Olympos village, Karpathos Island, Dodecanese, Greece.
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🇬🇷 Greek women dressed for Easter celebrations, 1920s, original autochrome colour photo
Antikythera Ephebe (Antikythera Youth)
Date: 340—330 B.C.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum
The Ephebe does not correspond to any familiar iconographic model, and there are no known copies of it. He held a spherical object in his right hand, and possibly may have represented Paris presenting the Apple of Discord to Aphrodite, however, since Paris is consistently depicted with a Phrygian cap, other scholars believe it's a beardless, youthful Heracles with the Apple of the Hesperides. It has also been suggested that it is a depiction of Perseus holding the head of the slain Gorgon. It could also be the God Apollo, a "Learned" Hermes holding a caduceus, an athlete holding some sort of prize, etc. The statue could even be the funerary statue of a young man.
The statue is perhaps the work of the famous Greek sculptor Euphranor of Corinth.
Date: 340—330 B.C.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum
The Ephebe does not correspond to any familiar iconographic model, and there are no known copies of it. He held a spherical object in his right hand, and possibly may have represented Paris presenting the Apple of Discord to Aphrodite, however, since Paris is consistently depicted with a Phrygian cap, other scholars believe it's a beardless, youthful Heracles with the Apple of the Hesperides. It has also been suggested that it is a depiction of Perseus holding the head of the slain Gorgon. It could also be the God Apollo, a "Learned" Hermes holding a caduceus, an athlete holding some sort of prize, etc. The statue could even be the funerary statue of a young man.
The statue is perhaps the work of the famous Greek sculptor Euphranor of Corinth.
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Pair of gold armbands.
Greek work. Ca. 200 BC.
New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Greek work. Ca. 200 BC.
New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The famous endangered water buffaloes of the Lake Kerkini among other beautiful wildlife in Serres, Greece.
Fallen warrior sculpture from the Temple of Aphaia, East Pediment. ca. 480 BC. Greek, Early Classical.
This sculpture is believed to represent a fallen Trojan hero, probably Laomedon.
The Greeks idolize heroes who had fallen in war. To die on the battleground is a great honor, and it was depicted with courage and strength in their art. When a hero died, the Greeks believed that they become immortal because they had proved themselves to the gods.
This sculpture is believed to represent a fallen Trojan hero, probably Laomedon.
The Greeks idolize heroes who had fallen in war. To die on the battleground is a great honor, and it was depicted with courage and strength in their art. When a hero died, the Greeks believed that they become immortal because they had proved themselves to the gods.
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