Rembrandt's `` Aristotle Contemplating Bust of Homer '' brought $2,300,000 at auction the other night.

Bust of Homer, a Greek poet

The Nefertiti Bust is a 3, 300-year-old painted limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and one of the most copied works of ancient Egypt.

Bust ( sculpture ) | Bust inscribed Sappho of Eressos, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 5th century BC

Bust of Demosthenes ( British Museum, London ), Roman copy of a Greek original sculpted by Polyeuktos.

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

Silver coin of Chandragupta II, minted in his Western territories, in the style of the Western Satraps. Obv: Bust of king, with corrupted Greek legend " OOIHU ". Rev: Legend in Brahmi, " Chandragupta Vikramaditya, King of Kings, and a devotee of Vishnu ", around a peacock.

Obv: Bust of king with crescents, with traces of corrupt Greek script.

Silver coin of Chandragupta II the Great, minted in his Western territories, in the style of the Western Satraps. Obv: Bust of king, with corrupted Greek legend " OOIHU ".< ref >" Evidence of the conquest of Saurashtra ( region ) | Saurastra during the reign of Chandragupta II is to be seen in his rare silver coins which are more directly imitated from those of the Western Satraps ... they retain some traces of the old inscriptions in Greek characters, while on the reverse, they substitute the Gupta type ( a peacock ) for the chaitya with crescent and star.

Obv: Bust of Antimachus I. Rev: Depiction of Poseidon, with Greek legend BASILEOS TEOU ANTIMACHOU " God-King Antimachus ".

Silver tetradrachm of Kushan king Heraios ( 1-30 CE ) in Greco-Bactrian style. Obv: Bust of Heraios, with Greek royal headband. Rev: Horse-mounted King, crowned with a wreath by the Greek mythology | Greek goddess of victory Nike ( mythology ) | Nike.

Coin of Gondophares ( 20 – 50 AD Common Era | CE ), first king of the Indo-Parthians Obv: Bust of GondopharesRev: Winged Nike ( mythology ) | Nike holding a diadem, and Greek language | Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΥΝΔΟΦΕΡΡΟΥ (" of King Gondophares, the Saviour ")

Obv: Bust of Antialcidas wearing a helmet, with Greek legend BASILEOS NIKEPHOROU ANTIALKIDOU "( Coin ) of victorious King Antialcidas ".

Bust of Pittacus, Roman copy of a Greek original of the Late Classical period, Louvre

Obv: Bust of king Rajuvula, with Greek legend.

Bust ( sculpture ) | Bust of Aristotle, Greek philosopher

Bust of the Roman poet Lucan, Córdoba, Spain | Córdoba, Spain.

Bust of the poet in front of the museum in the forester's lodge Pranie.

Bust of Albertus Magnus by Vincenzo Onofri, c. 1493

Roman marble Bust of Artemis after Cephisodotus the Elder | Kephisodotos ( Musei Capitolini ), Rome.

When set to the US region, the Neo-Geo version displays the alternative title " Bust a Move " and features anti-drugs and anti-littering messages in the title sequence.

Bust of Matthew C. Perry | Matthew Perry in Shimoda, Shizuoka | Shimoda

Bust of Beatty by William McMillan in Trafalgar Square, London.

One Canadian author, economist and demographer David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966 ; and the " Bust Generation ", born between 1967 and 1979.

Bust of Minerva, Wedgwood and Bentley, c. 1795

Bust in Trafalgar Square.

Bust of L. M. Ericsson at Telefonplan in Stockholm

Bust of Maecenas at Coole Park, Co. Galway, Ireland

Bust of Maria Gaetana Agnesi in Milan.

Bust of Murray held in the library of the UCL Institute of Archaeology.

Bust of Serapis.

On 4 May 2010, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust was sold at Christie's for $ 106. 5 million.

Bust reliquary of the Pope, made in 1596, exhibited at The Permanent Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition " The Gold and Silver of Zadar " in the St. Mary's Church, Zadar, Croatia

Bust of Alexander Severus, the last Emperor of the Severan dynasty.

Bust of Caligula.

Bust ( sculpture ) | Bust of Alexander the Great in the British Museum.

Bust of Thor Heyerdahl.

More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declinedhe became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.

In the Western classical tradition, Homer (;, Hómēros ) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet.

Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus ' own time, which would place him at around 850 BC ; while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BC.

This approach to analyzing and classifying metres originates from ancient Greek tragedians and poets such as Homer, Pindar, Hesiod, and Sappho.

The Odyssey (, Odysseia ) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

In addition to the tribe that Homer calls Thracians, ancient Thrace was home to numerous other tribes, such as the Edones, Bisaltae, Cicones, and Bistones.

As is often the case with ancient Greek literature, Bacchylides plays of the audience ’ s knowledge of Homer without repeating a scene told by Homer.

Traditionally, the Archaic period of ancient Greece is taken in the wake of this strong Orientalizing influence during the 8th century BC, which among other things brought the alphabetic script to Greece, marking the beginning of Greek literature ( Homer, Hesiod ).

Significant variations on the legend of Oedipus are mentioned in fragments by several ancient Greek poets including Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus and Euripides.

Although his work now only survives in fragments, he was revered by the ancient Greeks as one of their most brilliant authors, able to be mentioned in the same breath as Homer and Hesiod, yet he was also censured by them as the archetypal poet of blame — his invectives were even said to have driven his former fiancee and her father to suicide.

It includes numerous quotations from ancient writers ; the scholiasts on Aristophanes, Homer, Sophocles and Thucydides are also much used.

Of the ancient authors, Cocytus was mentioned by Vergil, Homer, Cicero, Aeschylus and Plato, among others.

Herodotus said that Homer lived 400 years before his own day, which would place Homer about 850 BC ; but other ancient sources gave dates much closer to the Trojan War.

In the earliest testimony for this character in ancient Greek literature ( the account of Homer ), Cinyras was a ruler on Cyprus who gave a corselet to Agamemnon as a guest-gift when he heard that the Greeks were planning to sail to Troy.

They colonized Crete and extended their rule over Epirus, Thessaly and by implication over wherever else the ancient authors said they were, beginning with Homer.

He had a great interest in Greek history which led him to name the post office Argos, after the ancient Greek city made famous in the Iliad of Homer.

Hector, New York was named after the bravest of the ancient Trojan warriors whose story is an important part of Homer ’ s epic, “ Iliad ”.

The village of Homer City was laid out in 1854 by William Wilson, who named it after the ancient Greek poet, Homer.

He was strongly influenced by the example of Homer yet he wrote short poems suitable for performance at drinking parties and was remembered by ancient authorities chiefly as a love poet.

It might have been due to ancient assumptions that Sparta was too " spartan " ever to have produced a talented poet of its own, or because Tyrtaeus didn't compose in the Doric dialect or vernacular of Sparta ( unlike his near contemporary, Alcman ) but imitated the conventional literary dialect of Homer, which was Ionian.

1837 ), in which he maintained that the mythology of Homer and Hesiod came from an Eastern source through the Pelasgians, and reflected the symbolism of an ancient revelation ; as a reconciliation with Judeo-Christian religion, it was, Walter Burkert has said, "" the last large-scale and thoroughly unavailing endeavor of this kind.