Grecian Marbles

Ancient Greek Culture
Bust of Antinoüs
AD 130-140
marble
(excavated in the Peloponnese)
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Ancient Greek Culture
Herm of Hercules
2nd century BC
marble
(excavated at Pergamon)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Acroteric Figure of Athena
175-150 BC
marble
(from the Pergamon Altar)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Acroteric Figure of Poseidon
175-150 BC
marble
(from the Pergamon Altar)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Cult Statue of Athena flanked by Figure of Victory and Warrior
50-25 BC
marble relief
(imitating archaic style)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Alexander the Great
2nd century BC
marble fragment
Skulpturensammlung (Albertina), Dresden

Ancient Greek Culture
Draped Woman
175-150 BC
marble
(excavated at Pergamon)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Enthroned Goddess
480-470 BC
marble
(excavated at Taranto in South Italy)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Draped Woman
170 BC
marble
(excavated at Pergamon)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Torso of Asklepios
2nd century AD
marble
(excavated at Pergamon)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Torso of Dionysus
430-420 BC
marble
(excavated in Ionia)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Torso of Kore
6th century BC
marble
(excavated at Pergamon)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Torso of Kouros
550-540 BC
marble
(excavated on Naxos)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ancient Greek Culture
Votive Relief - Offering to Artemis
329 BC
marble
(excavated at Piraeus)
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

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Votive Relief - Victorious Athlete
(crowning self with missing wreath)
460 BC
marble
(excavated in Sounion)
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Ancient Greek Culture
Votive Relief - Victory in Chariot Race
400-390 BC
marble
(excavated in Attica)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

The Athenians, afflicted with the disease, and with the war now on foot and at the hottest, thought it a dangerous matter that Lesbos, which had a navy and was of strength entire, should thus be added to the rest of their enemies, and at first received not the accusations, holding them therefore the rather feigned because they would not have them true.  But after, when they had sent ambassadors to Mytilene [principal city of Lesbos] and could not persuade them to dissolve themselves and undo their preparation, they then feared the worst and would have prevented them, and to that purpose suddenly sent out the forty galleys made ready for Peloponnesus with Cleїppedes and two other commanders.  For they had been advertised that there was a holiday of Apollo Maloeis to be kept without the city and that to the celebration thereof the Mytilenaeans were accustomed to come all out of the town, and they hoped, making haste, to take them there unawares.  And if the attempt succeeded, it was well; if not, they might command the Mytilenaeans to deliver up their galleys and to demolish their walls; or they might make war against them if they refused.  So these galley went their way.  And ten galleys of Mytilene which then chanced to be at Athens, by virtue of their league to aid them, the Athenians stayed and cast into prison the men that were in them.  In the meantime a certain man went from Athens into Euboea by sea and then by land to Geraestus and, finding there a ship ready to put off, having the wind favourable, arrived in Mytilene three days after he set forth from Athens and gave them notice of the coming of the fleet.  Hereupon they not only went not out to Maloeis, as was expected, but also stopped the gaps of their walls and ports, where they were left unfinished and placed guards to defend them. 

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)