House of the Tragic Poet House of the Tragic Poet The House of the Tragic Poet (also called "The Homeric House" or "The Iliadic House") is a Roman house in Pompeii, Italy dating to the 2nd century BCE. The house, or villa, is famous for its elaborate mosaic floors and frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology. Discovered in November 1824 by the archaeologist Antonio Bonucci, the House of the Tragic Poet has interested scholars and writers for generations. Although the size of the house itself is in no way remarkable, its interior decorations are not only numerous but of the highest quality among other frescoes
The Colossus of Rhodes (film) 1960s were set in either classical Greece or even earlier ("Hercules," "Ulysses," "The Giant of Marathon") or the later Roman period ("Ben Hur," "The Magnificent Gladiator," "Quo Vadis"). The only other films made during the peplum era to use a Hellenistic setting are "Hannibal" (1959), "Revak the Rebel" and "Siege of Syracuse" (both 1960). A Greek military hero named Darios (Rory Calhoun) visits his uncle Lissipu (George Rigaud) on the island of Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossal statue of the god Apollo to guard its harbor and is planning an alliance