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Roman Amphitheatre, Caerleon

The Roman amphitheatre at Caerleon, Wales. Photo by Gareth Blaney. Source.

Epicurean Stoa

This is a reconstruction of the stoa built in Oinoanda, Lycia to display the works of the Epicurean philosopher Diogenes, whose writings are not otherwise known and are now lie scattered over the town site, having been reused in later buildings and defenses that have since fallen down. The work of piecing together Diogenes' writings (and the stoa), and puts him in the same category as Philodemus, another philosopher whose work (in his case on charred scrolls) is slowly emerging in the 21st Century. Source. See also.

The Afrin Stele

The Afrin stele contains a fragment of hieroglyphic Luwian text from about 900 BC. It was found at Afrin in northern Syria. Source.

The Arena of Nîmes

This amphitheatre in Nîmes, Provence, built around 70 AD, was converted into a bullring in 1863 and now serves as a concert venue, with a couple of bullfights per year to propitiate the ghosts. Source.

Sant'Adriano al Foro, 1909

The Church of Saint Adriano in the Forum (the building between the pillars) started life as the Curia Julia, the meeting-house of the Roman Senate. Source.

Egyptian Arkadia

Byzantine Egypt had a province named Arkadia. Source.

Medieval Ovid

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Great Hall, Domus Aurea

A reconstruction of the great hall in Nero's Domus Aurea, by French architect Georges Chedanne. Source.

The Silchester Eagle

The Silchester Eagle was discovered in 1866 at the site of the abandoned Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum in Hampshire. It inspired Rosemary Sutcliffe's 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth, though it probably wasn't part of a legionary standard. You can see it at Reading Museum. Source.

Pandora's Box by Steele Savage

Steele Savage did the illustrations for Edith Hamilton's Mythology. He produced many book covers for science fiction paperback publishers in 1970, the last year of his life.