EditorialRelief in honour of Euripides. The poet, with long hair and a thick beard, is seated in a chair and hands a mask of Heracles to a young woman. Behind Euripides another tragic mask and a statue of Dyonisos. Marble from Smirna, late Hellenistic, H: 60 cm...
EditorialAncient musical instruments and masks. A Greek barbiton or harp (1), a mask of Hercules furens of Euripides (2), a mask of Thais from Terence's play of the Eunochs (3), lyre player from volume 4, plate 42 of the Herculaneum paintings (4) and lyres from...
EditorialHippolyte with a hunting companion, Phaedra with her nurse (right). Phaedra entrusts the nurse with a message declaring her love, her stepson Hyppolite refuses her advances. Greek myth and play by Euripides. Cameo, 4,1 x 3 cm Inv. 25834.
EditorialAlkmene, sitting on a rock between Zeus and Hermes; a scene from Euripides' tragedy " Alkmene". Crater of Sicilian production, painted by a vasepainter in the style of the painter of Hekate.350-340 BCE.
EditorialEuripides (480-406 BC). Was a tragedian of classical Athens. Bust. Roman copy of a Greek original (270 BC). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.
EditorialMoulourian Rock between Athens and Corinth, Greece. From this rock Ino, wife of Athamas, jumped into the sea with her son Melikertes, who was saved by a dolphin. Ino was transformed into the sea-goddess Leukothea. (Euripides, " Ino") .
EditorialPerhaps this is the moment Iphigenia recognizes Orestes in Euripides' "Iphigenia in Aulis"? The painting shows a pensive Orestes, his sister Iphigenia, his friend Pylades, King Thoas and a chorus of young and old women. Behind them is a statue of Diana...
EditorialFemale dancer in voluminous robes performing the third action (turn of the head) in the Bacchic dance of Euripides. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.
EditorialHippolyte with a hunting companion, Phaedra with her nurse (right). Phaedra entrusts the nurse with a message declaring her love, her stepson Hyppolite refuses her advances. Greek myth and play by Euripides. Cameo, 4,1 x 3 cm Inv. 25834.
EditorialRelief in honour of Euripides. The poet, with long hair and a thick beard, is seated in a chair and hands a mask of Heracles to a young woman. Behind Euripides another tragic mask and a statue of Dyonisos. Marble from Smirna, late Hellenistic, H: 60 cm...
EditorialAlkmene, sitting on a rock between Zeus and Hermes; a scene from Euripides' tragedy " Alkmene". Crater of Sicilian production, painted by a vasepainter in the style of the painter of Hekate.350-340 BCE.
EditorialEuripides (480-406 BC). Was a tragedian of classical Athens. Bust. Roman copy of a Greek original (270 BC). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.
EditorialPerhaps this is the moment Iphigenia recognizes Orestes in Euripides' "Iphigenia in Aulis"? The painting shows a pensive Orestes, his sister Iphigenia, his friend Pylades, King Thoas and a chorus of young and old women. Behind them is a statue of Diana...
EditorialEuripides (480-406). Was one of the three great tragedians of Classical Athens. Bust contemporary of Euripides. Athens. Central Greece. Attica. Europe.
EditorialThe Sacrifice of Polyxena, Oil on canvas, 77 3/4 x 88 in. (197.5 x 223.5 cm), Paintings, Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Italian, Viterbo ca. 1610?1662 Viterbo), Polyxena was the youngest daughter of Priam, King of Troy. According to a Greek tragedy by E...
EditorialFemale dancer in voluminous robes performing the third action (turn of the head) in the Bacchic dance of Euripides. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.
EditorialAncient musical instruments and masks. A Greek barbiton or harp (1), a mask of Hercules furens of Euripides (2), a mask of Thais from Terence's play of the Eunochs (3), lyre player from volume 4, plate 42 of the Herculaneum paintings (4) and lyres from...
EditorialPerhaps this is the moment Iphigenia recognizes Orestes in Euripides' "Iphigenia in Aulis"? The painting shows a pensive Orestes, his sister Iphigenia, his friend Pylades, King Thoas and a chorus of young and old women. Behind them is a statue of Diana...
EditorialEuripides (480-406 BC). Was a tragedian of classical Athens. Bust. Roman copy of a Greek original (270 BC). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.
EditorialEuripides (480-406). Was one of the three great tragedians of Classical Athens. Bust contemporary of Euripides. Athens. Central Greece. Attica. Europe.
EditorialPolyxena, daughter of Priamos, king of Troy, is sacrificed in atonement to the spirit of the dead Achilles. Myth, also drama by Euripides. Canvas, 55,5 x 96,5 cm INV. 564.
EditorialHippolyte with a hunting companion, Phaedra with her nurse (right). Phaedra entrusts the nurse with a message declaring her love, her stepson Hyppolite refuses her advances. Greek myth and play by Euripides. Cameo, 4,1 x 3 cm Inv. 25834.
EditorialRelief in honour of Euripides. The poet, with long hair and a thick beard, is seated in a chair and hands a mask of Heracles to a young woman. Behind Euripides another tragic mask and a statue of Dyonisos. Marble from Smirna, late Hellenistic, H: 60 cm...
EditorialAlkmene, sitting on a rock between Zeus and Hermes; a scene from Euripides' tragedy " Alkmene". Crater of Sicilian production, painted by a vasepainter in the style of the painter of Hekate.350-340 BCE.
EditorialMoulourian Rock between Athens and Corinth, Greece. From this rock Ino, wife of Athamas, jumped into the sea with her son Melikertes, who was saved by a dolphin. Ino was transformed into the sea-goddess Leukothea. (Euripides, " Ino") .