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The Alexander Mosaic, dating from circa 100 BCE, depicts the Battle of Issus (333 BCE) between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia. The mosaic adorned one of the exedras on the north side of the peristyle of the House of the Faun...

Marble statue of a naked Venus crouching at her bath, 2nd century CE (Antonine period). It is a Roman version of an original from the Hellenistic period. (British Museum)

The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, looking north towards the altar, podium and cella. Etruscan bucchero were found in the area of the temple testifying the existence of the cult of Apollo in Pompeii as early as the 5th century BCE. The ground...

The Triumphal Arch of Orange (Roman Arausio) was built during the reign of Augustus (27 BCE - 14 CE) on the Via Agrippa to Lyon (Roman Lugdunum).

Roman bust of Alexander the Great, excavated from the ruins of Herculaneum. (Blenheim Palace Oxfordshire, UK)

The Antinous Farnese (named after its one-time owners the Farnese family), 130-138 CE, Naples Archaeological Museum.

Marble bust of Antinous as Dionysus, from Rome, 130-140 CE. (British Museum)

Bust of Antinous, 130-140 CE, from Rome. (Altes Museum, Berlin)

Title page from 1594 edition of Diogenes Laërtius' "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers."

Bust of Antisthenes from the Pushkin Museum, Moscow