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terracotta figurines of New
Comedy actors Greek, Myrina; 2nd century BCE
actor playing young man;
actor playing young
woman
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, comic
terracotta figurine of
comic actor with tympanos; Greek, 375-350 BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, comedy
terracotta mask of
hetaera with lampadion; New Comedy
c. 150 BCE (probably from Amisos)
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, comic
terracotta mask of young
man; New Comedy
first century BCE (Apulian?)
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, comic
terracotta mask of
"Pappus", comic figure; Roman, second century CE
Acquincum, Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1992
Keywords: drama, theater, comedy
terracotta figurine of
young woman holding mask
Greek, Tanagra; 325-300 BCE
other small terracotta masks surround the figure (see below for details)
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
terracotta mask of Dionysus
Greek, Myrina; second-first century BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
terracotta mask of young
man Greek, Myrina; second century BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
terracotta mask of young
man Greek, Tunisia; second-first century BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
tiny terracotta mask of
bearded man Greek, Tunisia; second-first century BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
relief of three Bacchic
masks—satyr, Bacchus, silenus; Roman 20 BCE-50 CE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
terracotta figurines of comic
actors
left: 3 actors from mime (Roman, first century CE); right:
2 comic actors
(Etruscan, second century BCE)
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999, 2006
Keywords: drama, theater, comedy
sard seal ring showing comic
actor wearing mask
ring plus drawing of image
impression
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, comic
carnelian seal ring
showing actor holding tragic mask
ring plus drawing of
image impression
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
votive relief of actors
celebrating after performance Greek; c. 400 BCE
found in Piraeus; Athens, National Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1998
Keywords: drama, theater, mask
bronze theater
tokens stamped with head of Athena or letter of the Greek alphabet
close-up of one
token
Athens, fifth century BCE)
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater
detail, red-figure vase
painting showing tragic performance
possibly Euripides' lost play Oineus
attributed to Python; Greek, Paestum, 340-330 BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
calyx krater: Orestes
kills Aegisthus before Clytemnestra. Greek; c. 480-70 BCE
Aegisthus painter; Santa Monica, Getty Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1989
Keywords: mythology, Oresteia, vase painting
detail, calyx krater:
Orestes stabbing Aegisthus. Greek; c. 480-70 BCE
Aegisthus painter; Santa Monica, Getty Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1989
Keywords: mythology, Oresteia, vase painting
terracotta lamp; Roman, 25-75 CE
larger version.
Depicts Aeneas leavings Troy with Anchises and Ascanius.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999; 2006.
Keywords: Vergil; Aeneid; mythology
painting. “Fall of
Troy” 16th century
by Flemish painter Pieter Schonbroeck
Brussels, Belgian Royal Museum of Fine Arts. Credits: Paula Chabot, 1988
Keywords: Vergil; Aeneid; mythology; Trojan horse
detail, painting:
Aeneas leaves Troy with Anchises and Ascanius; 16th century
by Flemish painter Pieter Schonbroeck
Brussels, Belgian Royal Museum of Fine Arts. Credits: Paula Chabot, 1988
Keywords: Vergil; Aeneid; mythology
marble statue of
Aphrodite copy of Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos
Munich, Glyptothek. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
Keywords: mythology, goddess; Cnidus
marble head of Apollo
Roman copy of bronze original of 460 BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, god
statue of Apollo with
lizard: copy of bronze original of Praxiteles of c. 350 BCE
so-called “Apollo Sauroctone”; Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, god
white-ground
kylix; Greek, 480-70 BCE
detail, Apollo,
wearing a laurel-leaf crown, sits on a folding stool; he holds a lyre with his left hand
and pours out a libation from a phiale in his right hand, while a raven watches.
Delphi, Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2007
Keywords: mythology, god, prophecy, vase painting, crow
detail, red-figure
lekythos: Athenian woman wearing chiton and himation. Greek
Herakleion Museum (Giamalkis Collection). Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: women, clothing, vase painting
detail, red-figure
lekythos: Athenian woman wearing peplos. Greek
Herakleion Museum (Giamalkis Collection). Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: women, clothing, vase painting
detail, vase painting:
Herakles wrestling river-god Achelous. Greek, c. 520 BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: mythology, Hercules
detail, bell krater:
Alcmena being set on fire by Amphitryon while Zeus puts out fire. Apulian,
5th-4th century BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: mythology, Hercules, Herakles, Plautus, vase painting
detail, amphora: Perseus
fights sea monster, while Andromeda is tied to rock. Apulian, c. 350-40 BCE
Santa Monica, Getty Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1989
Keywords: mythology, vase painting
marble head of veiled
woman: copy of bronze head of “Aspasia” of c. 460 BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
terracotta relief: Athena
supervises building of the ship Argo; 1st century CE
said to be found near Porta Latina, Rome. London, British Museum. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Minerva, Jason, carpenter, workman
detail, terracotta relief:
workman; 1st century CE
said to be found near Porta Latina, Rome. London, British Museum. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Minerva, Jason, carpenter
marble bust of Herodes
Atticus: a philosopher/rhetorician. Greek, c. 161 CE
larger image;
front view
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999; 2005
marble bust of Polydeukion, from Athens, 160-170 CE
side view
Polydeukion was the favorite pupil/ward (possibly lover) of Herodes Atticus who died at a young age.
Berlin, Altes Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2005
mosaic head of
Aristotle
detail of
head: from large mosaic depicting Greek philosophers
Cologne, Romisch-Germanisches Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
mosaic head of
Sophocles: from large mosaic depicting Greek philosophers
Cologne, Romisch-Germanisches Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
detail, kylix: birth
of Athena from Zeus. Greek
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Minerva, vase painting
detail, krater: Athena
and bearded man. Greek; 460-50 BCE
attributed to painter of Niobids; Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Minerva, vase painting
gold seal ring depicting
Athena Greek
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Minerva
bronze statue of
Athena: Piraeus Athena. Greek; 350-340 BCE
Athens, National Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: mythology, Minerva
marble statue of
Athena adaptation of bronze Piraeus Athena of 350-340 BCE
so-called “Athena Pacifique”; Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Minerva
marble statue of
Athena: small Roman copy of Pheidias's Athena Parthenos from 5th century
BCE
“Varvakeion Athena”; Athens, National Archaeological Museum. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: mythology, Minerva
Athena vs. a
Giant: sculptural group from the pediment of the old temple of Athena on
the Acropolis
detail, Athena
brandishing snake from aegis
Athens, Acropolis Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: mythology, Minerva
colossal statue of
Apollo with cithara;
detail, head of
Apollo
copy of cult statue in the Palatine Temple of Apollo; from a Roman villa in
Tusculum, 1st-2nd century CE
The androgynous rendering of Apollo in long flowing robes is typical of statues
of the “citharoedus” type, which associate the god with poetry and
the Muses.
Munich, Glyptothek Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
detail, marble stele of
Megakles: portrayed as an athlete. Greek; c. 540-30 BCE
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: funerary, tombstone
marble bust of Antoninus
Pius in military dress; c. 140 CE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: emperor
terracotta vase in form
of crouching African woman
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: slave, slavery
cameo plaque:
Bacchus and Ariadne; Roman
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Dionysus
bronze figurine:
Bacchus and Pan. Roman, 2nd century CE
with silver-encrusted eyes. Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1999
Keywords: mythology, Dionysus
model of Theater of
Balbus in Rome (plastico of fourth century CE city); modern
side view; EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2003
model of Theater of
Balbus in Rome (plastico of fourth century CE city); modern
view from cavea; EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 2003
model of Theater of
Pompey complex in Rome (plastico of fourth century CE city); modern
side view; detail of theater
view of complex showing Republican temples
EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2003
model of Theater of
Pompey complex in Rome (plastico of fourth century CE city); modern
view from back of cavea; detail of theater showing scaena
EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2003
model showing all three theaters (plastico of fourth century CE city); modern
model showing theaters of Pompey and Balbus
EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2003
model of Saepta Julia in
Rome; plastico of fourth century CE city
side view
EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2003
high relief of boxers
Roman
Credits: Albert Kuhn, Roma, fig. 112, p. 65, 1901
Keywords: boxing, sport
fragment of gilt bronze sword
belt (balteus): decorated with figures of Scylla; end of 4th century
CE
Reggio, Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1982
Keywords: mythology, armor
detail, sword belt
(balteus): gilt relief figures of Scylla; end of 4th century CE
Reggio, Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1982
Keywords: mythology, armor
model of the Baths of
Agrippa in Rome; plastico of fourth century CE city
EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2003
model of the Stadium of
Domitian; plastico of fourth century CE city
EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2003
miniature model of a
bench: glazed terracotta; 1st century CE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: furniture, domus
detail, Borghese
vase: high relief of Dionysus, maenads, satyr. Roman; c. 40-30 BCE
pentelic marble; discovered in Gardens of Sallust. Paris, Louvre Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Bacchus
Hellenistic statue
of nude male warrior (front); c. 100 BCE
so-called “Borghese Gladiator”; signed by Agasius of Ephesus. Paris,
Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: sculpture
Hellenistic statue
of nude male warrior (back); c. 100 BCE
so-called “Borghese Gladiator”; signed by Agasius of Ephesus. Paris,
Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: sculpture
silver-gilt rhyton (ritual
vessel) in shape of a bull's head Mycenaean; 16th century BCE
Athens, National Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: Mycenae
onyx cameo bust of woman
wearing stola; Roman; 90-100 CE
straps of stola are clearly visible
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: clothing, women
sardonyx cameo portrait
of Claudius with laurel wreath; Roman; 41-50 CE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: emperor
sardonyx cameo
portrait of Agrippina the Younger, Roman, 57-59 CE
larger version.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999, 2001
Keywords: empress, women, female power
sardonyx cameo
portrait, possibly Germanicus; Roman, 14-50 CE
smaller version.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2008
Keywords: Augustan succession
green basanite bust of
Germanicus; Roman, possibly made in Egypt, 14-20 CE
side view.
Germanicus, son of Drusus the Elder, husband of Agrippina the Elder, and brother of Claudius, wears a military cuirass. The cross on the forehead of the bust was carved later by Christians.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2008, 1999
Keywords: Augustan succession
model of central Campus
Martius in Rome; plastico of fourth century CE city
EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2003
Campanian pelike: Greek
warrior drags Cassandra from Palladium; c. 330 BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: vase painting, Trojan War, mythology
wall painting: Ajax
drags Cassandra from Palladium before eyes of Priam
smaller version of
scene
Pompeii, House of Menander. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1979
Keywords: fresco, Trojan War, mythology
detail, relief of Domitius
Ahenobarbus: taking of the census; end 2nd century BCE
from Campus Martius, Rome. Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
black-figure lekythos (oil
flask): Circe offers cup to Odysseus; end 5th century BCE
swine-man in background. Ahtens, National Archaeological Museum. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: mythology, Homer, Odyssey
detail, white-ground lekythos
(oil flask): Charon rows on Styx while Hermes looks on; Greek
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, underworld
detail, large terracotta
funeral amphora with reliefs: Trojan horse. Greek; mid-7th century BCE
Mykonos, Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1998
Keywords: Trojan War, mythology
detail, large terracotta
funeral amphora with reliefs: Greek warrior slays young Trojan boy in front
of mother. Greek; mid-7th century BCE
similar to portrayal of slaying of Astyanax by Neoptolemus in front of
Andromache. Mykonos, Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1998
Keywords: Trojan War, mythology
detail, large terracotta
funeral amphora with reliefs: Greek warrior stabs young Trojan boy in front
of mother. Greek; mid-7th century BCE
Mykonos, Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1998
Keywords: Trojan War, mythology
detail, large terracotta
funeral amphora with reliefs: mother attempts to stop Greek warrior from
slaying young Trojan boy. Greek; mid-7th century BCE
Mykonos, Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1998
Keywords: Trojan War, mythology
detail, large terracotta
funeral amphora with reliefs: Greek warrior prepares to stab young Trojan
boy in front of mother. Greek; mid-7th century BCE
Mykonos, Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1998
Keywords: Trojan War, mythology
drawing of chariot race
in a circus from a Roman mosaic in Barcelona
Credits: Hermann Bender, Rom und Römisches Leben im Altertum, 2nd
ed. (1893), p. 315
Keywords: sport, racing
detail, white-ground lekythos
(oil flask): Charon rows on Styx while Hermes looks on; Greek
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, underworld
neoclassical garden with
statues
Vienna, Schonbrunn Palace. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1992
detail, bronze sheet
with figures:
Orestes stabbing Clytemnestra while Electra looks on and Aegisthus attempts to
flee; Greek, c. 570 BCE
Olympia Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: mythology, Oresteia
drawing of a funerary
procession into a columbarium (deep vaulted crypt which served as
repository of the ashes of members of a Roman family or guild)
Credits: Albert Kuhn, Roma, fig. 148, p. 139, 1913
Keywords: funeral, burial, religion
terracotta figurine of young
man and reluctant woman on nuptial couch; Greek, Myrina (tomb 100, Atelier
of Nicostratos); 150-100 BCE
view from side;
detail.
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999; 2009
Keywords: erotic, wedding, romance
statue of Roman matron
depicted as Cybele; mid-first century CE
Santa Monica, Getty Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1989
Keywords: mythology, goddess, sculpture
Cycladic female idol;
2400-2100 BCE
Berlin, Antiken Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1992
Keywords: prehistoric, primordial, goddess, sculpture
red-figure pelike:
Deianeira hands poisoned robe to Hercules; Greek, Athens, c. 430 BCE
detail of central
scene
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: vase painting, mythology, Herakles
tiny Roman bronze figurine of
running dog
London, Museum of London. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: pets, animals
view of orchestra of
Greek theater at Delphi looking down from top rows of cavea; ruins of
temple of Apollo in background
Delphi. Credits: John McManus, 1998
view of orchestra of
Greek theater at Delphi looking down from side; ruins of temple of Apollo
in background
Delphi. Credits: John McManus, 1998
statue of Artemis,
called "Diana de Gabies"; probably copy of Praxiteles' Artemis
Brauronia, 346-345 BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, goddess, sculpture
view of cavea and
orchestra of Theater of Dionysus looking down from Acropolis
Athens. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
view of cavea and
orchestra of Theater of Dionysus on ground level
Athens. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
stone seat reserved for
priest of Dionysus Eleutherios in Theater of Dionysus
Athens. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
detail of inscription on
stone seat reserved for priest of Dionysus Eleutherios in Theater of
Dionysus
Athens. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
scene building, orchestra,
and cavea of Theater at Epidaurus viewed from ground level
Epidaurus. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
black-figure column
krater—detail "eye vase" with mask of Dionysus; Athens, late
sixth century BCE
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1982
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
black-figure vase of
Dionysus sailing with dolphins; Greek, attributed to Exekias, c. 530
BCE
Munich, Antiken Sammlung. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
red-figure vase of Dionysus
dancing with torn-apart animal; Greek, 480-460 BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
statue of youthful
Dionysus; Roman copy of Greek marble
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: sculpture; Bacchus; mythology, god
statue of youthful
Dionysus; free Roman copy of fourth-century BCE Greek original
Munich, Glyptothek. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
Keywords: sculpture; Bacchus; mythology, god
marble head of young
Dionysus with inlaid eyes; Roman, second century CE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: sculpture; Bacchus; mythology, god
marble head of young
Dionysus; Roman
Rome, Capitoline Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1979
Keywords: sculpture; Bacchus; mythology, god
red-figure kylix of
Dionysus with lyre, Ariadne, Eros; Greek, 400-390 BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
gold bulla depicting
birth of Dionysus from thigh of Zeus; Etruscan, from a necklace; 400-350
BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: jewelry, Bacchus, mythology, god
terracotta Dionysus
holding drinking horn; Attic, early fifth century BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
ivory statuette of
Dionysus with lion, "Master of Beasts"; Ionic, early seventh
century BCE
Delphi Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: Bacchus; mythology, god
large mosaic of
Dionysus, satyrs, and maenads:
10.57 x 7 meters (1-2 million tesserae), from oecus on west side
of peristyle of third-century CE Roman villa near modern Cologne
Cologne, Romisch-Germanisches Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
Keywords: Bacchus; mythology, god
large phallic pillar
outside Dionysus shrine, one of two
Delos. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: Bacchus; mythology, god
sarcophagus with
Dionysiac scenes; Roman, c. 230 CE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: sculpture, Dionysus, Bacchus, mythology, god
detail, red-figure
vase, youthful Dionysus with satyr; Greek
Syracuse Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1982
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
detail, red-figure
vase, bearded Dionysus with silenus; Greek
Syracuse Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1982
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
Roman mosaic depicting
triumph of Bacchus in India, chariot pulled by tigers; second century
CE
Madrid, Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1985
Keywords: Dionysus, mythology, god
detail, red-figure vase,
drunken Dionysus supported by satyr, sourrounded by Maenads; Attic, c. 450
BCE
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1982
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
detail, red-figure
vase, bearded Dionysus running holding thyrsus and leapard skin; Pan
painterAttic, c. 460 BCE
Agrigento Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1982
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
Veturia at the Feet of
Coriolanus
painting by Gaspare Landi
Florence, Pitti Palace. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1990
Keywords: historical legend; mythology; women; Volumnia; Livy
detail of black-figure
cup, Athens, c. 550 BCE
showing birth of Athena from head of Zeus, with Hephaestus holding axe; signed
by Phrynos as potter and attributed to the Phrynos Painter.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: Athene, Minerva, Jupiter, Vulcan
marble head from statue of
young woman or goddess, Greek, c. 325-279 BCE
from Sanctuary of Demeter at Knidos; her hair is secured by a broad band that
ties in the back.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: religion; Cnidus
model showing
location of Theater of Dionysus and Sanctuary of Dionysus Eleuthereus;
detail from modern model of Acropolis in late 4th century BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: drama; Athens; Greek theatre
head of Agrippina
the Younger; Roman, Claudian period (41-54 CE);
found with head of
Claudius wearing oak wreath; west slope of the Acropolis.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2002
Keywords: Roman women; empress; emperor; history
top of bronze
equestrian statue of Augustus, Roman, last decade of 1st century BCE;
detail of head;
side view.
This statue, found in Aegean Sea, depicts Augustus with youthful features wearing a sword
and fringed military cloak (paludamentum). His right hand is raised in
the adloqutio gesture, and the
ring on his left hand
is engraved with the lituus, the augur's staff that symbolized his priestly authority.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2002; 2007
Keywords: Octavian; imperial symbolism
chalcedony cameo of
Octavian, Roman, c. 31-27 BCE
shown veiled and wearing laurel wreath.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: Augustus; imperial symbolism
sardonyx cameo
of Claudius, Roman, c. 44-49 CE
shown wearing a laurel wreath and military garb.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: imperial symbolism
sardonyx cameo of
Julia Domna [?], Roman, c. 193-217 CE
depicted as the goddess Luna or Dea Syria driving a chariot pulled by two
bulls.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: empress; imperial symbolism
sarcophagus for a
young child, Roman, c. 275-300 CE
Made of Proconnesian marble; found in Ostia. Boys are shown playing with nuts
(see detail).
Translation of inscription: "To the spirits of the departed and to Lucius
Aemilius Daphnus of the Pomptine [voting tribe]. He lived 4 years and 6 days.
Julia Daphne [had this made] for her dearest son."
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: children; family; funerary; games
portrait statue of
veiled priestess, Roman, c. 20-50 CE
Marble statue is based on images of Livia, wife of Augustus and mother of
Tiberius; priestess is heavily draped in stola and palla and wears a laurel
wreath.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: women; dress; imperial symbolism
molded glass
medallion (phalera) of Drusus, son of Tiberius, Roman, c. 20-40
CE
The phalera is in its original bronze mounting.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: Drusus Minor
molded glass
medallion (phalera) of Germanicus, Roman, c. 20-40 CE
smaller version.
The phalera has lost its original bronze mounting. Germanicus, brother
of Claudius and husband of Agrippina the Elder, is shown surrounded by the
heads of three of his six children portrayed as infants.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2003
Keywords: children; family; dynastic symbolism
fragmentary bronze
military diploma, Roman, dated January 7, 246 CE
This is the "discharge papers" of a soldier who had served in the
Fifth Cohort of the Praetorian Guard.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: army
carved bone portrait of a
woman, Roman, c. 100 CE
from the top of a long hairpin.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: women; dress; hairstyle
tiny terracotta comic
figurine, Greek from Knidos, c. 300 BCE
represents either an actor or a buffoon in the mysteries of Demeter.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama; Cnidus
terracotta comic
figurine; detail of
mask, Greek from Myrina, 2nd century BCE
represents a masked actor, possibly the procurer of New Comedy.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama; Cnidus
terracotta comic
figurine, Greek from Athens, c. 330-300 BCE
represents an actor of New Comedy, probably a traveler or soldier.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
terracotta comic
figurine, Greek from Athens, c. 300-150 BCE
represents an actor of New Comedy.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
terracotta comic
figurine, Greek from Cyrenaica, c. 350 BCE
represents an actor portraying an old woman.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
terracotta comic
figurine, Greek from Athens, c. 350 BCE
represents an actor portraying an old woman.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
terracotta comic
figurine, Greek from Athens, c. 350 BCE
represents an actor portraying a young woman adjusting her himation.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
terracotta comic
figurine, Greek, late Hellenistic period
represents an actor portraying a slave.
Athens, Cycladic Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2002
Keywords: comedy; drama
marble statue of comic
actor; detail of
mask, Roman, 1st - 2nd century CE
masked comic actor portraying slave seeking refuge at altar; found on Caelian
hill in Rome.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
marble relief: visit
of Dionysus to dramatic poet;
detail of Dionysus and
poet, Roman, 1st century CE
Dionysus, accompanied by reveling satyrs, visits the home of a dramatic poet,
who reclines on a couch beneath which are several masks. A young slave removes
the shoes of the god; a tripod table can be seen in front of the couch. Relief
has a number of restorations.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
marble relief of poet, Roman, 180-200
CE
Phrygian marble, part of front of columnar sarcophagus. From "Gardens of
Pomey" in Rome. The poet reads
from a scroll (background removed) to
Thalia, the muse of Comedy.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
high relief of comic
mask, with tragic mask in background, Roman, 2nd century CE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
Go to Index, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI, Part XII, Part XIII, Part XIV, Part XV, Roman Coins: Republic and Principate, Roman Coins: Empire, Greek Coins, Coins from the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Coins from the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, Coins from the Hunterian Museum
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