EditorialVotive relief for the shepherd god. About 160 AD. Two figures of Pan in a grotto with an altar and a tree between them, above three nymphs, Hermes and a cult pillar of Hecate. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany. Europe..
EditorialPergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC. Marble and limestone. Gigantomachy. South frieze. The three-faceted goddess Hecate fighting with a torch, a sword and a lance against the giant Klytios (he doesn't appear). Next to her is ...
EditorialTurkey. Ancient city of Ephesus. Temple of Hadrian. Frieze. Portrait of Roma, Selene, Hermes, Apollo, Artemis, Androclus and his dog, Heracles, Dionysus, the emperor Theodosius, Hecate, Aphrodite, Ares ?, Athena. 4th century AD. (Replica). The original...
EditorialOne of the Cabiri, son of Vulcan and the nymph Cabira, with shield (scudo) and spear (hasta). The woman may be a Cabiridae, or Cybele or Hecate, but not a Bacchante. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita...
EditorialMacbeth. Act IV. Scene I. A dark cave. In the middle a cauldron boiling. Three witches. Macbeth. Hecate. Macbeth faces the witches and the apparitions; by his feet, inside a coiled snake, stand a small bloody child and a child wearing a crown and ho...
EditorialPergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC. Marble and limestone. Gigantomachy. South frieze. The three-faceted goddess Hecate fighting with a torch, a sword and a lance against the giant Klytios (he doesn't appear). Next to her is ...
EditorialMedea Rejuvenating Aeson, ca. 1760, Oil on canvas, 29 x 21 1/2 in. (73.7 x 54.6 cm), Paintings, Corrado Giaquinto (Italian, Molfetta 1703?1766 Naples), The subject from Ovid's Metamorphoses depicts the sorceress Medea rejuvenating with spells her husba...
EditorialOne of the Cabiri, son of Vulcan and the nymph Cabira, with shield (scudo) and spear (hasta). The woman may be a Cabiridae, or Cybele or Hecate, but not a Bacchante. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita...
EditorialVotive relief for the shepherd god. About 160 AD. Two figures of Pan in a grotto with an altar and a tree between them, above three nymphs, Hermes and a cult pillar of Hecate. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany. Europe..
EditorialPergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC. Marble and limestone. Gigantomachy. South frieze. The three-faceted goddess Hecate fighting with a torch, a sword and a lance against the giant Klytios (he doesn't appear). Next to her is ...