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Ancient Artefact of the Day: The 'Pylos Combat Agate' - a simply stunning and beautiful engraved sealstone from the undisturbed Late Helladic II grave of the Griffin Warrior near the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. #AAOTD #BronzeAge

Image: Stocker and Davis (2017) - see end of thread

Ancient Artefact of the Day: The Terme Boxer, or 'Boxer at Rest', a glorious Hellenistic bronze statue that was found on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, in 1885. #AAOTD #TermeBoxer

Image: Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

Ancient Artefact of the Day: The stunning Lucanian Calyx-krater, ca. 400 BC, likely directly depicting the final scene of Euripdes' 'Medea'. The other side of the vase shows Telephos holding the baby Orestes, again a Euripidean scene. #AAOTD

Image: Cleveland Museum of Art 1991.1

This type of scene clearly appealed to the owners of the house, as in the same room they also included a scene of the death of Dirce, as she is tied to a bull.

Ancient Coin of the Day: A Fourth-century tetradrachm of Ephesus; the Obverse shows the typical bee emblem of Ephesus (Melissa), the Reverse the palm and stag, as well as a magistrate's name (Zoilos). #ACOTD

Image: American Numismatic Society (1944.100.46012)

Ancient Artefact of the Day: Perseus frees Andromeda from her fetters: a fresco from the House of the Dioscuri, Pompeii (VI.9.6), probably after a fourth-century Greek original by Nicias. #AAOTD

Image: Naples Archaeological Museum

The Amores continue Ovid's love-affair with love poetry, until he is tempted to leave his elegiac Muse for her 'worthier' tragic sister. This moment from Amores 3.1 was brilliantly drawn for me by @BBeverungWrites and it now hangs on my office wall.

#WorldPoetryDay

Ancient History Quote of the Day: "But it was above all when the senate was assembled in the chamber that the task of steering a course between Scylla and Charybdis presented a continual hazard" (Tacitus, Histories 1.85). #AHQOTD

Image: Henry Fuseli's 'Odysseus' (1794-6)

This ten year thing...

Cravats occurred.

You vs. The Guy she tells you not to worry about...

...the Hercules version.

#Hercules