a higher quality. A chronological determination by style, such as has previously been attempted [6] , thus appears to be problematic. It is more sensible to refer to datable material from the respective [...] usually those of death and flight, and points to a non-narrative reading of such scenes. 6. Conclusions In this paper an element of sarcophagus decoration from Bosporan tomb contexts has [...] For the finishing touch to the English text I want to thank R. Harman. ↩ Ov. Met . 6, 146–312. ↩ Well-known examples are the name vase of the Niobid painter: M. Denoyelle,
V 21, 2. ↩ Dion. XIII 3;Plut. Cam . 5-6; Liv. V 21-22; Val. Max. I 8, 3. ↩ Liv. V 19, 3. ↩ Liv. V 19, 6; cf. Wissowa 1912, 110 f.; Basanoff 1947, 49-50. ↩ [...] Epidauros: and these {{cults}} are celebrated in the same way by those whom they have been taken from» [6] . The expression peregrina sacra (in its turn a subgroup of the sacra publica ) applies then [...] dream the famous vision that, according to the tradition, let him win against his rival Massentius [91] . It is likely that he evoked a deity whom he considered powerful, bearing in mind the unstoppable
another, a soldier fights on his knees with a shield on his left arm and a sword in his right [6] . Yet another fragment depicts a bearded, naked, front-facing figure with raised arms [7] [...] or their ancestors were signified by special togas worn by the actors in funeral processions (Hist. 6, 53, 7). During the late republic, triumphal honors in a funerary context commemorated the specific [...] Allusion: Meanings and Uses of Myth in Ancient Greek and Roman Society. Symposium Boston: Fenway Court. 91-107. Holliday, P. 2002 P. Holliday, The Origins of Roman Historical Commemoration in the Visual