Ancient Greece refers to the civilization that flourished in the Mediterranean from roughly the early first millennium BCE until the rise of Roman dominance. Greek culture had a lasting influence on art, philosophy, politics, and architecture, and its material remains continue to shape our understanding of the classical world.
This semicylindrical marble altar drum or base brings together architecture, ritual, and divine imagery in a single carefully composed object. Carved in high relief, it shows a solemn procession of draped gods and heroes moving across its curved surface.
High in the mountains of Arcadia, far from the great urban centers of classical Greece, the Bassai Frieze once unfolded inside the Temple of Apollo Epikourios as a ring of marble violence, heroism, and divine order.
This marble sculpture presents Hecate in one of her most distinctive ancient forms: not as a single standing goddess, but as three joined female figures arranged around a central axis.
Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, sits on an elevated chair with his hand resting on the head of a serpent, while Hygieia stands before him preparing a libation.
The so-called Wounded Amazon from Écija is a Roman copy of a Classical Greek prototype, showing a female warrior leaning wearily against a support, her body marked by injury yet composed with striking calm.
This fragmentary marble statuette represents Aphrodite, known to the Romans as Venus, in a semi-nude form that remained deeply influential across the ancient Mediterranean.
Seated on a throne and holding a feline companion, Cybele appears not as an ordinary woman but as a divine presence marked by authority, protection, and command over the natural world.
The figure is a so-called Phi-type, named after the resemblance of its silhouette to the Greek letter Φ, and it offers a revealing glimpse into how femininity, care, and cult practice could be expressed in the Mycenaean world.
This ceramic plank idol was made in Boeotia in the middle of the 6th century BC, though its type reaches back to traditions formed after the middle of the 7th century BC.