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"Hurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it's the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresic's writings that saw Ruth Franklin dub her "the fantasy cultural studies professor you never had." In Europe in Sepia, Ugresic, ever the flâneur, wanders from the Midwest to Zuccotti Park, the Irish Aran Islands to Jerusalem's Mea Shearim, from the tristesse of Dutch housing estates to the riots of south London, charting everything from the listlessness of Central Europe to the ennui of the Low Countries. One finger on the pulse of an exhausted Europe, another in the wounds of postindustrial America, Ugresic trawls the fallout of political failure and the detritus of popular culture, mining each for revelation. Infused with compassion and melancholic doubt, Europe in Sepia centers on the disappearance of the future, the anxiety that no new utopian visions have emerged from the ruins of communism; that ours is a time of irreducible nostalgia, our surrender to pastism complete. Punctuated by the levity of Ugresic's raucous instinct for the absurd, despair has seldom been so beguiling"

A significant group of funerary steles originates from Viminacium, the largest urban settlement and an important Danube military center. Unfortunately, the largest number of steles are preserved fragmentarily. Some are only known from literature. They date to the period from the end of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century right up to the time of Christian dominance, most often in the 2nd or 3rd centuries. Some of these stele belong to exceptional works of Roman provincial art. Viminacium was, thanks to its excellent geographical position, exceptionally well connected with the Eastern-Alpine (Gummern), Lower-Pannonian (Budakalász, Aquincum), as well as Dacian and Southern-Carpathian workshops (Bukova). Most probably, skeched, semi-finished, or finished products of marble and travertine from these quarries were delivered by waterways, via the Danube, Sava, or Drava, to Viminacium. Wealthy inhabitants ordered monuments from these prestigious Eastern-Alpine, Pannonian, and Dacian workshops. At the same time, domestic Moesian workshops also had to satisfy a developed market and the increased demand of prosperous clients. A significant number of the Viminacium steles were made of local or regional Neogene, Sarmatian, or Bedenian limestone from quarries situated in the Danube region of the province. Local workshops developed Moesian artistic models characteristic of these parts, both in their structure and decoration. Although the funerary steles of Viminacium are largely fragmentarily preserved, they have been an extremely important basis for understanding life in this Danube center