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Athena

Athena (sometimes transliterated as Athene), the patron of the city of Athens, was one of the most revered goddesses of Ancient Greece. Around 1000 BCE, Athena replaced the fertility goddess worshiped and became the patron and gave her…
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Bassae

Βάσσαι (Bassae, also transilterated as Bassai) is an archaeological site in the Pelopponese which is home to the Classical Era temple of Apollo Epikourios. The temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae of Figaleia still has its colonnade standing…
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Three-Sided Classical Relief Marble Statue Heads Bronze and Iron Age Greece Other Greek and Roman Highlights Photo Gallery Image Gallery More photographs… Related Pages
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Brauron

Brauron (Βραυρών, Βραυρώνα, also transliterated Vravron, Vravrona) is an ancient sanctuary in eastern Attica near Athens. It was dedicated to the Goddess Artemis and it can be related to the Brauronion on the Acropolis of Athens. Worship on the…
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British Museum: Greek Art

The British Museum is host to a plethora of Greek art and artifacts. Highlights include the sculptures of the Parthenon, the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, and the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassai, Linear B tablets, the Rosetta Stone,…
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Callisto

Callisto’s Fate Callisto’s story is one of many wherein a youth wrongfully feels the wrath of the divine through no fault of their own. Callisto’s father had been a king of Arcadia, and she herself a maiden follower…
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Catalan Museum of Archaeology – Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο της Καταλονίας

The Museu d Arqueologia de Catalunya (Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο της Καταλονίας) collection illustrates the organic meeting between indigenous Iberian peoples and the Greco-Roman world, revealing a dynamic process of cultural exchange and mutual adaptation. Η συλλογή του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου…
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Charioteer of Delphi

The “Charioteer of Delphi” (Greek: Ἡνίοχος, meaning the rein-holder; often transliterated as Heniokhos or Iniohos“) is one of the best known ancient Greek statues, and one of the best preserved Classical bronze casts. It is considered a fine…
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Charites (Graces)

All those gentler attributes which beautify and refine human existence were personified by the Greeks under the form of three lovely sisters, Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia, the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome (or, according to later writers, of…
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The Colors of the Parthenon

Rediscovering the Temple’s Colors The colors of the Parthenon have washed away over the past 2400 years, but pigment remnants can still be traced on certain surfaces, so we know that the building was colored. But was every…
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