as by a brazier of bronze (foculus), in which the charcoal ashes were still remaining when the excavation was made. Sitting and perspiring beside such a brazier was called ad flammam sudare.
There are Egyptian instruments in many museums of the world: sistrums (rattles), harps, flutes, oboes, pipes, hydraulic and pneumatic organs, wooden and bronze trumpets, and percussion instruments of various types. The musical culture of Egypt was influenced by neighboring peoples; during the New...
When it comes to Roman medicine, much of it is owed to what discoveries and theories the Greeks had developed before, but with a definite Roman twist. Hippocrates The fusion of Greek and Roman medicine in the Roman Empire consisted of two parts: the scientific, and the religious/magical. Th...
waterfromthecontainersintovariouspartsofthecity.Thepipesweremadeofstone, terra-cotta,wood,leather,lead,andbronze. 23 Pantheon Romansworshipedmanydifferentgods.ThePantheon(PAN-thee-ahn)wasatemple dedicatedtoallthegods. Thewordpantheonmeans“ofallgods.” ThePantheonisingoodconditiontoday.Andyetitwasbuiltnearly...
Etruscan bronze liver that may have served as an instructional model for a haruspex (Wikimedia Commons) Oracles were an important part form of natural divination, and though they were more popular in the world of ancient Greece, they did play a role in Roman religion. The most famous oracles...
hollow bull fashioned out of bronze. The historian describes in detail how the bull’s nostrils were fitted with “small sounding pipes or reeds [auliskous].”12The perverse sculptor proudly explained to his master that a man could be locked inside the bull and, with a strong fire lit under...
complete translation into English of this unique work on dream interpretation, coming to us from an early "professional" of this ancient art. Moreover the translation has been enriched by Professor White's in depth commentary on the text and on the vast Greek and Roman culture ofArtemidorus'...
require lifting the water to street level as did river water. Roman aqueducts were built on elevated structures to provide the needed slope for water flow. Knowledge of pipe making—using bronze, lead, wood, tile, and concrete—was in its infancy, and the difficulty of making large high-...
Whether through the strength of its walls, the valour of its citizens, or its geographical position away from the main route to thePeloponnesus, Athens seems to have weathered the Late Bronze and Early Iron ages, troubled times, better than other, more important centres. There is no evidence ...
That diverse pore-size distributions might lead a differential physical behavior and durability of the bricks that, acting jointly in the fabrics, might counteract the damage caused in bricks by the main decay agents and by the own passing of time. It could be stated that the beige hue bodies...