Ancients - Mediterranean

Man Riding a Goose, Greece. 500 BCE

Throne, Roman, late 1st century A.D. "This object was not intended to have a practical function but rather was created for a ceremonial or symbolic purpose. The motif of the empty throne would come...

Minoa. The Bull was a central theme in the Minoan civilization, with bull heads and bull horns used as symbols in the Knossos palace. Minoan frescos and ceramics depict the bull-leaping ritual in which participants of both sexes vaulted over bulls by grasping their horns. Crete For the Greeks, the bull was strongly linked to the Bull of Crete: Theseus of Athens had to capture the ancient sacred b...See More

Bronze female figure, Late Minoan

Chnoubis the gnostic solar god

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Minoan outfit. It looks great, but Minoan women generally wore bodices that left their breasts bare. Thanks to the culture of objectification, though, people dressing up as Minoans feel compelled to hide them in order not to be objectified :( ...or because they actually think it is an inmodest thing. I really envy those times in which women could go bare-breasted without it being considered inmodest and without the breasts being so sexualized :(

Minoan Art Pottery | Labrys pithos – 1500BC | Knossos Palace

Ancient Greek terracotta statuette of a dancing maenad, 3rd c. B.C.

Minoan limestone rhyton in the form of a lioness. Knossos, Crete.

Anonymous (Minoan). 'Snake Goddess,' 1600 BC. black steatite. Walters Art Museum (23.196): Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929.

Minoan Art, Crete 3000-1500 b.c