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Curriculum Materials: World Mythology
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Ancient Greek and Roman Myth

Hydria

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Antimenes painter
Greece
Hydria
530-500 B.C.
Oceanus

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Rome
Oceanus
1st - 2nd centuries A.D. (Empire)
Cassone


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Italy
Cassone
About 1600
Theseus

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Antoine-Louis Barye
France, 1796-1875
Theseus Slaying a Centaur
About 1855
Orpheus

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Maurice Denis
France, 1870-1943
Orpheus and Eurydice
1910
Medusa

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Emile-Antoine Bourdelle
France (1861-1929)
Door Knocker in Form of Medusa
1925

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