What informed and inspired the visual artists who depicted the Trojan War on vases, on
walls, and in sculpture? Scholars have debated this question for years. Were Greek painters simply depicting the stories of Achilles and Odysseus as recounted in ...
English summary: In the spring of 1899, the grave goods of the Fan-Bearer Maiherperi, whose
tomb was discovered in the Valley of the King (KV 36), were added to the considerable collection of the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo and ...
The last three decades have witnessed the introduction of gendered approaches to the social sciences
in general, and archaeology in particular, developing initially within the rubric of womens studies by American feminist and other politically minded academics who formed part ...
When the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the
19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use of the newly introduced technique of color lithography, ...
Both born to power and wealth, and raised by courtiers, they lived lives of aristocrats
and landowners, in poor health and with uncertain futures. Though they lived over 3000 years apart, the lives of Egyptian King Tutankhamun and the fifth ...
Studies of Pompeian material culture have traditionally been dominated by art-historical approaches, but recently there
has been a renewed and burgeoning interest in Pompeian houses for studies of Roman domestic behavior. This book is concerned with contextualized Pompeian household artifacts ...
***Please note that this ebook does not contain the photo insert that appears in the
print book.***The ash of Mt. Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating society it instantly obliterated two thousand years ago. In this ...
Die Entdeckung Pompejis und Herculaneums schien Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts in glücklicher Koinzidenz mit der
Genese des klassizistischen Geschmacks zu erfolgen. Anstelle von edler Einfalt und stiller Größe erblickten Reisende jedoch eine Stadt kleiner, arabesk verzierter Gebäude mit ...
