Amphora is a Greco-Roman word developing in ancient Greek during the Bronze Age.

* Amphora, a type of ceramic vase with two handles, used for the transportation and storage of perishable goods

Amphora by Exekias, Achilles and Ajax ( mythology ) | Ajax engaged in a board game, c. 540-530 BC, Vatican Museums, Vatican City.

Animals on the back side of a neck amphora by the Leipzig Amphora Group, c. 560 / 540 BC, found in Reggio Calabria | Reggio di Calabria, now in the Louvre, Paris

black-figure pottery | Black-figure scene on the Belly Amphora by the Andokides Painter ( Munich 2301 ).

Amphora by the potter Andokides ( potter ) | Andokides and the Andokides Painter, circa 530 BCE.

Approximate extent of the Corded Ware horizon with adjacent 3rd millennium cultures ( after Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture | EIEC ). The Globular Amphora Culture ( GAC ), German Kugelamphoren-Kultur ( KAK ), ca.

* 3000 – 1900 BC ( Late Stone Age ): Linear Pottery culture, Funnelbeaker culture, Havelland culture, Corded Ware culture, Globular Amphora culture

In the late 4th millennium BC, the Globular Amphora culture ( KAK ) replaced most of the eastern and subsequently also the southern TRB groups, reducing the TRB area to modern northern Germany and southern Scandinavia.

* Wave 2, mid 4th millennium BC, originating in the Maykop culture and resulting in advances of " kurganized " hybrid cultures into northern Europe around 3000 BC ( Globular Amphora culture, Baden culture, and ultimately Corded Ware culture ).

Red-figure quickly eclipsed black-figure yet in the unique form of the Panathanaic Amphora, black-figure continued to be utilised well into the 4th century BC.

Raphael's School of Athens, depicting an array of ancient Greek philosophers engaged in discussion.

Greek marble relief c. 330 BC depicting a hoplite in combat, holding his weapon above his head as he prepares to strike a fallen enemy.

Category: Paintings depicting Greek myths

File: Pandoura 002. jpg | Ancient Greek ( Tanagra ) terracotta statuette depicting a player of the pandura, 2nd century BC )

He describes a deck with 16 picture cards with images of the Greek gods and suits depicting four kinds of birds, not the common suits.

Ancient Greek black-figure pottery depicting the return of a hunter and his dog.

File: NAMA Mycènes bouclier 1. jpg | Wall painting depicting a Mycenaean Greek " figure eight " shield with a suspension strap at the middle, 15th century BC, National Archaeological Museum, Athens-The faces of figure eight shields were quite convex.

They were all designed by Georgios Stamatopoulos with the minor coins depicting Greek ships, the middle ones portraying famous Greeks and the two large denominations showing images of Greek history and mythology.

" Greco-Scythian " works depicting Scythians within a much more Hellenic style date from a later period, when Scythians had already adopted elements of Greek culture.

Images depicting many of the Greek myths are only known from South Italian vases, since Athenian ones seem to have had more limited repertoires of depiction.

A fourteenth-century miniature Medieval Greek | Greek manuscript depicting Byzantine Greeks | Byzantine Greek soldiers from the Empire of Trebizond.

Ancient Greek coin from Ibiza, depicting a squatting Cabeiri | Kabeiros and a bull, circa 210 BC.

Corinthian vase depicting Perseus, Andromeda ( mythology ) | Andromeda and Ketos ; the names are written in the archaic Greek alphabet. Simonides was popularly accredited with the invention of four letters of the revised alphabet and, as the author of inscriptions, he was the first major poet who composed verses to be read rather than recited.

Hipponax (), of Ephesus and later Clazomenae, was an Ancient Greek iambic poet who composed verses depicting the vulgar side of life in Ionian society in the sixth century BC.

Category: Paintings depicting Greek myths

Likewise, in the tale depicting the origin of the constellation Capricornus, the Greek god of nature Pan became a fish from the waist down when he jumped into the same river after being attacked by Typhon.

File: St Joseph the Betrothed 080202. jpg | Interior of St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Chicago, Illinois depicting Christ Pantocrator as in traditional byzantine church style.

Raphael's School of Athens, depicting an array of ancient Greek philosophers engaged in discussion.

Civilization by Avalon Hill ( 1982 ): 1st edition with a cover depicting an antique Greek temple, an Egyptian fresco and some baskets, the board with the map is an one-piece multifold.

French sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse made many terracotta pieces, but possibly the most famous is The Abduction of Hippodameia depicting the Greek mythological scene of a centaur kidnapping Hippodameia on her wedding day.

A Greek vase from 500BC depicting a running contest

Fresco in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, depicting Charon ( mythology ) | Charon, Morpheus ( god ) | Morpheus, and other characters from Greek mythology, 1684-1686.

In the future of the Legion of Super-Heroes, his secret identity is historical fact, with exhibits at a Superman Museum depicting the hero and his friends and family's adventures.

It was paintings like these, depicting the great strength of patriotic sacrifice, that made David a popular hero of the revolution.

While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six-minute black-and-white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his ( and Burton's ) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration.

A Fistful of Dollars proved a landmark in the development of spaghetti westerns, with Leone depicting a more lawless and desolate world than traditional westerns, and challenging American stereotypes of a western hero with a morally ambiguous antihero.

A mosaic depicting the hero Herakles with Cerberus, a three headed dog, who, according to mythology, guarded Hades.

Historians have accused Conscience of historical inaccuracies, for example depicting his hero as having taken part in the Battle of the Golden Spurs.

In addition to these cinematic epics, there are films in the speculative fiction genre such as " Star Wars ," and the classical Cowboy Western tales depicting the hero figure in defense of the community against powerful and evil villains.

The motif of chaoskampf ( German for " struggle against chaos ") is ubiquitous in such myths, depicting a battle of a culture hero deity with a chaos monster, often in the shape of a serpent or dragon.

The globe shows a depiction of the night sky as seen from outside the outermost celestial sphere, with low reliefs depicting 41 ( some sources say 42 ) of the 48 classical Greek constellations distinguished by Ptolemy, including ; Aries the ram, Cygnus the swan and Hercules the hero.

The self-quotations inevitably bring to mind Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, but with different intent ; Elgar is depicting the artist not as hero but as bard.

The hero title was also featured in a set of stamps released by BELPOST in December 2006, depicting the state awards of Belarus.

As noted, historians have accused Conscience of some historical inaccuracies such as depicting his hero as having taken part in the Battle of the Golden Spurs, contrary to historical fact.