Ancient Greek astronomers

The Titan Kronos

Ancient Eastern Asia

                                                    Spirals on a prehistoric Chinese vessel

                                                               Chinese bronze vessel

                                                               (photo: Gary Lee Todd)

                                                              A labyrinth in Nepal

The great heroic expeditions

Orpheus

                                                         Orpheus, Eurydice and Hermes

Orpheus
Ancient Roman floor mosaic
Museo archeologico regionale di Palermo
Photo by Giovanni Dall ' Orto

The Cyclops

The Room of the Throne at the Palace of Minos in Knossos

Wall-painting of Grypes



Gods and men

  Asklepios
National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Deukalion

Lykaon

The great statue of Despoina in Lykosoura

From left to right: Artemis, Demeter, Despoina and the Titan Anytos.

National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Representation of the statue

According to Pausanias (8, 37.3), the statues were carved in one piece of stone (a monolith) which was found in the temple of Despoina in the Arcadian city Lykosoura afer a dream. The dimensions are 8.40 m (width) x 5.90 m (height), and the height of the statues is 3.78 m. Therefore, the ratio width : height is the square root of 2. The height (5.90 m) is equal to 13 MC.

Dionysos

Dionysos on a  panther - mosaic from Pella

     Athanasios G. Angelopoulos, "Prehistoric colonies of the Greeks"  (1999 - Vol. 2, p. 13).

    The new color map was posted on 15 June 2012 - see also "Argonautica".

Argonautica

The map is based on Ptolemy's "Geography" (c. 140 AD). The ancient maps of Mesopotamia, Arabia, India and SE Asia have been already posted.