Images

A scene from a red-figure vase showing Menelaos re-capturing Helen during the Trojan War. 480 BCE. (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich)

A relief showing Zeus and Leto with their offspring Apollo and Artemis to the right. 420-410 BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Brauron, Greece)

A marble relief depicting the god Dionysos leading the Horae, personifications of the seasons in Greek mythology. 1st century CE Roman copy of an earlier Greek original. (Louvre Museum, Paris)

Limestone statue of attendant god dedicated to Nabu by Adad-Nirari III and Sammuramat. The figure was dedicated to Nabu, the god of learning, in the temple of Ezida at Calah by the governor of Calah and other cities, for the life of the king...

A 19th century CE painting by Edward Burne-Jones depicting Perseus asking help of the three Graeae to find Medusa.

A red-figure vase depicting the earth goddess Gaia giving the baby Erichthonius to Athena. 470-460 BCE. (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich)

A relief depicting Atropos, one of the Fates of Greek mythology, cutting the thread of life.

A red-figure vase depicting the abduction of Europa by Zeus, disguised as a bull. 350-340 BCE.

A red-figure vase depicting Eos or Dawn riding her chariot across the sky. 430-420 BCE. (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich)

Bronze statuette of a dog, part of the Nimrud dogs, a Neo-Assyrian (circa 8th-century BCE) collection of dog figurines found at Nimrud, currently on display in museums at Baghdad, Iraq; Cambridge, England; New York, America; and Melbourne...