A Memorable Trip to Egypt: Cairo, Alexandria and a Nile Cruise – March 2023
Impressions and images from a 12-day trip to Egypt, with visits to museums and magnificent ancient sites including pyramids, temples and tombs. Read more
Gallery
Exhibition | Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford's current exhibition Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality includes artworks inspired by the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, archaeological notes and illustrations, and an array of finds from the original and ongoing excavations at the site. Read more
Gallery | Amazons
An alternative ending to the Iliad reads "and then an Amazon came...". Achilles will fall in love with that Amazon—Penthesileia. Hector had married Andromache, who has an Amazonian name. And Herakles and Theseus fought Amazons. In this Gallery we will look at visual representations of Amazons. Read more
Gallery | Many Faces of Medea
A priestess, a woman with magical powers, a mother, a lover, a woman abandoned by her husband, and a murderer. There are many faces of Medea. Read more
Gallery: Athletes in action
To tie in with this month's Book Club readings which include the Epinician Odes of Bacchylides, this Gallery features some ancient Greek artworks featuring the kinds of athletic contests celebrated in the poems. These contests seem to have been a favorite subject in the visual as well as the verbal arts from the earliest periods. Read more