Images

A 19th century CE painting by Edward Burne-Jones depicting Perseus asking help of the three Graeae to find Medusa.

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. From 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)