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terracotta
figurines of New Comedy actors Greek, Myrina; 2nd century BCE
actor playing
young man; actor playing
young woman
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1999
Keywords: drama, theater, comic
terracotta
figurine of comic actor with tympanos; Greek, 375-350 BCE
Paris,
Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater,
comedy
terracotta mask
of hetaera with lampadion; New Comedy
c. 150 BCE (probably
from Amisos)
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1999
Keywords: drama, theater, comic
terracotta mask
of young man; New Comedy
first century BCE (Apulian?)
Paris, Louvre
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, comic
terracotta
mask of "Pappus", comic figure; Roman, second century CE
Acquincum,
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1992
Keywords: drama, theater, comedy
terracotta
figurine of young woman holding mask
Greek, Tanagra; 325-300
BCE
other small terracotta masks surround the figure (see below for
details)
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords:
drama, theater, tragedy
terracotta
mask of Dionysus Greek, Myrina; second-first century BCE
Paris, Louvre
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
terracotta
mask of young man Greek, Myrina; second century BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
terracotta
mask of young man Greek, Tunisia; second-first century BCE
Paris, Louvre
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
tiny
terracotta mask of bearded man Greek, Tunisia; second-first century
BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama,
theater, tragedy
relief
of three Bacchic masks—satyr, Bacchus, silenus; Roman 20 BCE-50
CE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama,
theater, tragedy
terracotta
figurines of comic actors
left: 3 actors from mime (Roman, first century
CE); right: 2 comic actors (Etruscan, second century BCE)
London, British
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, comedy
sard seal
ring showing comic actor wearing mask
ring plus
drawing of image impression
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, comic
carnelian
seal ring showing actor holding tragic mask
ring
plus drawing of image impression
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater, tragedy
votive
relief of actors celebrating after performance Greek; c. 400 BCE
found in
Piraeus; Athens, National Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1998
Keywords: drama, theater, mask
bronze
theater tokens stamped with head of Athena or letter of the Greek
alphabet
close-up of
one token
Athens, fifth century BCE)
London, British Museum. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: drama, theater
detail,
red-figure vase painting showing tragic performance
possibly Euripides'
lost play Oineus
attributed to Python; Greek, Paestum, 340-330
BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords:
drama, theater, tragedy
calyx
krater: Orestes kills Aegisthus before Clytemnestra. Greek; c. 480-70
BCE
Aegisthus painter; Santa Monica, Getty Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1989
Keywords: mythology, Oresteia, vase painting
detail,
calyx krater: Orestes stabbing Aegisthus. Greek; c. 480-70 BCE
Aegisthus
painter; Santa Monica, Getty Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1989
Keywords:
mythology, Oresteia, vase painting
terracotta
lamp: Aeneas leaves Troy with Anchises and Ascanius; 25-75 CE
London,
British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: Vergil;
Aeneid; mythology
painting.
“Fall of Troy” 16th century
by Flemish painter Pieter
Schonbroeck
Brussels, Belgian Royal Museum of Fine Arts. Credits: Paula
Chabot, 1988
Keywords: Vergil; Aeneid; mythology; Trojan horse
detail,
painting: Aeneas leaves Troy with Anchises and Ascanius; 16th century
by
Flemish painter Pieter Schonbroeck
Brussels, Belgian Royal Museum of Fine
Arts. Credits: Paula Chabot, 1988
Keywords: Vergil; Aeneid;
mythology
marble
statue of Aphrodite copy of Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos
Munich,
Glyptothek. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
Keywords: mythology, goddess;
Cnidus
marble
head of Apollo Roman copy of bronze original of 460 BCE
Paris, Louvre
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, god
statue
of Apollo with lizard: copy of bronze original of Praxiteles of c. 350
BCE
so-called “Apollo Sauroctone”; Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, god
detail,
white-ground kylix: seated Apollo holding lyre, pouring libation. Greek,
480-70 BCE
with raven; Delphi Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1998
Keywords: mythology, god, prophecy, vase painting
detail,
red-figure lekythos: Athenian woman wearing chiton and himation.
Greek
Herakleion Museum (Giamalkis Collection). Credits: Barbara McManus,
1980
Keywords: women, clothing, vase painting
detail,
red-figure lekythos: Athenian woman wearing peplos. Greek
Herakleion
Museum (Giamalkis Collection). Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords:
women, clothing, vase painting
detail,
vase painting: Herakles wrestling river-god Achelous. Greek, c. 520
BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords:
mythology, Hercules
detail, bell
krater: Alcmena being set on fire by Amphitryon while Zeus puts out fire.
Apulian, 5th-4th century BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1986
Keywords: mythology, Hercules, Herakles, Plautus, vase
painting
detail,
amphora: Perseus fights sea monster, while Andromeda is tied to rock.
Apulian, c. 350-40 BCE
Santa Monica, Getty Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1989
Keywords: mythology, vase painting
marble head
of veiled woman: copy of bronze head of “Aspasia” of c. 460 BCE
Paris,
Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
terracotta
relief: Athena supervises building of the ship Argo; 1st century CE
said
to be found near Porta Latina, Rome. London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Minerva, Jason, carpenter, workman
detail,
terracotta relief: workman; 1st century CE
said to be found near Porta
Latina, Rome. London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1999
Keywords: mythology, Minerva, Jason, carpenter
marble bust
of Herodes Atticus: a philosopher/rhetorician. Greek
Paris, Louvre
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
mosaic
head of Aristotle; detail of
head: from large mosaic depicting Greek philosophers
Cologne,
Romisch-Germanisches Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
mosaic
head of Sophocles: from large mosaic depicting Greek
philosophers
Cologne, Romisch-Germanisches Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1988
detail,
kylix: birth of Athena from Zeus. Greek
New York, Metropolitan Museum of
Art. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Minerva, vase
painting
detail,
krater: Athena and bearded man. Greek; 460-50 BCE
attributed to painter
of Niobids; Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords:
mythology, Minerva, vase painting
gold seal
ring depicting Athena Greek
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Minerva
bronze
statue of Athena: Piraeus Athena. Greek; 350-340 BCE
Athens, National
Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: mythology,
Minerva
marble
statue of Athena adaptation of bronze Piraeus Athena of 350-340 BCE
so-called “Athena Pacifique”; Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Minerva
marble
statue of Athena: small Roman copy of Pheidias's Athena Parthenos from 5th
century BCE
“Varvakeion Athena”; Athens, National Archaeological Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: mythology, Minerva
Athena
vs. a Giant: sculptural group from the pediment of the old temple of Athena
on the Acropolis
detail,
Athena brandishing snake from aegis
Athens, Acropolis Museum. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: mythology, Minerva
colossal
statue of Apollo with cithara; detail,
head of Apollo
copy of cult statue in the Palatine Temple of Apollo; from
a Roman villa in Tusculum, 1st-2nd century CE
The androgynous rendering of
Apollo in long flowing robes is typical of statues of the “citharoedus” type,
which associate the god with poetry and the Muses.
Munich, Glyptothek Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
detail,
marble stele of Megakles: portrayed as an athlete. Greek; c. 540-30
BCE
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1980
Keywords: funerary, tombstone
marble
bust of Antoninus Pius in military dress; c. 140 CE
London, British
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: emperor
terracotta
vase in form of crouching African woman
London, British Museum. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: slave, slavery
cameo
plaque: Bacchus and Ariadne; Roman
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Dionysus
bronze
figurine: Bacchus and Pan. Roman, 2nd century CE
with silver-encrusted
eyes. Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords:
mythology, Dionysus
model
of Theater of Balbus in Rome (plastico of fourth century CE city);
modern
side view; EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1979
model
of Theater of Balbus in Rome (plastico of fourth century CE city);
modern
view from cavea; EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1979
model
of Theater of Pompey complex in Rome (plastico of fourth century CE city);
modern
side view; EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1979
model of
Saepta Julia in Rome (plastico of fourth century CE city); modern
side
view; EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1979
high relief
of boxers Roman
Credits: Albert Kuhn, Roma, fig. 112, p. 65,
1901
Keywords: boxing, sport
fragment of
gilt bronze sword belt (balteus): decorated with figures of Scylla;
end of 4th century CE
Reggio, Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1982
Keywords: mythology, armor
detail,
sword belt (balteus): gilt relief figures of Scylla; end of 4th
century CE
Reggio, Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1982
Keywords:
mythology, armor
model
of the Baths of Agrippa in Rome (plastico of fourth century CE city);
modern
EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1979
model of the
Stadium of Domitian (plastico of fourth century CE city); modern
EUR
(Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1979
miniature
model of a bench: glazed terracotta; 1st century CE
London, British
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: furniture, domus
detail,
Borghese vase: high relief of Dionysus, maenads, satyr. Roman; c. 40-30
BCE
pentelic marble; discovered in Gardens of Sallust. Paris, Louvre Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: mythology, Bacchus
Hellenistic
statue of nude male warrior (front); c. 100 BCE
so-called “Borghese
Gladiator”; signed by Agasius of Ephesus. Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: sculpture
Hellenistic
statue of nude male warrior (back); c. 100 BCE
so-called “Borghese
Gladiator”; signed by Agasius of Ephesus. Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: sculpture
silver-gilt
rhyton (ritual vessel) in shape of a bull's head Mycenaean; 16th century
BCE
Athens, National Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1980
Keywords: Mycenae
onyx
cameo bust of woman wearing stola; Roman; 90-100 CE
straps of stola are
clearly visible
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1999
Keywords: clothing, women
sardonyx
cameo portrait of Claudius with laurel wreath; Roman; 41-50 CE
London,
British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: emperor
sardonyx
cameo portrait of Agrippina the Younger; Roman; 57-59 CE
London, British
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: empress, women, female
power
sardonyx
cameo portrait, possibly Germanicus; Roman; 14-50 CE
London, British
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: Augustan succession
green
basanite bust of Germanicus in military dress, probably made in Egypt (the
cross was carved in his forehead by Christians later); Roman; 14-20
CE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords:
Augustan succession
model
of central Campus Martius in Rome (plastico of fourth century CE city);
modern
viewed from the north. EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1979
model of
Capitoline and imperial fora in Rome (plastico of fourth century CE city);
modern
EUR (Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1979
Campanian
pelike: Greek warrior drags Cassandra from Palladium; c. 330 BCE
London,
British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: vase painting,
Trojan War, mythology
wall
painting: Ajax drags Cassandra from Palladium before eyes of Priam
smaller
version of scene
Pompeii, House of Menander. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1979
Keywords: fresco, Trojan War, mythology
detail,
relief of Domitius Ahenobarbus: taking of the census; end 2nd century
BCE
from Campus Martius, Rome. Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
black-figure
lekythos (oil flask): Circe offers cup to Odysseus; end 5th century
BCE
swine-man in background. Ahtens, National Archaeological Museum. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: mythology, Homer, Odyssey
detail,
white-ground lekythos (oil flask): Charon rows on Styx while Hermes looks
on; Greek
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1999
Keywords: mythology, underworld
detail,
large terracotta funeral amphora with reliefs: Trojan horse. Greek; mid-7th
century BCE
Mykonos, Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1998
Keywords: Trojan War, mythology
detail,
large terracotta funeral amphora with reliefs: Greek warrior slays young
Trojan boy in front of mother. Greek; mid-7th century BCE
similar to
portrayal of slaying of Astyanax by Neoptolemus in front of Andromache. Mykonos,
Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1998
Keywords: Trojan War,
mythology
detail,
large terracotta funeral amphora with reliefs: Greek warrior stabs young
Trojan boy in front of mother. Greek; mid-7th century BCE
Mykonos,
Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1998
Keywords: Trojan War,
mythology
detail,
large terracotta funeral amphora with reliefs: mother attempts to stop Greek
warrior from slaying young Trojan boy. Greek; mid-7th century BCE
Mykonos,
Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1998
Keywords: Trojan War,
mythology
detail,
large terracotta funeral amphora with reliefs: Greek warrior prepares to
stab young Trojan boy in front of mother. Greek; mid-7th century BCE
Mykonos,
Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1998
Keywords: Trojan War,
mythology
drawing
of chariot race in a circus from a Roman mosaic in Barcelona
Credits:
Hermann Bender, Rom und Römisches Leben im Altertum, 2nd ed. (1893), p.
315
Keywords: sport, racing
detail,
white-ground lekythos (oil flask): Charon rows on Styx while Hermes looks
on; Greek
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1999
Keywords: mythology, underworld
neoclassical
garden with statues
Vienna, Schonbrunn Palace. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1992
detail,
bronze sheet with figures:
Orestes stabbing Clytemnestra while Electra
looks on and Aegisthus attempts to flee; Greek, c. 570 BCE
Olympia Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: mythology, Oresteia
drawing
of a funerary procession into a columbarium (deep vaulted crypt which
served as repository of the ashes of members of a Roman family or
guild)
Credits: Albert Kuhn, Roma, fig. 148, p. 139, 1913
Keywords:
funeral, burial, religion
terracotta
figurine of young man and reluctant woman on nuptial couch; Greek, Myrina
(tomb 100 Atelier of Nicostratos); 150-100 BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: erotic, wedding, romance
statue
of Roman matron depicted as Cybele; mid-first century CE
Santa Monica,
Getty Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1989
Keywords: mythology, goddess,
sculpture
Cycladic
female idol; 2400-2100 BCE
Berlin, Antiken Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1992
Keywords: prehistoric, primordial, goddess, sculpture
red-figure
pelike: Deianeira hands poisoned robe to Hercules; Greek, Athens, c. 430
BCE
detail of
central scene
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1999
Keywords: vase painting, mythology, Herakles
tiny Roman
bronze figurine of running dog
London, Museum of London. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1999
Keywords: pets, animals
view
of orchestra of Greek theater at Delphi looking down from top rows of cavea;
ruins of temple of Apollo in background
Delphi. Credits: John McManus,
1998
view
of orchestra of Greek theater at Delphi looking down from side; ruins of
temple of Apollo in background
Delphi. Credits: John McManus, 1998
statue
of Artemis, called "Diana de Gabies"; probably copy of Praxiteles' Artemis
Brauronia, 346-345 BCE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1999
Keywords: mythology, goddess, sculpture
view of
cavea and orchestra of Theater of Dionysus looking down from
Acropolis
Athens. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
view of
cavea and orchestra of Theater of Dionysus on ground level
Athens.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
stone
seat reserved for priest of Dionysus Eleutherios in Theater of
Dionysus
Athens. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
detail
of inscription on stone seat reserved for priest of Dionysus Eleutherios in
Theater of Dionysus
Athens. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
scene
building, orchestra, and cavea of Theater at Epidaurus viewed from ground
level
Epidaurus. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
black-figure
column krater—detail "eye vase" with mask of Dionysus; Athens, late sixth
century BCE
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1982
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
black-figure
vase of Dionysus sailing with dolphins; Greek, attributed to Exekias, c. 530
BCE
Munich, Antiken Sammlung. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
Keywords:
vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
red-figure
vase of Dionysus dancing with torn-apart animal; Greek, 480-460
BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: vase
painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
statue of
youthful Dionysus; Roman copy of Greek marble
London, British Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: sculpture; Bacchus; mythology,
god
statue of
youthful Dionysus; free Roman copy of fourth-century BCE Greek
original
Munich, Glyptothek. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
Keywords:
sculpture; Bacchus; mythology, god
marble
head of young Dionysus with inlaid eyes; Roman, second century CE
London,
British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: sculpture; Bacchus;
mythology, god
marble
head of young Dionysus; Roman
Rome, Capitoline Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 1979
Keywords: sculpture; Bacchus; mythology, god
red-figure
kylix of Dionysus with lyre, Ariadne, Eros; Greek, 400-390 BCE
London,
British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: vase painting;
Bacchus; mythology, god
gold
bulla depicting birth of Dionysus from thigh of Zeus; Etruscan, from a
necklace; 400-350 BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1999
Keywords: jewelry, Bacchus, mythology, god
terracotta
Dionysus holding drinking horn; Attic, early fifth century BCE
London,
British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1986
Keywords: vase painting;
Bacchus; mythology, god
ivory
statuette of Dionysus with lion, "Master of Beasts"; Ionic, early seventh
century BCE
Delphi Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords:
Bacchus; mythology, god
large
mosaic of Dionysus, satyrs, and maenads:
10.57 x 7 meters (1-2 million
tesserae), from oecus on west side of peristyle of third-century
CE Roman villa near modern Cologne
Cologne, Romisch-Germanisches Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988
Keywords: Bacchus; mythology, god
large
phallic pillar outside Dionysus shrine, one of two
Delos. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 1980
Keywords: Bacchus; mythology, god
sarcophagus
with Dionysiac scenes; Roman, c. 230 CE
Paris, Louvre Museum. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords: sculpture, Dionysus, Bacchus, mythology,
god
detail,
red-figure vase, youthful Dionysus with satyr; Greek
Syracuse Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1982
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology,
god
detail,
red-figure vase, bearded Dionysus with silenus; Greek
Syracuse Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 1982
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology,
god
Roman
mosaic depicting triumph of Bacchus in India, chariot pulled by tigers;
second century CE
Madrid, Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1985
Keywords: Dionysus, mythology, god
detail,
red-figure vase, drunken Dionysus supported by satyr, sourrounded by
Maenads; Attic, c. 450 BCE
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 1982
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
detail,
red-figure vase, bearded Dionysus running holding thyrsus and leapard skin;
Pan painterAttic, c. 460 BCE
Agrigento Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
1982
Keywords: vase painting; Bacchus; mythology, god
Veturia
at the Feet of Coriolanus
painting by Gaspare Landi
Florence, Pitti
Palace. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1990
Keywords: historical legend;
mythology; women; Volumnia; Livy
detail
of black-figure cup, Athens, c. 550 BCE
showing birth of Athena from head
of Zeus, with Hephaestus holding axe; signed by Phrynos as potter and attributed
to the Phrynos Painter.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2001
Keywords: Athene, Minerva, Jupiter, Vulcan
marble
head from statue of young woman or goddess, Greek, c. 325-279 BCE
from
Sanctuary of Demeter at Knidos; her hair is secured by a broad band that ties in
the back.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2001
Keywords: religion; Cnidus
model
showing location of Theater of Dionysus and Sanctuary of Dionysus
Eleuthereus;
detail from modern model of Acropolis in late 4th century BCE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: drama;
Athens; Greek theatre
head of
Agrippina the Younger; Roman, Claudian period (41-54 CE);
found with head of
Claudius wearing oak wreath; west slope of the Acropolis.
Athens,
National Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2002
Keywords:
Roman women; empress; emperor; history
top
of bronze equestrian statue of Augustus; detail
of head, Roman, last decade of 1st century BCE
found in Aegean Sea;
depicts Augustus with youthful features wearing a sword and fringed military
cloak (paludamentum). His right had is raised in the adloqutio
gesture, and the ring on his left hand is engraved with the lituus, the
augur's staff that symbolized his position as Pontifex Maximus.
Athens,
National Archaeological Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2002
Keywords:
Octavian; imperial symbolism
chalcedony
cameo of Octavian, Roman, c. 31-27 BCE
shown veiled and wearing laurel
wreath.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords:
Augustus; imperial symbolism
sardonyx
cameo of Claudius, Roman, c. 44-49 CE
shown wearing a laurel wreath and
military garb.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2001
Keywords: imperial symbolism
sardonyx
cameo of Julia Domna [?], Roman, c. 193-217 CE
depicted as the goddess
Luna or Dea Syria driving a chariot pulled by two bulls.
London, British
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: empress; imperial
symbolism
sarcophagus
for a young child, Roman, c. 275-300 CE
Made of Proconnesian marble;
found in Ostia. Boys are shown playing with nuts (see detail).
Translation
of inscription: "To the spirits of the departed and to Lucius Aemilius Daphnus
of the Pomptine [voting tribe]. He lived 4 years and 6 days. Julia Daphne [had
this made] for her dearest son."
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 2001
Keywords: children; family; funerary; games
portrait
statue of veiled priestess, Roman, c. 20-50 CE
Marble statue is based on
images of Livia, wife of Augustus and mother of Tiberius; priestess is heavily
draped in stola and palla and wears a laurel wreath.
London, British Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: women; dress; imperial symbolism
molded
glass medallion (phalera) of Drusus, son of Tiberius, Roman, c. 20-40
CE
The phalera is in its original bronze mounting.
London, British
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: Drusus Minor
molded
glass medallion (phalera) of Germanicus, Roman, c. 20-40 CE
The
phalera has lost its original bronze mounting. Germanicus, brother of
Claudius and husband of Agrippina the Elder, is shown surrounded by the heads of
three of his six children portrayed as infants.
London, British Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: children; family; dynastic
symbolism
fragmentary
bronze military diploma, Roman, dated January 7, 246 CE
This is the
"discharge papers" of a soldier who had served in the Fifth Cohort of the
Praetorian Guard.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2001
Keywords: army
carved
bone portrait of a woman, Roman, c. 100 CE
from the top of a long
hairpin.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1999
Keywords:
women; dress; hairstyle
tiny
terracotta comic figurine, Greek from Knidos, c. 300 BCE
represents
either an actor or a buffoon in the mysteries of Demeter.
London, British
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama; Cnidus
terracotta
comic figurine; detail of
mask, Greek from Myrina, 2nd century BCE
represents a masked actor,
possibly the procurer of New Comedy.
London, British Museum. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama; Cnidus
terracotta
comic figurine, Greek from Athens, c. 330-300 BCE
represents an actor of
New Comedy, probably a traveler or soldier.
London, British Museum. Credits:
Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
terracotta
comic figurine, Greek from Athens, c. 300-150 BCE
represents an actor of
New Comedy.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
terracotta
comic figurine, Greek from Cyrenaica, c. 350 BCE
represents an actor
portraying an old woman.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
terracotta
comic figurine, Greek from Athens, c. 350 BCE
represents an actor
portraying an old woman.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
terracotta
comic figurine, Greek from Athens, c. 350 BCE
represents an actor
portraying a young woman adjusting her himation.
London, British Museum.
Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
terracotta
comic figurine, Greek, late Hellenistic period
represents an actor
portraying a slave.
Athens, Cycladic Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2002
Keywords: comedy; drama
marble
statue of comic actor; detail of
mask, Roman, 1st - 2nd century CE
masked comic actor portraying slave
seeking refuge at altar; found on Caelian hill in Rome.
London, British
Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
marble
relief: visit of Dionysus to dramatic poet; detail
of Dionysus and poet, Roman, 1st century CE
Dionysus, accompanied by
reveling satyrs, visits the home of a dramatic poet, who reclines on a couch
beneath which are several masks. A young slave removes the shoes of the god; a
tripod table can be seen in front of the couch. Relief has a number of
restorations.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus,
2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
marble
relief: poet reads from scroll to Thalia, muse of Comedy; detail,
Roman, 180-200 CE
Phrygian marble, part of front of columnar sarcophagus.
From "Gardens of Pomey" in Rome.
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara
McManus, 2001
Keywords: comedy; drama
high
relief of comic mask, with tragic mask in background, Roman, 2nd century
CE
London, British Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 2001
Keywords:
comedy; drama
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