Veiled dancer. Terracotta figurine from Myrina, ca. 150 BC–100 BC.
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Classics (also known as Classical Studies or Classical Civilisation) is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity (Bronze Age ca. BC 3000 – Late Antiquity ca. AD 300–600).
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Classics (also known as Classical Studies or Classical Civilisation) is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity (Bronze Age ca. BC 3000 – Late Antiquity ca. AD 300–600).
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Athena wearing the ægis. Sardonyx cameo, late 1st century BC
Armband with Triton holding a Putti, Greek 200 BCE
Country unknown, Roman, Trajanic period
Head of a Woman or Goddess, perhaps Demeter, circa 98-117
Sculpture; Stone, Marble,Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Close-up of some of the carvings on The Portonaccio Sarcophagus. It was the sarcophagus of a high-ranking Roman soldier who served under Marcus Aurelius.
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Archaic funerary sphinx (560–550 BC) wearing a head-band and a crown of leaves, found as a reused element in the Wall of Themistocles in the Kerameikos. Kerameikos Archaeological Museum in Athens, Inv. P1050. H. 63 cm (24 ¾ in.).
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Greek bracelet, first half of the 2nd century
