Art, Propaganda and Death in Ancient Rome

An exhibition in Rome traces the political and economic foundations of the second century A.D., when the empire reached its widest expanse and highest population.

A relief panel from a second-century funerary monument adorned with a scene from a butcher shop.

Publisher: The New York Times

Author: Roderick Conway Morris

An exhibition in Rome traces the political and economic foundations of the second century A.D., when the empire reached its widest expanse and highest population.

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