History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . Figs. 63 and 64. Sculptures of Hellenistic Pergamum Above (Fig. 63) is a Gallic trumpeter, as he sinks in death with histrumpet at his feet (§ 278). Below (Fig. 64) is a part of the friezearound the great altar of Zeus at Pergamum (Fig. 52). It pictures themythical struggle between gods and giants. A giant at the left, whoselimbs end in serpents, raises over his head a great stone to hurl it atthe goddess on the right (§ 278). Fig. 65. The Roman Forum and its Public Buildings in the Early Empire. (After Lucken
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History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . Figs. 63 and 64. Sculptures of Hellenistic Pergamum Above (Fig. 63) is a Gallic trumpeter, as he sinks in death with histrumpet at his feet (§ 278). Below (Fig. 64) is a part of the friezearound the great altar of Zeus at Pergamum (Fig. 52). It pictures themythical struggle between gods and giants. A giant at the left, whoselimbs end in serpents, raises over his head a great stone to hurl it atthe goddess on the right (§ 278). Fig. 65. The Roman Forum and its Public Buildings in the Early Empire. (After Luckenbach)We look across the ancient market place (F, § 296) to the Tiber with itsships at the head of navigation. On each side of the market place (F), where we see the buildings (E, /, and D, G, I), were once rows of littlewooden booths for selling meat, fish, and other merchandise. Especiallyafter the beginning of the Carthaginian wars these were displaced by finebu.ldmgs like the basilica hall D, built not long after 200 B. c. Note the Attic roofs and colonnades and the clerestory windows of the basilicas (Z), ^) copied from the Hellenistic cities (§ 276), and originally from the Orient (Fig. 16). It was soon to be adopted as a form for Christian church buildings. See complete key on opposite page, footnote* The First Century of Peace 249 386. Leading Cultivated Men at Rome ; Cicero. Indifferenceto science at Rome was in marked contrast with Roman interestin literature. The leading Romans displayed in s