Classical Mythology Artwork

Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera. 2nd century A.D.

The Judgement of Paris. 1st century AD

The Judgement of Paris. 6th century BC

The Trojan War, Achilles and Hector dueling. 3rd/4th century AD

Thetis gives her son Achilles weapons forged by Hephaestus. 575-550 BC.

Odysseus discovers Achilles dressed as a woman at Skyros. 4th-5th centuries AD.

Important places in the Iliad.

Friezes

8th century

Corinthian ceramics (white clay)

7th century

Attic ceramics (red clay with black figures) (painting with black and scratching out details)

6th century

Red figured style (paint whole thing black, leave picture red, paint in black details)

From 530 BC

Earliest vase with mythological story. Includes a section on the Judgement of Paris

Chigi vase, 7th century.

Shape of the vase

Amphora

Kronos castrates his father Ouranos

Birth of Aphrodite (Venus). 1st century AD

Kronos devoirs his children. c. 1823

Rhea gives Kronos a rock instead of Zeus. Roman relief.

Marduk defeats the chaosmaster Tiamet. Imprint of a Babylonian scroll seal.

Sphinxes in Orientalizing vase paintings. 7th century BC.

Assyrian sphinx from ivory. 9-8th century BC.

Sphinx on Phoenician bronze bowl. 8th century BC.

The origin of the galaxy. c. 1570.

Death of Adonis. c. 1644.

Death of Aktaion on Greek vase. 4th century BC.

Aktaion sees Artemis. c. 1700

Hades abducting Persephone. 530 BC ish.

Persephone eats pomegranate. 530 BC ish.

The magic of Media. 6th century BC.

Jason helped by Athena. 5th century BC.

Jason and the Colchian dragon. 5th century BC.

Medea kills her son. 4th century BC.

Medea. Late 4th century BC.

Medea flees from Corinth after murdering her children. c. 400 BC.

Medea numbs the snake. c. 310 BC.

Theseus fighting the minotaur. 6th century BC.

Theseus, Ariadne, and the 14 youths with the minotaur. 6th century BC.

Francois vase with Theseus, Ariadne, and the 14 tributes. c. 570 BC (6th century BC).

Pasiphae and baby minotaur. 4th century BC.

Abduction of Helen. c. 510 BC

The centaurs at the wedding of Perithous and Hippodameia. c. 350 BC.

Krater with Hades and Persephone watching a fury bind Theseus and Perithous. c. 365-350 BC.

Abduction of Antiope and the bull of Marathon. 5th century BC.

Theseus as hero of Athens. c. 520-420 BC.

Episodes of Theseus. c. 520-510 BC (5th century)

Theseus’s adventures. 5th century BC.

Aigeus with the Pythia at Delphi. 5th century BC.

King Aigeus recognizes his son Theseus. c. 1700

Theseus, Athena, and Amphitrite. 5th century BC.

Heracles saves Theseus from the underworld. 5th century BC.

Athena forces Theseus to leave Ariadne. 5th century BC.

Oedipus and the sphynx. 6th century BC.

Prometheus brings the fire to humankind. 1817.

Europa and Zeus as the bull. 5th century BC.

Kekrops on Attic pottery. 5th century BC.

Kadmos and the dragon. 5th century BC.

Medusa/gorgon. 5th century BC.

Perseus with the head of Medusa. c. 1550

Mars, Erotes, Rhea Silvia as Vesta-priestess. 1616-17.

Tiber as river god, Ilia, Faustulus, Romulus and Remus. 1615-16

Opus sectile, Romulus and Remus suckling the she-wolf. 4th century AD.

Mirror from Praenestine. c. 350 BC. Either Romulus and Remus or the Lares.

Roman silver coin from 260 BC.

Augustus at the Prima Porta of Rome

Terracotta plate, 28 BC. Apollo and Herakles argue over the tripod of Delphi. Ideological message of Augustus on the temple of Apollo on the Palatine.

Europa on the bull

Daedalus, Pasiphae, and the wooden bull

Daedalus and Icarus.

Theseus and the Minotaur.

Theseus leaving Ariadne.

Dionysus falling in love with and marrying Ariadne.

Pompeii, house of the labyrinth. 1st century BC.

Rome, 2nd/early 3rd century. Odysseus and the sirens.

Dougga (Tunesia), 2nd century AD. Odysseus and the sirens.

Mosaic from Antioch, 2nd century AD. The Judgement of Paris.

Daphne being chased by Apollo (near Antioch in Syria) 2nd-3rd century AD

The 12 labors of Herakles. Spain, 3rd century AD. Mosaic.

Abduction of Persephone sarcophagus relief. 3rd century AD

12 labors of Herakles sarcophagus relief. 3rd century AD.

Medea story sarcophagus relief. 3rd century AD.

Coptic textile. Apollo and Daphne on the shawl of Sabina. 4th-6th century AD

Coptic textile. Dionysus and Ariadne on a chariot pulled by panthers with border 12 labors of Herakles. 4-6th century AD.

Oedipus Rex and the Sphinx, kylix from 470 BC (5th century BC), Classical period

Periods!

The Horses of Saint Mark, before 1204 in the hippodrome in Constantinople

The column of Constantine over the years post 1453

The Ludovisi Cnidian Aphrodite, Roman marble copy 4th century BC