ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
Reading edition
ROMAN As: BRONZE (FULL-SIZE) WEIGHT 290 g. 18
The style of the design points to about 350 B.C., and we have no real evidence of a coinage any earlier. The design is not primitive though it is clumsily cast. The head of Janus is often found on Greek coins and so is the galley prow. The weight of the As sank from 12 to 1 oz. in the course of republican history
ETRUSCAN FRESCO: HEAD OF HERCULES 21
An example of Etruscan painting which does not differ from Greek. This is probably a head of Hercules, whose name is found on Etruscan inscriptions
PREHISTORIC ETRUSCAN POTTERY 22
From Ridgeway’s “Early Age of Greece.” Black ware decorated with incised ornament: hippocamps or sea-horses on one: found at Falern in Tuscany. Pottery of this type is found on prehistoric sites all over the Mediterranean
THE ROMAN TOGA 23
The woollen toga was the official dress of the Roman citizen. It was generally worn over a tunic, though antiquarians, like Cato, wore the toga alone. It was worn in the natural colour of the wool, but candidates for office wore it specially whitened, and magistrates had a purple border
MAP OF ITALY, SHOWING GROUND OVER 1000 FEET HIGH 69
PLAN OF INFANTRY MANIPLES 97
GALLIC POTTERY 114, 115
It is clearly only a provincial development of the Arretine ware which is itself imitated from the Samian ware of Greece
COIN, SHOWING SURRENDER OF THE PARTHIAN STANDARDS 199
COIN. PORTRAIT OF P. QUINTILIUS VARUS 217
ROMAN LIMES 264
A reconstruction of the great frontier lines which encircled the Empire to the North along the Rhine and Danube. This is the style of the limes of Upper Germany
THE ROMAN FORUM IN THE EARLY EMPIRE 281
HADRIAN’S TOMB, RESTORED 295
See p. 294