Classical Mythology

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Terpsichore, Muse of Lyric Poetry, Antonio Canova, 1812(photo credit: Sailko/Wikimedia Commons)

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Two archers (perhaps Amazons) with their dog on a hunt. Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase), relate

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

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Bronze Etruscan foot element in the shape of the snake-footed monster Typhon.  Artist unknown; ca. 5

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

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Marble head of the Roman deity Jupiter.  Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE.  Now in the Spurlock Museum,

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A Muse reading a scroll.  Attic red-figure lekythos, attr. to the Klügmann Painter; ca. 435-425 BCE.

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The Awakening of Ariadne, Giorgio de Chirico, 1913

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Ancient Roman bronze statuette of Mars Ultor, perhaps from a lararium (household shrine).  Artist un

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

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

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Hector and Andromache, Giovanni Maria Benzoni, 1871

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Hercules, Piero della Francesca, ca. 1465

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

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Silver stater from the ancient Greek polis of Phaistos, Crete.  On the obverse, Heracles; on the rev

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Orpheus and Eurydice, Jean Raoux, ca. 1709

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A wounded Amazon.  Roman marble copy (1st-2nd cent. CE) after a lost 5th century BCE Greek original,

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A Gorgoneion (Gorgon’s head/head of Medusa).  Tondo on the bottom of an Attic black-figure alabastro

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Hercules at Lake Stymphalos, Gustave Moreau, ca. 1875-1880

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