Keeping up with Classoc

Couples dance to the sound of the aulos (double flute).  Neck of a proto-Attic loutrophoros, attributed to the Analatos Painter; ca. 690 BCE.  Now in the Louvre.  Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons.

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Juno, entering the Underworld in book iv of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (trans. A. D. Melville). (via flores-et-dracones)

A youthful portrait of the emperor Commodus (r. 180-192 CE).  Artist unknown.  Now in the Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne.

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From the 3rd century C.E. and framed with a modern mosaic from the 18th century.

Head of a boy, Hellenistic, probably made by Lysippos (Greek, c. 365-c. 310 B.C.)

San Antonio Museum of Art

A musician helps a drunken banqueter walk home. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, attributed to the Pedieus Painter; ca. 510 BCE.  Now in the Louvre.

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