- Hercules
- Bronze Hermes statue of Herculaneum
- Hestia
- Laocoon
- Mausoleum
- Niobe with her youngest daughter
- Pantheon, seen in section from the inside
- Pilum
- Poseidin
- Signia
- Silenus with little Dionysus, Louvre Museum
- Sistrum
- Temple ruins in Paestum
- Roman temple (maison carrée) in Nîmes
- Floor plan of the theatrum at Herculane
- Groups from Titus' triumphal procession over the Jews (Arch of Titus)
- Theatrum at Aspendus
- Zeus
- Amphitheater
- Natural amphitheater
- Venus
- Apollo
- Arch of Titus
- Ares
- Ariadne from the Vatican
- Wounded lion
[A drawing taken from a bas relief of the royal Assyrian lion hunt] - Women’s Head-dress
Women’s Head-dress - Vase-painting—Ionic Dress
Vase-painting—Ionic Dress - Vase-painting—Dress with two Overfold
Vase-painting—Dress with two Overfold - Vase-painting
Vase-painting - Vase-painting in the Polygnotan Style
Vase-painting in the Polygnotan Style - Vase-painting from Lucania
Vase-painting from Lucania - Vase-painting by Hieron
Vase-painting by Hieron - Vase-painting by Falerii
Vase-painting by Falerii - Vase-painting by Euxitheos
Vase-painting by Euxitheos - Vase-painting by Euphronios
Vase-painting by Euphronios - Vase-painting by Brygos
Vase-painting by Brygos - The Doric Himation
The Doric Himation - The Chlamys and Petasos
The Chlamys and Petasos - Snake Goddess and Votary
The snake goddess and her votary from Knossos have, in addition, a kind of apron reaching almost to the knees in front and behind, and rising to the hips at the sides. The costume is completed by the addition of a high hat or turban. Looking at the snake goddess more in detail, we find that the jacket is cut away into a V-shape from the neck to the waist, leaving both the breasts quite bare; the two edges are laced across below the breast, the laces being fastened in a series of bows. The jacket is covered with an elaborate volute pattern, the apron with spots and bordered with a “guilloche.” - Men’s Head-dress—Archaic
Men’s Head-dress—Archaic - From the François Vase
From the François Vase - Babylonish Coffin and Lid of Green Glazed Pottery
Stone is very rare in Chaldea, and could be brought only at great expense from a distance. Hence all the buildings of earlier ages were built of bricks. o we read of the Tower of Babel, that "they had bricks for stone." The outsides of the buildings were covered with burnt or kiln-dried bricks to keep out the rain. More elaborate specimens of their pottery appear in articles for domestic uses, and especially in their coffins. - The African elephant (Elephas Africanus) with rider mounted on its back
The African elephant (Elephas Africanus) with rider mounted on its back. The drawing is an enlarged representation of an ancient Carthaginian coin. - The Babylonian Cylinder
The Babylonian Cylinder - Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great (silver coin of Lysimachus, 321-281 B.C.) - Sumerian Warriors in Phalanx
Perhaps the earliest people to form real cities in this part of the world, or indeed in any part of the world, were a people of mysterious origin called the Sumerians. They were neither Semites nor Aryans, and whence they came we do not know. Whether they were dark whites of Iberian or Dravidian affinities is less certainly to be denied.[103] They used a kind of writing which they scratched upon clay, and their language has been deciphered. - Serapis
This trinity consisted of the god Serapis (= Osiris + Apis), the goddess Isis (= Hathor, the cow-moon goddess), and the child-god Horus. In one way or another almost every other god was identified with one or other of these three aspects of the one God, even the sun god Mithras of the Persians. - Seleucus I
Tetradrachm with head of Seleucus I - Scythian Types
Scythians ... as portrayed by a Greek artist.... One of the Few Existing Representations of the Ancient Scythians. From a Greek Electrum Vase. - Samnite Warriors
Samnite Warriors (From painted vases) The Romans completely beaten by the Samnites at the battle of the Caudine Forks - Rowers in an Athenian Warship, 400 B.C.
Rowers in an Athenian warship, about 400 B.C. (Fragment of relief found on the Acropolis) - Roman Power after the Samnite Wars
Roman Power after the Samnite Wars - Roman Coin Celebrating the Victory over Pyrrhus
Roman Coin Struck to Commemorate the Victory over Pyrrhus and His Elephants. - Roman As
Roman As (bronze, 4th Cent. B.C.) - Racial Types (after Champollion)
From Egyptian Tomb paintings - Philip of Macedon
When Philip became king of Macedonia in 359 B.C., his country was a little country without a seaport or industries or any considerable city. It had a peasant population, Greek almost in language and ready to be Greek in sympathies, but more purely Nordic in blood than any people to the south of it. Philip made this little barbaric state into a great one; he created the most efficient military organization the world had so far seen, and he had brought most of Greece into one confederacy under his leadership at the time of his death. And his extraordinary quality, his power of thinking out beyond the current ideas of his time, is shown not so much in those matters as in the care with which he had his son trained to carry on the policy he had created. He is one of the few monarchs in history who cared for his successor. Alexander was, as few other monarchs have ever been, a specially educated king; he was educated for empire. Aristotle was but one of the several able tutors his father chose for him. Philip confided his policy to him, and entrusted him with commands and authority by the time he was sixteen. He commanded the cavalry at Chæronea under his father’s eye. He was nursed into power—generously and unsuspiciously. - Pharaoh Rameses III as Osiris (Sarcophagus relief)
Ramses III as Osiris—between the goddesses Nephthys and Isis.... Relief on the cover of the sarcophagus (at Cambridge). After Sharpe. Inscription (round the edges of cover), as far as decipherable. “Osiris, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, lord of the two countries ... son of the Sun, beloved of the gods, lord of diadems, Rameses, prince of Heliopolis, triumphant! Thou art in the condition of a god, thou shalt arise as Usr, there is no enemy to thee, I give to thee triumph among them....” Budge, Catalogue, Egyptian Collection, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.