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This small terracotta figurine is part of the so-called "Tanagra Figurines", which represent wealthy middle-class women. These statuettes served as votive and funerary objects, carrying a symbolic meaning connected with the status and role...

Attic black-figure skyphos depicting Odysseus blinding the sleeping Cyclops Polyphemus, by the Theseus Painter, from Boeotia (Greece), 490-480 BCE. (Altes Museum, Berlin)

A black-figure kantharos (drinking cup) depicting Hercules and centaurs. From Boeotia, c. 550 BCE. (Antikensammlungen, Munich).

Terracotta statuette of Hades sitting on his throne, from Boeotia, c. 400-350 BCE (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich)

This vase is a type of drinking vessel. It depicts a pursuit scene between two nude males flanked by himation-clad male figures. From Attica or Boeotia. Attic workshop. Attributed to the Athenian Painter conventionally known as the 'Affecter'...

A rare polychromatic terracotta version of the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos, which stood in the Parthenon and was a work of Pheidias, of the years 447/6-438 BCE. Perhaps from Vathy, Avlis District, Boeotia. Boeotian workshop...

A red-figure calyx krater from Boeotia, c. 410 BCE. The scene depicts a wedding procession. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

Heracles is depicted in an aggressive pose, holding the club in his right hand and the bow in his left. From the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios on the Ptoon Mountain, Boeotia. Argeian workshop. 480-460 BCE. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria...

The uniqueness of modern central Greece's landscape derives from the atmospheric blend of ancient archaeological sites and the Mediterranean flora. The forests are mostly composed of fir trees, pine trees, and bushes. These trees may be found...

Athena was the goddess of wisdom, war, and the crafts. She was the favourite daughter of Zeus and was, perhaps, the wisest, most courageous, and certainly the most resourceful of the Olympian gods. Zeus was told that his son would take his...