Art, Science, and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean, 300 BC to AD 100

A study on the intersection of art, science, and the natural world in Hellenistic and Roman times.

Joshua J. Thomas is an Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for Classical Archaeology at LMU Munich. He was formerly the Lavery-Shuffrey Early Career Fellow in Roman Art and Archaeology at Lincoln College, Oxford. He holds MA, MSt, and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the historical interpretation of the art and visual cultures of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. He is also a member of the excavation team at Aphrodisias, a Greek city in south-west Turkey.

1: Introduction
2: The Nile Mosaic at Praeneste
3: The Tomb of Apollophanes at Marisa
4: The Artemidoros Papyrus
5: Animals in Hellenistic Royal Mosaics
6: Fish Mosaics in Late Republican Italy
7: Garden Paintings in Latium and Campania
8: Conclusions
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