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Gold wreaths that imitate natural ones come mainly from royal tombs in Macedonia, Asia Minor and southern Italy. The crowning of the dead with a wreath signified that they were worthy of being rewarded with eternal life after death...

The cover bears a relief representation of Dionysos flanked by two Maenads or Adonis flanked by Aphrodite and Persephone. The female figures wear silver jewellery. Folding mirrors consist of two two bronze discs connected by a hinge...

A rare polychromatic terracotta version of the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos, which stood in the Parthenon and was a work of Pheidias, of the years 447/6-438 BCE. Perhaps from Vathy, Avlis District, Boeotia...

Drinking vessel decorated with a female mask, probably a theatrical hetaira mask, and vine leaves, made in the workshops of Apulia in southern Italy, 340-320 BCE. The polychromatic decoration on the black varnish coating of the vase is a...

It bears the representation of the god Dionysos, Ariadne and the winged god Eros between two Satyrs; members of Dionysos' troupe. The sacred wedding of Dionysos and Ariadne is portrayed on the krater. It is the 5th century BCE archetype...

A 16th-century portrait by Christoph Weiditz of the Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés (1485–1547 CE) conqueror of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century. (Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg)

Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny (1519–1572), oil on wood portrait by François Clouet, c. 1565-70. Saint Louis Art Museum.

Death of Admiral de Coligny, illustration of the murder of Gaspard II de Coligny, Admiral of France (l. 1519-1572) during the St. Bartholomew's Day Masscacre in the Book of Martyrs by John Foxe, illustrated by Joseph Martin Kronheim, 1887.

An 1899 painting by William de Leftwich Dodge (1867–1935) depicting the last stand of the Aztecs during the siege of Tenochtitlan by Hernán Cortés in 1521. (Howard Tilton Library, Tulane University, New Orleans)

Why Rome Fell: Decline and Fall or Drift and Change? by Dr. Michael Arnheim, Wiley Blackwell, 2022.