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Perseus, aided by Athena, slays the Gorgon Medusa
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Metope from Temple E at Selinus in western Sicily 560-550 bce
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Perseus Liberates Andromeda
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Fresco. House of the Dioscuri. Pompeii. 70 bce
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The ramp on the east side of the acropolis of Tiryns leading to the main entrance.
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The Cyclopean walls which surround the citadel have a total perimeter of approximately 700 m (2,300 ft) and a width between 4.5 and 8 m (26 ft).
The building of the fortifications began during the 14th century bce and was completed at the end of the 13th century (Late Helladic IIIB period).
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The highest of the Five Peaks of the Taygetus
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The Pyramidal Peak of the Prophet Elias
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View of the Eurotas from the Menelaion
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The modern town of Sparta is in the distance.
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Aerial View of Mycenae
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Aerial View of Tiryns
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The Citadel of Midea
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View looking out over the plain of the Argolid
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Heracles strangling the snakes. Iphicles is jumping up into Alcmene's arms; Athena is watching on the left; Ampitryon raises his had in alarm on the right.
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Attic red figure stamnos 480-470 bce
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Gustav Moreau, Heracles and the Daughters of Thespius
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Moreau worked on this piece, which never left his studio, intermittently for forty years, from 1858 to 1898.
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Map showing the location of the Taphians (= Echinades Islands)
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In the first book of the Odyssey, Athena disguises herself before Telemachus as Mentes, son of the king of the Taphians, and claims she is on a voyage to trade iron for copper. In Book 15, the serving woman who kidnapped Eumaeus had herself been kidnapped by Taphian pirates. And in Book 16, Penelope reproaches Antinous for his failure to remember how Odysseus defended him before the people, who were angry with him for having gone with some Taphian pirates to plunder the Thesprotians.
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Heracles, in the presence of Athena, welcomes his son Hyllus presented to him by Deianara.
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Attic red figure Pelike 480 bce Louvre G229
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