A woman pulls wool from a kalathos (basket). Attic red-figure lekythos by an unknown artist, ca. 480-470 BCE. From Tanagra, Boeotia; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo credit: Marsyas/Wikimedia Commons.
Portrait head of either Gaius (20 BCE-4 CE) or Lucius (17 BCE-2 CE) Caesar. Gaius and Lucius, grandsons of the Emperor Augustus (born to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia), were adopted by Augustus as his joint heirs following the deaths of his previous heirs-designate, Marcellus and Agrippa. Their untimely deaths devastated Augustus and led to his settling on the unhappy choice of his stepson Tiberius as his successor. Found in the National Garden of Athens; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.
A seated goddess before a procession of seahorses. Mycenaean gold ring, artist unknown; 15th cent. BCE. From Tiryns; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo credit: Zde/Wikimedia Commons.
Statuette (Pentelic marble) of a girl dressed in a chiton and holding a bird on her knee. Artist unknown; ca. 340-330 BCE. Found at Athens, on the river Ilissos, near the sanctuary of Eileithyia (goddess of childbirth); now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo credit: George E. Koronaios/Wikimedia Commons.
A scene from the Gigantomachy: Ares and the Dioscuri (above) attack the Giants. Red-figure pelike in the manner of the Pronomos Painter; ca. 400 BCE. Found at Tanagra; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo credit: George E. Koronaios/Wikimedia Commons.
Head (Naxian marble) of a kouros, found near the Dipylon Gate in Athens' Kerameikos. Artist unknown; ca. 600 BCE. Now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
A warrior's helmet crowned with a myrtle wreath. Attic black-figure amphora, artist unknown; ca. 575-550 BCE. Found at Phaleron in Attica; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.
Portrait head (Pentelic marble) of the great Athenian orator Demosthenes. Roman copy after a Hellenistic original (280 BCE) by the sculptor Polyeuktos. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Photo credit: George E. Koronaios/Wikimedia Commons.
The "Kroisos kouros" (Parian marble), so named because, according to the inscription on its base, it stood atop the grave of one Kroisos, who was destroyed by "raging Ares". Artist unknown; ca. 530 BCE. Found at Anavyssos, Attica; stolen and taken to France, then subsequently repatriated (1937); now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo credit: Jerónimo Roure Pérez (Dorieo), Wikimedia Commons (License CC-BY-SA 4.0).
Late Hellenistic sculpture (Parian marble) of a fighting Gaul. Tentatively attributed to the sculptor Agasias; ca. 100 BCE. Found in the Agora of the Italians, Delos; now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Archaic Greek marble kouros from the island of Keos. Artist unknown; ca. 530-520 BCE. Now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo credit: Zde/Wikimedia Commons.
Statue of a man (either an emperor or general) in a Roman military corselet decorated with Selene and two Nereids. Artist unknown; ca. 100-130 CE. Found at Megara; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo credit: DerHexer/Wikimedia Commons.
A woman holding a casket. Attic red-figure alabastron, attr. to the Painter of London E 342; ca. 470-460 BCE. Now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo credit: George E. Koronaios/Wikimedia Commons.
A helmet crowned with a myrtle wreath. Attic black-figure amphora, artist unknown; ca. 575-550 BCE. From Phaleron; now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.
Kouros of Parian marble, from the deme of Myrrhinous (present-day Merenda) in Attica. Artist unknown; ca. 550-530 BCE. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Photo credit: Zde/Wikimedia Commons.
Head of a helmeted warrior, carved from Cycladic marble. Artist unknown; ca. 490 BCE. Found at the western corner of the Propylaea to the Acropolis, Athens; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Portrait head of the Roman emperor Lucius Verus (r. 161-169 CE, jointly with Marcus Aurelius), sculpted from Pentelic marble. Found in Athens; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo credit: Tilemahos Efthimiadis/Wikimedia Commons.