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    Romulus and Remus: Fratricide on the Palatine and the Founding of Rome

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    Parga: Landscape and History to Its Union with Greece in 1913

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    Amaterasu and the Heavenly Rock Cave: The Myth of the Sun’s Return

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    Hans von Aachen: Venus and Adonis

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    Pair of scrolls by Kōno Bairei: the Buddha's parinirvana on the left, Uzume dancing before Amaterasu's cave on the right.

    Amaterasu and the Heavenly Rock Cave: The Myth of the Sun’s Return

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    Herodotus: the historian from Halicarnassus and his inquiry into the Persian Wars

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    The Homeric Epics: The Iliad, the Odyssey and the Question of Their Composition

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Enkidu

Cylinder seal impression showing two heroes seizing and striking a winged, human-headed bull.
MythologyWorld Mythologies

The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Flower of Immortality: Humankind’s Defeat by Time

After the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh goes in search of immortality and obtains a plant that promises a return to youth. A snake snatches it before he can try it, as the king makes his way back to Uruk.
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Globular clay vessel with a narrow cylindrical neck from Limani Pasha, Early Bronze Age, showing Cycladic influences

Semites, Aryans and the Indo-European Languages: From the Pamir Theory to Current Research

Orpheus, seated, playing a bowed stringed instrument among animals and birds on a circular bronze plaquette.

Orpheus and Eurydice: The Price of a Glance and the Limits of Love in the Face of Death

White façade of the Church of Saint Marina on Sifnos, with its bell gable and an entrance decorated with palm fronds.

Agia Marina, Sifnos: the settlement and its church at Kamares

Höðr drives a long red weapon through Baldr as Loki leans close to his ear, in an Icelandic manuscript illustration of 1760.

The Death of Baldr and the Mistletoe: Loki’s Treachery and the Portent of Ragnarök

Romulus and Remus suckling beneath a standing she-wolf that rests one hind leg on a rock, in an etching by Hollar.

Romulus and Remus: Fratricide on the Palatine and the Founding of Rome

Venus embraces the seated Adonis beneath a tree, with Cupid at lower left and a hunting dog on the right.

Hans von Aachen: Venus and Adonis

Entry of the Theotokos: Joachim and Anna bring the young Mary to Zacharias before a three-domed temple, as an angel feeds her

The Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple: a fourteenth-century icon from the Northern Dvina

Marble relief of the Apotheosis of Homer, inspired by the Homeric epics, with Zeus, the Muses and the enthroned poet

The Homeric Epics: The Iliad, the Odyssey and the Question of Their Composition

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