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Minoan Bull Leaper. Illustration by Ellen Barkin.
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Head of a Funerary Couch in the Form of a Cheetah or Lion, Thebes, Egypt. Tutankhamun Treasure.
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Phallus with wings. Culture: Roman. Place of origin: Italy. Date: 100 B.C.-A.D. 100. Medium: Alabaster, bronze. Collection Science Museum, UK.
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Devil bearing Jesus (Matthew 4:8‘the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them’)
Detail from the missal, France. ca. 1470-75. Collection: Beinecke Rare Book Library, MS 425, fol. 48r
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Photo by Vladimir Sychyov (Moscow, 1970s)
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Snailchicken. Detail from the book of hours, Bruges ca. 1500. Collection: Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.427, fol. 56v.
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Late Medieval heart-shaped gold brooch with twisted bands of blue and white enamelling. Date: c.1400-1464. Inscription on the back ‘Je suy vostre sans de partier’ (I am yours forever). © The Trustees of the British Museum.
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Circe - After Dulac by Tom Bagshaw, 2021. One off hand embellished digital painting on cotton rag stock, mounted on board, varnished and framed. Private Collection.
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The Temple of Edfu in 1849, Egypt.
Dedicated to the deity Horus and located on a hill overlooking the Nile, the spectacular Temple of Edfu is considered to be the best preserved of the Ancient Egyptian shrines.
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The Dying Saint Sebastian (detail),1789 by François-Xavier Fabre.
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Honey bear, seated on his haunches licking his paw. It is made of mottled gray and black stone. Culture: Near Eastern, Mesopotamian, Babylonian. Date: c. 16th century BC. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Mosaic floor depicting a dog and a knocked-over gold vessel. Discovered in 1993 during construction of the new Alexandria Library, Egypt. Now currently in the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria. Width: approx. 70 cm. Date: approx. 200-100 BC.
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Picture of Brünnhilde the cat taken in 1936 by Adolph E. Weidhaas. Credit & Collection: Library of Congress.
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Aztec Calendar Stone, Mexico City, Mexico, circa 1897.
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Diana and Actaeon by Henryk Hector Siemiradzki (Polish, (1843 – 23 1902)
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The heart of Christ viewed through the wound in his side, illustrated in a Book of Hours made in the Netherlands between 1405 and 1413. Credit: Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, by Jack Hartnell.
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Aphrodite Anadyomene. Culture: Greek, Hellenistic Period. Date: 3rd-1st century BC. Credit: Axel Vervoordt from TEFAF Maastricht 2011.
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La Bocca della Verità, Rome (The Mouth of Truth, Rome), 1860s. Photographer: Carlo Baldessari, Simelli Sculpture Study.
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Who is Apollo? (Thread)
1- The ancient Greeks worshipped many gods and goddesses; however, 12 of these are among the most important. Among the 12 Olympian deities that are at the center of Greek mythology and religion is the god Apollo.
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Owl. Detail from the book of hours, Hainaut ca. 1450-60. Collection: Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.267, fol. 179v.
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The cat’s tower besieged by the mice. Detail from the Book of Hours, London ca. 1320-1330. Collection: British Library, Harley 6563, fol. 72r
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Detail from the Spring Fresco - c. 17th c. B.C. Lotus flowers and Kissing Swallows. Discovery Place - Greek Pompeii: Akrotiri on Thera. (Santorini)
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Mythical Beasts of the British and Irish Isles - by NeilParkinsonMakes.
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