Roman
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Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid…
[ad_1] The idea of the classical period—the time of ancient Greece and Rome—as an elegantly unified collection of superior aesthetic and philosophical cultural traits has its own history, one that comes in large part from the era of the Neoclassical. The rediscovery of antiquity took some time to reach the pitch it would during the…
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The Samurai Who Became A Roman Citizen
[ad_1] Last year, we featured here on Open Culture the story of how a samurai ended up in the unlikely setting of seventeenth-century Venice. But as compellingly told as it was in video essay form by Evan Puschak, better known as the Nerdwriter, it ended just as things were getting interesting. We last left Hasekura Rokuemon…
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The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has…
[ad_1] Everywhere you look, you can find traces of the ancient Roman civilization from which the modern West descends. That’s especially true if you happen to be looking in Europe, though echoes of Latin make themselves heard in major languages used all over the world. Take, for example, the common English word itinerary, meaning a…
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Mythology Expert Reviews Depictions of Greek & Roman Myths i…
[ad_1] It’s safe to say that we no longer believe in the gods of the ancient world — or rather, that most of us no longer believe in their literal existence, but some of us have faith in their box-office potential. This two–part video series from Vanity Fair examines a variety of movies and television shows…