Classical Greece

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An incident from the voyage of the Argo to find the Golden Fleece: Zetes and Calaïs, the winged sons

noceans:Camille Claudel, Clotho, 1893, plaster‘Clotho was the youngest of the Three Fates who decide

Cycladic aestheticsNaxos islandChurch, the holy temple of Goddess Demetra and buildings

Adolf de Meyer (American, born France; 1868–1949)L'Après-midi d'un Faune = The Afternoon of a FaunCh

A man and woman converse.  Apulian red-figure hydria, signed by the painter Python; ca. 360-350 BCE.

kyriat-sims:Hercules Stadion and Gym / Community lot / GymBeautiful surroundings increases motivatio

An erastes offers a hare as a gift to his eromenos.  Detail of an Attic red-figure kylix, signed by

Ancient Greek gold ring with a stone intaglio of a hippocampus, dated to the 5th to 3rd centuries BC

Hermes/Mercury seated on a ram.  Roman copy (late 2nd/early 3rd cent. CE) after a Greek original by

A maenad, possessed by Dionysus, dances in a frenzy.  Red-figure skyphos found at Paestum (Gk. Posei

An elderly satyr is followed by the young Dionysus.  South Italian red-figure bell-krater, attribute

Orestes arrives at Delphi, begging Apollo to free him from the pursuing Furies sent by his murdered

Cadmus battles a dragon on the future site of Thebes.  Side A of a red-figure calyx-krater, produced

Thetis presents her son Achilles with the arms newly forged for him by Hephaestus.  Attic black-figu

Rhyton in the shape of a crocodile devouring an African.  Attributed to the potter Sotades and the S

Ancient Greek (Boeotian) terracotta figure of a young woman with a cloth bandage.  Artist unknown; c

A shepherd rides a ram while playing the aulos (double-flute).  Side A of an Attic red-figure pelike

Silver stater of Thebes, featuring a Boeotian shield on the obverse and the head of Dionysus, crowne

classicalmonuments:Tomb of Seuthes III Kazanlak, Valley of the Thracian Rulers, Bulgaria5-3 centurie

Heracles wrestles a figure variously identified as Alcyoneus or Antaeus.  Attic black-figure eye-cup

Ancient Greek rhyton in the shape of a hind’s (?) head.  Artist unknown; ca. 350-300 BCE.  Fou

Lucanian tomb painting depicting a warrior’s return home.  Artist unknown; ca. 375-370 BCE.  Now in

The Parthenon

A youth, serving as cup-bearer at a symposium, draws wine from a krater (mixing-bowl) with an oinoch

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