Classical Gallery

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Riccardo Meacci (1856–d. ca. 1940)The garden of Hesperides

salemwitchtrials:‘Agamemnon,’ Aeschylus (translated by Anne Carson)

Orestes Slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, Bernardino Mei, 1654

Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, Frederic Leighton (Lord Leighton), 1869

A scene from Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes: Capaneus, one of the Seven, attempts to storm Th

A portrait bust of the tragic playwright Aeschylus. Roman copy, after a Greek original of the 4th c

The Return of Orestes, Anton von Maron, 1786

A satyr and a griffin confront one of the Scythian tribe of the Arimaspi. Detail from an Attic red-

Red-figure rhyton in the shape of a griffin’s head. Unknown Apulian artist, ca. 330 BCE. Now in th

Pebble mosaic floor depicting a griffin, from the Peloponnesian polis of Sicyon. Artist unknown; 2n

Nihâl Chand - Radha and Krishna in the Boat of Love - 1755, National Museum, New Delhi

Whose l'Olimpiade do you prefer? Pergolesi’s or Vivaldi’s?The reason why Vivaldi is thro

Vivaldi and AlbinoniHappy birthday, Tomaso @tomasoalbinoni-official

Masada, as it would have appeared at the time of Herod the Great, c. 31 BC.Israel

Clementina and Isabella Grace in fancy dress (Orientalist or classical). in a series of photographs

St.Peter’s Square colonnades, Vatican City

Beautifully carved 19th century Meerschaum pipe with classical motifs.

The Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon, 2008. Don McCullin.

The mortal Peleus “courts” the sea-nymph Thetis by seizing her, while she shape-shifts i

Peleus entrusts his young son Achilles to the care of the centaur Chiron. White-ground black-figure

Gaetano Zompini (1700–1778)The centaur Chiron teaches the boy Achilles in geography, 1759

The Education of Achilles, James Barry, ca. 1772

The centaur Chiron, accompanied by a satyr. Side A of a red-figure bell-krater attributed to the pa

Apollo (left) and his son Asclepius (seated), with the wise centaur Chiron, Asclepius’ tutor,

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