Classical Mythology

The Olympians

The Olympians on the Parthenon Eastern Frieze, later 440s.Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Eros

Hermes Dionysus Demeter Ares

Nike (or Iris), Hera, Zeus Athena Hephaestus

Osiris, Anubis, and Horus. Detail of a frieze in the tomb of Pharaoh Horemheb. 18th Dynasty, ca 1300.

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.

Delos

Delphi

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

Hermes and the Infant Dionysos. Hellensitic or Roman copy of an original by Praxiteles (mid IV).

Olympia, Archaeological Museum.

Nathan Fillion as Hermes in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013).

Herm from Siphnos, ca 520 BC. Athens, National 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.

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.

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.

Parthenon, Western and Eastern Pediments; left side of Eastern Pediment

Athenian tetradrachma (17.21 gr of silver), ca 410.

Nashville Parthenon, AthenaPhidias, 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.