Art & Images 2

Wounded Amazon

Greek (Classical): Wounded Amazon: Roman copy after a Greek bronze original attributed to Kresilas or Polykleitos (?) for the Sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesus. ca. 450-425 B.C. AICT: Art Images for College Teaching....

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Great Altar of Zeus: Zeus battling Three Giants

Greek Hellenistic: Great Altar of Zeus, Pergamon: Zeus battling Three Giants, detail of E. frieze. ca. 180-175 B.C. AICT: Art Images for College Teaching....

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Lady of Auxerre

Greek, Orientalizing (Crete?): "Lady of Auxerre" Kore figure: detail, head and torso. ca. 640-630 B.C. AICT: Art Images for College Teaching....

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Ephebe Kritios Boy

Greek, Late Archaic: Ephebe ("Kritios Boy"): detail, head and torso ca. 480 B.C. AICT: Art Images for College Teaching....

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Grave Stele of Hegeso

Greek (Classical): Grave stele of Hegeso, daughter of Proxenos: ca. late-5th century 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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