Greek Classics Gallery
adrians art
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blueboxcult
armed conflict
kindness-and-charm
kashuan:some iliad stuff from this weekend!
Minoan clay pyxis (cylindrical vessel with lid), depicting a man in a long robe (possibly a priest)
Mycenaean stirrup jar depicting an octopus. Artist unknown; Late Helladic IIIC (13th cent. BCE). Now
via-appia:Alabaster figure of a reclining woman. Reclining figures are common among Greek terracotta
kashuan:iliad/etc sketches from this weekend!
Dionysus arrives at a gathering of his followers in a chariot drawn by griffins. Apulian red-figure
Remains of the Temple of Apollo at Syracuse, Sicily.This Greek temple dates to about 590-580 BC, and
interretialia:noordzee:Ancient Greek Lady-Monster Valentines, because I love the morbid sense of hum
nathanielthecurious:How I write every Greek letterThis is not only a personal affront, but a highly
buckying:modern mythos series: Oscar Isaac as Ares.
billpottz:orestes, euripides (trans. anne carson)
so i went to the Louvre
Ok but on the real someone just stopped me on the bus to talk about greek literature and philosophy.
Sisyphus, watched by Persephone and Hades, undergoes his punishment in the Underworld. Attic black-
Sisyphus hauls his rock in the Underworld, while Persephone watches. Side A of an Attic black-figur
katadesmoi:atlas holding the sky but its a pas deux??????????
Marble bust of the Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis. Roman copy after a Greek original (4th cent. BCE)
The battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs (Centauromachy). Attic black-figure terracotta kyathos (cup-s
Athletes running. Side B of a black-figure Panathenaic amphora, attr. to the Kleophrades Painter; ca
Head of Asclepius. Roman copy (second half of 2nd cent. CE) after a mid-4th cent. BCE Greek origina
Silver stater from the ancient Greek polis of Phaistos, Crete. On the obverse, Heracles; on the rev
oakashandwillow:lifethe-universe-andeverything:Since I’m a giant Classics nerd I made some Greek pot
Fragment of an Early Corinthian oinochoe depicting a lion in profile. Artist unknown; ca. 595-590 B
Askos (oil-jar) in the shape of a sandal-wearing foot. Greek (thought to have been made in Athens),
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