A metope from the Parthenon: the rapt of a lapith woman by a centaur.
Funerary lion, classic Greece, 350 BC. The lion stood over a tomb. The rock and the lower part of the legs and the tail are modern additions.
The winged victory of Samothrace, a sculpture from the Greek Hellenistic period (dated ca. 200 BC), found in the Greek island of Samothrace in 1863.
The winged victory of Samothrace.
The winged victory of Samothrace.
The winged victory of Samothrace.
Aphrodite (called Venus by the Romans), Goddess of love; 120 BC, found in Milos , an island in the Greek Cyclades. It is known as the "Venus from Milos".
The "Venus from Milos".
The Phoenix, Antakya, Turkey, 6th AD. A phoenix, the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes, is perched on a rock in the center of the mosaic, where it…
Part of the 175m long frieze of the ionian temple of Artemis in Magnesia on the Maeander, now in Turkey. The frieze depicts a fight between Greeks and Amazons.