Art and Archaeology

Look through a massive library of art objects, sites, and buildings. The library's catalogs document 523 coins, 1548 vases, over 1400 sculptures, 179 sites and 381 buildings. Each catalog entry has a description of the object and its context; most have images. This web site currently publishes over 33,000 pictures! Descriptions and images have been produced in collaboration with many museums, institutions and scholars. Catalog information and keywords have been taken from standard sources, which are cited in the entries for each object.
(See some examples to get you started.)

For a great introduction to the Greek world, check out Thomas Martin's Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History. This work contains over 3000 links to Perseus' primary materials and is also available as a book from Yale University Press. Also check out highlights of the Perseus Web site.

Catalogs of sites, buildings, and objects

• Architecture Catalog All images are available.

• Site Catalog All images are available. Also with clickable site plans.

• Coin Catalog Images from the Arthur S. Dewing Collection available to all

• Vase Catalog
  Images from the Berlin Museums, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard University Art Museums, the Indiana University Art Museum, Musée du Louvre, Paris , the Universities of Mississippi and Pennsylvania, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Williams College Museum of Art and the Martin von Wagner-Museum , Würzburg are available to all.

• Sculpture Catalog
  Images from the Berlin Museums, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Musée du Louvre, Paris , Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and the Martin von Wagner-Museum, Würzburg are now available to all.

• English Index (word search) for art & archaeology and primary texts.

• Perseus Encyclopedia

• Perseus Image Copyrights

Examples of particular searches in the art and archaeology catalogs

• Eagle Coins
  
  We're all familiar with the eagle on the back of the U.S. quarter. Here are some ancient coins with eagles on them. Descriptions of all coins are available to everyone; pictures of the Dewing coins are available.

• The Site of Delphi
  
  Visit the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi, using a clickable map that shows you plan drawings of the buildings there, along with photographs.

• Fortification Architecture
  
  The ancient Greeks protected their cities from invaders with massive fortification walls. See some of the remaining walls and towers.

• Dog Pictures on Vases
  
  See some vase paintings of dogs. Descriptions of vases are available to everyone; pictures are available for vases listed under the Vase Catalog link above.