Specifically Morelli looks at representations of gods and goddesses, discussing Venus, Mars, Diana, Apollo, Minerva and Hercules in turn, and analysing the differing feminities and masculinities which they display through their poses, clothing and so forth.
Using a wide range of archaeological evidence, Dr Henig shows that the Roman element in religion was of much greater significance and that the natural Roman veneration for the gods found meaningful expression even in the formal rituals practised in the public temples of Britain.
Roman Britain Author : H. Horsley's famous work, the "Britannia Romana," though accurate, learned, and well arranged, is too cumbrous and difficult for ordinary readers, not to mention the many discoveries which have been made since he wrote it, now years ago.
The "Monumenta Historica Britannica," published by the Record Commission in , contains most valuable matter, but is not confined to Roman history, nor does it contain a perfect summary of all that is known, as much has been found both in the way of inscriptions and coins since its first appearance. Fully illustrated and accessible to both the specialist and amateur enthusiast, it surveys the full range of personal ornament worn in Britain during the Roman period, the 1st to 4th centuries AD.
It emphasizes the presence of two distinct cultural and artistic traditions, the classical element introduced by the Romans and the indigeneous Celtic background. The interaction of these traditions affected all aspects of Romano-British life and is illustrated in the jewellery.
The principal types of Romano-British jewellery are classified in detail, drawing attention to those which can be relatively closely dated. The coverage is not restricted to precious-metal objects, but includes jewellery made of base metals and materials such as bone, jet and glass.
The final chapter is devoted to the techniques of manufacture, a subject which has become better understood in recent years as a result of scientific advances. The book should appeal to anyone who practices, teaches or studies Roman archaeology, together with all those with a professional or amateur interest in the history of jewellery and design.
Popular Books. The Becoming by Nora Roberts. Assimilating, developing, and giving vastly wider scope to the highest forms of thought and religion originated by other families, notably the Semitic, the various Aryan nationalities form, and have formed for ages, the vanguard of civilization. These nationalities are now practically co-extensive with Christendom; and on them has been laid by Divine Providence "the white man's burden"—the task of raising the rest of mankind along with themselves to an ever higher level—social, material, intellectual, and spiritual.
And a mere glance at Aryan history shows how entirely its great central feature is the period during which all the leading forces of Aryanism were grouped and fused together under the world-wide Empire of Rome.
In that Empire all the streams of our Ancient History find their end, and from that Empire all those of Modern History take their beginning.
For Britain, History meaning thereby the more or less trustworthy record of political and social development does not even begin till its destinies were drawn within the sphere of Roman influence. It is with Julius Caesar, that great writer and yet greater maker of History, that, for us, this record commences. With the earliest dwellers upon its soil of whom traces remain we are, indeed, scarcely concerned. For in the far-off days of the "River-bed" men five thousand or five hundred thousand years ago, according as we accept the physicist's or the geologist's estimate of the age of our planet Britain was not yet an island.
Neither the Channel nor the North Sea as yet cut it off from the Continent when those primaeval savages herded beside the banks of its streams, along with elephant and hippopotamus, bison and elk, bear and hyaena; amid whose remains we find their roughly-chipped flint axes and arrow-heads, the fire-marked stones which they used in boiling their water, and the sawn or broken bases of the antlers which for some unknown purpose they were in the habit of cutting up—perhaps, like the Lapps of to-day, to anchor their sledges withal in the snow.
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