To climax her Roman revels, she was thrown out of the swanky Hotel Excelsior after she had run naked through its marble halls screaming for help.

The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.

** Farnese Atlas, a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the Titan, " Atlas "

His early Roman commissions included terracotta and some marble portrait busts, while he supported himself with small works like crucifixes.

There had been large marble reliefs used previously in Roman churches, but for most patrons, sculpted marble altarpieces were far too costly.

In ancient literature, we find a reference to the workings of water-powered marble saws close to Trier, now Germany, by the late 4th century poet Ausonius ; about the same time, these mill types seem also to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.

Though some Roman patrons ordered marble replicas of the specifically Anatolian " Diana " of Ephesus, where the Temple of Artemis stood, Diana was usually depicted for educated Romans in her Greek guise.

Above all, Hadrian patronized the arts: Hadrian's Villa at Tibur ( Tivoli ) was the greatest Roman example of an Alexandrian garden, recreating a sacred landscape, lost in large part to the despoliation of the ruins by the Cardinal d ' Este who had much of the marble removed to build Villa d ' Este.

Heracles as a boy strangling a snake ( marble, Roman artwork, 2nd century CE )

Hermes Fastening his Sandal, early Imperial Roman marble copy of a Lysippus | Lysippan bronze ( Louvre Museum )

Leda and the Swan, Roman marble possibly reflecting a lost work by Timotheos ; restored ( Prado )

In the center of the 40-foot-long Spanish marble carving is a tablet displaying Roman numerals I through X, with some numbers partially hidden.

* The Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, features a Roman marble statue of Minerva in its 4th floor atrium.

The Dying Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE Capitoline Museums, Rome

During the 1930s, Benito Mussolini placed an antique marble Roman column at the point where the river arises, inscribed (" Here is born the river / sacred to the destinies of Rome ").

Evidence of this comes from a marble slab discovered near Caput Bovis, the site of a Roman fort.

The Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue, thought to have been executed in bronze, commissioned some time between 230 BC – 220 BC by Attalos I of Pergamon to honor his victory over the Galatians

A partial marble bust ( sculpture ) | bust of Chrysippus, Roman era | Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, Louvre Museum

In front lies the sloping Piazza del Quirinale where the pair of gigantic Roman marble " Horse Tamers " representing Castor and Pollux, found in the Baths of Constantine, were re-erected in 1588.

When Valerian sunk under the weight of shame and grief, his skin, stuffed with straw, and formed into the likeness of a human figure, was preserved for ages in the most celebrated temple of Persia ; a more real monument of triumph, than the fancied trophies of brass and marble so often erected by Roman vanity.

At the beginning of it stands the marble triumphal arch with a single archway, and without bas-reliefs, erected in his honour in 115 by the Senate and Roman people.

* The marble Arch of Trajan, 18 m high, erected in 114 / 115 as an entrance to the causeway atop the harbour wall in honour of the emperor who had made the harbour, is one of the finest Roman monuments in the Marche.

Bust of Roman Emperor Claudius

A Roman Bust ( sculpture ) | portrait bust said to be of Josephus

Bust ( sculpture ) | Bust inscribed Sappho of Eressos, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 5th century BC

Bust of Demosthenes ( British Museum, London ), Roman copy of a Greek original sculpted by Polyeuktos.

Bust of the Roman poet Lucan, Córdoba, Spain | Córdoba, Spain.

Bust of the Hellenistic-Egyptian god Serapis, Roman copy of an original by Bryaxis which stood at the Serapeion of Alexandria, Vatican Museums.

Bust of Vibia Sabina, sculpted in marble around 130 AD. The Saint Ildefonso Group is one of the best examples of Neo-Attic eclecticism produced in the first decades of the Roman Empire.

Bust of a Roman girl ( early 3rd century )

Bust of Alexander ( Roman copy of a 330 BC statue by Lysippus, Louvre Museum ).

Bust of Socrates, Roman marble, Louvre museum

Bust of Anne-Louis Girodet ( 1827 ), sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Roman, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Bust of Pittacus, Roman copy of a Greek original of the Late Classical period, Louvre

Bust of Plancus symbolising Roman philosophy.

Roman Temple of Artemis in Jerash, Jordan, built during the reign of Antoninus Pius.

* Theoi Project, Artemis, information on Artemis from original Greek and Roman sources, images from classical art.

It was founded by Zsuzsanna Budapest in the United States in the 1970s, and is notable for its focus on the worship of the Goddess ( usually Artemis ; Roman: Diana ), and on feminism.

Artemis with a Hind, a Ancient Rome | Roman copy of an Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek sculpture, c325 BC, by Leochares

The cultural and psychological importance of hunting in ancient societies is represented by deities such as the horned god Cernunnos, and lunar goddesses of classical antiquity, the Greek Artemis or Roman Diana.

To safeguard herself and Caesarion, she had Antony order the death of her sister Arsinoe, who was living at the temple of Artemis in Ephesus, which was under Roman control.

In 2007, a Roman art | Roman-era bronze sculpture of " Artemis and the Stag " was sold at Sotheby's in New York for United States dollar | US $ 28. 6 million, by far exceeding its estimates and at the time setting the new record as List of most expensive sculptures | the most expensive sculpture as well as work from antiquity ever sold at auction.

This story is related somewhat differently by the Roman writer Ovid: Arethusa, a beautiful nymph, once while bathing in the river Alfeios in Arcadia, was surprised and pursued by the river god ; but the goddess Artemis took pity upon her and changed her into a well, which flowed under the earth to the island of Ortygia.

Eileithyia, along with Artemis and Persephone, is often shown carrying torches to bring children out of darkness and into light: in Roman mythology her counterpart in easing labor is Lucina (" of the light ").

Roman sarcophagus: Apollo and Artemis killing the 14 children of Niobe ( front side ).

In the iconography of Greek myth, the kneeling pose is also found in representations of Leto ( Roman Latona ) giving birth to Apollo and Artemis ( Diana ), and of Auge giving birth to Telephus, son of Herakles ( Hercules ).

Coins found in Nablus dating to this period depict Roman military emblems and gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon such as Zeus, Artemis, Serapis, and Asklepios.

The Greek gods were equated with the ancient Roman deities ; Zeus with Jupiter, Hera with Juno, Poseidon with Neptune, Aphrodite with Venus, Ares with Mars, Artemis with Diana, Athena with Minerva, Hermes with Mercury, Hephaestus with Vulcan, Hestia with Vesta, Demeter with Ceres, Hades with Pluto, Tyche with Fortuna, and Pan with Faunus.

The name Artemisia ( Anāhitā ) derives from Artemis ( n, f .; Roman equivalent: Diana ).

Often the epithet is the result of fusion of the Olympian divinity with an older one: Poseidon Erechtheus, Artemis Orthia, reflect intercultural equations of a divinity with an older one, that is generally considered its pendant ; thus most Roman gods and goddesses, especially the Twelve Olympians, had traditional counterparts in Greek, Etruscan, and most other Mediterranean pantheons, e. g. Jupiter as head of the Olympian Gods with Zeus, but in specific cult places there may even be a different equation, based on one specific aspect of the divinity.

Interest in Hermogenes of Priene ( late 3rd-early 2nd century BCE ), the Hellenistic architect of a temple of Artemis Leukophryene ( Artemision ) at Magnesia in Lydia, an Ionian colony on the banks of the Maeander river in Anatolia, has been sparked by references to his esthetic made by the 1st century Roman architect Vitruvius ( De Architectura, books iii, 2 and 6 ).

Presumably, a copy of the " Artemis of Versailles " ( now at the Louvre Museum ), which is a Roman copy of a Hellenistis marble sculpture.

* The Farnese Artemis, again a Roman copy of a Greek original

In Roman mythology, Hippolytus was deified as the god Virbius ; Artemis was the Greek name of the goddess identified with the Roman Diana.

Artemis with a Hind, a Ancient Rome | Roman copy of an Ancient Greece | ancient Greek sculpture, circa 325 BC, by Leochares

His divine wife was ' Thana ', a Delmatic goddess mostly comparable with Roman Diana and Greek Artemis.