Greek mythology (63 Subjects)
View of part of the Dardanells from the Tomb of Achilles (Beşiktepe). In the background the Castle of Kumkale.
Ancient reliefs from the island of Kos. On the first (left top), Zeus, Hera and Hercules. On the second (right top), Apollo with the Muses. On the third (bottom left), Hercules with the Lion of Nemea. On the fourth (bottom right), the contest of Apollo with the Satyr Marsyas.
Fig. 1. Part of stele from Bodrum (anc. Halicarnassus). This stele was most probably at the site of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Fig. 2. Metopes from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. These Metopes, on which scenes from the Amazonomachia are depicted, are some of the very few elements of the Mausoleum preserved today, because the locals used them to cover several parts of the sewer system. Inscription from the Castle of Halicarnassus, also know as Castle of Saint Paul.
1. Relief showing a scene from Greek mythology: Meleager with the Calydonian boar. 2. Funerary monument in Sicily.
Greece and Asia Minor in the era of the Trojan War, according to the anonymous works traditionally attibuted to Dictys Cretensis (“Dictys Cretensis Ephemeridos belli Trojani”) and Dares Phrygius (“De excidio Trojae historia”).
The Harpy Tomb: Lycian tomb, probably of king Xanthus, which was named after its reliefs of female figureswhich resemble Harpies. Several reliefs of the monument were removed by Charles Fellows and are today kept at the British Museum, London.
View of Snake Island at the Black Sea. According to the myth, this is were Thetis took the bodies of Achilles and Patroclus.
Frontispiece. Scene from ancient vase: Orestes and Electra offer a Libation at the tomb of Agamemnon.
1. View of the outer peristyle of the temple of Athena, today part of the cathedral church of Syracuse. 2. Fountain of Arethousa, Syracuse.
Plan of part of the pronaos, Temple of Zeus, ancient Olympia. Reconstruction of the Hellenistic tritons mosaic of the pronaos.
Reconstruction of the entrance to the pronaos of the temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia. The metopes show the Labours of Heracles.
Temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia: Fragments of the pronaos metopes, which showed the Labours of Heracles.
Temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia: Fragments of the pronaos metopes, which showed the Labours of Heracles.
Temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia: Fragments of the pronaos metopes, which showed the Labours of Heracles.
Temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia: Fragments of the pronaos metopes, which showed the Labours of Heracles.
Temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia: Fragments of the pronaos metopes, which showed the Labours of Heracles.
Reconstruction of the frieze of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae: Amazonomachy (The battle of the Greeks headed by Heracles and the Amazons).
Reconstruction of the pediment of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae: Top: Amazonomachy (The battle of the Greeks, headed by Heracles and the Amazons). Bottom: Centauromachy (Battle of the Centaurs and the Lapithae).
Reconstruction of the pediment of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae: Centauromachy (Battle of the Centaurs and the Lapithae).
