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Historical Archive: Classical Mythology, Achilles to Fortuna This page is alphabetical, not chronological. *Achilles and Ajax playing dice: Exekias, black-figure amphora from Vulci, c.540-30 BCE, Vat 16757. This work has its own page. Achilles (right): Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page. Agamemnon (left): Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page. Achilles and *Ajax playing dice: Exekias, black-figure amphora from Vulci, c.540-30 BCE, Vat 16757. This work has its own page. Ajax drags Cassandra from the Palladion, banded agate intaglio, 3rd-2nd c. BCE Etrusco-Italic, p.c., access courtesy of Hadrien Rambach Amazon(?) parade mask from Nola tomb, bronze, 2nd c., BM 1824,0407.10 Amphion and Zethus tying Dirce to bull: Luigi Pichler, Farnese Bull c.1798-1818, glass intaglio, UCh 1989.5. This work has its own page. Aphrodite and youth, hematite intaglio, 1st-6th c., Kelsey 26086, Bonner 158. Aphrodite has her own page. Apollo riding gryphon, bottom: Augustus of Prima Porta, marble, early 1st c. CE, Vat MV.2290.0.0, which has its own page Apollo, Artemis, hero, satyrs, and Maenads on a woman’s tunic, linen and wool, 4th-5th c. Akhmim, Pushkin 5832 Phaedra and Hippolytos or Aphrodite and *Ares: Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page. Ares has his own page. Ariadne and Bacchus, ivory pyxis, 5th-6th c., Trier? KHM X41, which has its own page Asclepius and Hygeia ivory, 5th c., Liverpool museum Asclepius and Hygeia, late 5th c., VHM, loan from Sion CT. This work has its own page. Asclepius (left): Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page. Athena helping Perseus kill Medusa: mythological sarcophagus end, marble, Pécs-Aranyhegy (Hungary) mid 2nd c., HNM 62.84.1. Athena has her own page. Atlas (telamon), terracotta, 1st c. BCE, fr. Panigai e Monastero, ANAM. For other views see ANAM. Atlas: apse vault mosaic 1260-70, Baptistery of St. John, Florence. This work has its own pages. Auge and Hercules? Alexander casket, Byzantine ivory, prob. 12th c., poss. 6th or 9th c., Darmstadt Kg 54:215a-d, which has its own page Aurora (dawn), banded agate cameo, 13th c. S.Italy, Fitz. CG 752. This work has its own page. Bacchus ivory, 6th c. Egypt, on ambo, Aachen cathedral. Dionysos/Bacchus has his own page.The ambo and cathedral have their own pages. Bellerophon and the Chimaera, architectural sculpture, late 2nd-early 3rd c. Dunapentele (Hungary), HNM 27.1903.1. For details see HNM. Bellerophon? Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page. Caelus/sky: Junius Bassus sarcophagus, c.359, marble, Vat Tesoro 31529.3.1-3, which has its own page Jupiter (as Diana) and *Callisto?, François Boucher 1744, Pushkin Ж 733. For scale see Pushkin. Capricorn: Apostles casket, ivory c.870, BNM MA 174-176, which has its own page. For Capricorn see Zodiac. Brutus, Judas, and *Cassius devoured by Satan: Cappella Strozzi di Mantova, Florence, Nardo di Cione 1354-57, which has its own page Centaur drummer with flautist, copper alloy, Hildesheim, c.1200-1250, HNM 1860.115. Centaurs have their own page. Cerberus: Cappella Strozzi di Mantova, Florence, Nardo di Cione 1354-57, which has its own page priestess with torches of *Ceres at altar of Cybele (Nicomachorum ivory), early 5th c., Cluny Cl.17048. This work has its own page. Charon (center left): Cappella Strozzi di Mantova, Florence, Nardo di Cione 1354-57, which has its own page Chnoubis, chalcedony intaglio, 1st-6th c., BM G173. Lion-headed creatures have their own page. Cupid and Psyche? Shepherd sarcophagus from Catacomb of Praetextatus, marble c.370-400, Vat 31554 (ex 191A). This work has its own page. Cupid has his own page. Demeter? Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page. Diana weather vane, copper sheets, Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1892-94, PMA 1932-30-1. Diana (Artemis) has her own page. Iphigenia, Orestes, and Pylades in Tauris or Ulysses and *Diomedes seizing Palladion, prob. c.1500-50, sardonyx cameo in 16th-c. gold and enamel mount, Florence MA 14468 Dionysos and Ariadne in chariot with centaurs, maenad, panther, satyrs, Silenus. Marble sarcophagus, c.150-200, KM 1981.03.0001. Dionysos/Bacchus has his own page. Dirce tied to bull by Amphion and Zethus: Luigi Pichler, Farnese Bull c.1798-1818, glass intaglio, UCh 1989.5. This work has its own page. Erato: portal sculpture early 13th c., Pisa baptistery, which has its own page, in cathedral complex Eros: scenes of courtly love, ivory mirror back, Paris c.1300-1350, Cluny Cl.401. Eros has his own page. erotes: Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. Erotes have their own page. Eteocles and Polynices, cinerary urn from Villa della Piene, ceramic with gesso and paint, Etruscan c.150 BCE, KM 0000.00.2608 Rape of *Europa, Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page. For Europa see Jupiter. Fortuna: gold pendant with Roman carnelian intaglio from Kirchheim am Ries grave 326, mid-7th c., WLM F70/269 326 (4)