Monday, January 14, 2019

Achilles in the Attic red-figure Greek amphoras

Attic black-figure amphora depicting the son of Achilles,Neoptolemos killing Priamus on the altar.520-510 BC. Louvre.

Attic red-figure krater depicting Achilles against Hector.490-460 BC.British Museum.

Ajax carrying the body of Achilles.Attic black-figure amphora,510 BC.

 Ajax and Achilles playing a board game during a break in the fighting under the walls of Troy.Exekias Painter,530 BC
 Priam is asking Achilles to return Hector’s body.(500-450 BC.Athens)
Achilles killing Hektor.Lekythos,6th c.BC.Arch.Museum of Delos island,Cyclades,Greece.

Achilles dragging the body of Hector.Attic white-ground lekythos,490 BC.From Eretria,Euboea,terracotta.Louvre Museum

The brutal consequences of war are vividly evoked in this brilliant painting.Ajax carrying the body of Achilles,570BC

Achilles kill Pentheselia.Amphora of Exekias,535 BC.

Achilles watching out for Polyxena near the fountain.Attic white ground lekythos,ca.480 BC.

Achilles tending the wounded Patroclus.Attic red-figure kylix,ca.500 BC.

Hector salutes Andromache and Astyanax before the duel with Achilles.370 BC.

Monday, January 7, 2019

The Riace warriors,Magna Grecia Museum

The Riace warriors, are two full-size Greek bronzes of naked bearded warriors, cast about 460-450 BC.that were found in the sea near Riace in 1972.Magna Grecia Museum,Reggio Calabria.

Sunday, January 6, 2019

Zeus

Statue of Zeus,from a shipwreck at Cape Artemision,North Euboea island,Greece.Bronze,460-450 BC.NAMA Athens
Bronze statuette of Zeus.From the sanctuary of Dodoni,Epirus,Greece.470-460 BC.Arch.Museum of Ioannina.
Doric temple of Zeus,Nemea,Peloponnese,Greece.
Europa and Zeus transformed into a bull.Terracotta figurine from Boeotia,Greece.470-450 BC.
Head of Zeus.Sardonyx,Alexandria,3rd c.BC.Hellenistic.
Bronze head of Zeus.Archaic period.Ancient Olympia,Peloponnese,Greece.
Temple of Zeus.Ancient Hellenic city of Cyrene,North Africa.
Bust of Zeus.Marble copy of a Greek original.2nd c.CE.
Bust of Zeus bearing an oak wreath and a winged thunderbolt.Bronze copy of Greek original,1st century
The ancient temple of Zeus after rain.Athens 1930
Votive relief from the Sanctuary dedicated to Artemis at Brauron(eastern Attica).420BC.Zeus,Leto,Apollo and Artemis
Temple of Olympian Zeus,Athens.Corinthian order (detail).
Attic black-figure tripod,570-560 BC.Found in Thebes.Zeus giving birth to Athena from his head.Birth Athena Painter
King of Epirus,Pyrrhos.297-272 BC.Tetradrachm.Lokroi Epizephyrioi.Head of Zeus left.
Silver statuette of Zeus,1st century,J.P.Getty Museum
Zeus or Poseidon ? Bronze statue of Artemision,North Euboea,Greece.460 BC
Αncient temple of Zeus.Nemea,Peloponnese,Greece
Silver tetradrachm with seated Zeus holding an eagle,a lion’s head and the inscription ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ.Babylon,325-323 BC.
Corinthian helmet with the fragmentary inscription Athenians.Dedicated to Olympian Zeus,500 BC.
Marble relief depicting Kairos the youngest child of Zeus.Represented opportunity,as well as good timing and season
Bronze statue of Zeus holding the (missing) thunderbolt,530 BC.From Taras,Magna Grecia
Nemea,the temple of Zeus
Bronze snake with votive inscription to Zeus Meilichios.Peloponnese,around 550 BC.Altes Museum,Berlin
West pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia,Peloponnese,Greece
East side of the Zeus temple in Olympia,with excavation crew.In front of the building there are statue bases.1875


Saturday, January 5, 2019

Dionysos,the god of wine,

Dionysos,the god of wine, stand calmly in the midst of a group of dancing maenads and satyrs. Greek-Attic krater520BC

A marble head of Dionysos from a choragic monument.Found in the Sanctuary of Dionysos.Thasos island,Greece.3rd c.BC.

A wonderful late 6th c.BC of Dionysos extending a kantharos (drinking cup).

Portrait bust of a man, found in the theatre of Dionysos,Athens.200 AD.Herodes Atticus or Sauromates,king Bosphorus.

Attic black-figure neck-amphora,550-530 BC.Dionysos and two Maenads.Greek inscription,AMASIS MEΠΟΙΗSΕΝ (made)

Bronze hydria(kalpis)with fluted handles.Greek,4th c.BC.Depicting a young couple probably Dionysos and Ariadne.

Marble table support adorned by a group including Dionysos,Pan and a Satyr.From an Asia Minor workshop,170 CE.NAMA.

Marble group depicting Dionysos with Panther and a Satyr.Copy of a Greek original.2nd c.CE.

Detail of the mosaic of Dionysos,from the house of Dionysos.Delos island,Cyclades,Greece.

The Dionysos cup, by Exekias,540 BC.

God Dionysos.Ancient Greek terracotta statuette,4th BC.Boston  Museum.

Μosaic floor depicting the god Dionysos riding a Panther.325-300 BC.Pella,Macedonia,Greece.