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This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Pages in category "Women in Greek mythology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 293 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Reliefs, figurines, statues and statuettes of women in Greece. Pages in category "Sculptures of women in Greece" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
Kore (Greek: κόρη "maiden"; plural korai) is the modern term [1] given to a type of free-standing ancient Greek sculpture of the Archaic period depicting female figures, always of a young age. Kouroi are the youthful male equivalent of kore statues. Korai show the restrained "archaic smile", which did not demonstrate emotion.
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Queen of the gods, and goddess of women, marriage, childbirth, heirs, kings, and empires. She is the goddess of the sky, the wife and sister of Zeus , and the daughter of Cronus and Rhea . She was usually depicted as a regal woman in the prime of her life, wearing a diadem and veil and holding a lotus-tipped staff.
The statue was possibly located in the central spot of her temple. [ 3 ] The first excavations at Dion took place in 1931, and again a second one in 1973 under the supervision of professor Demetrios Pandermanlis, when the statue was discovered; [ 4 ] the head and base were found at the temple of Aphrodite Hypolympidia, while the rest of the ...
Falconet's 1763 sculpture Pygmalion and Galatea (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore). Galatea (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλάτεια; "she who is milk-white") [1] is the post-antiquity name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory alabaster by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came to life in Greek mythology.