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The piece is small, about nine and a half inches high, and it is obviously a fragment. A man’s head and shoulders, carved in marble in the late first century BCE, broken out of something considerably larger. The Met’s curators identify what that something was: a funerary relief, …
The Starz series Spartacus arrived in 2010 with a visual style so aggressively stylized — slow-motion combat, digitally saturated color, blood that …
The Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, which premiered in 2010 and ran for three seasons plus a prequel miniseries, was not trying to be HBO’s …
Ninety percent of the people in the Roman Empire worked the land. This is the number that most discussions of Rome skip past in their attention to the …
Roman punishment was not uniform. It was calibrated to social status in ways so explicit and systematic that the law itself divided humanity into …
Roman law recognized that people harmed each other in ways that were not crimes but that required legal remedy, and it organized those harms into a …
In the Greek and Roman antiquities hall of the Louvre, in a room of vaulted ceilings and warm museum light, four marble figures stand back-to-back …
Denis Foyatier carved this Spartacus in 1830 and put him in the Louvre’s Cour Puget, where he has stood ever since in a room of arched windows and …
Roman clothing was a system of social communication before it was a system of warmth or modesty. What a Roman wore told every observer who saw them …
