Greek History

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Askos (oil-jar) in the shape of a sandal-wearing foot.  Greek (thought to have been made in Athens),

Heracles battles the Amazons.  Interior of a Laconian black-figure kylix, attributed to the Arcesila

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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

This 1540 edition of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War is printed in the original

The Canal Defense LightDuring World War II in 1940, a Greek man named A.V.M. Mitzakis invented the C

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

Replica of ancient Mycenaean Greek bronze scale armor, circa 15th-14th century BC.from Hellenic Armo

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The Death of Adonis by Giuseppe MazzuolaThe Large Italian Skylight Hall (room 238) State Hermitage M

Athenian funerary relief of a couple. Artist unknown; ca. 330-320 BCE. Now in the Pergamon Museum, B

Small Minoan pithos of the Kamares Ware type, depicting fish caught in a net.  Artist unknown; ca. 1

Small painted terracotta rhyton in the shape of a lion’s head.  Artist unknown; Mature Late Cycladic

Ancient Greek/Roman marble relief panel depicting a winged penis, 1st century AD.

A lion.  Attic black-figure amphora, attr. to the Gorgon Painter; ca. 600-575 BCE. Now in the Louvre

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

Portrait bust of Seleucus I Nicator (ca. 359-285 BCE), general of Alexander the Great and first rule

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

Ancient Mycenaean Greek bronze swords, 2nd-1st millennium BC

Painted clay rhyton in the shape of a boar’s head.  Mature Late Cycladic I, ca. 1700-1600 BCE.  Now

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