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Marble relief of the goddess Demeter.  Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE.  Found near Çanakkale, Turkey;

Terracotta relief from the Greek island of Melos depicting Odysseus’ return to his palace on Ithaca.

A scene of sacrifice.  Detail from an Attic red-figure oinochoe, attributed to the Kraipale Painter;

c86:Taken from The Wooden Horse: The Legend of the Fall of Troy and the Wanderings of OdysseusAfter

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King Lycurgus of Thrace attacks his wife in a frenzy.  Lycurgus had been driven mad by Dionysus as p

A scene from the Gigantomachy: Ares and another figure (usually identified as Phobos, less often as

A dolphin and fish, surrounded by various forms of marine life.  Tondo of an Apulian red-figure leka

Two women, one with writing tablets and stylus, on a walk.  Interior of an Attic red-figure kylix, a

Heracles kills the Nemean Lion.  Black-figure neck amphora by a painter of the Polyphemus Group, ca.

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Bust of Hera.  Roman-era copy after a Greek original of ca. 420 BCE.  Now in the Museo Arqueológico

336bc:Garni Temple, Armenia (by Here It Is on Flickr)

salemwitchtrials:‘Agamemnon,’ Aeschylus (translated by Anne Carson)

A scene from Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes: Capaneus, one of the Seven, attempts to storm Th

A portrait bust of the tragic playwright Aeschylus.  Roman copy, after a Greek original of the 4th c

A satyr and a griffin confront one of the Scythian tribe of the Arimaspi.  Detail from an Attic red-

Red-figure rhyton in the shape of a griffin’s head.  Unknown Apulian artist, ca. 330 BCE.  Now in th

Pebble mosaic floor depicting a griffin, from the Peloponnesian polis of Sicyon.  Artist unknown; 2n

The mortal Peleus “courts” the sea-nymph Thetis by seizing her, while she shape-shifts i

Peleus entrusts his young son Achilles to the care of the centaur Chiron.  White-ground black-figure

The centaur Chiron, accompanied by a satyr.  Side A of a red-figure bell-krater attributed to the pa

A seated athlete holds a fillet (?)  Miniature black-figure Panathenaic amphora, attr. to the Bulas

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