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The Rampin Rider is an Archaic Period statue.

The Rampin Rider

September 5, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou Ancient Greek ArtArchaeologyTeaching Resources

The Rampin Rider — Athens’ oldest equestrian statue, his archaic smile split between the Louvre and the Acropolis Museum — eternally celebrates aristocratic victory, youth, and athletic glory.

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Amber Plaque with Eros as a Sleeping Child and a poppy capsule, symbol of sleep.

Plaque with Eros as a Sleeping Child

August 26, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou ArchaeologyMythologyRoman ArtTeaching Resources

In amber’s golden warmth, a sleeping Eros finally rests — the unruly god of love momentarily stilled, clutching a poppy, in this exquisite Roman treasure from Trieste.

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Statue of a Priest of Serapis or Julian the Apostate

The Emperor Julian

July 18, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou ArchaeologyEarly Christian ArtRoman ArtTeaching Resources

Julian the Apostate — pagan emperor, philosopher, self-mocking beard-hater — gazes enigmatically from a Musée de Cluny marble statue, his true identity still beautifully, tantalizingly unresolved.

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Lion from a grave monument, Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, Greece

Lion from a Grave Monument in the Canellopoulos Museum

June 8, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou Ancient Greek ArtArchaeologyTeaching Resources

Two marble lions — one intimate, one monumental — guard the memory of ancient Greece’s fallen heroes, where the Battle of Chaeronea forever changed the course of Western civilization.

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Attributed to El Greco - Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Pandora and Epimetheus statues

Pandora and Epimetheus

May 17, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou Renaissance ArtTeaching Resources

El Greco’s rare sculptural Pandora and Epimetheus — elongated, spiritually charged — embody mythology’s most haunting cautionary tale, where divine punishment, human curiosity, and Hope eternally converge.

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Head of Goddess Tyche (Fortune) with a mural crown, the personification of the city of Corinth

Head of Goddess Tyche from Corinth

May 7, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou Ancient Greek ArtRoman ArtTeaching Resources

Corinth’s magnificent marble Tyche — fortune’s goddess crowned with city walls — embodies Rome’s profound belief that divine favour, civic destiny, and human prosperity are eternally intertwined.

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Ancient Greek Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer

The Bronze Hellenistic Dancer at the MET

February 25, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou Ancient Greek ArtArchaeologyTeaching Resources

Veiled in motion, the Bronze Hellenistic Dancer embodies the fleeting poetry of dance—an intimate, sensuous performance capturing Hellenistic grace, emotion, and the allure of movement suspended in time.

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Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Sleeping Eros

December 5, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou Ancient Greek ArtMythologyTeaching Resources

At Sleeping Eros, love is rendered as vulnerable rest rather than force, transforming myth into intimate naturalism where divine desire becomes human, tender, and quietly suspended in sleep.

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Tympanum of the Central Narthex Portal of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Madeleine at Vézelay, Top Left: Sign of Capricorn, Top Right: A seated man holding a cup of wine with the Inscription: OMNIBUS IN MEMBRIS DESIGNAT IMAGO DECEMBRIS

Abbey of Vézelay

November 30, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou French ArtMedieval ArtTeaching Resources

Discover the magnificent tympanum of Vézelay’s Abbey Church — a Romanesque masterpiece blending Christ, the Apostles, zodiac signs, and the peoples of the world in one breathtaking sculpted portal.

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Agias, Son of Aknonios, Daochos Monument (detail), c. 336- 332 BC, Marble, Height: 2.09 m, Delphi Archaeological Museum, Greece

Agias Son of Aknonios

September 12, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou Ancient Greek ArtTeaching Resources

Marvel at Agias of Delphi — a masterpiece from the Daochos Monument, possibly linked to sculptor Lysippos, immortalising a legendary Thessalian pankration champion with restless elegance and timeless athletic nobility.

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