Veteran
Posts: 258
 
| It's so nice to be able to "wander" like that in ancient times and see how ancient cities looked! thanks Orbilia
But I am afraid the animators have done a significant mistake in their representation of antiquity: buildings, marble columns, statues, we all think they were always white, like we see them today.
No! They were not white, but were painted with very strong and vivid colours, like the temples and statues we see in India. At least that's how they were in ancient Greece, and for sure also in Rome. All those white marble statues we see today in museums of Greek and Roman antiquity, they actually used to have painted eyes, eyebrows, lips, hair, clothes, etc. They looked very much like the colourful Hinduistic gods and godesses. |
Visit Ancient Rome
