EditorialLeander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont. Drawing. Pen and brown ink, watercolor, gray wash and red chalk with scraping out; verso: graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper. Height...
EditorialLeander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont. Drawing. Pen and brown ink, watercolor, gray wash and red chalk with scraping out; verso: graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper. Height...
EditorialThe king of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, Xerxes I (519-465 BC), in 483 BC (Second Persian invasion of Greece) built The Xerxes Canal, navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula, northern Greece. The rough sea broke it apart. Fru...
EditorialHonorary decree for the proxenoi (consul) of Abydos. The Athenians honor the proxenoi of Abydos, a city on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont. On the relief, Athena with an eagle on her lap, a symbol of Abydos, converses with a representative of the p...
EditorialHelle reaching for her brother Phrixus on his flying golden ram trying after falling off into Hellespont (now the Dardanelles). Dolphins caper alongside. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano...
EditorialThe king of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, Xerxes I (519-465 BC), in 483 BC (Second Persian invasion of Greece) built The Xerxes Canal, navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula, northern Greece. The rough sea broke it apart. Fru...
EditorialHonorary decree for the proxenoi (consul) of Abydos. The Athenians honor the proxenoi of Abydos, a city on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont. On the relief, Athena with an eagle on her lap, a symbol of Abydos, converses with a representative of the p...
EditorialLeander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont. Drawing. Pen and brown ink, watercolor, gray wash and red chalk with scraping out; verso: graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper. Height...
EditorialHonorary decree for the proxenoi (consul) of Abydos. The Athenians honor the proxenoi of Abydos, a city on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont. On the relief, Athena with an eagle on her lap, a symbol of Abydos, converses with a representative of the p...
EditorialHelle reaching for her brother Phrixus on his flying golden ram trying after falling off into Hellespont (now the Dardanelles). Dolphins caper alongside. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano...
EditorialThe king of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, Xerxes I (519-465 BC), in 483 BC (Second Persian invasion of Greece) built The Xerxes Canal, navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula, northern Greece. The rough sea broke it apart. Fru...
EditorialLeander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont. Drawing. Pen and brown ink, watercolor, gray wash and red chalk with scraping out; verso: graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper. Height...
EditorialHonorary decree for the proxenoi (consul) of Abydos. The Athenians honor the proxenoi of Abydos, a city on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont. On the relief, Athena with an eagle on her lap, a symbol of Abydos, converses with a representative of the p...
EditorialHelle reaching for her brother Phrixus on his flying golden ram trying after falling off into Hellespont (now the Dardanelles). Dolphins caper alongside. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano...