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Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection Pompeii map Plan. The House of the Tragic Poet (also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House) is a Roman house in Pompeii, Italy dating to the 2nd century BCE. The house is famous for its elaborate mosaic floors and frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology.
Briseis taken away from Achilles, Fourth Style of Pompeian wall painting, from the atrium of the House of the Tragic Poet Detail. Achilles and Briseis is an ancient Roman painting from the 1st-century AD, depicting the scene from the Iliad where the captured Trojan princess and priestess Briseis is taken away from Achilles by the order of Agamemnon.
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Cave canem Roman mosaic at the entrance to the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii, Italy, 1st century AD Mosaic at Pompeii Notice at the Glasgow Necropolis Beware of dog sign in Tokyo. Beware of the dog (also rendered as Beware of dog) is a warning sign posted at the entrance to a building or other private area indicating that a dangerous dog ...
A Roman mosaic on a wall in the House of Neptune and Amphitrite, Herculaneum, Italy, 1st century AD. A Roman mosaic is a mosaic made during the Roman period, throughout the Roman Republic and later Empire. Mosaics were used in a variety of private and public buildings, [1] on both floors and walls, though they competed with cheaper frescos for ...
Alcestis and Admetus, ancient Roman fresco (45–79 CE) from the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii, Italy (photo by Stefano Bolognini).. Alcestis (/ æ l ˈ s ɛ s t ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἄλκηστις, Álkēstis) or Alceste, was a princess in Greek mythology, known for her love of her husband.
Swift's latest album, The Tortured Poets Society, came out Friday, April 19, at 12 a.m. ET, and is available on vinyl, cassette, CD and digital.The surprise double album, The Anthology, dropped ...
CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.