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Pictures from A Popular History of Rome by D. Rose, Edited by H. W. Dulcken, Ph.D., 1886, published by Ward, Lock and Co., London and New York. The contributions of Henry William Dulcken (1832-1894) are out of copyright; it seems likely that the text and pictures are also, but since the pictures are generally unsigned it is impossible to be certain..
Title: Popular History of Rome, A
City: London
Date: 1886
Total items: 6
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Gladiators, detail]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DulckenHistoryOfRome/wm/big/164-Combat-of-Gladiators-with-Wild-Animals-detail-head-to-head-q75-319x200.jpg "[picture: Gladiators, detail]")
A detail from Combat of Gladiators with Wild Animals [$]
![[picture: Building A Roman Temple]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DulckenHistoryOfRome/wm/big/103-Buiding-A-Roman-Temple-q50-176x200.jpg "[picture: Building A Roman Temple]")
Slave labour! The men working in this illustration are scantily clad: they wear shorts or loin-cloths, and have bare backs and bare feet. An ox-driver leans with his stick against two oxen; he has a hat and an animul-fur skirt or loin-cloth and a purse. He is barefoot. In the background, a pair of more richly-dressed man gaze on as a craftsman wearing [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Combat of Gladiators with Wild Animals]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DulckenHistoryOfRome/wm/big/164-Combat-of-Gladiators-with-Wild-Animals-q75-213x200.jpg "[picture: Combat of Gladiators with Wild Animals]")
Combat of Gladiators with Wild Animals
In the foreground, a Roman gladiator fights with a lion; he is naked from head to foot except for what look like metal underpants and a ring around his left leg, and he brandishes a short sword or dagger. Two other pairs of gladiators fight similar big cats in the background, and in the distance a crowd watches. One of the gladiators in the background [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Head of a Roman House Offering Sacrifice]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DulckenHistoryOfRome/wm/big/033-Head-of-a-Roman-House-Offering-Sacrifice-q75-182x200.jpg "[picture: Head of a Roman House Offering Sacrifice]")
Head of a Roman House Offering Sacrifice
A man, bare-headed and robed, pours from a two-handled jug into a lamp or jug. He is standing by a shrine. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Vanquished Army Passing Under the Yoke]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DulckenHistoryOfRome/wm/big/067-Vanquished-Army-Passing-Under-the-Yoke-q50-178x200.jpg "[picture: Vanquished Army Passing Under the Yoke]")
Vanquished Army Passing Under the Yoke
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable says, in the entry for Yoke, “To pass under the yoke. To suffer the disgrace of a vanquished army. The Romans made a yoke of three spears—two upright and one resting on them. When an army was vanquished [i.e. beaten], the soldiers had to lay down their arms [i.e. weapons] and pass under this archway of spears.”
The illustration shows three vertical spears and one horizontal. The conquored soldiers appear to be encouraged to pass under the horizontal spear by a man brandishing a long dagger or possibly a whip. The losers have a cloth wrapped round their waist, but are bare-backed, bare-legged and either barefoot or wearing light shoes or sandals. It might be that they were [more...] [$]
Pictures from A Popular History of Rome by D. Rose, Edited by H. W. Dulcken, Ph.D., 1886, published by Ward, Lock and Co., London and New York. The contributions of Henry William Dulcken (1832-1894) are out of copyright; it seems likely that the text and pictures are also, but since the pictures are generally unsigned it is impossible to be certain..
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