His Classics Gallery
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Scene from a phlyax (mythological burlesque) play, showing Zeus as a pot-bellied old man walking wit
Atlas holds up the zodiac. Detail from the Parabiago Patera, dating to the reign of Julian (361-363
Interior of an Attic red-figure cup by the potter Kalliades, showing Eos (Dawn) lifting up the corps
Theatrical performers with masks. Detail from a relief sculpture on a Roman sarcophagus, artist unk
Two horses flank a tripod, with a goat above. Detail from a Geometric oinochoe (wine jug) made in A
The Three Graces. Mosaic from the House of Apollo, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Muse
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A symposium in a vine-covered arbor surrounds a Gorgon’s head. Attic black-figure cup, late 6
Bronze head of a man, thought to be a north African. Artist unknown; ca. 300 BCE. Found beneath th
Bust of the Emperor Claudius (r. 41-54 CE), reworked from a sculpture of his predecessor Gaius (Cali
Ajax carries the dead Achilles from the battlefield, as described in the lost Aethiopis, part of the
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Scene from a palaestra. A teacher, named Linos by the inscription, holds a papyrus roll; his pupil,
Silver didrachm of the Euboean polis of Eretria. On the obverse, a cow scratching its head with its
Terracotta aryballos in the form of an eagle’s head. Artist unknown; late 7th/early 6th cent. BCE.
Fresco from the synagogue at the ancient city of Dura-Europos (Syria), depicting Moses and the Israe
newfavething:terpsikeraunos:lionofchaeronea:Portrait of the Roman emperor Tiberius (r. 14-37 CE). F
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Vatican Museums
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Hades holding a cornucopia, evoking his alternate persona of Plouton (Pluto), god of wealth and guar
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