centuriespast: Garden of the Hesperides calyx-krater Attica, 400BC-380BC The British Museum

centuriespast:

Garden of the Hesperides

calyx-krater

Attica, 400BC-380BC

The British Museum

  1. Date Posted Icon 2nd February 2012
  2. Reblogged Icon Reblogged From centuriespast
  3. Notes Icon Notes: 141
    4. Tags Icon #Hesperides#Krater kalyx#Greek

ancienthistorymjh:

Kheiron and Achilles

Fresco, ca 65-79 AD, Imperial Roman

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy

Kheiron instructs the boy Achilles in the playing of the lyre. The kentauros (centaur) rests on his equine haunch. He wears an animal skin cloak and a wreath of laurel.

  1. Date Posted Icon 2nd February 2012
  2. Reblogged Icon Reblogged From ancienthistorymjh-deactivated20
  3. Notes Icon Notes: 22
    4. Tags Icon #fresco#roman#Kheiron#Achilles
remoteminoans: From Evans’ Scripta Minoa

remoteminoans:

From Evans’ Scripta Minoa

  1. Camera: iPhone 4S
  2. Aperture: f/2.4
  3. Exposure: 1/212th
  4. Focal Length: 4mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 2nd February 2012
  2. Reblogged Icon Reblogged From remoteminoans
  3. Notes Icon Notes: 5
finethankyouandyou: Detail of Panathenaic amphora, ca. 530 b.c.; ArchaicAttributed to the Euphiletos Painter

finethankyouandyou:

Detail of Panathenaic amphora, ca. 530 b.c.; Archaic
Attributed to the Euphiletos Painter

  1. Camera: Hasselblad H4D-50MS - H4D
  2. Aperture: f/22
  3. Exposure: 1/125th
  4. Focal Length: 120mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 23rd January 2012
  2. Reblogged Icon Reblogged From finethankyouandyou
  3. Notes Icon Notes: 48
    4. Tags Icon #amphora#Greek
aboutegypt: Egyptian Mask (by Travel in english)

aboutegypt:

Egyptian Mask (by Travel in english)

  1. Date Posted Icon 23rd January 2012
  2. Reblogged Icon Reblogged From aboutegypt
  3. Notes Icon Notes: 168
    4. Tags Icon #Egypt
ancienthistorymjh: Achilles drags Hector’s body around walls of Troy

ancienthistorymjh:

Achilles drags Hector’s body around walls of Troy

  1. Date Posted Icon 23rd January 2012
  2. Reblogged Icon Reblogged From ancienthistorymjh-deactivated20
  3. Notes Icon Notes: 59
    4. Tags Icon #Achiles#Hector#Greek
triglifos-y-metopas: Sarcophagus of the Spouses, terracotta. Cerveteri, Italy. 6th century B.C. [Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia]

triglifos-y-metopas:

Sarcophagus of the Spouses, terracotta.

Cerveteri, Italy.

6th century B.C.

[Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia]

  1. Date Posted Icon 23rd January 2012
  2. Reblogged Icon Reblogged From triglifos-y-metopas
  3. Notes Icon Notes: 57
    4. Tags Icon #roman
triglifos-y-metopas: Painted sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa Chiusi, Itlay 150-140 B.C. [British Museum]

triglifos-y-metopas:

Painted sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa

Chiusi, Itlay

150-140 B.C.

[British Museum]

  1. Date Posted Icon 23rd January 2012
  2. Reblogged Icon Reblogged From triglifos-y-metopas
  3. Notes Icon Notes: 38
    4. Tags Icon #roman
Aphrodite stands naked on a cockle shell in the sea following her birth, attended by the twin winged love gods Eros and Himeros. Other Erotes fish in the sea. Mosaic, Bardo Museum, Tunis, Tunisia.

Aphrodite stands naked on a cockle shell in the sea following her birth, attended by the twin winged love gods Eros and Himeros. Other Erotes fish in the sea.

Mosaic, Bardo Museum, Tunis, Tunisia.

  1. Date Posted Icon 18th January 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 40
    3. Tags Icon #Aphrodite#Erotes#Eros#Himeros#mosaic#roman
Hermes slays Argos Panoptes with his sword. Behind him stands Io, hidden in the guise of heifer. The body of the guardian giant is covered with staring eyes. Attic Red Figure, ca 490 BC, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany.

Hermes slays Argos Panoptes with his sword. Behind him stands Io, hidden in the guise of heifer. The body of the guardian giant is covered with staring eyes.

Attic Red Figure, ca 490 BC, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany.

  1. Date Posted Icon 18th January 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 42
    3. Tags Icon #Hermes#Argos Panoptes#Io#amphora#Greek