EditorialHermaphrodite in cape with waterlily leaf (the nymph Salmacis described by Ovid), and naked young man with discus and olive branch (Pelops, founder of the Olympic Games). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Anti...
EditorialDecoration of the Temple of Zeus in the Sanctuary of Olympia. 5th century B.C. Parian marble sculptures that decorated the east pediment of the temple and represent the competition between Pelops and Oenomaus. Dated to the year 460 BCE. Olympia Archaeo...
EditorialHermaphrodite in cape with waterlily leaf (the nymph Salmacis described by Ovid), and naked young man with discus and olive branch (Pelops, founder of the Olympic Games). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Anti...
EditorialTerracotta plaque with Pelops and Hippodamia, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 27 B.C.?A.D. 68, Roman, Terracotta, H. 15 in. (38.1 cm), Terracottas, Relief with Pelops and Hippodamaia. The hero Pelops won the hand of Hippodamaia after defeating her father, ...
EditorialHermaphrodite in cape with waterlily leaf (the nymph Salmacis described by Ovid), and naked young man with discus and olive branch (Pelops, founder of the Olympic Games). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Anti...
EditorialPalamedes swallowtail butterfly, Papilio palamedes 1,2, Antillea pelops 3,4, and Caribbean duskywing, Ephyriades arcas arcas 5,6. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, Lon...
EditorialDecoration of the Temple of Zeus in the Sanctuary of Olympia. 5th century B.C. Parian marble sculptures that decorated the east pediment of the temple and represent the competition between Pelops and Oenomaus. Dated to the year 460 BCE. Olympia Archaeo...