Ancient Assyrian ivory box panel depicting a griffin and sacred tree. Artist unknown; ca. 800 BCE. From Nimrud (in present-day Iraq); now in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
The Lion of Chaeronea
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A blog dedicated to classical antiquity, poetry, and the visual arts. All translations of Greek and Latin are my own unless otherwise noted.