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Clytemnestra attempts to awaken the sleeping Furies so that they can resume their pursuit of Orestes

Herm with a portrait of Plato, from the Academy at Athens.  Roman copy of a lost Greek original (ca.

Silenus speaks to a woman.  Fragment of an Apulian krater in the Gnathian style, artist unknown; ca.

Theseus wrestles Cercyon, King of Eleusis, who would challenge passersby to a wrestling match and th

Silver drachm of Naxos with head of Dionysus (obverse) and bearded Silenus holding kantharos (revers

Statuette of the goddess Artemis/Diana. Unknown Anatolian artist; 1st cent. BCE. Now in the Getty Vi

Achilles lies in wait for Polyxena at a fountain.  Attic white-ground lekythos, attributed to the At

Coin of the Macedonian king Perdiccas II (r. ca. 451-413 BCE).  On the obverse, a galloping horse; o

Sardonyx cameo depicting a Ptolemaic prince as Hermes.  Artist unknown; 3rd cent. BCE.  Now in the C

Drachma from Bruttium (Locri or Croton).  On the obverse, Hera Lacinia; on the reverse, Zeus with hi

Anacreon with His Mistress and the YoungBathyllosEtienne BarthélemyGarnier (French; 1759–1849)ca. 17

Red-figure squat lekythos with a departing warriorAttributed to the Achilles PainterAttic Greek, c.

warriormale:historyarchaeologyartefacts:Greek helmets, classical period, from Olympia Museum store r

Attic black-figure skyphos (two-handled wine-cup), decorated with chariots, Amazons, and Sphinxes. 

The goddess Thetis, riding a hippocampus (seahorse), delivers newly forged arms to her son Achilles.

The porch of the Caryatids, The Erechtheion on the Acropolis of Athens, GreeceGreece | Acropolis of

Zeus, in the form of a white bull, abducts Europa.  Detail from a red-figure calyx-krater signed by

A woman sneaks a drink from a vessel while a young servant girl looks on.  Attic red-figure skyphos,

Apulian red-figure lebes gamikos (marriage vase) depicting Eros with a seated woman.  Artist unknown

via-appia:Temple of Hephaestus or Hephaisteion (earlier also called the Theseion), Athens, construct

Statue of Hermes,carved from Pentelic marble.  Roman-period copy (1st or 2nd cent. CE) after a lost

The Calydonian Boar Hunt.  Attic black-figure amphora, variously attributed to a painter of the Tyrr

historyarchaeologyartefacts:Scaraboid gem with a dolphin, Greek classical period 450–400 BCE[1600x14

Amycus, king of the Bebryces, is bound by the Argonauts after losing a boxing match to Polydeuces.  

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