Terence Lorence
Sappho in Classical Art
Terence Lorence. Edited by Michael Fullerton
A short picture book of 40 pages portraying the life of the ancient Greek poet Sappho as imagined by Classical painters since the Eighteenth Century. A new revised edition illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Soft-Cover. 8.5 Inch Square Size. Copyright 2012/2024. Now available from online Booksellers. An alternate edition with most of the Photographs in Colour is available at a higher price exclusively from Lulu.com.
SAPPHO
A stage design for the first act of the opera Sapho by Charles Gounod with libretto by Emile Augier.
Terence Lorence
The Colossus of Rhodes: An Artistic Interpretation
Terence Lorence. Illustrated by Sylvia Sinclair.
An artistic analysis examining the appearance, the method of construction, and the location of the giant statue of the nude sun god Helios on the island of Rhodes.
Soft-Cover/Hard-Cover. 6x9 Inch Size. New Revised Edition, Copyright 2025. Now available from Lulu.com and other online Booksellers.
The Colossus of Rhodes
A Renaissance print showing the harbour of Ostia, the port of ancient Rome, with the colossal statue of the sea god Neptune on the right, a statue whose design was based on the design of the Colossus of Rhodes.
Terence Lorence
The Ancient Greek Trireme: A New Analysis
Terence Lorence
A concise account which rejects the generally accepted idea that the trireme was a warship rowed from three different levels with one man to each oar, and which instead interprets the existing evidence in favour of a one level trireme with three men to each oar. Second revised edition with new illustrations by Sylvia Sinclair.
Soft-Cover/Hard-Cover. 6x9 Inch Size. 52 Pages. 18,000 Words. 2 Diagrams. 9 Illustrations. Copyright 2004/2022. Now available from Lulu.com and other online Booksellers.
The Battle of Salamis
A romantic interpretation of the victory of the Athenian triremes over the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis in a detail from a painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 1868. At the centre of the picture is the warrior queen Artemisia I, wielding a bow and fighting on the side of the Persian emperor Xerxes. Artemisia I was the ancestor of the warrior queen Artemisia II who a century later built the
Terence Lorence
Six Wonders of the Ancient World: The Road to the Seven
Terence Lorence
A new analysis of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Greek World showing how the later list of seven wonders evolved from two earlier lists of three wonders, the first centered on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the second centered on the Colossus of Rhodes.
Soft-Cover/Hard-Cover. 6X9 Inch Size. 105 Pages. 32,000 Words. 20 Illustrations. Bibliography. First Edition. Copyright 2025. Now available from Lulu.com and other online Booksellers.
The Mausoleum
The Mausoleum Room at the British Museum in 1869 showing the fragments excavated at Halicarnassus. Painting by George Goodwin Kilburne.
The Great Library of Alexandria
The Great Library of Alexandria, itself one of the wonders of the world if not one of the named Seven. However one of the Seven, the Pharos or Great Lighthouse of Alexandria, can be seen in the background through the open window. Also note the complex clepsydra or water clock, situated against the wall between the two columns, and the model of a trireme hanging from the ceiling in the upper right