Lapith Metope
Acropolis Museum- Athens This is a metope, decorative part of a temple, that depicts a Lapith and a Greek. In mythology there is said to...
Acropolis Museum- Athens This is a metope, decorative part of a temple, that depicts a Lapith and a Greek. In mythology there is said to...
Acropolis Museum- Athens These are two of the statue columns that once stood at the Erectheion, which is an Ancient Greek temple used to...
Acropolis Museum- Athens This is a bust of Alexander the Great aka Alexander III, the is the son of Phillip II and is known for...
Heraklion Museum- Knossos This statuette is commonly referred to as the Snake Goddess. It is widely believed to be goddess of fertility....
Heraklion Museum- Knossos These are Linear B tablets. Linear B is the language that emerged in Greece coming out of its Dark Ages. Unlike...
Herakloin Museum- Knossos This is known as the Phaistos Disk. It is a clay disk that was stamped with hieroglyphics and then burned to...
Agora Museum- Athens These pots were used for voting during a government event called an ostracism. An ostracism was the process by which...
Agora Museum- Athens This is what remains of the terracotta mold of a bronze statue of Apollo. The mold was used in a the bronze cast...
Museum of Delphi- Delphi This early classical statue scaled the Delphi charioteer. This statue was originally connected to a chariot with...
Museum of Delphi- Delphi This is called the navel stone of Delphi or the "Omphalos" in Greek. According to myth, it is said that the...
Museum of Delphi- Delphi This is called the Naplion Sphinx. It depicts a sphinx perched on an ionic order column. It bares a striking...
Sparta Museum- Sparta This stump is the base of statue that is no longer attached, but would have commemorated someone who died at the...
This is a fresco of an Athenian named Alcibiades. Why is his fresco in Sparta if he is Athenian? Like I said before the Spartans didn't...
Spartan Museum- Sparta This is a Spartan bust that was made in the Archaic period. Notice the Archaic smile which is typical of statues...
National Archeological Museum- Athens This is the Mask of Agamemnon. It was discovered in Grave Circle A in the Mycenaean Fortress by...
National Archeological Museum- Athens This statue is called the Anavyssos Kouros which means young man from Anavyssos. It was created...
National Archeological Museum- Athens This is a statue of the god Zeus from the Classical Era of Greek art. Standing 6 ft 8 in, this...