Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century. Women were not allowed to be active in politics, so nobody wrote about them. Neither were they taught how to write, so they ...

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...

They will go on view at the Art ... ancient Roman customers wanted sculptures that reflected the look of ancient Greek and Hellenistic Greek,” Manchester adds. Even in the first century C.E ...

The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago ... are conditioned to appreciate the fragmentary state of ancient Roman sculpture, collectors in the 17th through 19th century favored ...