Classical Mythology

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Apollo Slays PythonEugène Delacroix (French; 1798–1863)1850Oil on paper laid down on canvasChristie’

Mercury and a Sleeping Herdsman, Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1632-33

The Birth of the Milky Way, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636-37

Minerva, Girolamo Genga, 1506 or 1509

Odysseus listens to the song of the Sirens.  Attic black-figure oenochoe, artist unknown; ca. 525-50

A Maenad (female devotee of Dionysus), brandishing her thyrsos (staff tipped with a pine cone) and a

Fragment of a pebble mosaic floor from the ancient Greek polis of Sicyon, depicting Centaurs and var

Lycian Apollo.  Reconstituted ivory statue of the 3rd cent. CE, thought to be a copy of the original

Silenus or a satyr, holding a kantharos (drinking-cup) and lyre.  Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix

Study for the Figure of the Iliad in the Apotheosis of Homer by Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresFrench,

Art by John William Waterhouse1. Apollo and Daphne2. Boreas3. Consulting the Oracle4. Echo and Narci

Orpheus and Eurydice, Jean Raoux, ca. 1709

Tannhäuser and Venus, Otto Knille, 1873

Venus and Adonis, Titian, ca. 1555-60

Proserpine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874

Psyche Opening the Golden Box, John William Waterhouse, 1904

The centaur Chiron teaches Achilles how to play the lyre.  Carved red jasper gemstone in a modern go

The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas, Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1766

Hellenistic bronze sculpture of Hermes.  Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Photo credit:

Perseus and Andromeda, Joachim Wtewael, 1611

Hercules Killing the Centaur Nessus, Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734)

Terracotta applique in the form of a griffin.  From Taranto (ancient Taras/Tarentum), artist unknown

Bronze statuette of a Siren.  Unknown South Italian or Etruscan artist; ca. 500 BCE.  Now in the Met

Scaevola Places His Hand in the Fire, unknown Italian artist, 17th century

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