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An illustration of Euclid of Alexandria, the 4th century BCE mathematician.

Bust of the Roman poet Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (CE 39-65). Grandson of Seneca the Elder and nephew of Seneca the Younger, was a Roman statesman and Latin poet. The sculpture can be found in his birthplace, Corduba (modern day Córdoba, Spain...

Depiction of the 19 years of the Metonic cycle as a wheel, with the Julian date of the Easter New Moon, from a 9th-century computistic manuscript made in St. Emmeram's Abbey.

A plan of the Library of Hadrian, Athens. c.132-134 CE. Later churches constructed at the centre of the complex are also indicated.

The Library of Hadrian in Athens showing the eastern end wall of the peristyle court. The room with the niches (now under scaffolding) would have been the library proper, where ancient scrolls were stored. c. 132-134 CE.

A Corinthian capital from the north facade of the Library of Hadrian, Athens. c. 132-134 CE

The north facade of the Library of Hadrian, Athens. c. 132-134 CE

Fragments of Attic Calendar re-used in the church facade. According to Deubner first Thargelion, then Gemini, then Skirophorion, then the sacrifice of an oxen at the Dipolieia, then Cancer, then Hekatombaion, then a personification of Theoria...

A map illustrating the various invasions suffered by the Western Roman Empire between 100 and 500 CE.

Detail from Saturn Devouring a Son, oil on canvas by Peter Paul Rubens, 1636. Museo del Prado, Madrid.