"A Masque for the Four Seasons" (1905-1909) by Walter Crane (1845-1915). Oil on canvas. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.

"The gray-eyed Pallas rises from my singing, noble and shrewd and with a heart of iron..." "Pallas Athene" (1898) by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Vienna Museum. Photo by Birgit & Peter Kainz.

Chimneypiece design in Egyptian style by Italian artist Piranesi (1720-1778). 1769. Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Illustration of a kylix depicting Hercules wrestling with Triton. From "Greek vase paintings" (London: 1894) by Jane Ellen Harrison. Photo: The New York Public Library Digital Collections

Perseus shows Andromeda the head of Medusa by looking only at her reflection in the water. 🎨 The Baleful Head (1885) by Edward Burne-Jones. Southampton City Art Gallery. Photo: Shuishouyue via Wikipedia.

Statue group featuring Apollo, Poetry and Music by French artist, Aimé Millet (ca. 1860–1869). Roof of the Palais Garnier, Paris. 📷© Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons. 2007

"The city of Troy was in flames. Odysseus looked back & laughed. The walls of Troy, built by Poseidon himself, were tumbled to the ground. Now Odysseus could go home." Or could he? 'The Adventures of Odysseus,' retold by Neil Phillip. Illus. Peter Malone.(Orchard Books, 1996)📷me

Thetis changes into a lioness when Peleus attempts to keep her from shapeshifting. Douris, ca. 490 BCE. BnF Museum 📷Jastrow

For #OwlishMonday here is a pottery fragment featuring an owl. On display at the British Museum. Greek, ca. 610-570 BCE. 5.90 x 3.70 cm. Photo:© The Trustees of the British Museum. 🦉

A detail from 'Spring' by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, thought to be a depiction of Floralia, a festival honouring the Roman goddess Flora. #LegendaryWednesday

"Poseidon and Amphitrite"(ca. 1913) by Australian artist, Rupert Bunny (1864-1947). Oil on canvas, 80.5 x 95.5 cm. National Gallery of Australia.

"A Young Roman Warrior Accompanied by His Father Asks the Gods for the Success of His Weapons" (ca. 1780) by Jean-Germain Drouais. Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne. 📷Didier Descouens

"The earth shall bloom with the fragrant flowers of spring, and from the realm of gloom and darkness you will come up once more," says Demeter, reuniting with Persephone. "The Return of Persephone" (ca. 1891) by Frederic Leighton. Photo credit: Bridgeman Images

1898 print featuring sculptures of Zeus. 📷New York Public Library digital library picture collection.

"A Lover of Art" (1868) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912). Oil on canvas. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Image credit: Glasgow Life Museums

"I will remember Dionysos as he appeared on a jutting headland near the shore of the barren sea. He seemed a young man in first bloom, with his lovely dark hair flowing, a purple cloak around his strong shoulders." -Hymn to Dionysos

"And Kronos swallowed them all down as soon as each issued from Rheia's holy womb." 🎨(1820-1823) by Francisco Goya. Museo del Prado

"Faun by Moonlight" (1900) by Belgian artist, Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946). 49 x 63 cm. Private Collection.

"May he who loves not others love himself." "Echo and Narcissus" (1903) by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). Oil on canvas. Image credit: Walker Art Gallery

Book cover & spine art for "The Princess Athura" (1913) by Samuel W. Odell. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. (Photos by me). #BookChatWeekly

"Orpheus and the Animals" (1891) by Franz von Stuck (1863-1928). Oil on wood, gold ground. Museum Villa Stuck.