CLST 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Alexander Mosaic, Faun, Osci

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 305
• Professor: M Barbara Reeves

Document Summary

Samnite warrior on a 4th c greek vase. Uses pompeii that is a non roman town in italy. Pompeii has a long history of changing its loyalties from etruscan-> greek-> samnite: samnites have lots of different customs then the roman, they belong to larger oscan group, oscan pompeii is a loyal subject of rome. Its foreign: underline that oscan is different from roman. Insula is a city block: this house takes up a whole city block, named house of the faun because there is a greek statue of faun in one of the pools, also lots of greek mosaics. Such as the alexander mosaic, design off of a greek painting made in 300. Alexander the great vs king darius, when alex is winning and darius is escaping. Mosaic is not transported it is made on site because the pieces must be placed when mortar is wet: affinity of greek things.