Images

Detail of the Chiragan relief depicting Hercules killing the Lernaean Hydra, 2dn/3rd century CE.(MSR, Musée Saint-Raymond, Villa romaine de Chiragan, Musée des Antiques de Toulouse)

Funerary Proto-Attic Amphora with a depiction of the blinding of the cyclops Polyphemus by Odysseus and his companions, 670-660 BCE (Eleusis Museum, Greece).

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)