Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...
What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?
At this point history took a sharp turn. Shortly before Nerva died, Roman generals had debated who should be the next emperor. They chose Trajan, a former army commander, senator and governor of ...
It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and marble busts of Roman emperors. After being locked away for much of the 20th century, the collection toured Europe in a recent ...
Sculptures of Roman emperors have gone back on display at a Cambridgeshire estate following an absence of "more than 60 years". The busts were on show at Wimpole Hall from "at least the 1770s ...
The first Roman emperor to wear a full beard ... all decorated with exquisite mosaics, busts, and sculptures of gods and heroes modeled on the best examples of Greek statuary.