La peinture allégorique à Pompéi. Le regard de Cicéron. Epigraphie Extract from the Memoirs presented

Extract from the Memoirs presented by various scholars to the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres

Pierre Chuvin's work is a treatise on Greek mythology

When the youth of Athens flock to receive lessons from the illustrious sophist Protagoras

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La peinture allégorique à Pompéi. Le regard de Cicéron. Epigraphie Extract from the Memoirs presentedAllegorical painting appeared in the interior decorations of Roman houses in the late 80s BC. It disappeared some forty years later with the generation that had made it fashionable, in the political upheavals that followed the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 BC. The sumptuous compositions representing partly imaginary architectures and devoid of any human presence were piously preserved by the successive owners of the residences, no