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Witches, golems, vampires, demons and more horrible creatures.



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Theseus kills the Minotaur. Black-figured Attic amphora (6th BCE). Height 50 cm F 33
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Theseus kills the Minotaur. Black-figured Attic...

Ulysses' companions changed into swine by Circe. Attic red-figured lekythos (5th BCE). Inv. 9.685
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Ulysses' companions changed into swine by Circe. Attic red-figured lekyth...

Heracles fighting Cerberus, the hell-hound, one of his twelve labours. Black-figured hydria from Caere, 530-525 BCE Terracotta, height: 43 cm Inv. E 701
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Heracles fighting Cerberus, the hell-hound, one of his twelve labour...

Bellerophon, riding Pegasus, fights the Chimaira. Red-figured cup from Camiros (Rhodes), 6th BCE Terracotta, height: 13.3 cm, diameter: 24.3 cm Inv. A 478
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Bellerophon, riding Pegasus, fights the Chimaira. Red-figured cup from Cam...

Ulysses and the cyclops Polyphem. Fragment of a marble group (mid 1st BCE) from the cave of Tiberius in Sperlonga showing the ship of Ulyssses attacked by Scylla. Height 215 cm, length 295 cm
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Ulysses and the cyclops Polyphem. Fragment of a marble gro...

Servant girl, tomb-relief from Virunum, Carinthia. The girls holds a mirror with a head of Medusa in the left hand, a small box in her right. Her clothes are typical of the women of Noricum: fibulae on the shoulders, an outer tunica tucked up below the knees.
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Servant girl, tomb-relief from Virunum, Carinthia. The girls holds a mirror...

Comedy scene: consultation of a sorceress. Three women wearing theatrical masks,the maiden seeking help, the friend or courtesan, the witch.The mosaic is signed "Dioskurides of Samos". From the so-called House of Cicero, Pompeii. Inv.9987
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Comedy scene: consultation of a sorceress. Three women wearing theatrical...

Head of Medusa, a threshold mosaic to protect the house and its inhabitants. From the House of the Centenary, Pompeii. Inv.112284
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Head of Medusa, a threshold mosaic to protect the house and its inhabi...

Theseus fights the minotaur, tondo. From Pompeii Inv.10016
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Theseus fights the minotaur, tondo. From Pompeii...

Theseus fights the minotaur. From Formia. Inv.10017
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Theseus fights the minotaur. From Formia....

Fragment of an equestrian statue.In the center of the harness-ribbon a Medusa-head. Marble, L:120 cm
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Fragment of an equestrian statue.In the center of the harness-ribbon a Medusa-...

Bronze balance with weight shaped like a Medusa's head. from Pompeii.
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Bronze balance with weight shaped like a Medusa's h...