Word: romanizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...strong-willed to take “no” for an answer. Aeneas uses Dido’s love to fortify his ships and companions, then deserts Dido to seek the promised land of Italy and build a “new Troy,” the Roman empire. Dido, crazed by despair, burns herself to death, driving those who love her to similar fates...
...exhibition, which opened at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum last week, stately stone Buddhas commingle with Greek gods and goddesses, an Iranian prince, and a bare-chested warrior with a rosy complexion and deep blue eyes. A dragon-edged jade disk vies for attention against vases of swirling Roman glass, Byzantine gold coins and a curious flock of tiny wooden geese that could almost pass for miniatures of the sculptures of Henry Moore. If not for the captions to remind us where the motley 300 objects on display were unearthed, it might be easy to forget that the subject...
...Inner Mongolia, are exuberant golden hat ornaments?smug-looking antelope or reindeer, with heart-shaped leaves festooning their antlers. From 4th century Datong, in Shanxi province, comes a bronze cup decorated with vines and with the early-Christian motif of a boy carrying a lamb. The cup looks Roman, but is likely an expertly cast copy of an import...
...really gross”—we took them to the Fogg and Arthur M. Sackler museums instead. There, it was pretty clear that humans don’t just make art. They are art. Just because we don’t tend to call Greco-Roman sculpture “hot” doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call freshmen “exquisitely crafted...
...Beware the Ides of March,” said a soothsayer to Roman ruler Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E.. But Caesar failed to heed the warning, and wound up dead...