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Dionysus faces two Maenads, one of whom holds a hare.  Side B of an Attic black-figure neck-amphora,

A hunting Eros.  Mosaic from the “Bath of Achilles” in the House of Theseus, Paphos, Cyp

Athenian silver dekadrachm.  On the obverse, the head of Athena; on the reverse, an owl with wings s

Heracles’ charioteer Iolaus holds his arrows, while the god Hermes watches Heracles grapple with the

The prophetess Cassandra offers a libation for her brother Hector, who is about to go out into battl

Thetis and the Nereids mourn the slain Achilles. Corinthian black-figure hydria, attr. to the Damon

8-litrai silver coin of Syracuse, signed by the engraver Ly(sid…)  On the obverse, the head o

Hector dons his armor, while his parents Priam and Hecuba look on.  Side A of an Attic red-figure pa

Neoptolemus murders King Priam on the altar of Zeus, while Priam’s wife Hecuba looks on.  Side A of

women-loving-art:Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), collages of herself with Classical art, from her scrapbook,

Silver hemidrachm of the Arcadian city of Tegea.  On the obverse, Zeus Lykaios, seated, with an eagl

The columns of the Parthenon, Acropolis of Athens, GreeceGreece | Ancient ruins | Athens

silezukuk:Votive terracotta body parts from the Sanctuary of Asklepios in Ancient Corinth. / Αναθημα

Leda and the Swan (a transformed Zeus).  Ca. 3rd cent. CE.  Found in the sanctuary of Aphrodite at P

Attic lekythos depicting Leda and the Swan (the disguised Zeus).  Attr. to the workshop of the Berli

aegean-okra:Distribution of Greek dialects in the classical period.Western group: Doric proper, Nort

Zeus (seated) and Leto with their offspring Apollo and Artemis.  Marble relief from the sanctuary of

classical-beauty-of-the-past: Peristyle of the Muses - Achilleion Palace, Corfu, Greece

The Roman Agora (Athens, Greece)Remains of a building found on the east side of The Roman Agora in A

The brothers Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death) carry the corpse of the Lycian warrior Sarpedon fro

A discus thrower.  Roman bronze copy (2nd cent. CE) of the Greek sculptor Myron’s lost Discobolus (c

eosphorusss:vintageeveryday:Two actresses at Delphi Festival adorn costumes of classical Greece, Dec

greek-museums:Archaeological Museum of PatraFrom the atrium of a Roman villa in Patras. In the centr

lionofchaeronea:The Minotaur.  The surrounding inscription reads ὁ παῖς καλός (”The boy is handsome/

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