Figure 61 Attic red-figure amphora attributed to the Berlin Painter, showing a rhapsode
performing; height of vase 41.5 cm, ca. 490 BC. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher
Fund, 1956 (56.171.38).Figure 62 Right triangle (α^2 + β^2 = γ^2 ).
Figure 63 Detail of bronze krater discovered in 1962 at Derveni, near Thessaloniki, showing a
satyr under a vine tendril; height of vase 0.91 m, mid-fourth century BC. Archaeological Museum
of Thessaloniki.
Figure 64 Monumental marble lion from Amphipolis; height of lion 5.3 m, late fourth century BC.
Source: Fotolia / Author: vkara.
Figure 65 Digital restoration of interior of the Kasta Tomb, Amphipolis; late fourth century BC.
Figure 15 The campaigns of Alexander the Great.
Figure 66 Obverse of silver coin minted by Alexander’s successor Lysimachus, showing
Alexander with ram’s horns. Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins,
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI. Source: Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine
Coins, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI. Inv. 91.046.Chapter
Figure 67 Detail of granodiorite statue of Queen Arsinoe II; height of statue 1.595 m, ca. 270–
BC. Shigaraki, Miho Museum.
Figure 68 Obverse of gold coin minted by and showing in profile Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II.
Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI.
Figure 69 Plan of Hellenistic city located at what is now Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan.
Figure 70 Marble relief by Archelaos showing (bottom) Homer being crowned by Time and
Humanity and receiving worship at a round altar; height 1.18 m, ca. 200 BC. London, British
Museum, 2191.
Figure 71 Bronze statuette of dancer; height 20.5 cm, third or second century BC. New York,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971 (1972.118.95).
Figure 72 Plaster impression of an engraved garnet gemstone set in gold ring, inscribed “created
by Gelon,” showing Aphrodite holding a shield and spear; 29 × 24 mm, late third century BC.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Francis Bartlett Donation, 21.1213.
Figure 73 Eratosthenes’ method of measuring the Earth’s circumference.
Figure 74 Digital radiograph of the Antikythera Mechanism. Source: © 2005 Antikythera
Mechanism Research Project.
Figure 75 Reconstruction of the west side of the Great Altar of Zeus; width 36.44 m, first half of
second century BC. Berlin, Pergamum Museum.
Figure 76 Part of the east frieze of the Great Altar of Zeus, showing Nike crowning Athena as she
battles an unidentified giant, with Gaia (Earth, the mother of the giants) rising up to entreat her;
height of frieze 2.3 m. Berlin, Pergamum Museum.
Figure 77 Part of the west frieze of the Great Altar of Zeus, showing the gods of the sea battling
unidentified giants. Berlin, Pergamum Museum.