The World as known to its first historian
Grecian
Insurgent Captives Brought Before Darius
Two Cretan Vases
They crashed into the Persian army with tremendous force
With an effort he looked at them as they passed
Yea, verily, thou art Odysseus
The Wind-god sent a gust from the South
The multitude saluted him with loud acclamations
Sweet, piercing sweet was the music of Pan’s pipe
The figure of the goddess was a colossal one
Ship dashed against ship, till the Persian dead strewed the deep ‘like flowers,’
Solon, the wise lawgiver of Athens
Often she would stand upon the walls of Troy
She changed her into a spider
He stood silent before the king
In the earliest times, a simple foot-race was the only event
Map of Greece
He left the assembly, hiding his face in his cloak
He ran toward the horse and seized the bridle
He became a target for every arrow
He drank the contents as though it were a draught of wine
Demeter rejoiced for her daughter was by her side
For two days and two nights the boat was tossed hither and thither
Ancient Greek
The Peplos
Peasants (600 - 146 BC)
The Himation, 600-146 B.C.
The Kolobus, 400-146 B. C.
The Crinkled Chiton and the Clamys (left) and the Chiton (right)
The Chiton
The Age of Pericles and down to the year 338 B
Hairdressing and Head-dresses 600 BC - 146 BC
The Himtation. A garment worn in Greece and Rome between 550 B.C. and 300 A.D.
The Doric Chiton
The Crinkled Ionic Chiton
The Ionic Chiton
Greek costume of the Classic Period
Reducing Dislocated Shoulder
Reducing Dislocated Jaw
Painting of fish on plates
Paintings of fish on plates
Lioness and young, from an Ionian vase of the sixth century B. C
Illustrating Galen’s physiological teaching
Achilles bandaging Patroclus,
A Greek Clinic of 400 BC
Greek Dancing Girl
A Goddess
Men's Hairstyles - Classic Greece
Hippocrates of Cos
Hippocrates of Cos
Plato (from an ancient gem)
The Gěrănŏs from a vase in the Museo Borbonico, Naples
Panathenaeac dance, about the 4th century B.C
Dancing Bacchante
Greek figures in a solemn dance. From a vase at Berlin
Double Pipes
Greek merchant ship
Greek war galley
A diaulos