Images

Attic black-figure skyphos depicting Odysseus blinding the sleeping Cyclops Polyphemus, by the Theseus Painter, from Boeotia (Greece), 490-480 BCE. (Altes Museum, Berlin)

The blinding of Polyphemus, cast reconstruction of the sculpture group from the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga (Italy) and dating from the 1st century CE.

A funerary statue of a siren, 370 BCE. The Greek mythical creature holds the soundbox of a lyre made from a tortoise shell. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

A red-figure bell-krater depicting the hero Achilles and the Amazon Penthesileia. 5th century BCE. (National Archaeological Museum of Spain)

Portrait of Pompey the Great, Augustean copy of a 70-60 BCE original (Venice National Archaeological Museum).

Portrait of Pompey the Great, c. 30—50 CE (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen).

Portrait of young Caracalla, from Rome, c. 203-204 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Roman emperor Tiberius and his mother Livia, CE 14-19, from Paestum. (National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid)

Portrait of Roman Emperor Tiberius (reigned 18 September 14 CE – 16 March 37 CE) in Altes Museum, Berlin.

Seated statue of Tiberius, 41-54 CE, from Privernum. (Chiaramonti Museum, Vatican Museums) The sculpture dates after 37 CE, the year in which the emperor died, and together with other imperial portraits, was part of an iconic cycle set up...