Images

Temple of Apollo, Ancient Corinth, Greece, with the Acrocorinth in the background.

Mosaic from Sufetula, Tunisia

Theatre at Korinth

Beautiful Fountain at the end of four manmade underground reservoirs and an intricate system of water pipes. Added to and changed throughout the Classical period right down to the Christians

Mosaic floor of Roman Bath house

Roman mosaic depicting Odysseus and the Sirens. From Dougga (Tunisia), 2nd century CE. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus' ship sails past the island of the Sirens. The hero is tied to the mast of his ship to resist the allure of the Sirens' song...

3rd Century mosaic of Bikini Girls at the Villa Romana at Piazza Armerina in Sicily.

Map of the western Mediterranean at the time of the First Punic War in 264 BCE.

Principal areas of the Italian penninsula and its vincinity up to the Second Punic War (218 BC).

A map of Caesar's campaign against the Helvetii in Gaul, 58 BC.