<  Previous MasterScans Wallpaper-quality pictures of great art from around the Web, updated daily Next >     Artist: unknown painter at Herculaneum Title: Achilles taught to play the lyre by Chiron Date: ca.45-79 A.D. Medium: fresco Dimensions: - Location: Museo Nazionale, Naples Image size: 964 x 1000 pixels, 520 Kbytes Image source: Classics Department, University of Texas                1.  Open in a new window   2.  Open in a 'chromeless' window       The centaur Chiron was known in Greek mythology as a great scholar and teacher: his students were said to include Hercules, Achilles and Jason. He is immortalized in the sky as the constellation Sagittarius. In 79 A.D. Herculaneum buried under 75 feet of ash by the same eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii. It wasn't rediscovered until the 1700s. There are other photos of the incredible works from these two great cities here: The Classicist's Picture Gallery Sendial Photo Archive PBase photos - Herculaneum (click "Other sizes: Original" to see the largest images)

 

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