theancientwayoflife:

~ Shields with a head of Helios.

Culture: Greek

Period: Hellenistic

Date: 310–240 B.C.

Place of origin: Eretria, Euboia, Greece

Medium: Terracotta, gilded and painted

theancientwayoflife:

~ Statuette of Persephone.

Culture: Greek

Date: ca. 340 B.C.

Medium: Marble

aestate-oscula:

theancientworld:

theancientworld:

Bas relief of Atropos, one of the three Moirae, Greek goddesses of fate and destiny, cutting the thread of life.

met-greekroman-art:

Fragment of a terracotta oinochoe, joins 1981.11.9 by Euthymides, Potter, Greek and Roman Art

Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc., Jerome Levy Foundation, and Junior League of Bronxville Gifts, 1983
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Terracotta

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/255772

lionofchaeronea:

Ancient Greek silver phiale depicting the Amazonomachy.  Artist unknown; ca. 430-420 BCE.  Now in the Vassil Bojkov collection, Sofia, Bulgaria.  Photo credit: Gorgonchica/Wikimedia Commons.

jenniedavis:

c. 330- 100 BC

lionofchaeronea:

Ancient Greek kyathos (wine-ladle) depicting a Dionysiac procession with dancing maenads and satyrs.  The inscription above names the potter as Nikosthenes.  Attributed to the N Painter; ca. 530 BCE.  Now in the National Gallery Prague – 

Kinský Palace.  Photo credit: Zde/Wikimedia Commons.

greekromangodsmore:

• Apollo Entertaining Dionysus and Hermes
• Black-Figure Amphora
• Ca. 530–520 BCE
• In the Manner of the Lysippides Painter
• Greek, Athens
• Chrysler Museum of Art

(Facebook: Greek-Roman Gods & More)

thoodleoo:

thoodleoo:

i have to laugh when people say shit like “girls nowadays are so slutty when they wear these shorts and skirts that almost show off their asses” like you’re entitled to your shitty opinion but there are literally tons of ancient greek vases where the dudes are wearing such short tunics that their dicks are actually out so clearly you just don’t know what you’re talking about

listen, plato has been dead for 2000 slutty, slutty years,

manicoreganic:

Panoply Greek Vase Animation Project

http://www.panoply.org.uk