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Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Nereus
1. SCULPTURE. Greece.
The sea gods Nereus and his wife Doris, Okeanos and his wife Tethys, partally preserved, fights against the giants.
Southern frieze of the northern projecting hall of the Pergamon Altar.
Marble.
Ca. 180—159 BCE.
Berlin, State Museums, Pergamon Museum.
2. SCULPTURE. Greece.
The sea gods Nereus and his wife Doris, Okeanos and his wife Tethys, partally preserved, fights against the giants. Detail: Nereus wearing the fish-skin headdress.
Southern frieze of the northern projecting hall of the Pergamon Altar.
Marble.
Ca. 180—159 BCE.
Berlin, State Museums, Pergamon Museum.
3. SCULPTURE. Greece.
The sea gods Nereus and his wife Doris, Okeanos and his wife Tethys, partally preserved, fights against the giants. Detail: Nereus wearing the fish-skin headdress.
Southern frieze of the northern projecting hall of the Pergamon Altar.
Marble.
Ca. 180—159 BCE.
Berlin, State Museums, Pergamon Museum.
4. SCULPTURE. Greece.
The sea gods Nereus and his wife Doris, Okeanos and his wife Tethys, partally preserved, fights against the giants. Detail: Nereus wearing the fish-skin headdress.
Southern frieze of the northern projecting hall of the Pergamon Altar.
Marble.
Ca. 180—159 BCE.
Berlin, State Museums, Pergamon Museum.
5. CERAMICS. Greece.
Heracles and nemean lion; Heracles and Triton.
Black-figure hydria. Attic.
Manner of the Antimenes Painter.
Clay. Carving, white paint. 520—500 BCE.
Inscription on the body: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΣ
Inv. Nos. Б. 1516 / ГР-4443.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.