Greece History Gallery

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Diogenes and Plato, Mattia Preti, 1649
Use Your Head — How to defeat the Spartans,The Spartans are generally regarded as the one of t
Silver mounted flintlock pistol, Greece, circa 1840from Czerny’s International Auction House
Athenian funerary relief of a couple. Artist unknown; ca. 330-320 BCE. Now in the Pergamon Museum, B
Small Minoan pithos of the Kamares Ware type, depicting fish caught in a net.  Artist unknown; ca. 1
necspenecmetu:Donato Creti, Alexander the Great Threatened by His Father, c. 1700-5Oooooooohis there
Small painted terracotta rhyton in the shape of a lion’s head.  Artist unknown; Mature Late Cycladic
A lion.  Attic black-figure amphora, attr. to the Gorgon Painter; ca. 600-575 BCE. Now in the Louvre
The centaur Chiron teaches Achilles how to play the lyre.  Carved red jasper gemstone in a modern go
The Antique Pottery Painter: Sculpturæ vitam insufflat pictura (Painting Breathes Life into Sculptur
Now On View in our European Art gallery: Elisabeth Vigée Le BrunThis recently acquired portrait by E
The Debate of Socrates and Aspasia,Nicolas-André Monsiau, ca. 1800   
Portrait bust of Seleucus I Nicator (ca. 359-285 BCE), general of Alexander the Great and first rule
Hellenistic bronze sculpture of Hermes.  Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Photo credit:
Late Cycladic/Minoan jug with a painting of a bird.  Artist unknown; ca. 1600 BCE.  Now in the Natio
Terracotta aryballos in the form of an eagle’s head. Unknown Rhodian artist; late 7th or early 6th c
Terracotta applique in the form of a griffin.  From Taranto (ancient Taras/Tarentum), artist unknown
Bronze statuette of a Siren.  Unknown South Italian or Etruscan artist; ca. 500 BCE.  Now in the Met
Ancient Greek necklace with the “Heracles knot”.  Artist unknown; ca. 230-210 BCE.  From Taras/Taren
Head of the poetess Sappho,Istanbul Archeology Museum, TurkeyThe marble bust was found in the ancien
A headless statue next to the Temple of IsisArchaeological Site of Delos, GreeceGreece | Ancient rui
Silver hemidrachm of the Arcadian polis of Tegea.  On the obverse, Zeus Lykaios, with an eagle; on t
Funerary stele for Eukoline, daughter of Antiphanes.  Artist unknown; ca. 380 BCE.  Now in the Keram
Viking runes on an ancient Greek statue,The Piraeus Lion is a marble statue around 3 meters (9 feet)
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