Resurrected in Stone; Ancient Greek Sculpture with a Coin

12/09/2025

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12/09/2025

Zeus and a coin of him.

12/03/2025

12/02/2025

Aristotle: Aristotle[A] (Attic Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.

Little is known about Aristotle's life. He was born in the city of Stagira in northern Greece during the Classical period. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. At around eighteen years old, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty seven (c. 347 BC). Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored his son Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. He established a library in the Lyceum, which helped him to produce many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls.

12/01/2025

Cupid and a heart coin.
Cupid is the Roman name for the Greek god Eros, the god of love, desire, and sexual attraction. While Roman mythology made him the son of Venus and Mars, Greek myth described him as the son of Aphrodite and Ares, though some early accounts present him as a primordial god. Eros is known for his bow and arrows, which he uses to incite love in gods and mortals, often appearing as a mischievous youth or a handsome young man, and his most famous myth is the story of his relationship with his wife, Psyche.

11/30/2025

There are many pictures and stories contained in the Hellenistic works of Art... You can read about them here and experience the emotional quality that these photographs provide so many thousands of years later.

11/30/2025

Welcome to Resurrected in Stone; Ancient Greek Sculpture with a Coin. May your visit here be delightful and inspiring. This first post is mystery for the time being.

11/30/2025

Apollo's lyre is a musical instrument from Greek mythology, originally made by Hermes from a tortoise shell for Apollo, who became its symbol. It represents the god Apollo, associated with music, poetry, and light, and is said to have the power to charm listeners with its music. The lyre is featured in various myths, including one where Apollo trades the cattle he got from Hermes in exchange for the lyre.

11/30/2025

Poseidon was the Greek god of the sea and rivers, creator of storms and floods, and the bringer of earthquakes and destruction. He was perhaps the most disruptive of all the ancient gods but he was not always a negative force. He was a protector to mariners and, as a tamer of horses, the patron of that animal and horse breeding. To the Romans, he was known as Neptune.

11/30/2025

Hippocamp with a coin of Poseidon, riding on a Hippocampus.
The hippocampus, or hippocamp, Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος hippókampos, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster'is a mythological creature mentioned in Etruscan, Greek, Phoenician, Pictish and Roman mythologies typically depicted as having the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish.

The Hippocampus symbolizes water, power, bravery, and helpfulness. It is also defined as a symbol of hope, strength, and agility because of its ability to help people. This popular sea creature was connected with imagination and creativity and was also associated with the god of the sea, Poseidon. Poseidon was also the god of horses. It is said that he created horses out of the ocean waves, in an effort to create the most beautiful animal on earth.

11/30/2025

Homer was the legendary ancient Greek poet presumed to have composed the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey, which are foundational texts of Western literature. Though little is known about his life, with scholars debating whether he was a single individual or a collective name for the poets who compiled the epics, he is traditionally believed to have lived around the 9th or 8th century BCE in Ionia. The poems, which were likely transmitted orally before being written down, detail heroic deeds and were crucial to the education and culture of ancient Greece.

11/30/2025

The statue of King Menelaus supporting Patroclus was created in Pergamon at around 300 B.C.E. The statue shown above is a restoration, by Florentine artist Pietro Tacca of the Medici Sculptors, of the original statue, first found in 1570 in a Roman vineyard. Upon discovery, the statue was missing anything to the structure of Menelaus which was above his waist. Tacca restored the statue to encompass these aspects, including Menelaus' face, helmet, and arms. The statue depicts the lifeless body of Patroclus being supported by the Greek king Menelaus as he carries Patroclus away from the battlefield of the Trojan war