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Archaic Greek marble kouros from the island of Keos.  Artist unknown; ca. 530-520 BCE.  Now in the N

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

Studying classics… The right way

The first in what I hope will be a weekly installment of It’s Raining Men.This, dear friends,

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

Silver, partially gilt mirror with repoussé decoration, depicting Leda and Zeus disguised as a swan.

argonauticae:ismene (for newfavething) oh antigone, i am so afraid for you.

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

flores-et-dracones:‘Stop blaming Helen for the annihilation of armies. As if her little flutter, all

Corinthian terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) depicting a rooster in a field of rosettes.  Artist

Golden pendant with repoussédecoration, bearing a portrait of Alexander the Great.  Artist unknown;

Agrippina, carrying a cornucopia, crowns her son Nero with a laurel wreath.  Unknown Roman artist, b

Ancient Greek gold earring depicting a human head in relief.  Artist unknown (perhaps manufactured i

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

Coin of King Monounius I (r. ca. 290-270 BCE) of the Dardanian state, depicting a cow and suckling c

Marble bust of Antisthenes (ca. 445-365 BCE), Socratic philosopher sometimes credited as the founder

camelotsqween:ANCIENT HISTORY MEME - 2/10 Events in the Ancient World“As he took his seat, the consp

goldentailedmermaids:Inktober #10 | Antigone

Inscribed Attic funeral stele for a man named Artemon.  Artemon is shown shaking the hand of an olde

slythaerin:mythology meme - paris, whose fate was stained with blood. who held a prophecy on his sho

caballerodelatristefigura:— Euripides, Bacchae 506 (tr. Reginald Gibbons)

Heracles (right) pursues Ares’ son Cycnus (left in the center, Zeus attempts to separate the combata

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