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The battle of Leviathan, biblical sea monster, and the whale, supposedly witnessed by the author at sea.

Tags: Imaginary beings, Leviathan, Mythology, Natural environment, Whales

Ismael and Mariam. Lithograph after a drawing by Horace Vernet.

Tags: Egypt, Mythology, Social sphere and everyday life

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

Cecrops and his daughter Pandrosos: Sculpture complex from the western pediment of the Parthenon.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cecrops, Central Greece, Greece, Mythology, Pandrosus, Parthenon, Sculptures, Western pediment of the Parthenon

Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia, Aegina island: Palmette antefix and sculptures of the Horae Auxo and Carpo.

Tags: Aegina, Antefixes, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Auxo (deity), Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Greece, Horae, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Karpo, Mythology, Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia, Aegina island. 1. Telamon. 2. Greek warrior.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Aias / Ajax son of Telamon, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Trojan war

Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia, Aegina island. 1. Hector. 2. Pares.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Greece, Hector, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Paris (mythology), Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Trojan war

Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia, Aegina island. 1. Goddess Athena. 2. Patroclus.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athena, Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Patroclus, Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Trojan war

Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia, Aegina island. 1. Teucrus. 2. Achilles.

Tags: Achilles, Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Teucrus, Trojan war

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina island. 1. Trojan warrior. 2. Aeneas.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Aeneas, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Trojan war

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina island: Fragments of the pediments. 3, 4: Acroterion.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Western pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina island: Pediment fragments.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Western pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina island: Pediment fragments. 1. The head of goddess Athena from the western pediment.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athena, Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Western pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

Western pediment of the temple of Aphaia, Aegina island. 1, 2: Warriors.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Western pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

Western pediment of the temple of Aphaia, Aegina island. 1, 2: Heracles.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Heracles, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Western pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

Western pediment of the temple of Aphaia, Aegina island. 1. Telamon 2. Laomedon.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Laomedon, Mythology, Pediments, Sculptures, Telamon, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Western pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

Reconstruction of the pediments of the temple of Aphaia on Aegina island: 1. Western pediment: scene from the Trojan War. 2. Eastern pediment: Heracles against Laomedon, king of Troy.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Eastern pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Greece, Heracles, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Pediments, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Western pediment of the temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina island: Elevation of the temple façade (eastern side), reconstructed.

Tags: Aegina, Aeginetae (Aphaia temple), Antefixes, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Heracles, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mythology, Pediment of the temple of Aphaia, Pediments, Plans and drawings, Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

Temple of Poseidon at Sounion: Reconstruction and architectural features from the pronaos entablature; details from a lintel and a base of anta and column. The frieze shows a scene from the Labours of Theseus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Temple of Poseidon (Sounio), Friezes, Greece, Labours of Theseus, Mythology, Plans and drawings, Sounion, Temple of Poseidon (Sounio)

1-3. View, reconstruction and plan of the Cave of Heracles on Mount Cynthus, Delos island. 4-9. Architectural features of columns and part of wall surrounding the sanctuary of Zeus and Athena on Mount Cynthus, Delos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cave of Heracles (Delos), Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Mount Cynthus (Delos), Mountains, Mythology, Plans and drawings, Sanctuary of Zeus and Athena (Delos), Walls

Top: Cave of Nestor, located at Palaiokastro, to the side of Voidokoilia beach. Topographical map of the adjacent area. Bottom: Ruins of the walls of ancient Pylos, incorporated into the fortifications of the Venetian fortress of Palaiokastro.

Tags: Acropolis of Pylos, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Castles and fortresses, Cave of Nestor (Pylos), Caves, Greece, Messenia, Mythology, Natural environment, Palaiokastro (Pylos), Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Pylos, Venetian architecture, Venetian monuments, Walls

Medea, after painting by Anselm Feuerbach.

Tags: Ancient authors, Anselm Feuerbach, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Euripides, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Jewellery, Medea, Mythology, Tragedy, Women

The meeting of Odysseus and Nausicaa.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Homer, Homeric works, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Mythology, Nausicaa, Odysseus, Odyssey

Sculpture of Laocoön and his Sons, Vatican Museums, Rome.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Italy, Laocoon, Mythology, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican, Vatican Museum

Farnese bull, Hellenistic sculpture complex, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Farnese Bull, Italy, Mythology, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Sculptures

Detail of the Gigantomachy relief o the Pergamon Altar, today kept at Pergamonmuseum, Berlin.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Berlin, Germany, Gigantomachy, Mythology, Pergamon, Pergamon Altar, Reliefs, Turkey, Women

Iphigenia in Tauris, based on the painting by Anselm Feuerbach.

Tags: Anselm Feuerbach, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Crimea, Human types, Iphigeneia, Jewellery, Mythology, Russia, Shoes and footwear, Tauris, Tragedy, Ukraine, Women

Head of nymph Clytia, British Museum.

Tags: Art and antiquities, British Museum, Busts, Clytie, Mythology, Nymphs, Sculptures

Ariadne on Naxos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ariadne, Cyclades, Greece, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Mythology, Naxos

Forest in Arcadia, drawn in accordance with the perception of Arcadia as a pastoral paradise.

Tags: Arcadia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Mythology, Natural environment, Nymphs, Peloponnese, Women

God Pan.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Mythology, Pan (deity)

Lamp with Ganymedes, taken to Britain by the author.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Crete, Greece, Lamps, Mythology

Signet from Istanbul: the flight of Aeneas from Troy.

Tags: Aeneas, Art and antiquities, Istanbul, Mythology, Stamps and signets, Thrace, Turkey

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

The Shrine of Nymph Feronia, three miles north of Terracina in Italy.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Italy, Lazio, Megalithic monuments, Mythology, Natural environment, Nymphs, Roman mythology, Shrine of the Nymph Feronia, Terracina

Volcanic minerals discovered in Istanbul, around the area of the mythic Symplegades or Clashing Rocks: 1) The western side of Yum Burnu promontory, on the norheastern shore of the Bosporus, at the junction with the Black Sea. 2. Agglomerate of volcanic minerals with porphyry veins from Kadiköy (anc. Chalcedon), discovered by the author at Buyuk Liman, on the norheastern shore of the Bosporus. 3) Porphyry from Kadiköy (anc. Chalcedon). 4) Basalt from Buyuk Liman, norheastern shore of the Bosporus. 5) The eastern side of the northeastern end of the Bosporus, at the junction with the Black Sea.

Tags: Asia Minor, Bithynia, Black Sea, Bosporus, Buyük liman, Istanbul, Kadıköy /anc. Chalcedon, Mythology, Natural environment, Symplegades / Clashing Rocks / Cyanean Rocks, Thrace, Turkey, Volcanoes, Yum Burnu

Members of the mythicla tribe of the Pyglimes kill cranes with arrows, mounted on rams, in accordance with Pliny's description.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Mythology, Natural environment

Title page of the first voyage of the author.

Tags: Allegories, Mythology, Title page

View of Dodoni, Thessaloniki and Vale of Tempi (imaginary representations) framed by mythological scenes. From: Jacobus Gronovius, Thesaurus Graecarum Antiquitatum, 1699.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Dodoni, Epirus, Greece, Jacobus Gronovius, Macedonia, Mythology, Natural environment, Thessaloniki, Thessaly, Vale of Tempi

The myth of Perseus. In Ethiopia, Perseus is saving Andromeda from the sea monster Kitos. On the right, Andromeda's parents, and their guards. The myth has certain references to Peloponnese, for Perseus was originally from Argos and he founded the city of Mycenae.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Imaginary beings, Mythology, Peloponnese, Perseus and Andromeda, Weapons

Mythological composition referring to ancient Corinth: ruins, antiquities, Chimera and Bellerophon riding Pegasus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bellerophon, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Imaginary beings, Mythology, Pegasus, Peloponnese

Map of Peloponnese with the Ionian islands and part of Central Greece.

Tags: Central Greece, Greece, Imaginary beings, Ionian islands, Maps, Mythology, Peloponnese, Weapons

Map of Peloponnese with the Ionian islands and part of Central Greece.

Tags: Central Greece, Greece, Imaginary beings, Ionian islands, Maps, Mythology, Peloponnese

Frontispiece: Allegoric scene with angels, Hercules, Perseus, Hermes, Athena and Poseidon.

Tags: Boats and ships, Mythology, Title page

Statue of Pan.

Tags: Mythology, Pan (deity), Sculptures

Dedication to Philip Earl of Chesterfield. Composition of mythological figures (Hermes, Athens, etc.)

Tags: Athens, Greece, Hermes, Mythology

Ancient coin of Salamis. Obv. Ajax son of Telamon, king of Salamis.

Tags: Aias / Ajax son of Telamon, Art and antiquities, Attica, Coins, Greece, Greek mythology, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Kings, Mythology, Salamis

Part of the south side of the Parthenon. On the metopes scenes from Centauromachy. Interestingly, the author adds to this side a pediment as well.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Metopes, Mythology, Parthenon

The Parthenon: 1. Part of the east side of the temple. 2. Longitudinal section of part of the pronaos.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Metopes, Mythology, Parthenon

The Parthenon: 1. Plan of the temple. 2. West side of the temple. On the pediment the battle of Athena with Poseidon. On the metopes the Centauromachy. In fact, the Centauromachy is on the south side of the temple and not in the west, as the author suggests.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Greece, Metopes, Mythology, Parthenon, Pediments, Pediments of the Parthenon, Plans and drawings

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