Greek Heads

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of a Woman
540- 530 BC
marble
(excavated at Miletus in Ionia)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of Hermes
450 BC
marble
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of Dionysus
350-300 BC
marble
(excavated in Athens)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of a Woman
350-325 BC
marble
(excavated in Arcadia)
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of Alexander the Great (front)
3rd century BC
marble
(excavated in Alexandria)
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of Alexander the Great (side)
3rd century BC
marble
(excavated in Alexandria)
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of Berenice II, Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt
230 BC
marble
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of Hellenistic Ruler
3rd century BC
marble
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of Hellenistic Ruler
200-170 BC
marble
(excavated at Pergamon)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of Artemis
190-180 BC
marble
(fragment of colossal cult statue
originally housed within an Arcadian temple)
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of the Titan Anytos
190-180 BC
marble
(fragment of colossal cult statue
originally housed within an Arcadian temple)
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of Zeus
150 BC
marble
(colossal statue fragment excavated in Aigera)
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of a Man
150 BC
marble
(statue fragment excavated at Pergamon)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of a Woman
125-100 BC
marble
(excavated at Pergamon)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of Dionysus
AD 95-105
marble
(colossal statue fragment excavated in Ionia)
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of a Man
AD 350-400
marble
(excavated in Athens)
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

[Danaus returns from the city]

Danaus:  Take courage, children: all is well so far as the natives are concerned.  A most decisive decree has been passed by the people.

Chorus:  Welcome, old father, you bring me splendid news.  Tell us what the final decision is that has been reached, and in what direction the majority of the people's sovereign vote went. 

Danaus:  The Argives have resolved, with no divided voice, but in such a way that my aged heart felt young again – for the air bristled with their aptly named right hands as the entire people ratified this proposal – that we shall have the right of residence in this land of freedom, with asylum and protection from seizure by any person; that no one, whether inhabitant or foreigner, may lay hands upon us; and that if force be applied, whoever among these citizens fails to come to our aid shall lose his civic rights and be driven into exile from the community.  The king of the Pelasgians persuaded them to make this decision by delivering a speech about us, in which he declared how great could be the wrath of Zeus god of suppliants, who might at a future time bring it heavily to bear against the city, and saying that the double pollution, in relation both to foreigners and to citizens, which the city would be bringing into being, would be an irremediable breeder of grief.  Hearing this, the Argive people resolved, without waiting to be called, that the motion should be carried.  The Pelasgian people had heard and obeyed the guidance* of the orator, and Zeus had brought about the decisive outcome.

[Danaus goes up to the shrine and again begins to keep a lookout, this time towards the sea] 

– Aeschylus, from Suppliants (ca. 470-460 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)

*literally "turning" – the people are compared to a horse turning in obedience to the rein