British Mythology Gallery

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A plate depicting a winged, Gorgon-headed deity, shown in the traditional pose of the Πότνια Θηρῶν (
Silver didrachm issued by Athens, ca. 520 BCE, bearing a Gorgon’s head.  Now in the British Museum. 
King Lycurgus of Thrace attacks his wife in a frenzy.  Lycurgus had been driven mad by Dionysus as p
Una Among the Fauns and Wood Nymphs by William Edward Frost (1847)
Perseus Armed by the Nymphs, from A Wonder Book for Boys & Girls by Walter Crane (1893)
Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, Frederic Leighton (Lord Leighton), 1869
John Byam Liston Shaw (1872-1919),  'Diana of the Hunt’, 1901
Hecate (The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy), William Blake, 1795
Two Ethiopians lead Andromeda to the rock where she is to be sacrificed to a sea monster.  Detail fr
Benjamin Green (British; 1739–1798) after George Stubbs (British; 1724–1806)Phaeton Driving the Char
Phaeton Driving the Chariot of the SunBenjamin Green (British; 1739–1798) after George Stubbs (Briti
Cadmus and Harmonia, Evelyn de Morgan, 1877
Helen of Troy, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1863
Priam arrives at Achilles’ shelter to ransom the body of his son Hector.  The youth facing him has b
Ancient Roman tombstone depicting Heracles/Hercules and Hesione, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy,
Bellerophon, astride Pegasus, attacks the Chimera.  Molded medallion from an Apulian terracotta flas
hadrian6:Pastoral Apollo. 1825.John Flaxman. British 1755-1826. marble. Petworth House. UK.ha
Venus, Supported by Iris, Complaining to Mars, Sir George Hayter, 1820
Paris and Helen before Priam.  Miniature by the Master of the Échevinage of Rouen, 2nd half of 15th
The Baleful Head, Edward Burne-Jones, 1886-87
Frederick Sandys (1829-1904), ’Cassandra’, “The Studio”, Vol. 33, 1905Source
Menelaus (left) and Hector fight over the body of the Trojan hero Euphorbus.  Ancient Greek plate in
The head of Hypnos (Sleep).  Roman bronze sculpture (1st-2nd cent. CE) after a lost Hellenistic orig
Alexander Runciman (British; 1736–1785)Perseus Arriving to Slay Medusa Etching, 1774 Yale Center for
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