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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: Greek Attacking Amazon

Greek (Asia Minor): Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: Amazonomachy, detail of Greek attacking Amazon from E. frieze (attributed to Skopas?). ca. 355-330 B.C. AICT: Art Images for College Teaching....

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Athena Seizing the Giant Alcyoneos by the Hair: Detail

Greek Hellenistic: Great Altar of Zeus, Pergamon: Athena seizing the Giant Alcyoneos by the hair, detail of E. frieze. ca. 180-175 B.C. AICT: Art Images for College Teaching....

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Berlin Goddess

Greek, Archaic: "Berlin Goddess," Kore from Keratea: ca. 570-560 B.C. AICT: Art Images for College Teaching....

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Birth of Aphrodite

Greek, Magna Graecia: Ludovisi Throne: back C. panel, the Birth of Aphrodite. ca. 470-460 B.C. AICT: Art Images for College Teaching....

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Wounded Trumpeter, Called the Dying Gaul (Head)

Greek (Hellenistic): Wounded Trumpeter, called the "Dying Gaul": detail of head showing Celtic-style torc; Roman marble copy after bronze original from Pergamum in Asia Minor. ca. 220 B.C. AICT: Art Images for College Teaching....

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The Labors of Hercules

The most popular of Greek heroes, Hercules (sometimes called "Herakles") was celebrated in stories, sculptures, paintings, and even in the geography of the ancient world. Lots of images. [The Lion, the Hydra, etc.]...

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Dionysis Images: Classical Myth

Dionysos is the god of wine, intoxication, and creative ecstasy. He is also known as Dionysus, Bacchus or Bakchos, and Liber (Roman)....

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Ancient Greek Armour, Shields and Helmets

Hoplite Armour and more (includes some less used parts such as perimerides, pericheirida, perisphyra) The defensive armour most used consisted of four pieces: helmet (kranos), cuirass (thorax), shield (aspis) and greaves (knimis). A weapon is called hoplon from which panoply and hoplite (a man with weapons) is derived (initially the shield was cal...

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Areopagus (Mars Hill), Athens

In classical times, the Areopagus functioned as the chief homicide court of Athens. Ares was supposed to have been tried here by the Gods for the murder of Poseidon's son Alirrothios. Another legend states that the hill was the site of the trial of Orestes for killing his stepmother and her lover, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. In pre-classical times...

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