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Amphitheater (2).jpg
Location: Paestum
Date: c. 100-50 BC
Details: The amphitheater at Paestum was built in the mid-late first century BC, making it one of the earliest extant Roman amphitheaters, and reflects the growing popularity of these structures in the late…

Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Depicting Theseus vs. Minotaur - Santa Venera Tomb 33, late 6th century BC.jpg
Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
Date: late 6th century BC

Attic Red-Figure Pelike Depicting Athena - Santa Venera Tomb 245, 475-450 BC.jpg
Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
Date: 475-450 BC
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Attic Red-Figure Pelike Depicting Dressing in the Palaestra, Santa Venera Tomb 174, 475-450 BC.jpg
Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
Date: 475-450 BC
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Porta San Sebastiano front.jpg
Location: Rome
Date: 271-275 AD
Details: These fortifications replaced the fourth century BC "Servian Walls." Built by the emperor Aurelian in the late third century AD, the walls ran in a 12 mile circuit around the city and included regular…

Basilica.jpg
Location: Paestum
Date: second half of the second century BC
Details: In 273, the Romans established a Latin colony at Paestum. (The city was originally called Poseidonia by its Greek inhabitants.)

As in other Latin colonies, the settlers…

20190223_112541.jpg
Location: Rome
Date: Most of the present church was built in 1140-1143 by Pope Innocent II atop a fourth century basilica (which in turn went back to a third century house-church). The mosaics in the apse date from the 12th and 13th centuries.…

Battle Scene - Andriuolo Tomb 114, 330-320 BC.jpg
Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
Date: 330-320 BC
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Boxing, Hunter, Seahorse - Arcioni Tomb 71, Q1 of 4th Century BC.jpg
Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
Date: First quarter of the fourth century BC
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Cockerel - Vannuolo Tomb 4, c. 350 BC.jpg
Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
Date: c. 350 BC
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