Fresco: Cupid holding a rhombus

Venus sits on a chair or throne in the foreground dressed in a loosely draped garment. Mars stands behind the chair wearing a helmet with a large crest; some sort of cloak or cloth is draped over his left shoulder. He reaches around to grope Venus with his left hand. Venus reaches up with her left hand grasping his elbow. Cupid, shown as a winged cherub, hovers in the background holding a rhombus.

Drawing: Venus wounded by Diomedes

Diomedes (left) steps toward the left with right arm raised and pulled back preparing to stab Aeneas with his spear. Venus intervenes wrapping her right arm around Aeneas's waist and flying him away while warding off Diomedes with her left hand. Aeneas's left arm and shield are draped over Venus's shoulder, a sword hilt is visible in his right hand, but the blade is mostly out of frame.
Image Credit:
© Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.

Roman Cameo: Ajax seizing Cassandra

Cassandra clings to the statue of Athena, half sitting on its base as Ajax grabs her by the left shoulder with his right hand. On wears a helmet and bears a shield on his left arm. A chlamys is draped around his shoulders.
Image Credit:
© Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.

Wall painting: Ariadne waking on the shore of Naxos

Araidne (foreground center) lies on a mattress or pallet with a pillow as backrest. She supports herself on her right arm while raising her left, in which she holds a length of the cloth covering her, toward a ship sailing away in the background. In the stern of the ship the steersman points to the right away from Ariadne.
Image Credit:
© Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.

Roman Mosaic: Atalanta Hunting

Atalanta rides a galloping horse, bow held in her right hand with arrow nocked and ready. She wears ankle high boots, a knee-length tunic, and cloak. The cloak streams back behind her revealing the quiver on her back.
Image Credit:
© Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.

Flaxman: Ajax attacking the sheep

Ajax (center) steps forward with his left leg toward a flock of sleeping sheep (right). Holds a short sword or dagger high over his right soldier preparing to swing down. Athene hovering to the left and sightly behind Ajax, urges him on.
Image Credit:
© Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.

Achilles and Briseis Fresco, Pompeii

Achilles' surrender of Briseis to Agamemnon, from the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii, fresco, 1st century AD, now in the Naples National Archaeological Museum

Map of Magna Graecia

map of southern Italy

Apulian red-figure oenochoe depicting the Rape of Oreithyia by Boreas

Boreas, depicted as a bearded and winged man, grasps the struggling Oreithyia around the torso, lifting her into the air. Oreithyia left arm is free, raised above her head, perhaps to fight off Boreas or perhaps in supplication. Her right hand grabs at Boreas's hands locked around her chest. Her head is thrown back against Boreas's chest.
Image Credit:
Wikimedia Commons

Hans Holbein the Younger, "Lais of Corinth"

A Woman dressed in a Renaissance style dress sits behind a table or plinth with ": Lais : Corinthiaca : 1526 :" apparently engraved on the front edge. A heavy curtain hangs behind her. Lais faces the viewer with her right hand extended palm up. Her left hand holds a drape lying in her lap. On the table is a pile of gold coins.
Date:
1526
Image Credit:
Wikimedia Commons

Edgar Degas, Sémiramis construisant Babylone

Queen Semiramis stands (just left of center) on a terrace gazing left, across a river, toward the city of Babylon under construction. Behind her and slightly to the right stands a cluster of four women attendants. In the deep background behind the attendants stand 3 or 4 other figures and some trees. One woman crouches directly behind Semiramis near a small basket of flowers. To the right of her is a horse and chariot, its reins held by another woman facing away from the viewer.
Date:
1861

Roman Silver Wine Cup

Two-handled silver cup with relief decoration depicting a scene from Odyssey 11.26-42. Odysseus is shown holding a sword up in his right hand. He looks to his left toward a tree. At Odysseus's feet lies the ram he has just sacrificed to summon the dead. To Odysseus's right sits the spirit of the seer Teiresias sits on a rock.

Roman banquet couch frame (restored)

Wooden bed frame of a Roman banquet couch. The scrolled arm rests at either end are decorated with bronze fittings in the shop of lions' heads. The legs are also of bronze terminating in a wooden base.

Lapiths and Centaurs mosaic

Mosaic depicting the battle between the Lapiths and Centaurs. The mosaic is laid out in three rows. Left to right, bottom row: a man grasps a centaur by the hair and thrusts forward with a spear held in his right hand. Another centaur appears lower right facing an unseen opponent. Middle row: a man attacks a centaur attempting to capture woman. Another man reaches toward the woman as if to help her escape. Top row: A man attacks a centaur who holds a woman by her arm. Another man appears to flee right.

Casa dei casta amanti fresco

Two couples recline on their left elbows. The men are at the head of the couches, the women lean against the mens' chests and holding large drinking vessels. In the center foreground a small round three-legged table with glass drinking vessels on top stands between the couches. In the upper left background of the fresco a slave supports a woman who has had too much to drink. In the lower right foreground a portion of a second round table with drinking vessels is visible.

Europa and the bull

Europa is shown on a blue background seated on a running or leaping bull. The. fabric of her clothing billows out behind her forming a halo.

Leda and the Swan

Leda stands on the left holding a swan by the neck with her left hand. The swan's beak hovers near Leda's mouth. Its wings stretch out behind it to the right of the fresco.

Io carried by the river Nile

The river Nile, in human form, appears in the lower left corner. Isis sits on his left shoulder with horns sprouting from her forehead. Isis sits in the lower right corner, clasping Io's right hand in her right. A snake, possibly a cobra, twines around Isis's left arm. Two attendants stand behind Isis. The both attendants carry a sistrum in their right hands. The attendant on the left holds a caduceus in the left hand while a small metal pot dangles from the attendant's left wrist.

Greek Myrtle

Greek Myrtle bush. In the background are multiple pink-red buds; in the foreground one bud has opened into a white flower
Image Credit:
Jason Morrison

Cupid Stringing his Bow

Marble statue of Cupid stringing his bow. Cupid faces front with the bow held to his right side and head turned to face it. He holds the grip with his left hand and grasps the top limb with his right.

Apollo Citharoedus Palatine

Fresco of Apollo seated facing right. In his left hand he holds a multi-stringed musical instrument called a cithara

Aureus of Apollo Augustus

Gold coin with profile of Augustus on the obverse and Apollo holding a plectrum in his right hand and lyre in his left on the reverse

Intaglio of Apollo and Artemis

Pink-red chalcedony stone engraved with an image of Apollo leaning on a tripod, approached by Artemis, wearing a short tunic and carrying a bow in her right hand while pulling an arrow from her quiver with her left. A dog runs alongside Artemis
Image Credit:
© Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.

Bronze statuette of Ceres

Bronze statuette of Ceres holding a large torch in her left hand and extending a sheaf of wheat toward the viewer with her right
Image Credit:
Miho Museum

Minerva with helmet and spear

Marble statue of Minerva with helmet and spear
Image Credit:
Gordonontour

Carbonized wooden shutters from Herculaneum

Carbonized wooden shutters from Herculaneum set in building
Image Credit:
Roger B. Ulrich
Subject:
Ovid

Woman playing a lyre

Woman playing a lyre
Image Credit:
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Snakes on a Boat

drawing of snake about to bit a man's leg
Date:
2013

MAP OF VESONTIO BY EUGENE STOFFEL cropped

MAP OF VESONTIO BY EUGENE STOFFEL

Encyclopedia illustration: Diagram of Sundial

diagram of sundial

Intaglio with Bust of Demosthenes

Intaglio with Bust of Demosthenes
Date:
about 25 BC
Image Credit:
J. Paul Getty Museum

Capriccio with Roman Ruins

Capriccio with Roman Ruins
Date:
1676–1730
Image Credit:
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bridge Logo

The Bridge wordmark
Agent:
Bret Mulligan
Image Credit:
https://bridge.haverford.edu/

Albert Watanabe headshot

Date:
2019
Image Credit:
Albert Watanabe

VERB PERSONAL ENDINGS IN HOMER

Subject:
Verbs, Personal Endings, Homer

Epictetus Was A Hardass Professor 2

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Agent:
Existental Comics
Image Credit:
Existential Comics
Subject:
Epictetus

Epictetus Was A Hardass Professor 1

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Agent:
Existental Comics
Image Credit:
Existential Comics
Subject:
Epictetus

Jerome Cover Image

William Turpin portrait

portrait of William Turpin in his office
Agent:
Laurence Kesterson
Date:
2016
Image Credit:
Swarthmore College

The World of Jerome's Malchus

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Agent:
Christopher Francese
Date:
2019
Image Credit:
Ancient World Mapping Center
Subject:
Jerome, Malchus

Dionysis in triumph, chariot drawn by tigers

Mosaic of Dionysus (Roman Bacchus) standing in a chariot drawn by two tigers. Dionysus is dressed in a long chiton, with a cloak of what looks like fawn skin draped over his left arm and shoulder. He holds the reins in his left hand and a thyrsus in his right. Behind him is a nude young man, perhaps Ampelos. They are both crowned with grapevines. Pictured behind the tigers walking beside the chariot is a third figure, possibly a satyr, wearing a fawn's skin and carrying a shepherd's crook in his left hand.
Date:
3rd century AD
Image Credit:
Carole Raddato
Subject:
Ovid

The Triumph of Venus

Venus is shown in the center of the engraving seated in a chariot drawn by two birds driven by a cupid. The cupid holds the reins in his left hand and a burning torch in his right, Venus behind him. Her left hand is on her hip, right arm raised holding a scepter. Venus wears a diadem and is haloed by light. The chariot is encircled by clouds. In the upper right corner is the sun pierced by an arrow; in the left corner is the moon similarly pierced. Various animals and people appear at bottom also shot.
Agent:
Otto van Veen
Date:
1608
Image Credit:
Johns Hopkins Rare Books
Subject:
Ovid

Bound captives from a relief sculpture of the Temple of Apollo in Circo, Rome

Marble relief panel from the Arch of Titus. In the center of the image are two men sitting on a large platform or litter with their hands bound behind their backs. The men are barefoot wearing long tunics and cloaks consistent with Roman depictions of Gauls, Germans and other men from the northern frontier. The men are seated at the foot of a wooden frame constructed from a tree trunk with crossbars. Four round shields and clothes similar to the captives are hung on it.
Image Credit:
Roger B. Ulrich

Triumph on Arch of Titus, Via Sacra, Rome

Triumphal procession scene from the Arch of Titus. At far right is a four-horse chariot in which Titus stands. Behind him in the chariot stands a winged woman representing victory. Standing to the right of the chariot appear to be three men, two wearing togas and one bare-chested. In the background are more men, perhaps soldiers. Rising above their heads are the shafts of what look like spears. At the head of the horses stands the goddess Roma.
Image Credit:
Steven Zucker

Irregular and Defective -μι Verbs: κάθημαι

Paradigm of Irregular and Defective -μι Verbs: κάθημαι
Subject:
Ancient Greek, Verbs, -μι Verbs, Present System, Middle

Irregular and Defective -μι Verbs: ἥμαι

Paradigm of Irregular and Defective -μι Verbs: ἥμαι
Subject:
Ancient Greek, Verbs, -μι Verbs, Present System, Middle

Irregular and Defective -μι Verbs: κεῖμαι

Paradigm of Irregular and Defective -μι Verbs: κεῖμαι
Subject:
Ancient Greek, Verbs, -μι Verbs, Present System, Middle, Passive

Irregular and Defective -μι Verbs: οἶδα

Paradigm of Irregular and Defective -μι Verbs: οἶδα
Subject:
Ancient Greek, Verbs, -μι Verbs, Present System, Active

Irregular and Defective -μι Verbs: εἶμι

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Subject:
Greek, Verbs, -μι Verbs, Present System, Active

Irregular and Defective -μι Verbs: εἰμί Future Middle System

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