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Askos (oil-jar) in the shape of a sandal-wearing foot. Greek (thought to have been made in Athens),
Heracles battles the Amazons. Interior of a Laconian black-figure kylix, attributed to the Arcesila
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Odysseus listens to the song of the Sirens. Attic black-figure oenochoe, artist unknown; ca. 525-50
A Maenad (female devotee of Dionysus), brandishing her thyrsos (staff tipped with a pine cone) and a
Fragment of a pebble mosaic floor from the ancient Greek polis of Sicyon, depicting Centaurs and var
Lycian Apollo. Reconstituted ivory statue of the 3rd cent. CE, thought to be a copy of the original
This 1540 edition of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War is printed in the original
The Canal Defense LightDuring World War II in 1940, a Greek man named A.V.M. Mitzakis invented the C
Silenus or a satyr, holding a kantharos (drinking-cup) and lyre. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix
Replica of ancient Mycenaean Greek bronze scale armor, circa 15th-14th century BC.from Hellenic Armo
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The Death of Adonis by Giuseppe MazzuolaThe Large Italian Skylight Hall (room 238) State Hermitage M
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
Small painted terracotta rhyton in the shape of a lion’s head. Artist unknown; Mature Late Cycladic
Ancient Greek/Roman marble relief panel depicting a winged penis, 1st century AD.
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
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:
Ancient Mycenaean Greek bronze swords, 2nd-1st millennium BC
Painted clay rhyton in the shape of a boar’s head. Mature Late Cycladic I, ca. 1700-1600 BCE. Now
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