La peinture allégorique à Pompéi. Le regard de Cicéron. Epigraphie Band I: Einleitung

Band I: Einleitung

philosophy claims the exclusive pretension of being the only ethical discourse

Actes du colloque

When the youth of Athens flock to receive lessons from the illustrious sophist Protagoras

La peinture allégorique à Pompéi. Le regard de Cicéron. Epigraphie Band I: EinleitungAllegorical painting appeared in the interior decorations of Roman houses in the late 80s BC. It disappeared some forty years later with the generation that had made it fashionable, in the political upheavals that followed the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 BC. The sumptuous compositions representing partly imaginary architectures and devoid of any human presence were piously preserved by the successive owners of the residences, no