Ancient Myth

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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

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Lycian Apollo.  Reconstituted ivory statue of the 3rd cent. CE, thought to be a copy of the original

Hi, DC! Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt is now on view at the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler

Silenus or a satyr, holding a kantharos (drinking-cup) and lyre.  Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix

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The centaur Chiron teaches Achilles how to play the lyre.  Carved red jasper gemstone in a modern go

Hellenistic bronze sculpture of Hermes.  Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Photo credit:

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Terracotta applique in the form of a griffin.  From Taranto (ancient Taras/Tarentum), artist unknown

Bronze statuette of a Siren.  Unknown South Italian or Etruscan artist; ca. 500 BCE.  Now in the Met

Scaevola Places His Hand in the Fire, unknown Italian artist, 17th century

Monumental marble head of the Roman goddess Juno, wearing a diadem.  Found at Vienne (ancient Vienna

Roman relief depicting Eros and the Captive Danae. Trier, early 2nd century CE.Source: museum-digita

The Sacred Omphalos of Delphi (The Navel of the World) exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Del

Ancient columns at the island of Delos, Greece.Delos is famous for being The Most Sacred Island in T

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Fragment of a terracotta head of a satyr.  Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE.  From Taranto (ancient Tar

Fun Ancient Sumerian Literature Fact,According to the Epic of Gilgamesh, the wild man Enkidu was onl

Silver tetradrachm of the polis of Naxos (Sicily).  On the obverse, a bearded head of Dionysus, wear

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