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Winged Victory statuette, Bronze, Pompeii, 1st century AD. Smaller copy of a well-known Greek piece, frequently reproduced in antiquity. The original gilded bronze was created by the Tarentines to celebrate their victory over Rome at Heraclea in 281 BC with the help of King Pyrrhus...

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Winged Victory statuette, Bronze, Pompeii, 1st century AD. Smaller copy of a well-known Greek piece, frequently reproduced in antiquity. The original gilded bronze was created by the Tarentines to celebrate their victory over Rome at Heraclea in 281 BC with the help of King Pyrrhus...

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The Farnese Hercules, Rome, c. 216 AD. A marble copy or version of a well known Greek bronze original by Lysippos from the 4th century BC. The original survived over 1500 years until it was melted down by Crusaders in 1205 during the Sack of Constantinople...

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The Farnese Hercules, Rome, c. 216 AD. A marble copy or version of a well known Greek bronze original by Lysippos from the 4th century BC. The original survived over 1500 years until it was melted down by Crusaders in 1205 during the Sack of Constantinople...

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A bronze statuette of Perdicas: he was apparently a Greek youth studying in Athens, who neglected to sacrifice to Aphrodite; the goddess punished him so he fell in love with his own mother, wasted away and died. 1st century BC. Dumbarton Oaks collection.

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A bronze statuette of Perdicas: he was apparently a Greek youth studying in Athens, who neglected to sacrifice to Aphrodite; the goddess punished him so he fell in love with his own mother, wasted away and died. 1st century BC. Dumbarton Oaks collection.

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In the late 6th century CE, Greece was frequently attacked by Slavs and Avars. So a group of people and children took refuge in the Andritsa cave, taking with them lamps, vases, coins and a bronze cross, but for reasons unknown they were trapped inside and their refuge became their grave

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In the late 6th century CE, Greece was frequently attacked by Slavs and Avars. So a group of people and children took refuge in the Andritsa cave, taking with them lamps, vases, coins and a bronze cross, but for reasons unknown they were trapped inside and their refuge became their grave

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Winged figure riding a chariot by a building, painted in perspective, towards a portico adorned with shields, helmets and breastplates at the top. The fresco can still be seen on the original wall of the Macellum of Pompeii where it was painted...

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Winged figure riding a chariot by a building, painted in perspective, towards a portico adorned with shields, helmets and breastplates at the top. The fresco can still be seen on the original wall of the Macellum of Pompeii where it was painted...

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The Vix Krater, a 6th century BC Greek bronze vessel imported to the Celts. Discovered in Bourgogne/France in the tomb of the “Lady of Vix,” a Celtic princess. It remains the largest known metal vessel of Western antiquity

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The Vix Krater, a 6th century BC Greek bronze vessel imported to the Celts. Discovered in Bourgogne/France in the tomb of the “Lady of Vix,” a Celtic princess. It remains the largest known metal vessel of Western antiquity

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Gilded bronze Hercules. Roman copy of a greek original from the 2nd century BC. Musei Capitolini, Roma.

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Gilded bronze Hercules. Roman copy of a greek original from the 2nd century BC. Musei Capitolini, Roma.

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A Hellenic or Roman marble head of a goddess statue, defaced with a Christian cross during the Late Antique period. The statue dates back to 2-1st century BC. Defaced during late Antiquity . Archaeological Museum of Samos, Greece.

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A Hellenic or Roman marble head of a goddess statue, defaced with a Christian cross during the Late Antique period. The statue dates back to 2-1st century BC. Defaced during late Antiquity . Archaeological Museum of Samos, Greece.

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Marsylas flayed, a 1st-2nd century AD Roman copy of a Greek original from the 2nd century BC, found at the Horti Maecenatiani. The choice of the marble, known as pavonazzetto, renders dramatically the livid colors of the tortured body and gives a startlingly lifelike impression...

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Marsylas flayed, a 1st-2nd century AD Roman copy of a Greek original from the 2nd century BC, found at the Horti Maecenatiani. The choice of the marble, known as pavonazzetto, renders dramatically the livid colors of the tortured body and gives a startlingly lifelike impression...

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Detail of the face of one of the "Bronze Runners", two full-size bronze statues with bone and stone inlays for the eyes, found at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. Generally dated between the first century BC and the first AD, they are believed to be copies of Greek statues...

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Detail of the face of one of the "Bronze Runners", two full-size bronze statues with bone and stone inlays for the eyes, found at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. Generally dated between the first century BC and the first AD, they are believed to be copies of Greek statues...

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Apollo Citharoedus, cast bronze and glass paste, Pompeii, 50 BC. A statue type with the god holding the cithara in his arm, supposed a copy of a Greek bronze original made in the 5th c. BC. More than a dozen replicas have been found, the main ones being this one and the one in Mantua.

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Apollo Citharoedus, cast bronze and glass paste, Pompeii, 50 BC. A statue type with the god holding the cithara in his arm, supposed a copy of a Greek bronze original made in the 5th c. BC. More than a dozen replicas have been found, the main ones being this one and the one in Mantua.

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Leto fleeing the serpent Python with her children Apollo and Artemis. 2nd century CE Roman copy of a Greek original, currently at the Louvre.

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Leto fleeing the serpent Python with her children Apollo and Artemis. 2nd century CE Roman copy of a Greek original, currently at the Louvre.

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Silenus cradling an infant Dionysus. Roman copy from late 4th century BC of the bronze Greek original, presumably by Lysippos. Louvre

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Silenus cradling an infant Dionysus. Roman copy from late 4th century BC of the bronze Greek original, presumably by Lysippos. Louvre

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Seated Hermes , a bronze statue recovered from the spectacular Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, so prior to the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79 AD. Considered a Roman copy of a Greek bronze original of the late 4th or early 3rd c. BC, in the tradition of Lysippos )...

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Seated Hermes , a bronze statue recovered from the spectacular Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, so prior to the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79 AD. Considered a Roman copy of a Greek bronze original of the late 4th or early 3rd c. BC, in the tradition of Lysippos )...

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Athena Parthenos Chiaramonti, colossal head of Athena, Rome, late 1st century CE. Found together with an arm and a foot, it was part of an acrolith statue believed to be a copy of an original from the circle of Phidias

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Athena Parthenos Chiaramonti, colossal head of Athena, Rome, late 1st century CE. Found together with an arm and a foot, it was part of an acrolith statue believed to be a copy of an original from the circle of Phidias

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The "Sappho" fresco, or Portrait of a Young Woman with Stylus, Pompeii, 1st century AD. It depicts a finely dressed young woman with a writing tablet and stylus, used in Roman paintings to indicate literacy and education. She was identified as the Greek poet Sappho without proof...

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The "Sappho" fresco, or Portrait of a Young Woman with Stylus, Pompeii, 1st century AD. It depicts a finely dressed young woman with a writing tablet and stylus, used in Roman paintings to indicate literacy and education. She was identified as the Greek poet Sappho without proof...

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An ancient bronze griffin head dating back to the 7th century BC, has been repatriated to Greece from US after it was stolen nearly a century ago, marking the latest repatriation in a broader shift of the museum world to return stolen artifacts to their places of origin.

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An ancient bronze griffin head dating back to the 7th century BC, has been repatriated to Greece from US after it was stolen nearly a century ago, marking the latest repatriation in a broader shift of the museum world to return stolen artifacts to their places of origin.

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An antique bronze plateau was laid in an Etruscan tomb from the 7th century BCE. Interestingly, the bowl has a strange figure scratched at the bottom. The object was admired by the author of the photo in Great Palaestra in Pompeii .

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An antique bronze plateau was laid in an Etruscan tomb from the 7th century BCE. Interestingly, the bowl has a strange figure scratched at the bottom. The object was admired by the author of the photo in Great Palaestra in Pompeii .

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Bronze statuette of Aphrodite with silver eyes from the Hellenistic era, 3rd–1st century BCE

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Bronze statuette of Aphrodite with silver eyes from the Hellenistic era, 3rd–1st century BCE

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