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What can ancient coins teach us? Aside from valuab What can ancient coins teach us? Aside from valuable information about the economy of the ancient world like the weights and measures that were used, the iconography of the coins can also help us identify some unknown busts. In other cases, they tell us what lost buildings and statues looked like. In the next few posts we will be exploring some examples! The first example is an silver tetradrachm from Ashkalon which shows the head of Cleopatra looking right on the obverse. It is dated to 50 BC. On the right is a picture of the head of Cleopatra at the Altes Museum dated to between 51 and 38 BC. If you compare the two images, you can see similarities in the the facial structures and the nose of the women. #history #ancienthistory #greece #greek #archaeology #archaeological #greece #egypt #ancientegypt #hellenistc #hellenistichistory #hellenistic #numismatics #ancientgreece #cleopatra #cleopatraVII
A marble Roman copy of a Greek original of the pla A marble Roman copy of a Greek original of the playwright Euripides. He (480-406 BC) was one of the three great tragic poets of ancient Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles. He portrayed his main characters as ordinary people, whose misfortune was the result of extraordinary circumstances. The women in his plays are independent-minded and sometimes revolutionary. Famous tragedies by his hand are the Medea, Iphigenia in Tauris and the Bacchae. #hellenistichero #hellenisticheroshowdown #hellenisticgreece #athens #euripides #tragedy #greekpoetry #hellenistic #hellenisticperiod #hellenisticathens #play #greek #history #hellenisticage #macedonia #archaeology #archaeological #athens #acropolis #dionysia.
This statue of Aphrodite, known as the "Venus of A This statue of Aphrodite, known as the "Venus of Arles", dated to the period of Emperor Augustus, 27 BC - 14 AD. It was discovered in prices in the ancient theater of Arles in France. This Venus was given to Louis XIV for the Palace of Versailles. François Girardon, the king's sculptor, definitively turned her into the goddess of love by giving her as attributes the apple in her right hand and the handle of a mirror in the left, thus referring to the victory won by the goddess at the Judgment of Paris. This type of work, known through other replicas, could be a Roman reproduction of the Aphrodite of Thespies (in Beotia, central Greece) made around 360 B.C. to the sculptor Praxiteles based on the courtesan Phryne. #greekstatue #hellenisticgram #hellenistichistory #archaeology #archaeologist #archaeological #history #greece #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #ancientgreek #athens #ancientathens #greeksculpture #statue #venus #france #aphrodite #arles #arlons #versailles
This is a female figure made from pentelic marble This is a female figure made from pentelic marble was found in Piraeus and represents Persephone. She was made around 420 BC by the famous sculptor Agoracritos of Paros. #greece #greek #athens #greekstatue #hellenisticgram #hellenistichistory #archaeology #archaeologist #archaeological #history #greece #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #ancientgreek #athens #ancientathens #greeksculpture #statue #persephone #greekmythology #greekreligion
The so-called jockey of Artemision, displayed at t The so-called jockey of Artemision, displayed at the archaeological museum in Athens, is a rare example of a surviving Hellenistic bronze statue and is dated around 150 BC. The cast of the race horse - an unusual choice of subject in Hellenistic sculpture - was found in an ancient ship wreck in the bay of Artimision by two fishermen at the start of the 20th century. Some parts of the horse have been restored and an image of Nike holding a wreath in her raised hands, a common brand for thoroughbreds in antiquity, is engraved on the animal's right thigh. Mounted on the horse is a small boy wearing a chiton, creating clear contrast between the huge horse and the small boy. Most bronze statues were destroyed to reuse the metal for other purposes. Most bronze statues were created through the lost-wax technique: a core the size of the designed figure was made, then coated in wax and the details sculpted before being covered in another layer made of clay. The wax was melted down and molten bronze replaced the wax, when everything was set the clay was removed and a bronze cast was left behind. #bronze #bronzesculpture #hellenistic #hellenisticsculpture #hellenistichistory #history #ancienthistory #greece #greek #hellenisticart #hellenisticarchaeology #archaeological #archaeologist #hellenisticgreece #hellenisticgreek #hellenisticperiod #greek #greece #athens #museum
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