Italy
There are 181 items in Italy:
Mount Eryx, from the south |
Nicias
Nicias (c.470-413 BCE): Athenian politician and commander, one of the most important generals in the Peloponnesian War.The Archidamian War Portait of…Oppidum
Oppidum: Latin name for a Celtiberian or Celtic hillfort. Cassel Originally, the word oppidum referred to the citadel or acropolis of the…Opus Africanum
Opus Africanum: modern name for an ancient building technique. Opus Africanum in Bulla Regia The type of masonry shown in the photos…Oracle
Oracle: ancient sanctuary where the people could ask advise from a deity. The response is also called an oracle. Delphi A short…Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
General museum of art and archaeology. There are 3 items in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: …
Paestum, Tombs, Painting of a ritual fight |
Palermo, Regional Archeological Museum Antonio Salinas
Large collection of archaeological objects from western Sicily. There are 14 items in Palermo, Regional Archeological Museum Antonio Salinas: …Paris, Louvre
It is hard to write a review of the Louvre in Paris, because it is one of the world’s largest museums. There are many departments, and each one of them might, in its field, have been a museum of the…Phalaris
Phalaris: tyrant of Acragas on Sicily between c.570 and c.554, the proverbial "evil tyrant".The city of Acragas was founded in 580 BCE by people from Gela, a Greek town on Sicily that had been founded more than a century before…Pithecusae
Pithecusae (Greek: Πιθηκοῦσαι): small island in front of the Bay of Naples, first Greek settlement in Central Italy. The modern name is Ischia.In front of the Bay of Naples are several small islands. Pithecusae is the largest of these and was…Polyaenus on Phalaris
Between 570 and 544, Phalaris was tyrant of Acragas, a newly founded city in southern Sicily, which he made very powerful. Our sources portray him as a clever man, and although many stories are probably untrue, they are nice to…