Four lively terracotta Cupids from a Hellenistic tomb at Gortyn reveal how Eros could represent not only love and play, but also eternal sleep.
The Epiphany of Dionysus Mosaic in Delos
Delos’s breathtaking Epiphany of Dionysus — ivy-crowned, winged, tiger-mounted — captures antiquity’s most electrifying god in one million tiny tesserae of pure Hellenistic genius.