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Details #2: The Pleiades, 1885, by Elihu Vedder.

Minoan clay pyxis (cylindrical vessel with lid), depicting a man in a long robe (possibly a priest)

Ancient Greek gold bracelet with terminals of maned lionesses, dated to the 4th century BCE. The bra

Mycenaean stirrup jar depicting an octopus. Artist unknown; Late Helladic IIIC (13th cent. BCE). Now

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

hellenismo:Dance of Goddesses (?) above a battle of the Gods against the giants- Greek (340 BC)

Metope from the Parthenon sculptures 447 - 432 b.c. The battle between Lapiths and Centaurs. (Britis

Mid-night (03:30) visual trial with details of Medusa, Peter Paul Rubens; Head of Mars, French Schoo

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!

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