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Strife of Poseidon and Athena, from the western pediment of the Parthenon. Dionysus from the eastern pediment of the Parthenon. Dionysus from the Choregic monument of Lysicrates. The strife of Poseidon and Athena, with other gods present: Ancient vase, which was discovered during the excavations of the walls of the Acropolis and ended up in Cambridge as part of Edward Clarke's collection.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient gods / deities, Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Dionysus, Eastern pediment of the Parthenon, Edward Daniel Clarke, Greece, Greek mythology, Parthenon, Reliefs, Western pediment of the Parthenon

The fountain of Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra at the Isle Garden (Jardín de la Isla) of Aranjuez, Spain.

Tags: Aranjuez, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fountains / Springs, Gardens, Greek mythology, Human types, Madrid, Mythology, Palaces, Sculptures, Spain, Views

Lateral section of the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae. On the frieze, Amazonomachy scene (battle of the Greeks, headed by Heracles and the Amazons).

Tags: Amazonomachy, Arcadia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Elis, Frieze of the temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae), Friezes, Greece, Greek mythology, Heracles, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Reconstruction of the entrance to the cella of the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae.

Tags: Arcadia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Centauromachy, Elis, Frieze of the temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae), Friezes, Greece, Greek mythology, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Reconstruction of the pediment of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae: Centauromachy (Battle of the Centaurs and the Lapithae).

Tags: Arcadia, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Centauromachy, Elis, Frieze of the temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae), Friezes, Greece, Greek mythology, Peloponnese, Reliefs, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

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).

Tags: Amazonomachy, Arcadia, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Centauromachy, Elis, Frieze of the temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae), Friezes, Greece, Greek mythology, Heracles, Peloponnese, Reliefs, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Reconstruction of the frieze of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae: Amazonomachy (The battle of the Greeks headed by Heracles and the Amazons).

Tags: Amazonomachy, Arcadia, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Elis, Frieze of the temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae), Friezes, Greece, Greek mythology, Heracles, Peloponnese, Reliefs, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia: Fragments of the pronaos metopes, which showed the Labours of Heracles.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Elis, Greece, Greek mythology, Labours of Heracles, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Temple of Zeus (Olympia)

Temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia: Fragments of the pronaos metopes, which showed the Labours of Heracles.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Elis, Greece, Greek mythology, Labours of Heracles, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Temple of Zeus (Olympia)

Temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia: Fragments of the pronaos metopes, which showed the Labours of Heracles.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Elis, Greece, Greek mythology, Labours of Heracles, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Temple of Zeus (Olympia)

Temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia: Fragments of the pronaos metopes, which showed the Labours of Heracles.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Elis, Greece, Greek mythology, Labours of Heracles, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Temple of Zeus (Olympia)

Temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia: Fragments of the pronaos metopes, which showed the Labours of Heracles.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Elis, Greece, Greek mythology, Labours of Heracles, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Temple of Zeus (Olympia)

Reconstruction of the entrance to the pronaos of the temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia. The metopes show the Labours of Heracles.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Elis, Greece, Greek mythology, Labours of Heracles, Metopes, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Temple of Zeus (Olympia)

Reconstruction of the Hellenistic tritons mosaic at the pronaos of the temple of Zeus.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Elis, Greece, Greek mythology, Imaginary beings, Mosaics, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Zeus (Olympia), Tritons

Plan of part of the pronaos, Temple of Zeus, ancient Olympia. Reconstruction of the Hellenistic tritons mosaic of the pronaos.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Elis, Greece, Greek mythology, Imaginary beings, Mosaics, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Zeus (Olympia), Tritons

Figures from the pediment of the Parthenon (today at the British Museum, London).

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Eastern pediment of the Parthenon, Greece, Greek mythology, Parthenon, Pediments, Pediments of the Parthenon, Reliefs

Frontispiece. Scene from ancient vase: Orestes and Electra offer a Libation at the tomb of Agamemnon.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Electra, Frontispieces, Greece, Greek mythology, Orestes

View of Snake Island at the Black Sea. According to the myth, this is were Thetis took the bodies of Achilles and Patroclus.

Tags: Black Sea, Boats and ships, Greek mythology, Mythology, Natural environment, Snake Island / anc. Leuce, Ukraine, Views

View of the Harpy Tomb at Xanthus, Asia Minor.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Greek mythology, Harpies, Harpy Tomb (Lycia), Human types, Lycia, Lycian tombs, Turkey, Views, Xanthus

Lycian tomb from Xanthus bearing Chimaera relief.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Chimaera, Greek mythology, Lycia, Lycian sarcophagi, Lycian tombs, Turkey, Xanthus

View of the Harpy Tomb from a Lycian tomb at Xanthus, Asia Minor.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Xanthus, Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Greek mythology, Harpies, Harpy Tomb (Lycia), Lycia, Lycian tombs, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Turkey, Views, Xanthus

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.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Xanthus, Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Greek mythology, Harpies, Harpy Tomb (Lycia), Lycia, Lycian tombs, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Turkey, Xanthus

The navigation of Ulysses from Troy to Ithaca, according to Homer.

Tags: Asia, Greece, Greek mythology, History, Homer, Italy, Maps, Odyssey, Sicily, Southern Italy, Turkey

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”).

Tags: Asia Minor, Greece, Greek mythology, History, Maps, Trojan war, Turkey

Reliefs showing Amazonomachy scenes.

Tags: Amazonomachy, Art and antiquities, Greek mythology, Italy, Reliefs, Sicily, Southern Italy

1. Relief showing a scene from Greek mythology: Meleager with the Calydonian boar. 2. Funerary monument in Sicily.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Greek mythology, Inscriptions, Italy, Reliefs, Sicily, Southern Italy

The Grotto of the Nymphs in Vathy, Ithaca.

Tags: Cave of the Nymphs (Ithaca), Caves, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Greece, Greek mythology, Human types, Ionian islands, Ithaca, Natural environment, Vathy (Ithaca), Views

The fountain of Mnemosyne near the Oracle of Trophonius in Livadeia.

Tags: Boeotia, Central Greece, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Greek mythology, Herkyna river (Livadeia), Human types, Laundresses / Washerwomen, Livadeia, Natural environment, Oracle of Trophonius (Livadeia), Oracles, Rivers, Springs of Kryas (Livadeia), Springs of Lethe and Mnemosyne, Views, Women

Stone bridge over Herkyna river close to the Oracle of Trophonius in Livadeia.

Tags: Boeotia, Bridges, Central Greece, Greece, Greek mythology, Herkyna river (Livadeia), Houses, Livadeia, Natural environment, Oracle of Trophonius (Livadeia), Oracles, Rivers, Views

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.

Tags: Amazonomachy, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bodrum / Halicarnassus, Caria, Greek mythology, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Metopes, Reliefs, Steles, Turkey

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.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Dodecanese, Greece, Greek mythology, Islands, Kos, Reliefs

View of part of the Dardanells from the Tomb of Achilles (Beşiktepe). In the background the Castle of Kumkale.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Beşika Burnu / anc. Achilleion, Dardanelles / Çanakkale boğazı / anc. Hellespont, Greek mythology, Kumkale Castle, Mosques, Mysia, Natural environment, Tomb of Achilles (Beşiktepe), Troad, Troy, Views

View of the Tomb of Achilles (Beşiktepe) in Beşika Burnu (anc. Achilleion).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Beşika Burnu / anc. Achilleion, Greek mythology, Mysia, Natural environment, Tomb of Achilles (Beşiktepe), Troad, Troy, Turkey, Views

View of the Tomb of Antilochus, on the eastern shore of the Dardanelles, and close to the ancient city of Rhoiteion (today Intepe).

Tags: Asia Minor, Dardanelles / Çanakkale boğazı / anc. Hellespont, Greek mythology, Mysia, Natural environment, Tomb of Antilochus (Intepe), Troad, Troy, Turkey, Views

The Tombs of Hector and Aesyetes in the vale of Karamenders (anc. Scamander) river.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Greek mythology, Houses, Human types, Karamenderes /anc. Scamander, Mysia, Natural environment, Ottomans, Tomb of Hector (Troy), Troad, Troy, Turkey, Views

View of the plain of Troy from the Tomb of Antilochus, on the eastern shore of the Dardanelles, and close to the ancient city of Rhoiteion (today Intepe).

Tags: Asia Minor, Dardanelles / Çanakkale boğazı / anc. Hellespont, Greek mythology, Intepe / anc. Rhoiteion, Mysia, Natural environment, Tomb of Antilochus (Intepe), Troad, Troy, Turkey, Views

Εικ. 1. Landscape around Üvecik, in the larger area of the city of Troy. Fig. 2. Landscape if the Troad. On the left the Castel of Kumkale. On the right the site of the Tomb of Aias, in the ancient city of Rhoiteion (today Intepe).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Greek mythology, Intepe / anc. Rhoiteion, Kumkale Castle, Mosques, Mysia, Natural environment, Tomb of Aias (Troy), Troad, Troy, Turkey, Üvecik, Views, Windmills

Εικ. 1. The southern point of the Dardanelles Fig. 2. Hill near Seddülbahir. The author identifies this hill with the Tomb of Protesilaos.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Greek mythology, Houses, Kumkale Castle, Mysia, Natural environment, Seddülbahir, Tomb of Protesilaus, Troad, Troy, Turkey, Views

Landscape in the Troad, between Kumkale and Beşika Burnu (anc. Achilleion), where according to the legend the Tomb of Achilles is found.
In the background Mount Ida.

Tags: Asia Minor, Beşika Burnu / anc. Achilleion, Beşiktepe, Greek mythology, Kumkale Castle, Mount Ida / Kazdağı (Turkey), Mountains, Mysia, Natural environment, Tomb of Achilles (Beşiktepe), Troad, Troy, Turkey, Views

The fountain of Arethousa in Syracuse, Sicily.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Fountain of Arethousa (Syracuse), Greek colonies, Greek mythology, Human types, Italy, Laundresses / Washerwomen, Painters / Engravers, Sicily, Social sphere and everyday life, Southern Italy, Syracuse, Views, Washing and laundering, Women

Drawings of several architectural and decorative elements of the Parthenon.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Central Greece, Greece, Greek mythology, Metopes, Parthenon, Plans and drawings

Plan of the Parthenon together with drawings of some its architectural elements.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Greece, Greek mythology, Parthenon, Pediments, Plans and drawings

Drawings of several architectural and decorative elements from the Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion) in Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Battle scenes, Centauromachy, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Frieze of the temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Greece, Greek mythology, Metopes, Plans and drawings, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Theseus

Reconstruction of panel from Athens, with scene from the myth of the meeting of Athena and Hephaestus, right before the birth of Erichthonius (Erechtheus).

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Erichthonius / Erechtheus, Greece, Greek mythology, Hephaestus

Ancient red-figure vase with mythological scenes. On the top the birth of Erichthonius (Erechtheus), and on the bottom Voutis, mythological hero of Athens.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Erichthonius / Erechtheus, Greece, Greek mythology, Red-figure pottery

Fragments from Athens.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Dionysus, Greece, Greek mythology

The twenty second metope of the south side of Parthenon. Drawing by J. Carrey (1674).

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Greece, Greek mythology, Metopes, Parthenon, Plans and drawings

Metopes from the south side of Parthenon: Centauromachy.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Attica, Centauromachy, Greece, Greek mythology, Metopes, Parthenon

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