Images

Cao Cao (d. 220 CE), the Chinese warlord, recites a poem prior to the Battle of Red Cliffs. (Summer Palace Beijing)

A diorite stele with an inscription of Hammurabi's code of laws. Susa, Babylonia, 18th century BCE. Cast of the original now in the Louvre, Paris. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

A krater from Melos with geometric design. By the Rottiers painter, 8th century BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

Hercules capturing Cerberus (Kerberos), the hound of Hades. Detail from a c. 530 BCE Attic black-figure amphora. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

The marble grave stele of an Athenian horseman. Attica, 370s BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

A sandstone grave stelw from Palmyra, Syria. Known as the grave stele of Abkha, daughter of Akhou. 2nd century CE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

The Golenischev Aphrodite. From Alexandria, Egypt, 4th-3rd century BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

A marble stele depicting two Greek warriors. Taman Peninsula, 4th century BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

An oinophoros from Knidos, Greece depicting Hermes. 2nd century CE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

An Etruscan bucchero vase. Second half of the 6th century BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)