Probably dating from the first century AD, De Eloutione is an ancient treatise on good writing practices that draws on works by Aristotle and Theophrastus. ...
Continue Reading →Every day Roman urbanites took to the street for myriad tasks, from hawking vegetables and worshipping local deities to simply loitering and socializing. ...
Continue Reading →Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an ...
Continue Reading →Nero’s palace, the Domus Aurea (Golden House), is the most influential known building in the history of Roman architecture. It has been incompletely ...
Continue Reading →Housing is shaped by culturally-specific expectations about the kinds of architecture and decoration that are appropriate; about how and where different activities should ...
Continue Reading →Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential ...
Continue Reading →For over sixty years Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s study of European architecture has been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students ...
Continue Reading →The six chapters are headed, 1. Sicily; 2. Syracuse; 3. Agrigentum; 4. Selinus; 5. Ægesta [sc. Segesta]; 6. Posidonia, Or Paestum. The Appendix ...
Continue Reading →The Baths of the Romans Explained and Illustrated: with the restorations of Palladio corrected and improved, to which is prefixed, an introductory preface, ...
Continue Reading →Earlier dates of 1726 or 1727 appear on five head- and tail-pieces. Castell’s study concentrates on two villas described in some detail in ...
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