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Dionysos, British Museum
Dionysos, god of wine, can be seen holding a bunch of grapes and crowned with a vine wreath. The statue stands 1.75 metres tall, is made of marble, and dates to the 2nd century CE. It is likely to be a Roman copy of a Greek original dating...
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Chimera, Black-Figure Amphora
The Chimera on black-figured amphora, from southern Etruria, 550-525 BCE.
Photo taken at the "Monsters. Fantastic Creatures of Fear and Myth" exhibition, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome, in 2014.
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Chimera, Corinthian Plate
Corinthian plate with Chimera, 590-575 BCE.
Photo taken at the "Monsters. Fantastic Creatures of Fear and Myth" exhibition, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome in 2014.
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The Lernaean Hydra & Hercules
Hydria (ceramic water container) with Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra (an ancient serpent-like water monster), from Etruria, attributed to the Painter of Aquila, 530-500 BCE. Photo taken at the "Monsters. Fantastic Creatures of Fear and...
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra
Amphora with Heracles (Hercules) and the Lernaean Hydra (an ancient serpent-like water monster), circa 525 BCE, from Etruria (Italy). Photo taken at the "Monsters. Fantastic Creatures of Fear and Myth" exhibition, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme...
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Bellerophon riding Pegasus and the Chimera
Red-figure plate showing Bellerophon riding Pegasus and chasing the Chimera, by the Baltimore painter, second half of the 4th century BCE. (Photo taken at the "Monsters. Fantastic Creatures of Fear and Myth" exhibition, Palazzo Massimo alle...
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Sea Monster Ketos (Cetus)
Mosaic with a ketos (sea monster - Latinized as cetus) found at Caulonia (Monasterace) in the Casa del Drago, 3rd century BCE. Photo taken at the "Monsters. Fantastic Creatures of Fear and Myth" exhibition, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome...
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The Lernaean Hydra, Chiragan Relief
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)
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The Blinding of Polyphemus
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).
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Odysseus blinding the Cyclops
Attic black-figure skyphos depicting Odysseus blinding the sleeping Cyclops Polyphemus, by the Theseus Painter, from Boeotia (Greece), 490-480 BCE. (Altes Museum, Berlin)
