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Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx. Red-figured Attic pelike, 470-460 BCE Terracotta Inv.IV 3728
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Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx. Red-figured Attic pelike...

Oedipus solves the riddle of the sphinx. Black-figured lekythos from Thebes, early 5th BCE Terracotta, height: 32.1 cm, diameter: 10.8 cm Inv. CA 1705
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Oedipus solves the riddle of the sphinx. Black-figured lekythos f...

Heracles fights the Nemean lion, one of the 12 labours. Black-figured Attic kalpis, early 5th BCE Terracotta, height: 21.9 cm, diameter: 16.2 cm Inv. IV 253
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Heracles fights the Nemean lion, one of the 12 labours. Black-figured Attic kalp...

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...

Meleager kills the Caledonian Boar. Red-figured Attic pelike, mid 5th BCE Terracotta, height: 17.3 cm, diam.: 12.7 cm Inv. IV 781
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Meleager kills the Caledonian Boar. Red-figured Attic pelike...

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...

Funerary stele of Parmeniskos. Gorgon head in the pediment to ward off evil; frieze with battle against Amazones; sirens standing on rosettes; griffins on each side of a krater. Limestone, H: 108 cm Inv. I 1024
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Funerary stele of Parmeniskos. Gorgon head in the pediment to ward off evi...

Black onyx seal of Emperor Agustus. Relief shows a sphynx.
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Black onyx seal of Emperor Agustus. Relief shows a sphynx.

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...

Two youths fighting a centaur, monochrome on marble. From Pompeii.
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Two youths fighting a centaur, monochrome on marble. From Pompeii.

Chiron, the wise centaur, tutor of gods and heroes, teaches Achilles to play the lyre. From the Basilica at Herculaneum. Inv.9109
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Chiron, the wise centaur, tutor of gods and heroes, teaches Achilles to play...

Perseus frees Andromeda. Perseus, the head of the Medusa in his hand, helps Andromeda step down from the rock to which she was chained, to be devoured by the monster, which lies dead at left. From the House of the Dioscuri,Pompeii VI 9,6. Inv.8998
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Perseus frees Andromeda. Perseus, the head of the Medusa in his hand, help...