La Société de l'Empire romain d'Orient. IVe-VIe siècle. Beaux-arts The most famous of these

The most famous of these

a true monument of ancient thought

they relied on the astonishing know-how of marine engineers and architects to create breakwaters

sculptors in Cyprus produced thousands of statuettes to be offered by the faithful in the island's sanctuaries

La Société de l'Empire romain d'Orient. IVe-VIe siècle. Beaux-arts The most famous of theseOne can choose to study the Roman Empire through its events and great figures. But one can also focus on the anonymous components of society: the women and men who populated the cities and countryside of the Roman East are presented here in a particular period, Late Antiquity. All participated in the construction of a society and a system that, emerging from the Roman Empire, proved sufficiently stable to gradually found the Byzantine Empire.