back to overview
 


Mythology


Mythology



2 subcategories
Monsters

MONSTERS

Mythological Animals

MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS

2,473 photos
Bowl with basket-like handles and female heads on the rim, Greek, ca.600 BCE. The message scratched into the rim records its dedication to Aphrodite by a man named Sostratos. The bowl was found in the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Naukratis, a Greek trading settlement in the Nile Delta, where the Greeks were free to worship their own gods. Gr 1888.6-1.456
#03050322

Bowl with basket-like handles and female heads on the rim, Greek, ca.600 BCE. Th...

Fragment of a marble shield, Roman, 200 - 300 CE. This is a reduced copy of the goddess Athena's shield from her statue on the Parthenon (built 447-438 BCE). The statue, by Phidias, made of gold and ivory, has not survived; Athena was shown resting one hand on a shield carved with battle scenes between Greeks and Amazons. Gr 1864.2-2018
#03050324

Fragment of a marble shield, Roman, 200 - 300 CE. This is a reduced copy of the...

Bowl with a Gorgon's head surrounded by prowling animals, from Kamiros, Rhodes, made in Corinth. A frieze of panthers, deer, two sphinxes and a siren surround the staring face of the Gorgo Medusa. According to Greek legend, anyone who looked at the face of the Gorgo was instantly turned to stone. It seems likely, that such vessels also fulfilled an apotropaic function, warding off the evil eye from the user of the vessel. GR, 1861.4-25.46
#03050330

Bowl with a Gorgon's head surrounded by prowling animals, from Kamiros, Rhodes,...

The drunken Hercules, House of the Stags, Herculaneum, Italy.
#03050340

The drunken Hercules, House of the Stags, Herculaneum, Italy.

Roman wall painting from the House of Jason, Pompeii: The Rape of Europe.
#03050351

Roman wall painting from the House of Jason, Pompeii: The Rape of Europe.

Red-figured hydria, Greek, c420-c400 BC. The figures on this hydria are divided into two zones. The upper zone illustrates the abduction of the daughters of Leukippos by the Dioskouroi, Kastor and Polydeukes (Castor and Pollux). Aphrodite, goddess of love, sits in the lower part of the scene, clearly conniving in the abduction. Her attendant Peitho, goddess of Persuasion, flees from the scene, but Aphrodite and Zeus, father of the Dioskouroi, do not seem moved. The scene in the lower zone shows Herakles performing his final Labour, receiving the golden apples of the Hesperides from the nymphs responsible for guarding the tree in a garden at the end of the earth. Both scenes are remarkable for their peaceful treatment of violent subjects. This softened mood, along with the delicate treatment of the drapery, is very characteristic of late fifth-century Athenian vase painting. GR, 1772.3-20.30* (Vase E 224)
#03050357

Red-figured hydria, Greek, c420-c400 BC. The figures on this hydria are divided...

Capital carved from alabastre from Volterra. H: 40 cm
#03050362

Capital carved from alabastre from Volterra. H: 40 cm

Etruscan bronze lamp, 5th-4th century BCE. The concentric ornaments surround a Gorgo's head.
#03050365

Etruscan bronze lamp, 5th-4th century BCE. The concentric ornaments surround a G...

Bust of Emperor Commodus (176-192 CE) as Hercules, 191-192. Excavated on the Esquiline in Rome, 1874. MC 1121
#030504 7

Bust of Emperor Commodus (176-192 CE) as Hercules, 191-192. Excavated on the Es...

Perseus with the head of Medusa. Marble. From the Palatine.
#03050415

Perseus with the head of Medusa. Marble. From the Palatine.

Two-headed herm of the god Dyonisos, young and mature. Roman copy of a Greek original 5th BCE. Front side shows young Dionysos. Inv. 614
#03050416

Two-headed herm of the god Dyonisos, young and mature. Roman copy of a Greek or...

Two-headed herm of the god Dyonisos, young and mature. Roman copy of a Greek original 5th BCE. Front side shows mature Dionysos. Inv. 614
#03050417

Two-headed herm of the god Dyonisos, young and mature. Roman copy of a Greek or...