1. The Roman Empire

2. The Roman World

3. Capitoline Wolf , from Rome, Italy, ca. 500–480 BCE. Bronze, 2 ’ 7 1/2” high. Musei Capitolini, Rome.

4. “ The Feral Kid” from Mad Max: Return of the Road Warrior

5. "The Rape of the Sabine Women" (1637-1638) by Nicolas Poussin

16. Roman concrete construction. (a) barrel vault, (b) groin vault, (c) fenestrated sequence of groin vaults, (d) hemispherical dome with oculus (John Burge).

18. Restored view of the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina, Italy, late second century BCE (John Burge).

42. Temple of Portunus (Temple of “Fortuna Virilis”), Rome, Italy, ca. 75 BCE.

44. Head of an old man, from Osimo, mid-first century BCE. Marble, life-size. Palazzo del Municipio, Osimo.

46. Portrait of a Roman general, from the Sanctuary of Hercules, Tivoli, Italy, ca. 75-50 BCE. Marble, 6 ’ 2” high. Museo Nazionale Romano-Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

48. Funerary relief with portraits of the Gessii, from Rome(?), Italy, ca. 30 BCE. Marble, approx. 2 ’ 1 1/2” high. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

50. Relief with funerary procession, from Amiternum, Italy, second half of first century BCE. Limestone, 2 ’ 2” high. Museo Nazionale d’Abruzzo, L’Aquila.

51. Aerial view of the forum (looking northeast), Pompeii, Italy, second century BCE and later. (1) forum, (2) Temple of Jupiter (Capitolium), (3) basilica.

52. Aerial view of the amphitheater, Pompeii, Italy, ca. 70 BCE.

60. Dionysiac mystery frieze, Second Style wall paintings in Room 5 of the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy, ca. 60–50 BCE. Fresco, frieze 5 ’ 4” high.

65. Brawl in the Pompeii amphitheater, wall painting from House I,3,23, Pompeii, Italy, ca. 60–79 CE. Fresco, 5 ’ 7” x 6’ 1”. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

66. Restored view and plan of a typical Roman house of the Late Republic and Early Empire (John Burge). (1) fauces, (2) atrium, (3) impluvium, (4) cubiculum, (5) ala, (6) tablinum, (7) triclinium, (8) peristyle.

67. Atrium of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, Italy, second century BCE, rebuilt 62–79 CE.

68. First Style wall painting in the fauces of the Samnite House, Herculaneum, Italy, late second century BCE.

71. Second Style wall paintings (general view left , and detail of tholos right ) from cubiculum M of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale, Italy, ca. 50–40 BCE. Fresco, 8 ’ 9” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

73. Gardenscape, Second Style wall painting, from the Villa of Livia, Primaporta, Italy, ca. 30–20 BCE. Fresco, 6 ’ 7” high. Museo Nazionale Romano-Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

75. Detail of a Third Style wall painting, from cubiculum 15 of the Villa of Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase, Italy, ca. 10 BCE. Fresco, 7 ’ 8” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

77. Fourth Style wall paintings in Room 78 of the Domus Aurea (Golden House) of Nero, Rome, Italy, 64–68 CE.

79. Fourth Style wall paintings in the Ixion Room (triclinium P) of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, Italy, ca. 70–79 CE.

80. Neptune and Amphitrite, wall mosaic in the summer triclinium of the House of Neptune and Amphitrite, Herculaneum, Italy, ca. 62–79 CE.

82. Portrait of a husband and wife, wall painting from House VII,2,6, Pompeii, Italy, ca. 70–79 CE. Fresco, 1 ’ 11” X 1’ 8 1/2”. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

89. Still life with peaches, detail of a Fourth Style wall painting, from Herculaneum, Italy, ca. 62–79 CE. Fresco, 1 ’ 2” x 1’ 1 1/2”. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

96. Portrait of Augustus as general, from Primaporta, Italy, early-first-century CE copy of a bronze original of ca. 20 BCE. Marble, 6 ’ 8” high. Musei Vaticani, Rome.

98. Aule Metele ( Arringatore) , from Cortona, near Lake Trasimeno, Italy, early first century BCE. Bronze, 5 ’ 7” high. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence.

100. Oratorical pose

101. Cuirass: current events-the return of the captured Roman military standards by the Parthians

104. Portrait bust of Livia, from Arsinoe, Egypt, early first century CE. Marble, 1 ’ 1 1/2” high. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.