Newly discovered Pompeii frieze shows wild Bacchanalian rituals
Another new discovery in the ruins of Pompeii has shed light on the wilder side of the ancient Romans. An extremely rare frieze known as a “megalography,” or painting with life-sized figures, has been ...
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Newly discovered Pompeii frieze shows wild Bacchanalian rituals
Rome (CNN) — Another new discovery in the ruins of Pompeii has shed light on the wilder ... known as Bacchanalia, on moral grounds, except in special circumstances. Nonetheless, they continued ...
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What can an exhibition about an ancient city frozen in time tell us about museums and the meaning of the present?
One of the exhibits of “Pompeii: Inside a Lost City” at the ... Visitors treated them more like art, reading them for the emotional or moral message they could convey. Audiences tried to ...
Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
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There aren’t Jewish fighters in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?
In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone ... pagan neighbors due to religious morals, Schiffman said, adding that gaps between ...