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The quarter of the House of the Masks is the only area of Delos without this archetypal house plan. [50] Some houses of the Northern Quarter feature mosaic decorations with mythological scenes, including Lycurgus of Thrace and Ambrosia in an upper-story mosaic, as well as Athena and Hermes together with a seated woman in a main-room mosaic. [24]
The Greek word for the family or household, oikos, is also the name for the house. Houses followed several different types. It is probable that many of the earliest houses were simple structures of two rooms, with an open porch or pronaos, above which rose a low pitched gable or pediment. [8]
Frescoes from Pylos show figures eating and drinking, which were important activities in Greek culture. [8] Artistic portrayals of bulls, a common zoomorphic motif in Mycenaean vase painting, [21] appear on Greek megaron frescoes, such as the one in the Pylos megaron, where a bull is depicted at the center of a Mycenaean procession. [8]
The most impressive discovery is an expansive fresco that depicts the Greek legend Helen of Troy, painted on the high walls of a large banqueting hall that was thought to be owned by a high-status ...
Bull-leaping fresco now in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, the duplicate shown here is fixed to the wall of the upper throne room Dolphins fresco. The palace at Knossos used considerable amounts of colour, as were Greek buildings in the classical period. In the EM Period, the walls and pavements were coated with a pale red derived from red ...
Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii.
The frescoes in Akrotiri are especially important for the study of Minoan art because they are much better preserved than those that were already known from Knossos and other sites on Crete, which have nearly all survived only in small fragments, usually fallen to the ground.
The Museum in 1893. The first national archaeological museum in Greece was established by the governor of Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias in Aigina in 1829. Subsequently, the archaeological collection was relocated to a number of exhibition places until 1858, when an international architectural competition was announced for the location and the architectural design of the new museum.