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Tag Archives: 2nd Century
2nd Century: Dodecahedron
The following entry appears in the 1849 catalog of the miscellaneous collections of the Society of Antiquaries of London: A singular object of bronze, in form of a hollow dodecahedron…with a ball attached to each angle; each of its pentagonal … Continue reading
170 AD: Memnon
Portrait of Memnon: Greek, c. 170 AD Memnon was the pupil, protégé, and adopted son of Herodes Atticus, a Greek aristocrat and sophist who served as a senator of the Roman Empire. He was named after the mythological Ethiopian king … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Century, Africa, Ethiopia, Greece, Mythology, Portraits, Sculpture
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100 AD: Leucippus
Galatea, daughter of Eurytius, who was son of Sparton, married at Phaestus in Crete Pandion’s son, Lamprus, a man of good family but without means. When Galatea became pregnant, Lamprus prayed to have a son and said plainly to his … Continue reading
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2nd Century AD: I Was Trained to Run Boldly through Strange Forests
A 1st or 2nd century Roman epitaph for a pet dog named Margarita (“Pearl”), written from the point of view of the deceased: [G]ALLIA · ME · GENVIT · NOMEN · MIHI · DIVITIS · VNDAE CONCHA · DEDIT · … Continue reading
1922: Hercules
John Singer Sargent: Hercules and the Hydra (1922-1925) (source) After the goddess Hera makes Hercules lose his mind and murder his own wife and children, he prays to Apollo for guidance and it told by the god’s oracle to atone … Continue reading
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3rd Century AD: A Slave Rebellion on Chios
Athenaeus of Naucratis relates the story of a slave revolt in an early 3rd-century Greek work called the Deipnosophistae. It takes place on the Greek island of Chios, close to what is now Turkey. Athenaeus first explains that, unlike other … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Century, 3rd Century, Art, Athenaeus of Naucratis, Greece, Labor, Lysippus, Rebellion, Rome, Scopas, Sculpture, Slavery
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