Do you like ancient history?

In later life he turned towards classical themes.

But Botticelli's Venus comes straight from classical antiquity

For him philosophy is not in the service of theology.

I can't even think of a nude Artemis in antiquity.

The earliest records of such executions date back to the classical period.

Боспор Киммерийский и варварский мир в период античности и средневековья.

There was interest in humanism, in antiquity, in poetry.

It is at this point that individual souls are united with a material body (i.e.

Antiquity The ancient history of North Africa is inextricably linked to that of the Ancient Near East.

So the ancient artist was protected from certain things, like, for example, too much narcissism, right?

He is currently a member of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Ministry of Culture.

This century is considered the end of the Classical Age in Europe where the Dark Ages followed.

Yet, this is the style that is pulling away from the traditions of classical antiquity.

In Sternberg Palace in Hradčany you will find a collection of European art from antiquity through the Baroque.

The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions.

It first became accessible (in part) to the public in 1830, when the Altes Museum was opened.

Anybody who's looking it this pod in the ancient world would have known the story of Ajax and Achilles that Hommers tells.

Paul Veyne ( born 13 June 1930 in Aix en Provence) is a French archaeologist and historian, and a specialist on Ancient Rome.

Nowadays, especially looking at ancient art or even Rennaisance art, we've really become accustomed to nudity in art.

Otto Karl Seeck (2 February 1850 29 June 1921) was a German classical historian who is perhaps best known for his work on the decline of the ancient world.

It would have hung in their palace and it speaks to a man who wanted to express his knowledge of antiquity and of course to also be a great patron of the Renaissance.

I think we probably have to tell the story of why the statue was so important in antiquity to get to that story.

The Birth of Venus thus seems to embody the true Renaissance spirit rejection of medieval obscurantism thanks to rediscovery of the Greek and Roman legacy.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Mashkin (9 February 1900, Sokolki 15 September 1950, Moscow) was a Soviet scholar of Roman history (Doctor of Historical Sciences and Professor from 1942).

So this is the discovery of a lost voice from antiquity, speaking to us, not from the grave, because his grave doesn't exist, but from the Athenian law courts.

In Late Antiquity, Beroea was the second largest Syrian city after Antioch, the capital of Syria and the third largest city in the Roman world.

Ulrich Wilcken (December 18, 1862 December 10, 1944) was a German historian and papyrologist who was a native of Stettin.

This is a problem often called squaring a circle that was first proposed in the ancient world. And like many ideas of the ancient world, it was given new life during the Renaissance.

Preservation Food preservation methods were basically the same as had been used since antiquity, and did not change much until the invention of canning in the early 19th century.

Around 40 villages grouped in eight archaeological parks situated in north western Syria provide an insight into rural life in Late Antiquity and during the Byzantine period.

In antiquity and in modern times, Europeans have shown, by their presence and their active participation, their lively interest both in sport and in building the goals of the Olympic Movement.

In Southern France, Spain and Italy there was an architectural continuity with the Late Antique, but the Romanesque style was the first style to spread across the whole of Catholic Europe, from Sicily to Scandinavia.

But that text is itself based on Pliny the Elder's account of a legendary fresco of Venus, painted by Apelles, ancient Greece's most celebrated painter, for Alexander the Great! Impossible to find a more illustrious forebear for the artist, or his patrons, the Medici.

For the first time since antiquity a truly national army marched to war, and for the first time, too, a nation succeeded in arming and feeding great number of soldiers these are the novel characteristics of the army of the Year II.