Ancient Greece Collection (#24)

Medea, 1868. Creator: Frederick Augustus Sandys
Medea, 1868. Greek legend describes Medea as a sorceress and the wife of Jason. When he deserted her for another woman, Medea poisoned both her rival (Glauce) and her two children

Sun from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets, 1528. Creator: Master I. B
Sun from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets, 1528

Saturn from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets, 1525. Creator: Master I. B
Saturn from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets, 1525

Jupiter from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets, 1528. Creator: Master I. B
Jupiter from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets, 1528

Mars from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planet, 1528. Creator: Master I. B
Mars from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planet, 1528

The Medici vase, a large vase to right decorated with a representation of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, on a garden terrace

Plate 12: a seated draughtsman to left, a standing shepherd next to him to right, ruins and animals to the right, a tower in ruins to left in the background

Phalaris Having Perillus Thrown into the Bronze Bull, 17th century

Empedocles, standing frontally with his head turned in three-quarter view, directs his gaze toward a flame (the crater of Mount Aetna)

Cadmus Founding Thebes, ca. 1543-44. Creator: Master of the Story of Cadmus
Cadmus Founding Thebes, ca. 1543-44

Apelles Painting Alexander and Campaspe. Creator: Master IQV
Apelles Painting Alexander and Campaspe

Alexander welcoming Thalestris and the Amazons, mid-16th century. Creator: Master FG
Alexander welcoming Thalestris and the Amazons, mid-16th century

The Judgment of Paris, 1515-27. Creator: Marco Dente
The Judgment of Paris, 1515-27

Judgment of Paris: Paris extends his hand toward Venus, who stands between Juno and Minerva, surrounded by reclining and seated figures; above are a winged figure carrying a laurel wreath

The abduction of Helen; battle scene on a shore with two men pulling Helen into a boat at center and another man pulling on her drapery in the opposite direction, ca. 1520-27

Delphic Sibyl, from the series of Sibyls, ca. 1530. Creator: Lucas van Leyden
Delphic Sibyl, from the series of Sibyls, ca. 1530

Cumean Sibyl, from the series of Sibyls, ca. 1530. Creator: Lucas van Leyden
Cumean Sibyl, from the series of Sibyls, ca. 1530

Vignette with Hephaestus and Putti, 1779. Creator: Jean Baptiste Marie Huet
Vignette with Hephaestus and Putti, 1779

Vignette with Sphinxes and Putti, 1779. Creator: Jean Baptiste Marie Huet
Vignette with Sphinxes and Putti, 1779

Cleobule, ca. 1639-40. Creators: Jean Couvay, Abraham Bosse
Cleobule, ca. 1639-40

Periandre, ca. 1639-40. Creators: Jean Couvay, Abraham Bosse
Periandre, ca. 1639-40. After Claude Vignon

Chilon, Legislator & Philosopher of Sparta, ca. 1615. Creator: Jan Muller
Chilon, Legislator & Philosopher of Sparta, ca. 1615

Apollo, 1588. Creator: Hendrik Goltzius
Apollo, 1588

Moenippus (Menipo Filosofo), 1778. Creator: Francisco Goya
Moenippus (Menipo Filosofo), 1778

Aesop (Aesopus), from Etchings after Velazquez, 1778. Creator: Francisco Goya
Aesop (Aesopus), from Etchings after Velazquez, 1778

Circe changing the companions of Ulysses into beasts, 1650-1651

Diogenes searching for a honest man, ca. 1645-47. Creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Diogenes searching for a honest man, ca. 1645-47. Carried a lamp during the day, claiming to be looking for an honest man

Circe with the companions of Ulysses changed into animals, 1650-51

Plan of a spacious and magnificent College designed after the ancient gymnasia of the Greeks and the baths of the Romans

Ancient Statue of the Muse Thalia, 1669. Creator: Claude Mellan
Ancient Statue of the Muse Thalia, 1669

Plate 5: Tomb of Mausolus, stone masons make a column at the right, from The Seven Wonders of the World, 1608

Westminster School - scene from "The Andria"of Terence, 1845. Creator: Unknown
Westminster School - scene from " The Andria" of Terence, 1845. Public school production of an ancient Roman comedy, Act IV, Scene 11: Of the costume...we must speak in the highest terms

Frontispiece to the life of Alexander the Great, at left is Bellona and at right a female personification of abundance, the Coat of Arms of the Duke of Croy, 1608

Plate 6: Darius Fleeing from the Battlefield, from The Deeds of Alexander the Great, 1608

Plate 11: Alexanders Lion Hunt, from The Deeds of Alexander the Great, 1608

Plate 3: Alexander Instructing his Soldiers, from The Deeds of Alexander the Great, 1608

Plate 10: Alexander Finding the Body of Darius, from The Deeds of Alexander the Great, , 1608

Plate 9: Alexanders Triumphal Entry into Babylon, from The Deeds of Alexander the Great, 1608

Plate 5: Alexander Directing a Battle, from The Deeds of Alexander the Great, 1608

Plate 2: Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot, from The Deeds of Alexander the Great, 1608

The Death of Socrates, 1790. Creator: Jean Francois Pierre Peyron
The Death of Socrates, 1790

The crucifixion of Polycrates the tyrant after his capture by the Persians, ca. 1662

Ruines de Cumes, 18th century. Creator: Quentin Pierre Chedel
Ruines de Cumes, 18th century

Statue of Niobe and her Worshippers, with Apollo and Diana and other Figures, 1543-47

Platos symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interruputed by Alcibiades at left, 1648

Sinorix carried from the temple of Artemis trying to escape the effects of the poisoning, ca. 1640

The Judgment of Paris, 1750. Creators: Pierre Etienne Moitte, Pierre Francois Tardieu
The Judgment of Paris, 1750

Diogenes, seated before his barrel, reading from a book, a plucked hen standing behind him at right, ca. 1527-30

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