worship in the Republican Period. Moreover, the exotic nature of the Egyptian cults clashed with the traditional paganism of the Republican Rome only for the modern mentality. In reality, even the most [...] happened in Pompeii. The denomination is prior to the construction of the Amphitheatrum Flavium , since otherwise the importance of the latter would have probably conditioned the name of the quarter. Recently [...] suggested that the late name of the Amphitheatre ( Colosseum-Colisaeum ) does not reflect the memory of the Neronian Colossus, but the location of the building ad collem Isaeum : the proposal does

example during the construction of the Aurelian Wall or, as in the case of the hypogeum of the famous Republican family of the Scipios, to build an apartment house above. In the latter case, the stone slabs [...] in the 1 st - 3 rd centuries of the Imperial Age. First I will show how the lay-out of the sepulchres changed in the course of the centuries, presenting a short chronological overview of the placement [...] except the stone coffins, thus manifesting that the sarcophagi were part of the tomb's original interior from the beginning. Until the early 2 nd century, most sarcophagi were set against the wall as

that the two sisters were already part of Athenian iconography by the beginning of the sixth century, but this does not prove anything about the date of the cult . As it stands, the presence of the cult [...] provides the terminus ante quem for the final settlement of the Megarian war, which some believe started as early as the days of Solon, or even earlier still. In the end, it appears that the political [...] reality of the late sixth century made Athenian dominance over the island inevitable. The question I want to address here does not concern the Megarian war or the historical conditions behind the Athenian

going from Athens to the sea, like the procession of initiates who were expected to bath in the sea on the second day of the Great Mysteries or the procession of the Plynteria to bath the cult statue of Athena [...] subdivisions. The presence of the ten phylai at the Bendideia stressed the unity of the polis community of which the Thracians had now become members. In turn, the separate Thracian contingent in the procession [...] be consulted on the question of the priesthood and the possibility of a Thracian priestess, and in the final most formulaic part of the decree the hieropoioi , the prytaneis and the kolakretai

socle at the façade of the tomb, revealing a desire to arrest the attention of the living. They can also appear on door lintels, where the message generally establishes ownership of the tomb and lays down [...] information about aspects of the inherent society. But the relation between the group of the living people and the "dead one" can’t be considered a direct approach. Following the theories of Post-Processual [...] these activities even outside the big urbanized cities. The analyzed tombs imitate sometimes the architecture of houses to underline the function of an eternal place for the dead, some temple-tombs explain

precedes, at the same time, the image of the recognition by Aegeus, and the ensuing succession to the throne. The fact that the image of somebody lifting up the stone is the link between the adulthood [...] stone are for the most part - but not only - connected with the death and with the tomb like place of cult and imagination. The relationship between the stone, the tomb and the death among the Greeks is [...] n with the underworld, on the one hand, and Demeter - the mystery cults' Demeter in the first place - on the other hand. In fact, the presence of Demeter is not merely the recurrence of the same mythical

between the processions on the Volterran urns and the visual pattern of the triumph that becomes familiar in later triumphal imagery is unmistakable. The triumphal quadriga on a relief on the Arch of Titus [...] to left rather than from left to right, but the stance of the horses and the position of the toga-wearing general in his chariot mirror the figures from the urns [9] . Though triumphal arches do [...] emperors, the triumphal imagery returns to an explicitly funerary use on the sarcophagi. The earliest from the surviving group of sarcophagi depicting the triumph of Dionysos, dated 170-180 CE, adapts the triumphal

[3] ; the need to avoid a sacrilege; the effect of motivating the army, giving it the certainty of the success [4] ; the appropriation of the essential nucleus of the enemy city, the one by which [...] transfer of the divine being; in other words, whereas in Rome the god’s assent was confirmed by the auspices or by the positive result of the transfer, in the evocatio it proved itself from the success [...] . The goddess at issue is Tanit , in the interpretatio Romana Iuno Caelestis [52] . Little before the last assault the Romans beg the goddess, regarded as the tutelary deity of the Carthaginian

Jewish text recounting the successful rebellion of the Maccabees against the Seleucids and the institution of an independent Jewish state for the first time in four hundred years. The tone of this text is [...] indeed, the hellenising process reached such a pitch that the priests ceased to show any interest in serving the altar; but scorning the Temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they would hurry, on the stroke [...] stroke of the gong, to take part in the distribution, forbidden by the Law, of the oil on the exercise ground; setting no store by the honours of their fatherland, they esteemed Hellenic glories best of all

s of a mythological scene, depicting the arrows, the gods (on the lid or at the sides of the main panel), the nurse, the paidagogos and the parents. Among the Niobids, which can be identified by context [...] e. The rendering of the drapery, the bodies and the chariot appears to be more decorative than descriptive. A cupid floats above the heads of the horses with a whip in one hand and the reins in the other [...] part of the neighbouring littoral. Pantikapaion (modern Kerč) on the Crimean peninsula was the capital of the Bosporan kingdom. In the period considered here, the 1 st and 2 nd centuries, the Bosporan