Other Sculptures

Nike, goddess of Victory. Erected in commemoration of a naval victory.

Laocoon. A father and his son devoured by serpents.

Perseus with the head of Medusa. This was a Rennaissance work not one dating from classical antiquity.

Augustus Caesar, first emperor of Rome.

Olympians

I just received five busts of the Greek gods, shown above. They were made of alabaster, in Crete.



















"The poets say that before the rule of Zeus, everything was in faction, uproar and disorder...but when Zeus came to rule, everything was put in order."

--Aristides c 144 CE

Zeus, above, was the king of the Hellenic pantheon.

Apollo (above, left) was the god of the sun, and Hermes, right, the messenger of the gods.

Venus, (above right) was the goddess of beauty and Diana (left)  the huntress.