Welcome to my new project!  You have found your way to my site that is dedication to the Masterpieces of the Ancients.  There are two main sections here.  One for Rome and one for Greece.  Clicking on the Wolf will take you to Rome and clicking on the Caryatid will take you to Greece. Clicking on the Ankh will take you to my NEW page on Ancient Egypt.   I hope you enjoy your stay.  Come back often to see the new updates.  Take a look at my Links and Acknowledgments.
Also, come visit my bibliography to see where I got my information.

This is the famous she wolf of the Capitoline.  It is the symbol of Ancient Rome.  The two children below it are Romulus and Remus.  Legend has it that they were the sons of a Vestal Virgin, Rhea Silvia and the god of war, Mars.  Rhea Silvia's uncle ordered the boys to be cast into the Tiber and thus drowned.  But as luck would have it they were beached on the bank and were found by a she wolf and were thus saved.  Since then, the wolf has been the symbol of Rome.  For more on this story, see an online version of Plutarch's Lives of Noble Greeks & Romans: The Life of Romulus.   This statue dates from ca. 500 B.C.  The twins were Renaissance additions, but it is believed that the originals were destroyed by a lightening strike. Click on her and she will take you in to the Roman Gallery.

This is the upper portion of a figure from the South portico of the Erechtheum on the Acropolis of Athens.  It dates from ca. 425-420 B.C. It is a Caryatidt serves a utilitarian purpose as well as artistic function in that is a carved column.  Click on her and she will take you in to the Greek Gallery.

This is an ankh, the Egyptian hieroglyph for life.  Click on it and it will take you to Ancient Egypt.

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Nota Bene

The author of this web page believes all of these pictures to be in the public domain, available to non-commercial web sites, or permission has been given to use such images in this web site.  This is a non-commercial web site.  If the author is mistaken, please let us know so that we can fix the problem.    Most of the pictures come from on-line supplements to college level art history courses and they came with the restriction that they only be used in non-commercial sites.  Also, there are some people that I would like to thank for letting me use their images.  They are, Justin Paola, Kathryn Andrus-Walck, James Innes.  Other acknowledgments will most likely be needed, but this is a start.  Thank you for your assistance in this matter.