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stickfiguregods:One group of kids response to my request to come up with a new creative way to expla

A statue of Zeus.  Artist unknown; late Hellenistic period.  From Kameiros, Rhodes; now in the Archa

soylamierda:Colonna Traiana It’s all about you, baby

Corinthian terracotta aryballos (oil container) depicting warriors on the march.  Artist unknown; ca

Spring of Arethusa in Syracuse (Sicily). This is a fresh water spring that borders right on the Medi

Marble statue of the hero Meleager.  Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE.  From the gymnasium of Cypriot Sa

Jason and Medea solemnize their marriage with a joining of hands (dextrarum iunctio).  From a Roman

Statuette of Pan.  2nd cent. CE, thought to be a copy of a lost original of the 4th cent. BCE; artis

The head of Heracles, of the Farnese type.  Unknown Roman artist, 1st cent. CE.  Now in the Metropol

Plouton, god of wealth, holds a cornucopia, opposite Demeter, who holds a scepter and plough.  Attic

The mythological bard Orpheus among the Thracians.  Side A of an Attic red-figure bell-krater, attri

Pair of gold armbands depicting a Triton and Tritoness.  Artist unknown; ca. 200 BCE.  Now in the Me

A satyr with the child Dionysus.  Artist unknown (thought to have been carved by craftsmen from Alex

Blue chalcedony cameo depicting a Roman emperor, thought to be Julian “the Apostate” (r. 361-363 CE)

Odysseus and Ajax dispute over the arms of Achilles.  Attic black-figure oinochoe, attr. to the Tale

facinaoris:make me choose |vangcghs asked: thanatos or hecate

Bronze figurine of Mars, wearing a cuirass.  Now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.  Photo credit:

Silver didrachm of the island of Paros.  On the obverse, a veiled head of Demeter; on the reverse, t

climbing on the giant remains of the collapsed Temple G at Selinunte ft. my classmates

Soluntum, a little Phoenician town on the island of Sicily… lovely ruins and a very steep hil

this was gonna be psyche on the cliff just after her wedding/funeral but i lost any wherewithal to a

Rhyton in the form of a griffin’s head.  Artist unknown; ca. 350-300 BCE.  Found in Apulia; no

Cult statue of Athena/Minerva, with a face of the so-called “Carpegna Athena” type.  Made from alaba

Poseidon, trident in hand, duels the Giant Polybotes during the Gigantomachy.  Tondo of an Attic red

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