Name: Gold Ring Featuring a Roman Silver Denarius of Empress Faustina
SKU: FJ.1250
Price: 3400.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world. It is the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Conventionally, it is taken to begin with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (8th–7th century BC), and continues through the emergence of Christianity and the decline of the Roman Empire (5th century AD). It ends with the dissolution of classical culture at the close of Late Antiquity (AD 300–600). The culture of the ancient Greeks, together with a cross section of influences from the Orient, prevailed throughout classical antiquity as the basis of art, philosophy, society, and educational ideals. These ideals were preserved and imitated by the Romans, and it is this “Greco-Roman” cultural foundation that has been so immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, art, and architecture of the modern world. Out of this sprang the ground-breaking art of the period, with its emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry, and a revolutionary blending of naturalism with idealism. “Classical Art,”…

Gold Ring Featuring a Roman Silver Denarius of Empress Faustina

SKU

FJ.1250

Circa

161 AD to 180 AD

Medium

Gold, Silver

Origin

Sebastia, Samaria, Israel

Gallery Location

USA

The younger Faustina was perhaps the most noble woman in all Roman history. Daughter of the emperor Antoninus Pius, she married his successor Marcus Aurelius, and became the mother of the emperor Commodus. This superb coin portrait shows her not only to be noble but beautiful as well.

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Gold Ring Featuring a Roman Silver Denarius of Empress Faustina

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