The Classical World (91 page)

42. Wall painting from the earliest tomb excavated under the Great Mound at Vergina (Aigai), the Macedonian dynastic centre: the god Pluto abducts Persephone to the underworld.
c
. 340
BC
.

43. From the hunt-painting on the façade of the double royal tomb at Vergina, correctly ascribed to King Philip II. Details of rider identified as young Alexander.

44. Detail of the older King Philip, matching his own coin-portraits, as he attacks a lion with the young Royal Pages whom he instituted.

45. Reconstruction of a section of the hunt painting on the tomb: young Alexander, after killing a boar, rides to the lion being attacked by King Philip and the Pages. Similar in style, perhaps the same artist, as Plate

46. Tomb painting at Agios Athanasios (probably Chalastra) near Thessalonica, showing Macedonian males processing with torches and drinking vessels; dining, and standing as infantrymen. Arguably
c
. 340–335
BC
.

47. Painting of drunken Silenus, with a similar big ‘griffin’ drinking horn to the one in figure 46. From a marble tomb-bed found in Potidaea, south-west Macedonia, late fourth century
BC
.

48. Wall-painting of Terentius Neo, holding a book-scroll, and his wife, holding a stylus-pen and a folded writing-tablet. Pompeii,
c
.
AD
60.

49. Venus in a seashell, pushed and pulled by cherubs, in a trompe l’æil painting of the sea which thus seems to lie out beyond the adjoining garden paintings. Her hairdo was fashionable in Nero’s reign. Pompeii, 60s ad.

50. Woman–man sex scene, House of the Centenary, room 43, wall painting in small bedroom of household overseer. Pompeii,
AD
40–70.

51. Man–woman sex scene. Uncertain location. Wall painting from Pompeii, now in Naples Museum.

52. Portrait of a boy, with surrounding mummy-wrappings. Fayyum, Egypt. Reign of Trajan,
AD
98–117.

53. Portrait of a woman, with fine pearl and red-stone earrings: mummy portrait from Hadrian’s new foundation of Antinoopolis,
AD
130s.

54. Silver denarius, Rome, showing a scene of voting. 113 or 112
BC
.