Athens Gallery

Aeropagus debating in ancient Athens

Gathering of the Areopagus, a deliberative court that met in the open air, ancient Athens.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Greek women at their household chores

Women occupied with sewing, spinning, and other household chores in ancient Greece.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Suicide of Socrates by drinking poisonous hemlock, ancient Greece.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a painting by Jacques Louis David

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