log in
Enter site
Login to use Arthive functionality to the maximum
The Triumph of Emilia Paulus
Karl Verne • Painting, 1798, 81.3×65.4 cm
Description of the artwork «The Triumph of Emilia Paulus»
Rumph Emilia Paul.
(Plutarch, Comparative Biographies, Emilius Paul, 32-33; 38)
The procession was divided into three days, and the first of them barely accommodated the designated spectacle: from morning to night, two hundred and fifty chariots carried statues, paintings and gigantic sculptures taken from the gate. The next day, many wagons with the most beautiful and precious examples of Macedonian weapons drove through the city ... Three thousand people marched behind the wagons with weapons and carried a silver coin in seven hundred and fifty vessels; each vessel contained three talents and demanded four porters. They were followed by people, skillfully parading silver bowls, goblets, horns and ladles, distinguished by their large weight and massiveness of coinage.
On the third day, barely dawn, trumpeters moved through the streets, playing not a sacred and not solemn chorus, but a fighting one, with which the Romans cheered themselves on the battlefield ... They were followed by a gold coin, scattered like silver, in vessels with a capacity of three every talent. Their number was seventy-seven. Next came the people who lifted the sacred ladle high above their heads, cast by order of Emilia from pure gold, weighing ten talents and adorned with precious stones, as well as antigonids, seleucids, bowls of the work of Terikles and gold utensils from the Perseus table. Then followed the chariot of Perseus with his weapon, and on top of the weapon lay a diadem ...
The successful leadership of the Macedonian War is considered the greatest beneficence that the people of Emilius showed, for he then contributed so much money to the treasury that up to the times of Girtius and Panza there was no need to charge citizens ...
(Plutarch, Comparative Biographies, Emilius Paul, 32-33; 38)
The procession was divided into three days, and the first of them barely accommodated the designated spectacle: from morning to night, two hundred and fifty chariots carried statues, paintings and gigantic sculptures taken from the gate. The next day, many wagons with the most beautiful and precious examples of Macedonian weapons drove through the city ... Three thousand people marched behind the wagons with weapons and carried a silver coin in seven hundred and fifty vessels; each vessel contained three talents and demanded four porters. They were followed by people, skillfully parading silver bowls, goblets, horns and ladles, distinguished by their large weight and massiveness of coinage.
On the third day, barely dawn, trumpeters moved through the streets, playing not a sacred and not solemn chorus, but a fighting one, with which the Romans cheered themselves on the battlefield ... They were followed by a gold coin, scattered like silver, in vessels with a capacity of three every talent. Their number was seventy-seven. Next came the people who lifted the sacred ladle high above their heads, cast by order of Emilia from pure gold, weighing ten talents and adorned with precious stones, as well as antigonids, seleucids, bowls of the work of Terikles and gold utensils from the Perseus table. Then followed the chariot of Perseus with his weapon, and on top of the weapon lay a diadem ...
The successful leadership of the Macedonian War is considered the greatest beneficence that the people of Emilius showed, for he then contributed so much money to the treasury that up to the times of Girtius and Panza there was no need to charge citizens ...
