Fragment of the Tabula Iliaca

Rectangular fragment of a relief carving. Two-thirds of the fragment is a single large image of the fall of Troy. In the foreground, the beached ships of the Greeks. In the background Troy, with the main gate open. Fighting rages throughout the streets, agora, and temple precinct. Legends in Greek, carved in the negative space of the beach and harbor, describe the scene. Horizontal bands of battle scenes border the scene above, below, and to the right of the image.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
1st century CE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: Jastrow
Subject:
Trojan War

Athena in a Workshop, red-figure kylix

Athena (left) wearing her helmet and carrying her spear facing out turns her head toward a bearded man standing at her right shoulder. She gestures with her left hand toward a craftsman standing behind a model of a horse (center). The man and horse face right toward a third bearded man (right) seated on a stool. The craftsman is bare chested wearing a hip wrap. The other two men wear long chitons and cloaks. The craftsman holds some sort of tool in each hand.
Agent:
Foundry Painter
Date:
ca. 480 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikipedia user Bibi Saint-Pol
Subject:
Athena, Trojan horse, Epeius

Mykonos Pithos

Profile of a larger-than-life-size horse with 7 cut-outs in its side and neck. The horse faces left. In each cut out can be seen the face of a man. In one cutout, high on the neck, a man holds out a helmet, just under the horse's chin. In a cutout in the horse's chest a man holds a sword in its scabbard. In the next cutout, on the horse's flank, a man holds out a shield. In the last cutout, just before the horse's tail another man holds a sword. Surrounding the horse are men armed with shields and spears.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
ca. 670 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: AbelDionis
Subject:
Trojan horse

Europa riding the bull, Caeretan hydria

Europa riding the bull, in profile facing left. Europa wears a long chiton and her hair is loose down her back. Two fish swim under the bull's hooves. A dolphin dives down in front of the bull, while a bird flies overhead.
Agent:
Eagle Painter
Date:
ca. 530–520 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: Sailko
Subject:
Europa

Europa and the Bull, Metope

Europa, in right profile, sits sideways on the back of a bull. She wears a chiton and wrap; her hair hangs down her back, gathered at the neck. The bull's head is turned to look at the viewer. Europe grasps its right horn with her left hand. Below the bulls hooves are two dolphins.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
560–550 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: Bjs
Subject:
Europa

Callisto Red-Figure Chous

Callisto sits on a rock in mid transformation. She wears a loose tunic, fixed at her left shoulder, and calf-high boots. Her right breast is exposed. Her left foot is flat on the ground and her right is folded up under her. She has sprouted bear ears and her hands have begun turning into paws with claws extended. Two trees flank the rock and vegetation grows around the base.
Agent:
Uknown
Date:
ca. 360 BCE
Image Credit:
J. Paul Getty Museum

Atalanta and Hippomenes as Lions

Right-facing profile of a lion, its front left paw is raised and it is yoked to a chariot, only the very front of which is visible. The raised front left paw of a second lion is visible behind the first. Both lions have manes, despite Atalanta being female.
Agent:
Bronze
Date:
1980
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: Janramwill

Atalanta and Eros Lekythos

Reddish-brown line-drawing on a white background. Atalanta (center) runs away from Eros (left). She looks back over her shoulder at him, her right arm raised to ward him off. She holds up the skirt of her peplos with her left hand. The skirt is see-through to show her running legs. She wears a wrap (chlamys?) diagonally across her body, fixed on her right shoulder. Eros holds out a crown of leaves toward her with his left hand. He is partially out of frame his torso leaning forward and left knee raised.
Agent:
Douris
Date:
c. 500–490 BCE
Image Credit:
Cleveland Museum of Art
Subject:
Atalanta, Eros, Erotes

Daedalus calyx krater fragment

Roughly triangular fragment of red-figure pottery. A bare-chested, bearded Daedalus cradles the body of his son Icarus. Daedalus wears a patterned, flowing garment. His wings are attached by ropes over his shoulders. The image of Icarus has been damaged so that only the outline remains. One of his arms dangles.
Agent:
The Black Fury Group
Date:
390–380 BCE
Image Credit:
© Trustees of the British Museum.
Subject:
Daedalus, Icarus

Daedalus and Icarus Bulla

Rounded amulet with slightly pointed bottom, showing a winged man. He wears a vertical folded or striped tunic. His knees are bent as if squatting.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
5th century BCE
Image Credit:
The Walters Art Museum
Subject:
Daedalus, Icarus

Bronze statuette of a Winged Man

Head and torso of a nude man. He is facing the viewer, right arm outstretched with a wing attached to it by a strap. The hand appears to have broken off. His right arm is lowered, elbow slightly bent. Most of the forearm and hand are missing. The legs are also missing.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
5th century BCE
Image Credit:
The Walters Art Museum
Subject:
Icarus, Daedalus

Winged Youth Lekythos

A nude youth with wings faces down his hands appear to be clasped on his chest, but the finish is damaged. Above him a bird flies, head down with beak pointed to the youth.
Agent:
Icarus Painter
Date:
2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE
Image Credit:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject:
Icarus

Cygnus fights with the Trojans against the Greeks

A battlefield. In the foreground a group of horsemen are attacking a man on foot. Under their feet are the bodies of two more men and that of a horse in the process of falling. The men are dressed in long tunics with cuirasses and helmets. In the background, two men on horses fight. The one on the right is winged. The tops of spears and standards can be seen in the far back.
Agent:
Crispijn van de Passe
Date:
1602–1607 CE
Image Credit:
Rijksmuseum
Subject:
Cycnus, Troy, Achilles

Caeneus and Centaurs, Lycian Sarchophagus of Sidon

A nude youth lies on the ground between to rearing centaurs. He is visible from torso up, trying to protect himself with a shield strapped to his left arm. The right-hand centaur is broken off at the shoulders. The left-hand centaur holds a pithos over his head with both hands preparing to swing it down on the head of the youth.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
4th century BCE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: Giovanni Dall'Orto
Subject:
Caeneus, centauromachy, centaur

Caeneus and Centaurs

Caeneus (center) is stabbing a centaur (left) with a sword in his right hand. The centaur's left hand is on top of Caeneus' head; in his right hand he holds a tree trunk against Caeneus' neck. A second centaur, holding a tree trunk in his left hand, stands behind Caeneus (right). Both centaurs have human front legs and horse rear legs.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
c. 630 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: Zde
Subject:
Caeneus, centauromachy, centaur

Vergil celebrating the birth of the miraculous child

four figures in Renaissance dress in a landscape, swaddled baby on ground, woman standing behind, father at left, poet at right playing a wind instrument
Date:
ca. 1470
Image Credit:
Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale

Viburnum lantana, the wayfarer or wayfaring tree

flowering shrub in front of a house
Image Credit:
Native Plant Trust
Subject:
Vergil Eclogues

Mediterranean Cypress Cupressus sempervirens

tall tree
Image Credit:
Wikipedia user Chneophytou
Subject:
Vergil Eclogues

Corylus avellana 'heterophylla' Hazelnut

leaves
Image Credit:
Wikipedia user Misolonax
Subject:
Vergil Eclogues

European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) in the Cansiglio Forest (Italy) June 2017

tree in a forest
Date:
2017
Image Credit:
Wikipedia user GooseCanada
Subject:
Vergil Eclogues

The opening of Vergil’s Eclogues in Vergilius Romanus

manuscript page with text on bottom and illustration of two shepherds meeting at the top
Date:
5th century
Image Credit:
Vatican Library
Subject:
Vergil Eclogues

The Meeting of Meliboeus and Tityrus

drawing of two shepherds meeting, one with a lamb
Date:
ca. 1470
Image Credit:
Antigone
Subject:
Vergil Eclogues

Etruscan Bronze Mirror

Back of a bronze mirror, the metal has formed a green patina. Etched on it are the figures of two men. Left, a nude young man, his left foot resting on a rock, leans forward to grasp the handle of an amphora with his right hand. Across from him an older bearded man wearing a chlamys drinks from a double-handled cup in his left hand. In his right, he holds a staff or spear. A small fountain sits between them.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
ca. 325–300 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikipedia user Bibi Saint-Pol
Subject:
Orpheus, Lynceus

Niobe standing in a naiskos

Niobe stands inside a smalle temple. She is dressed in a peplos with himation wrapped around her shoulders and covering her head. The temple is depicted by four Ionic columns and a low roofline decorated by antefixes at the corners. To the left, outside the temple stands an old man wearing ankle length robes and a diadem. he is supported by a younger man dresses in a cal-length tunic and cloak.
Date:
ca. 320-300 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: ArchaiOptix
Subject:
Niobe

Niobid Krater

Artemis (center), dressed in a peploswwith hair drawn into a a bun and covered, draws an arrow from a quiver on her back with her right hand, holding her bow outstretched in her left. Apollo (right) knocks an arrow to his bow in his left hand, arrow in his right. He is nude and his quiver is slung across his body on his left hip. A cloak is wrapped around his left arm. At their feet a woman and man lay peirced by arrows. To the left of Artemis another young kneels, pierced by an arrow.
Agent:
Niobid Painter
Date:
ca. 460–450 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: Seudo
Subject:
Artemis, Apollo, Niobids

Game Piece with Hercules Feeding Diomedes to His Horses

A circular game piece decorated with a bearded Heracles holding Diomedes upside down by his ankle as four horses bite into him. Heracles and Diomedes are dressed in mid-calf length tunics. Diomedes grasps one of the horses by its neck as it attacks his face. A second bites his arm, the remaining two his leg. The horses' heads look more like dogs; their coats are rendered by lines of etched squares. A geometric border is covered around the edge.
Date:
ca. 1150 CE
Image Credit:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject:
Heracles, Horses of Diomedes, Diomedes

Heracles and the Horses of Diomedes Oinnochoe

A nude Hercales (left) faces front holding a bow in his left hand and club in his right. There is an animal-skin cloak draped over his arms, white on the exterior, dark red on the interior. A halo of light circles his head. A white horse, wearing a bridle, rears on the right. Barely visible to the left, on the around the curve of the pot, are two hooves of a second white horse.
Date:
ca. 320-310 BCE
Subject:
Heracles, Horses of Diomedes

Death of Actaeon red-figure plate

Red-figure plate showing a nude Acteon being attacked by three dogs. HIs sword is raised above his head in his right hand. His cloak is wrapped around his left forearm. He appears to grab one of the dogs around the neck with his left hand.
Date:
ca. 350–340 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: ArchaiOptix
Subject:
Actaeon

The Death of Actaeon Red-Figure Lekythos

A bearded Acateon flees right, looking back over his shoulder at Artemis. He is nude and being attacked by a pack of 7 dogs. Artemis, partially out of frame on the left, is gesturing toward Acateon with both arm outstretched. She is dressed in a peplos and a cap with her hair loose down her back.
Date:
ca. 480–470 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikipedia user Marsyas
Subject:
Artemis, Actaeon

Death of Actaeon red-figure nestoris

Actaeon, in mid-transformation, is surrounded by his 6 dogs, three of which are already attacking. He has sprouted the ears and antlers of a stag; his word is raised behind his head in his right hand. He is nude except for a cloak secured by a round broach at the neck. He has wrapped his it around his left arm, perhaps in defense. He is bleeding from bites to each leg and one on his torso. Artemis stands at the far left, almost out of frame
Agent:
The Dolon Painter
Date:
ca. 390–380 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: ArchaiOptix
Subject:
Actaeon, Artemis

Artemis and Actaeon red-figure belly amphora

Artemis stands facing right, left arm outstretched holding her bow and an unnocked arrow. She is facing Actaeon who is on his knees, left arm outstretched toward her. He is nude except for an animal skin cloak, perhaps a deer, the head of which lays on top of his. Three dogs are attacking him as a fourth prepares to lunge.
Agent:
Eucharides painter
Date:
ca. 480 BCE
Image Credit:
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Subject:
Actaeon, Artemis

Red-Figure Askos of Dog chasing Fox

Attic red-figure askos. The spout is pointing left the side of the body visible shows a fox with bushy tail fleeing right. It looks back over its shoulder at the dog (not pictured) that is chasing it.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
ca. 430 BCE
Image Credit:
ArchaiOptix
Subject:
Teumessian fox

Teumessian Fox

A broken pottery vessel, most of the left side is missing. The interior has been glazed with a dark pigment. The handle on the right side is preserved. Two bands of decoration are visible on the body. The bottom a series of nested circles, each comprising 7 rings and adot in the center. The upper band shows a man and four-legged animal, in silhouette, fighting. The animal faces right, teeth bared and tongue showing. The man's sword is in his left hand jabbing toward the animal, scabbard at the waist.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
Geometric Period
Subject:
Teumessian fox

Terracotta Sphinx relief

Terracotta relief of a sphinx in profile facing right. Her head is turned to face the viewer. She wears a hat or headdress, her hair hanging loose to her shoulders. Her wings are swept back with the tips curving up and over to touch her head.
Date:
First half of 5th century BCE
Image Credit:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject:
Sphinx

Oedipus and the Sphinx Kylix

A bearded Oedipus, dressed in a traveler's hat and cloak sits on a rock, left. His legs and arms are crossed, his chin resting on the back of his left hand. A sword or walking stick rests against his legs. He stares at the Sphinx, right, who sits on a short pillar. Her(?) wings are swept back against her cat body and slightly raised. She wears a crown or diadem on her head. A circular meander encloses the scene.
Agent:
Oedipus Painter
Date:
ca. 470-460 BCE
Image Credit:
Carole Raddato
Subject:
Oedipus, Sphinx

Proto-Attic Hydria with Sphinxes

Terracotta water jug with two registers of decoration. Around the neck a chain of young men and women holding hands, painted with reddish-brown pigment in silhouette. Both have shoulder-length hair, the women wearing long skirts, the men apparently nude. On the belly, left to right, a man in silhouette followed by two sphinxes, also in silhouette, with cat bodies, wings with feathers depicted by circles. Above and below the jug is decorated with bands of digaonal wavy lines and lattice-like designs.
Agent:
Mesogeia Painter
Date:
Late 8th–Early 7th century BCE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: Anagoria
Subject:
Sphinx

Cadmus fetching water

Red-figure calyx krater. Center: Cadmus dressed in a chiton and cloak flees left, turning his head back to look at a seated woman wearing a peplos and hair covering. Next to her is a snake. rising to strike. Cadmus holds an amphora in his left hand and raises his right, preparing to throw a rock. Athena stands behind Cadmus at far left, wearing her helmet and carrying a spear in her left hand. Behind the woman is Ares, armored, helmeted, carrying a spear in his right hand and shield in his left.
Agent:
The Spreckles Painter
Date:
ca. 450 BCE
Image Credit:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject:
Cadmus, Ares, Athena

Cadmus and the Dragon amphora

A bearded, armored Cadmus(?) wearing a crested helmet holds a snake or dragon by the neck with his left hand and raises his sword with his right. The snake's mouth is open and its forked tongue is sticking out. On the far right, another bearded and helmeted soldier assists be grabbing the snake from behind. On the far left, behind Cadmus, stands a beared man holding a staff or crook and wearing a cloak.
Agent:
Uknown
Date:
ca. 560–550 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikipedia user Bibi Saint-Pol
Subject:
Cadmus, Dragon

Parthenon Metope South XXVII

A centaur appears to be fleeing right, but is held back by a man facing full front. The centaur's right arm is twisted behind his back, as if reaching for something. His left arm is raised, but is missing from the bicep, as is the centaur's head. The man appears to be grasping the centaur by the back of the head with his left hand. The man's right arm is missing from the bicep, but is raised as if about to strike. His head is also missing, and he is nude except for a cloak draped behind him.
Agent:
Phidias
Date:
447BC-438BC
Image Credit:
© Trustees of the British Museum.
Subject:
Lapith, centaur, centauromachy

Roman Copy of (Myron's?) Minotaur

Badly damaged statue of the Minotaur. The horns and ears are missing, as is the right arm, portions of the torso, and left hand. The face of the Minotaur is smooth, while the head between the horns has been sculpted into shaggy curls. Incisions along the neck mimic folds of skin. Repaired cracks run from across the crown of the head through the left eye and under the jaw, and across the forehead and down the right cheek indicating the nose was broken off at some point.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
Uknown, Roman copy of a 5th century BCE Greek original
Image Credit:
George E. Koronaios
Subject:
Minotaur

Theseus and the Minotaur Black-figure plate

Attic Black-figure plate featuring Theseus in the center, facing right, wears a loincloth and a wreath on his head, he holds a sword in in his right hand. He is stabbing the Minotaur in the neck. The Minotaur is facing right with his head turned back toward Theseus; he holds a rock in each hand. At the left, Ariadne watches. Her body faces left and her head turns right, toward Theseus. Her left arm is raised, gesturing. The plate's rim is decorated with a design of lotus blossoms.
Agent:
Lydos
Date:
550-540 BC
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: Zde
Subject:
Ariadne, Theseus, Minotaur

Silver Coin depicting the Labyrinth of Minos

Tarnished round silver coin stamped with the image of a square labyrinth
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
ca. 400 BCE
Image Credit:
Wikimedia: AlMare
Subject:
labyrinth

Pasiphae and the Minotaur

Interior of an Attic red-figure kylix showing Pasiphae seated on a chair, facing right, holding the young Minotaur on her lap. The Minotaur is painted with a miniaturized version of a fully grown man's body and a calf's head. Pasiphae appears to be dressed in a peplos and sandals. She wears pendant earings and a bracelet on her right wrist. A swan is painted at her feet, a small chest with a domed lid hangs from a hook on the wall in the background. The scene is surrounded by a circular meander.
Agent:
Settecamini Painter
Date:
ca. 4th century BCE
Image Credit:
Wikipedia user Bibi Saint-Pol
Subject:
Pasiphae, Minotaur

Bronze man and centaur

Picture of a bronze figurine of a centaur and man in profile. The man stands on the right; the centaur on the left. They grasp each other by the arms. The centaur has human front legs and a horse's rear legs and tail. They are both nude and wear some sort of coiled conical hat or hairstyle on the top of their heads.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
ca. 750 BCE
Image Credit:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject:
centaur

Lefkandi Centaur

Terracotta centaur, the horse body is wheel-made with a small hole in the chest of the horse for ventilation during firing. The human portion is handmade. Reddish-brown paint decorates the horse back and human chest and arms with geometric patterns. The left arm is missing just below the bicep. The right arm is bent with the six-fingered hand resting on his hip. There is a vertical gash on the front left leg at approximately the knee. The head was broken off and reattached.
Agent:
Unknown
Date:
ca. second half of the 10th century BCE
Image Credit:
wikimedia: Jebulon
Subject:
centaur, Chiron

Fresco of Apollo playing the kithara

young man seated with chest exposed holding a mid-sized harp
Date:
1st century AD
Image Credit:
World History Encyclopedia
Subject:
Pliny

Vaulting of the Roman Theater at Nicaea

ashlar masonry crypt
Image Credit:
TRTHABER
Subject:
Pliny

Substructure of the Roman Theater at Nicaea

Ruins of a large stone structure
Image Credit:
Carole Raddato
Subject:
Pliny

The Roman Theater at Nicaea

Ruins of a large stone structure
Image Credit:
TRTHABER
Subject:
Pliny

Nicomedia Aqueduct, Izmit, Turkey

Roman ruin with climbing plants growing on it
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
Carole Raddato
Subject:
Pliny