date from the late 1400s)
Rome, Palazzo dei Conservatori

Roman noble holding the portraits of his ancestors [statue known as "Barberini"]
(2nd half of the 1st century BC) marble
Rome, Palazzo dei Conservatori

Freize from the Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus – (c. 100 BC) marble
census episode:  registration of citizens and sacrifice to the god Mars
Paris, Musée du Louvre
(click on picture for much larger version)

Statue of Emperor Octavian Augustus – (c. 20 BC) marble
from Livia's Villa, Prima Porta, north of Rome
Rome, Musei Vaticani

Emperor Octavian Augustus

Roman Forum – arch of Septimus Severus in the background (erected in AD 203)

The Roman Forum

The Roman Forum
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The Roman Forum
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The Roman Forum
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The Approach to the Coliseum from the Roman Forum
Miles Hodges

Coliseum, Rome – (AD 70-80)

The Coliseum
Miles Hodges

The interior of the Coliseum
Miles Hodges

The interior of the Coliseum
Miles Hodges

Hadrian's Tomb
Miles Hodges

Villa of Emperor Hadrian at Tivoli – (AD 117-134)

Interior of the Pantheon, Rome
(erected in 17 BC; destroyed by fire in AD 80; reconstructed by Hadrian in AD 123)

Trajan's column – (AD 107-113) marble

Titus's troops carrying off plunder from the Temple of Jerusalem
From the Arch of Titus - Rome

Pompei
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Pompei
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Pompei
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Pompei
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Pompei
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Pompei - wealthy, educated husband and wife

Dionysiac Mystery Frieze – Detail of Second Style wall painting (c. 50 BC)
Pompeii, Villa of the Mysteries

La Primavera (1st century AD) fresco – from the villa of Ariane, Stabiae
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

Trompe-l'oeil wall decoration – Boscoreale (50 BC) fresco
Naples, Museo Archeologico

Heading south from Rome on the Appian Way (Via Appia)

The Appian Way
Miles Hodges

The Appian Way
Miles Hodges

A Roman Aquaduct at Nimes, France, built in the 1st century A.D.

Aqueduct of Segovia, Spain (AD 117-134)

Judgement of Paris (c. AD 115) mosaic – from Antioch, Turkey
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Funerary portrait of a young woman (c. AD 161-180) encaustic on panel – from Faiyum, Egypt
Paris, Musée du Louvre

The tetrarchs ('four rulers') (300s)
representing the co-rulers of the Diocletian reforms
on a corner of Saint Mark's in Venice next to the Porta della Carta

Corinth in Roman times

Miles Hodges

Apollo Temple - Corinth
Miles Hodges

Miles Hodges

Palmyra, Syria (... mostly destroyed since 2015 by the Islamic State)

Monumental arch, Palmyra, Syria (200s AD)

Temple of Bel complex in the background and the agora on left center in Palmyra, Syria
Bernard Gagnon

Ephesus, The Library of Celsus

Miles H. Hodges - 2018