Greek History Gallery

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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
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
Antonio Canova, Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss.
Peter Paul Rubens, The Fall of Icarus, 1636.
Saint George the Dragon-Slayer, Georgios Klontzas, 16th century
Silver stater from the ancient Greek polis of Phaistos, Crete.  On the obverse, Heracles; on the rev
Fragment of an Early Corinthian oinochoe depicting a lion in profile.  Artist unknown; ca. 595-590 B
Saint Francis in Ecstasy, El Greco, ca. 1577-80
Portrait of Giulio Clovio, El Greco, ca. 1570
juliacaesaris:Cleopatra VII was the Macedonian Greek queen of the Ptolemaic Empire, born 69 BCE, who
thoodleoo:some bodacious ancient kittiesHae bodaces antiquae feles mihi placent!
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
helleneoftroy:“history is a set of lies agreed upon”                            one of the nine muse
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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
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