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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:00:07 GMT -5
Quote:Arkesilas Cup: Laconia 560BC, found Vulci. Cyrenian king supervises the prep of sylphium/wool. Cabinet des Médailles.
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:02:09 GMT -5
Quote:Horses at a manger, looking very perky and Picassoesque: Attic amphora, 8th century BC @museelouvre
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:02:25 GMT -5
Quote:Relief showing surgical instruments from the Asclepieion at Athens Museo Della Civilta Romana, Rome, Italy
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:02:45 GMT -5
Quote:The Horses of St.Mark - attributed to the sculptor Lyssipos and dated to the 4th century BC cf. MONSTER MANUAL, Horse. @slgarrett: What kind of horses are these? Light? Medium? Heavy?
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:03:09 GMT -5
Quote:Roman copy of a bust of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, dated to the 2nd century AD
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:03:31 GMT -5
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:03:58 GMT -5
Quote:Attic plate with Pegasus, from Greece, 420 BC.
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:04:30 GMT -5
These Greeks did A LOT of stuff naked! Does anyone have that area of the world where nakedness is common? I do: the Opech Islands are very remote and much like Tahiti in the Mutiny on the BountyQuote:A horseman riding by in late Hellenistic classicising style: Greek, 1st c BC @metmuseum t.co/ggJWCTP2Al
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:04:49 GMT -5
Quote:The Empty Bath: Colin Burrow on Peter Green's Iliad @lrb t.co/mfFzJtX4LF V literal pic: 'Nestor's Bath', Pylos
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:05:04 GMT -5
Quote:The basic design of ships remained unchanged for over 2000 years, from Salamis (480 BC) to Lepanto (1571).
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:05:19 GMT -5
Quote:Triptolemos with a κόρη who is plainly impressed by his winged snake chariot Attic red-figure tondo, c. 470 BC–460 BC
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:05:35 GMT -5
A greece militia greets Lord Byron, an adviser from Albyon.
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:05:54 GMT -5
Quote:Medea flees Corinth on "dragons borne of the Titans". Engraving by I. Briot in a 1651 edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:06:15 GMT -5
Quote:Gold phiale (libation bowl) with inscription in archaic Corinthian dialect, 625BC @mfaboston t.co/ufpigfUmiW
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:06:35 GMT -5
Quote:gold lion head rhyton, Mycenaean, Late Bronze Age (1600 - 1100 BC) t.co/ayOOfycmgO via @wikipedia
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:06:50 GMT -5
Quote:Casserole & brazier, perfect for φακη - lentil soup. 6th-4th centuries BC, National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:07:06 GMT -5
Quote:Ancient Greek dice, clay & bronze, 580-570BC. Museum of Athens
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:07:20 GMT -5
Quote:Mycenaean swords with gold elements.
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:07:35 GMT -5
Quote:Today in 480 BC: Salamis ~ largest naval battle of the ancient world, as Greeks save their civilization from Persia.
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:08:46 GMT -5
Quote:hey hey we're the monkeys! Boeotia, 6th c BC, perhaps a toy from a child's grave @gettymuseum t.co/RByTsVPsbx
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:09:20 GMT -5
Quote:Oedipus as medieval knight attacking the Sphinx, early 13th c. "Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César" via @britishlibrary
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:11:22 GMT -5
Quote:Pyxis with Three Horses. Greek (Attic). 750–700 BC. Terracotta with slip. MFAH: t.co/J1D4xSxn7h
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:11:34 GMT -5
Quote:This owl belongs to the people ΔΕΜΟΣΙΟΣ / DEMOSIOS -Attic black-figure amphora, 500 BC @holland_tom #OwlsInAntiquity
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:11:51 GMT -5
Quote:Corinthian aryballos (perfume-holder) in the shape of an owl, ca. 630 BC #owlsinantiquity
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:12:12 GMT -5
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:12:58 GMT -5
Quote:Last week to see #PowerandPathos at the Getty Center. The exhibition closes Sunday. t.co/pSHFyoVHQb
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:13:21 GMT -5
Quote:Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire (1833–36) - The Arcadian State There is a gate to Arcadia, in Arcadia.
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:13:58 GMT -5
Cool link Quote:shipwrecks and the lives of ancient sailors. . . t.co/wEWIwOssvb
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:14:17 GMT -5
Quote:2,000 year old mosaic of Plato's famous academy in the house of Siminius Stephanus at Pompeii
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Post by Q Man on Mar 10, 2024 19:14:34 GMT -5
Quote:Bee, 1.5cm long, 3rd-2nd centuries BC @yaleartgallery t.co/Y5MxQRsiG4
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