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A young girl reading.  Roman bronze statuette (second half of 1st cent. CE) after a Hellenistic mode

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The Sphinx.  Attic red-figure pyxis, artist unknown; 2nd half of 5th cent. BCE.  Found at Nola, Ital

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Sardonyx cameo depicting a Ptolemaic prince as Hermes.  Artist unknown; 3rd cent. BCE.  Now in the C

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Ancient Roman gorgoneion made of opaque glass paste.  Artist unknown; 1st-2nd cent. CE.  Found at Ro

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Silver tetradrachm of Ptolemy I (r. 305-282 BCE), depicting the head of Alexander the Great, who is

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Heracles wrestles a figure variously identified as Alcyoneus or Antaeus.  Attic black-figure eye-cup

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Blue chalcedony cameo depicting a Roman emperor, thought to be Julian “the Apostate” (r. 361-363 CE)

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Silenus or a satyr, holding a kantharos (drinking-cup) and lyre.  Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix

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Dionysus faces two Maenads, one of whom holds a hare.  Side B of an Attic black-figure neck-amphora,

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Ancient Egyptian block-statue of a ship-master named Pa-Ankh-Ra, who is shown with a statue of the g

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Head of a man, fragment of a relief sculpture from Room N in the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon

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A bearded komast (Dionysiac reveler) with a skythos, staff, and pipes case.  Tondo of an Attic black

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Citrine quartz gem bearing an archaizing depiction of Dionysus.  Artist unknown; 1st century BCE.  N

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Amycus, king of the Bebryces, is bound by the Argonauts after losing a boxing match to Polydeuces.  

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An assembly of deities, each identified by an inscription: (L to R) Hermes, Athena, Zeus, Hera, and

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As Achilles prepares to depart for Troy, the Nereid Cymothoe holds out a phiale (shallow libation bo

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The head of Heracles.  Obverse of a silver tetradrachm minted in Babylon during the reign of Alexand

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The Sphinx.  Plate by an unknown Rhodian artist, late 7th cent. BCE.  Found at Kameiros, Rhodes; now

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A satyr and a maenad.  Attic red-figure askos, attributed to the Curtius Painter; between 480 and 45

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A bearded man leans upon a staff.  Attic red-figure skyphos, attributed to the Penthesilea Painter;

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