target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#_68.jpg"/>68. Anonymous, Fragment of a Rhyton Showing an Amorous Embrace, 2nd century BCE.
Ancient Greek. Private collection.
69. Anonymous, Grimani Altar, last quarter of the 1st century BCE.
Ancient Roman. Museo Archeologico Nazional, Venice.
70. Anonymous, Aphrodite of Melos, known as Venus de Milo, c. 100 BCE.
Ancient Greek. Marble, height: 202 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The Aphrodite of Melos, or Vénus de Milo, is an original Greek sculpture dating to the Hellenistic period. It was discovered in a field along with other sculptural fragments, including a separate arm holding an apple, which belongs with this figure. The apple is probably a reference to the mythical “Judgment of Paris”. In that tale, the goddess of Discord tossed a golden apple inscribed “for the loveliest” towards the goddesses Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera. The young Trojan prince, Paris, was asked to decide which goddess should be awarded the apple. Each tried to bribe Paris but he chose Aphrodite, who offered him the love of the most beautiful mortal woman in the world. That woman, of course, was Helen of Sparta, already married to the Greek king. Her abduction by Paris started the Trojan War. While Aphrodite is criticised by Homer for her role in starting the conflict, she is celebrated here as the purveyor of true love.
71. Anonymous, Aphrodite, known as Venus of Arles, end of the 1st century BCE.
Ancient Roman. Marble, height: 194 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
72. Anonymous, Hercules and Omphale, 1st century BCE.
Ancient Roman. Carnelian. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
73. Anonymous, Mirror Cover Showing a Couple, 1st century BCE.
Ancient Roman. Bronze. Antiquarium, Rome.
74. Anonymous, Leda and the Swan.
Ancient Roman. Cameo, 2.5 × 1.7 cm. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
75. Anonymous, Faunus, c. 100 BCE.
Ancient Roman. Pompeii.
76. Anonymous, Mercury with Many Penises, c. 100 BCE.
Ancient Roman. Pompeii.
77. Anonymous, Phallic Tintinnabulum.
Ancient Roman. Bronze. Pompeii.
78. Anonymous, Tripod with Ithyphallic Young Pans, c. 1st century CE.
Ancient Roman. Pompeii. Bronze. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
79. Anonymous, Phallic Tintinnabulum, 1st century CE.
Ancient Roman. Bronze. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
80. Anonymous, Priapus, God of Fertility, 1st century CE.
Ancient Roman. Bronze. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
81. Anonymous, Skyphos with an Erotic Group (detail), c. 1st century CE.
Ancient Roman. Private collection.
82. Anonymous, Satyr Playing the Flute, beginning of the Common Era. Attican Plate (detail).
Ancient Roman. Private collection.
83. Anonymous, Skyphos with an Erotic Group (detail), c. 1st century CE.
Ancient Roman. Private collection.
84. Anonymous, Erotic Frieze.
Ancient Roman. Private collection.
85. Anonymous, Scene of Banquet in Open Air, 1st century CE.
Ancient Roman. Pompeii. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
86. Anonymous, Coupling Scene between a Satyr and a Nymph, first half of 2nd century CE.
Ancient Roman. From the House of the Faun, Pompeii.
87. Anonymous, Maenad Solicited by a Satyr Wearing Earrings.
Ancient Roman. Fresco. From the House of L. Caecilius Jucundus in Pompeii. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
88. Anonymous, One of three small erotic pictures from a small room adjacent to the kitchen, 1st century CE.
Ancient Roman. Fresco. House of the Vettii, Pompeii.
89. Anonymous, The Standing Man Supports the Woman’s Legs on his Shoulders while she half-lies on the Bed, 1st century CE.
Fresco. From the House of Punished Love, Pompeii.
90. Anonymous, Depiction of “Coitus a Tergo”, 1st century CE.
Ancient Roman. Fresco. Pompeii.
91. Anonymous, Erotic Scene.
Ancient Roman. Fresco. Wall painting from Pompeii.
92. Anonymous, Pan with Hermaphroditus, c. 54–68 CE.
Ancient Roman. Fresco. Atrium of the House of Dioscuri, Nero’s reign, Pompeii. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
93. Anonymous, Erotic Scene from the Suburban Baths of Pompeii.
Ancient
