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Pannello di una porta di legno destinato a proteggere la casa da un ospite sgradito (Thomas Regnaudin, ca. 1660).Nell'antica Grecia, il gorgoneion (in greco antico: Γοργόνειον) era, in origine, un pendente orrorifico apotropaico che rappresentava la testa di una Gorgone. Il gorgoneion è associato sia a Zeus sia ad Atena, che secondo il mito lo hanno entrambi …

She also identifies the prototype of the Gorgoneion in Neolithic art motifs, especially in anthropomorphic vases and terracotta masks inlaid with gold. Pausanias (5.10.4, 8.47.5, many other places), a geographer of the 2nd century AD, supplies details of where and how Gorgons were represented in Ancient Greek art and architecture.

In Ancient Greece, the Gorgoneion (Greek: Γοργόνειον) was a special apotropaic amulet showing the Gorgon head, used by the Olympian deities Athena and Zeus: both are said to have worn the gorgoneion as a protective pendant, and often are depicted wearing it. It established their descent from earlier deities considered to remain powerful. Among other attributes, it was …

En la Antigua Grecia, el gorgoneion (griego: Γοργόνειον) originalmente era un amuleto apotropaico que inducía horror al mostrar la cabeza de la Gorgona. [1] Estaba relacionado con las deidades Zeus y Atenea; se dice que ambos habrían llevado un colgante con este motivo. [1] También sería una égida real popular en la época helenística, tal como se muestra por …

De gorgonenkop (γοργόνειον - gorgoneion) is een van de vaste attributen van de godin Athena. Perseus schenkt haar Medusa's hoofd, dat zij voortaan op haar kuras of aigis draagt. Tevens komt het voor op de aigis van Zeus. Vaak zien we hierom een gorgonenkop als ornament op (bijvoorbeeld Romeinse) wapenuitrustingen terug.

A triskelion or triskeles is an ancient motif consisting of a triple spiral exhibiting rotational symmetry.The spiral design can be based on interlocking Archimedean spirals, or represent three bent human legs.It is found in artefacts of the European Neolithic and Bronze Age with continuation into the Iron Age especially in the context of the La Tène culture and related Celtic …

In one version of the story of the birth of Achilles, Thetis anoints the infant with ambrosia and passes the child through the fire to make him immortal but Peleus, appalled, stops her, leaving only his heel unimmortalised (Argonautica 4.869–879).; In the Iliad xvi, Apollo washes the black blood from the corpse of Sarpedon and anoints it with ambrosia, readying it for its dreamlike …

Greco-Buddhism, or Graeco-Buddhism, is the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the fourth century BC and the fifth century AD in Gandhara, in present-day north-western Pakistan and parts of north-east Afghanistan. It was a cultural consequence of a long chain of interactions begun by Greek forays into India from the …

In Greek mythology, the Nereids or Nereides (/ ˈ n ɪər i ɪ d z / NEER-ee-idz; Ancient Greek: Νηρηΐδες, romanized: Nērēḯdes; sg. Νηρηΐς, Nērēḯs, also Νημερτές) are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris, sisters to their brother Nerites. They often accompany Poseidon, the god of the ...