Greek Things

Ancient Greek Culture in the Islands
Cycladic Idol (male)
2400-2200 BC
marble statuette
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Ancient Greek Culture in Attica
Calyx Krater with Athletes 
500 BC
painted terracotta
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture in South Italy
Altar with Griffin
4th century BC
terracotta with relief
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Ancient Greek Culture
Column Krater
5th century BC
painted terracotta
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Greek Culture in South Italy
Venus and Neptune
3rd century BC
terracotta statuette group
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ancient Greek Culture in Attica
Amphora with Wrestlers
490 BC
painted terracotta
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

Ancient Greek Culture in Attica
Lekythos
375-350 BC
marble with funerary relief
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ancient Greek Culture in South Italy
Oinochoe with Charioteer driving Team
310 BC
painted terracotta
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Ancient Greek Culture
Peplophore
425-400 BC
marble (half life-size)
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Ancient Greek Culture
Column Krater with Bacchantes and Satyrs
470 BC
painted terracotta
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ancient Greek Culture in Egypt
Torso of Aphrodite
2nd century BC
marble statue fragment
Seattle Art Museum

Ancient Greek Culture in Attica
Amphora with Horse and Attendant
520-500 BC
painted terracotta
Menil Collection, Houston

Ancient Greek Culture at Pergamon in Ionia
Draped Woman
150-125 BC
marble statue fragment
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture in Attica
Psykter with Gigantomachy
515-510 BC
painted terracotta
Menil Collection, Houston

Ancient Greek Culture
Goddess
50 BC-AD 20
marble (half life size)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Ancient Greek Culture in South Italy
Volute Krater with Suppliants upon Altar
350 BC
painted terracotta
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Retreating Light

You were like very young children,

always waiting for a story.

And I'd been through it all too many times,

I was tired of telling stories. 

So I gave you the pencil and paper. 

I gave you pens made of reeds

I had gathered myself, afternoons in the dense meadows.

I told you, write your own story.

After all those years of listening

I thought you'd know

what a story was. 

All you could do was weep.

You wanted everything told to you

and nothing thought through yourselves.

Then I realized you couldn't think

with any real boldness or passion;

you hadn't had your own lives yet,

your own tragedies.

So I gave you lives, I gave you tragedies,

because apparently tools alone weren't enough.

You will never know how deeply

it pleases me to see you sitting there

like independent beings,

to see  you dreaming by the open window,

holding the pencil I gave you

until the summer morning disappears into writing.

Creation has brought you

great excitement, as I knew it would,

as it does in the beginning.

And I am free to do as I please now,

to attend to other things, in confidence

you have no need of me anymore.

– Louise Glück (1992)