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Hace 3 días · Niobe with her younger daughter. At the beginning of 1583, thirteen sculptures were found in the vineyard belonging to Gabriele and Tomaso Tommasini, located a short distance from St. John in Lateran in Rome, most of which were still in an enviable state of preservation (Nicolai 2020).
Hace 3 días · Already in 1770, the statues of Niobe and her children were among the first sculptures to leave Villa Medici, although some figures, of which existed better replicas in the collections of the Gallery, did not reach the capital of the Grand Duchy until 1788.
Hace 3 días · Heracles, or Hercules, the hero of Greek mythology is faced with the hydra, a seven-headed monster that terrorized the city of Lerna. It is one of the twelve superhuman feats, called the Labours, that Hercules performed to atone for having killed his wife and children in an outburst of anger provoked by the goddess Hera.
Hace 21 horas · The figurines were made near a hearth, and then fired and left there, whereas objects made from bone, ivory and antler were used all over the sites and included in burials. “Not one piece of ...
Hace 3 días · One striking fact about the Macedonians is that they were allegedly descendants of the famous Heracles, also commonly known as Hercules. This legend appears as early as the writings of Herodotus, the first person to write extensively about the history of the ancient Greeks.
Hace 2 días · Heraclitus ( / ˌhɛrəˈklaɪtəs /; Greek: Ἡράκλειτος Herákleitos; fl. c. 500 BC) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on ancient and modern Western philosophy, including through the works of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger .
Hace 4 días · Statue of Hermes wearing the petasos and a voyager's cloak, and carrying the caduceus and a purse. Roman copy after a Greek original (Vatican Museums). Another object is the caduceus, a staff with two intertwined snakes, sometimes crowned with a pair of wings and a sphere.
