Classical Greek Art

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The goddess Thetis, riding a hippocampus (seahorse), delivers newly forged arms to her son Achilles.

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Terracotta aryballos, attr. to an artist of the Bulas Group; 4th cent. BCE. Now in the Metropolitan

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A soldier dances to the aulos (double flute). Attic black-figure lekythos, attr. to the Athena Paint

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A Maenad (female devotee of Dionysus), brandishing her thyrsos (staff tipped with a pine cone) and a

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A Muse reading a scroll.  Attic red-figure lekythos, attr. to the Klügmann Painter; ca. 435-425 BCE.

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Ancient Greek (Boeotian) terracotta figure of a young woman with a cloth bandage.  Artist unknown; c

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A herdsman with two cows.  Attic red-figure cup in the shape of a hoof, by an artist related to the

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Fragment of a pebble mosaic floor from the ancient Greek polis of Sicyon, depicting Centaurs and var

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Zeus (seated) and Leto with their offspring Apollo and Artemis.  Marble relief from the sanctuary of

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Silver stater from the ancient Greek polis of Phaistos, Crete.  On the obverse, Heracles; on the rev

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A wounded Amazon.  Roman marble copy (1st-2nd cent. CE) after a lost 5th century BCE Greek original,

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A mortal woman and the goddess Nike (not seen here) offer libations at an altar.  Attic red-figure a

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Marble head of Hermes.  Hellenistic copy after a 5th cent. BCE herm.  Found in the Theater Quarter o

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Dionysus in his panther-drawn chariot.  Side A of an Attic red-figure pelike, attr. to the Pasithea

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The Amazonomachy.  Lower tier of an Attic red-figure lekythos, attr. to the Eretria Painter; ca. 420

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Athenian silver dekadrachm.  On the obverse, the head of Athena; on the reverse, an owl with wings s

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Head of Asclepius.  Roman copy (second half of 2nd cent. CE) after a mid-4th cent. BCE Greek origina

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The goddess Artemis/Diana.  Roman copy of a 4th cent. BCE original.  From Mytilene, Lesbos; now in t

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A scene from Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousae.  Apulian red-figure krater, artist unknown; ca. 370 B

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A woman holding a casket.  Attic red-figure alabastron, attr. to the Painter of London E 342; ca. 47

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