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Ancient Greek golden ring in the shape of a dove.  Artist unknown; ca. 360 BCE.  Now in the Staatlic

The infant Heracles strangles the snakes sent by his mother Hera to kill him, while a servant-woman

The death of Orpheus.  Attic red-figure stamnos, signed by the painter Hermonax; ca. 470 BCE.  Now i

Classical Greek gold earrings with a rosette, bird and inverted pyramid; 330-300 BC 

greek-museums:Archaeological Museum of Arta:Finds from graves during the Classical and Hellenistic p

classicalmonuments:Tomb of Thessalonike of MacedonVergina, Greece 300 BCEThessalonike (352 or 345 –

A flute-playing youth rides a dolphin.  Detail from a red-figure Etruscan stamnos, attributed to a p

Red-figure pelike with Zeus and Ganymede, by the Achilles Painter. From Athens, Attica. Greek, 445-4

White-ground lekythos with woman and servant girl, attributed to the Achilles PainterGreek (manufact

Hellenistic terracotta figurine depicting Heracles in repose, perhaps modeled after an original by L

Fragmentary red-figure jar depicting Heracles battling the Lernaean Hydra, with Nike behind him.  Ar

A girl holding a duck speaks to a boy holding a cat.  Detail from side A of a Campanian red-figure k

natgeofound:Two actresses at Delphi Festival adorn costumes of classical Greece, December 1930.Photo

Scene from a phlyax (mythological burlesque) play, showing Zeus as a pot-bellied old man walking wit

Interior of an Attic red-figure cup by the potter Kalliades, showing Eos (Dawn) lifting up the corps

Archaeological Museum of Patra:Two clay “piggy banks”. One of them has been tampered with (left), as

Archarological Museum of PatraA circular marble table with three legs. the short legs are decorated

Albert Joseph Moore (British; 1841–1893)A Musicianca. 1867Oil on canvasYale Center for British Art,

Ionic column, Delphi, GreeceVSHalf cut champignon

The Porch of the Caryatids, Acropolis of Athens Athens | Sculpture

Ajax carries the dead Achilles from the battlefield, as described in the lost Aethiopis, part of the

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

The sanctuary of Athena Pronaia, Delphi (Phocis, Greece)The sanctuary of Athena Pronaia is the first

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