Classical
Mythology
The Olympians
Hermes
Dionysus
Nike (or Iris), Hera, Zeus
Demeter
Athena
Ares
Hephaestus
Osiris, Anubis, and Horus. Detail of a
frieze in the tomb of Pharaoh
Horemheb. 18th Dynasty, ca 1300.
The Olympians on the Parthenon Eastern Frieze, later 440s.
Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Eros
Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, from the
Sistine Chapel, ca 1511.
Hermes and the Infant Dionysos. Hellensitic or
Roman copy of an original by Praxiteles (mid IV).
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
The Torment of
Marsyas. Roman.
Paris, Louvre
Museum.
The Sun, or the Fall of Icarus. Merry-Joseph
Blondel, (1819. Rotunda of Apollo. Paris, Louvre
Meden agan and gnothi seauton.
Mosaic from Pompeii
L: Zeus and Ganymedes. Cup attr to the Penthesilea Painter, mid V. Ferrara, Museo
Archaeologico Nazionale di Spina.
R: Apollo and Artemis slaughter the children of Niobe. Kalyx krater by the Niobid Painter (name
vase), mid V. Paris, Louvre.
Body of
Sarpedon
lifted by Sleep
and Death.
Calyx-krater
signed by
Euxitheos as
potter,
Euphronios as
painter, ca
515. New
York:
Metropolitan
Museum.
Old nurse firmly holding an infant (Demeter
and Demophoön?). Greek terracotta, ca 300.
London, British Museum.
Pireaus Apollo. Hollow cast bronze, ca 525.
1.92 m. Piraeus, Archaeological Museum.
Croesus. Kouros from
Anavyssos, ca 530, 2.01 m.
Athens, National Archaeological
Museum.
Apollo with kithara pouring a libation. Attic white-ground kylix attributed to the Pistoxenos
Painter (or the Berlin Painter, or Onesimos). Delphi, Archaeological Museum of Delphi.
R: Apollo and Artemis slaughter the children of
Niobe. Kalyx krater by the Niobid Painter
(name vase), mid V. Paris, Louvre.
Delphi
Delos
Delphi, Overview and Castalian Spring.
Votive relief for Artemis. Mid IV. Brauron, Archaeological Museum.
Diana and Actaeon. Paul Manship, 1925. Washington, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Alice Leora Briggs, Diana, Hunter of Bus Drivers. Illustration for an article on This American
Life, 4 Oct 2013
Nathan Fillion as Hermes in Percy Jackson: Sea of
Monsters (2013).
Hermes and the Infant Dionysos. Hellensitic or
Roman copy of an original by Praxiteles (mid IV).
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
T Leslie Shear, director
of the Agora
Excavations, recording
the discovery of a
herm, part of a statue
group of II CE.
Athens, Agora
archives.
Herm from Siphnos,
ca 520 BC. Athens,
National
Archaeological
Museum
Bronze drachma of Alexander
Severus with Cnidian Aphrodite,
early III CE. New York,
American Numismatic Society.
The Ludovisi Cnidian Aphrodite.
Roman copy of an original by
Praxiteles, mid IV. Rome,
National Museum_of Rome,
Palazzo Altemps.
Aphrodite and
Anchises with
Erotes and
Anchises' dog.
Bronze high relief
mirror cover, late
IV. London, British
Museum.
Photograph by Ann
R Raia on VRoma.
Parthenon, Western and Eastern Pediments; left side of Eastern Pediment
Athenian tetradrachma (17.21 gr
of silver), ca 410.
Nashville Parthenon, Athena
Phidias, Olympian Zeus, reconstruction
Panathenaic amphora, Kuban group, Athena
with shield device of Tyrant Slayers, late V.
London, British Museum.
Panathenaic amphora, Kuban group, Athena with shield device of Tyrant Slayers, end
of 5th century(BM 1903.2-17.1) , 0.57 m. Panathenaic amphora, attributed to the
Euphiletos Painter, ~530 (Met 14.130.12) 62.23 cm
Top: Dionysus and maenad. Neck amphora by the Amasis
Painter, ca 550-525. Paris, Cabinet des Médailles.
Right: Dionysos and satyrs at vintage. Belly amphora by
the Amasis Painter, ca 550-525. Basel, Antikenmuseum.