Getty Villa is at 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, California -- open Wednesday through Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with special Saturday hours until 9 p.m. October 12–November 30, 2013. It is closed Tuesday and major holidays. Admission to the Getty Villa is always free. A ticket is required for admission. Parking is $15 per car.
“After me, the deluge.” It was supposedly said by Tiberius referring to the probable reign of Caligula. It could have been said by GW Bush as well.
Then Caligula followed Tiberius and Rome found out how bad it could really get.
It sure sounds like that IS the statue on display at Getty. Why do you think it isn't?
I like some of the great smears about Tiberius. Probably the best was that he kept a garden full of naked young children for purposes of debauchery by him and his guests.
However, a later suggested revision was that there was a glimmer of truth in this, but that the children were not there to be debauched, but for aesthetic reasons. Whether naked or not, they were there to play games, like an endless recess, being well fed and having comfortable beds at night. And the sight and sounds of their play would just be pleasant for the adults.
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning
Inscribed with cuneiform script, the Cylinder records the conquest of Babylon in 539 B.C. by the Persian king Cyrus the Great (ruled 559–530 B.C.). Even before its discovery, Cyrus had been renowned as a benevolent and noble ruler. The Greek historian Xenophon (about 430–354 B.C.) presented him as an ideal leader in his Cyropaedia, while Old Testament texts praise Cyrus for bringing an end to the Jewish exile in Babylon. The Cylinder provides a valuable complement to this legacy, for it records — in Cyrus's own words — how, on taking control of Babylon, he restored religious traditions, and permitted those who had been deported to return to their settlements in and around Babylonia.
Armlet with Griffins, From the Oxus Treasure, Achaemenid, 500–330 B.C. Gold.
It’s amazing that with all of the corruption and decadence of the emperors during the imperial era, the people living in the Roman Empire generally prospered as never before.
I guess that despite the corruption and decadence the emperors did not have the means to achieve a totalitarian state. Commerce, agriculture and industry could still thrive in an open economy.
Getty Villa is so beautiful, like being in someone’s lavish home, rather than an institution.
