This photograph on cardboard represents the 6th century BCE figure known as Phrasikleia, a marble kore discovered in 1972 in Merenda, Greece (a suburb of modern Athens). This kore functioned as a funerary monument commemorating the premature death of a woman name Phrasikleia. The inscription on the statue’s base, which had been reused as a column capital for a nearby Byzantine church, declares that it is the sema, marker, of Phrasikleia and that she died before marriage. The full inscription reads:
I am the marker of Phrasikleia. I shall always be called
‘kore,’ this name being given in place of marriage by the gods.
On the left side of the base, the artist signed his work: ᾽Αριστίον Πάρι[ός μ᾽ἐπ]ο[ίε]σε (“Aristion of Paros made me”).
Figure 1: 3D Version of the projectFigure 2: 2D Version of the project
“Illud vero nonne ita praesens est, ut nutu Iovis optimi maximi factum esse videatur, ut, cum hodierno die mane per forum meo iussu et coniurati et eorum indices in aedem Concordiae ducerentur, eo ipso tempore signum statueretur? Quo collocato atque ad vos senatumque converso omnia [et senatus et vos], quae erant contra salutem omnium cogitata, illustrata et patefacta vidistis.” – Cicero (Cic. Catil. 3.21)
“And is not this fact so present that it appears to have taken place by the express will of the good and mighty Jupiter, that, when this day, early in the morning, both the conspirators and their accusers were being led by my command through the Forum to the Temple of Concord, at that very time the statue was being erected? And when it was set up and turned towards you and towards the senate and you yourselves saw everything which had been planned against the universal safety brought to light and made manifest.” – Cicero (Cic. Catil. 3.21) (Trans. Yonge)
Introduction
This project aims to bring to life what Cicero would have seen immediately in the Roman Forum in 63 BCE. Essentially, this project focuses on only the buildings Cicero or his audience would have seen directly in that moment. Plans like this are usually always seen on paper. However, with parts of the projects shown in 3D, the goal is to make it more immersive and educational to the viewer.
This plan is a 1:300 scale model of the Roman Forum. All building plans that I am certain of are elevated ~ 4 mm off of the foundation of the board. These surfaces have walls and columns that are artificially elevated by approximately 1 cm. Building plans that I am not certain of are outlined.
More information about each plan can be found through the sources at the bottom of the page.
The Mosaic of the House of the Dragon (Mosaico della Casa del Drago), discovered during the 1998 archeological excavation of the ancient site of Kaulonía (see also: Caulonia, Caulon, now known as Southern Calabria, Magna Graecia, Italy) is a polychrome floor mosaic of a sea dragon. It was located near the entrance to a dining hall within the House of the Dragon (Casa del Drago), to which it gave its name. The House of the Dragon is dated to have been developed during the Hellenistic Era, and the mosaic itself is dated specifically to the 3rd century BCE. The 1.9m x 0.9m mosaic is composed of numerous types of tesserae, including stone, glass, and pottery fragments. While very little information is known about the history of the mosaic, new discoveries will be made, as it is under a restoration project at the Archaeological Museum of Monasterace.
Fig. 1 DePauw University’s 19th Century Reproduction of the Dying Gaul
In 1885, Washington C. DePauw made a gift to the university of “several beautiful pieces of Italian marble statuary as the beginning of an art collection…” (Forty-Seventh Year-Book, p. 7). Included in the gift was a 19th century reproduction of The Dying Gaul (also known as The Dying Trumpeter), one of the most famous sculptures of Classical Antiquity. The DePauw University version is carved in green serpentine marble and is approximately one-fourth life-size. It was probably made in Florence, Italy between 1860 and 1882. For many years the figure was on display in the Lilly Center. Unfortunately it was damaged at some point and put in storage. In 2013, thanks to the Kairos Fund in the Department of Classical Studies, The Dying Gaul was restored and is now on display in the Classical Studies Department on the first floor of Asbury Hall.
The Houses of The Cenacoli Colonnades help us understand how ordinary Pompeiians lived. Even with the minimal evidence that archeologists have uncovered, this structure shows a mix of residential and mercantile functions. The family that lived on the bottom floor seemed to have their business attached to their living quarters, though we are still unsure what the business involved.
The large-scale reproduction of the Antikythera Mechanism in the DPU Classics suite demonstrates how this ancient artifact, found in a shipwreck deep in the sea, was designed to track and display multiple calendars from the ancient Mediterranean world. It is the most complex piece of machinery ever discovered from antiquity. It was also featured as the ‘magical time-traveling’ device in the 2023 film: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
DePauw University Classics World 
