Theatre of Aspendos

Theatre of AspendosA print of the Theatre of Aspendos one of the best preserved Roman theatres anywhere in the ancient world, built in the 2nd century AD in the Pamphylian city of Aspendos in what is now southern Turkey. Aspendos was a prosperous Roman provincial city near the Eurymedon river; the theatre, built under Marcus Aurelius by the architect Zenon on designs that followed Vitruvius's principles, holds an audience of around seven thousand in a semicircular cavea

The architect of the Forum and its column was Apollodorus of Damascus

the Aphrodite of Arles

Zeus sent a gadfly that stung the horse and threw the rider off

A minimalist single-line drawing of Ares

or the name attached retrospectively to a canonical performance text

signature curls

and to the gods

lost now except through Roman copies

was the father of the Hesperides — the nymphs who guarded the tree of golden apples Hercules had been sent to retrieve

so that a perfect sphere can be inscribed inside the space

Venus — Aphrodite in the Greek — is the Olympian goddess of love

treating the Roman god of wine in the loose