title: "The School of Athens" by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

artist: Raphael

date: 1511

medium: fresco

source: Stitched together from [link vatican.va]

credit: Stitched together from vatican.va

title: 1786 Bocage Map of Corinthia, Sicyonia and Achaia in Ancient Greece Geographicus - Achaia-white-1793

artist: Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage

date: 1786

dimensions: Size unit=in width=13 height=6

source: Geographicus-source

credit: This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project.

description: This lovely little map of Corinthia, Sicyonia and Achaia, in northern Peloponnesus of ancient greece, was prepared by M. Barbie de Bocage in 1786 for the “Travels of Anarcharsis”. Taken from the early D’Anville map.

title: 1786 Bocage Map of Messenia in Ancient Greece Geographicus - Messemoa-white-1793

artist: Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage

date: 1786

dimensions: Size unit=in width=9 height=8

source: Geographicus-source

credit: This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project.

description: This lovely little map of Messenia, in the southeast of ancient greece, was prepared by M. Barbie de Bocage in 1786 for the “Travels of Anarcharsis”. Follows the earlier D’ Anville map. This peninsula and gulf just south of Arcadia and west of Laconia, was generally dominated by Sparta, its more powerful neighbor to the east.

title: GILLIES(1825) A history of Ancient Greece

artist: unknown

date: 1825

source: Image extracted from page 011 of ''A history of ancient greece ... Part the second ... A new edition, with corrections and additions'', by GILLIES, John. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied [link from Flickr]. ''Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.'' Mechanical Curator image

credit: This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.

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title: Mosaïque de Dionysos

artist:

date: 2^nd century BC

source: from ''Le Musée absolu'', Phaidon, 10-2012

credit: from Le Musée absolu, Phaidon, 10-2012

description: Central panel from a tesselated floor of a Roman villa depicting Dionysos with fruit and ivy in his hair, second half 2nd Century AD, Archaeological Museum of ancient Corinth, greece. 2.6 x 2.6 m.

title: Kylix (Ancient Greece - Etruria), ca. 440 BC

artist:

date: circa 440 BC

medium: glazed terra-cotta

dimensions: H x W x D: 10 x 32.5 x 26.3 cm (3 15/16 x 12 13/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

current location: Institution:Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

source: [link Catalog] [link Photo]

credit: Catalog Photo

title: Kylix (Ancient Greece - Etruria), ca. 440 BC

artist:

date: circa 440 BC

medium: glazed terra-cotta

dimensions: H x W x D: 10 x 32.5 x 26.3 cm (3 15/16 x 12 13/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

current location: Institution:Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

source: [link Catalog] [link Photo]

credit: Catalog Photo

title: Centaur mosaic Google Art Project retouched.

artist:

date: (120 - 130)

dimensions: w915 x h585 cm

current location: Altes Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

credit:

SwHAQhNGz6l7_Q at Google Cultural Institute zoom level scaled

title: Centaur mosaic Google Art Project - CropFrame - Plus1ev

artist:

date: (120 - 130)

dimensions: w915 x h585 cm

current location: Altes Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

credit: SwHAQhNGz6l7_Q at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level