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the gods on Olympus

Zeus hurling a thunderbolt, bronze statuette from Dodona, Greece, early 5th century bc; in the Collection of Classical Antiquities, National Museums in Berlin.

Broken marble columns and stone bases stand on a large paved area at the Sanctuary of Eleusis, Greece, with green hills and scattered trees in the background.

Athena Parthenos

Delphi: theatre and Temple of Zeus

Aphrodite and Eros, gilt bronze mirror with incised design, Greek, 4th century bce; in the Louvre, Paris.

Exekias: Greek amphora depicting Achilles slaying Penthesilea

Electra and Orestes killing Aegisthus

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Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.

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