Images

A red-figure vase depicting the earth goddess Gaia giving the baby Erichthonius to Athena. 470-460 BCE. (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich)

A relief depicting Atropos, one of the Fates of Greek mythology, cutting the thread of life.

A red-figure vase depicting the abduction of Europa by Zeus, disguised as a bull. 350-340 BCE.

A red-figure vase depicting Eos or Dawn riding her chariot across the sky. 430-420 BCE. (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich)

Bronze statuette of a dog, part of the Nimrud dogs, a Neo-Assyrian collection of dog figurines found at Nimrud, currently on display in museums at Baghdad, Iraq; Cambridge, England; New York, America, and Melbourne, Australia. Metropolitan...

A scene from a black-figure vase of the Phoenician founder of Thebes Cadmus slaying the dragon which dwelt there. Euboea, 560-550 BCE. (Louvre Museum, Paris)

A scene from a red-figure vase depicting Atalanta holding a spear and Meleager during the Calydonian Boar Hunt of Greek mythology. 400-375 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

A sketch of a scene from a Greek 5th century BCE red-figure vase depicting the slaying of the one-hundred eyed monster Argus Panoptes by Hermes. (British Museum, London)

A scene from a 7th century BCE Cretan jug depicting Ariadne and Theseus. (Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete)

A bird-shaped pestle. Stone, 6000-2000 BCE. Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. Most modern vegetables and cereals were first cultivated around 10,000 years ago. This pestle was made for grinding taro, one of the crops farmers in Papua New...