Greek tragedy posters & prints

Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx, 1891 Anonymous

Oedipus and the Sphinx Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Cephalus and Procris, 1530 Swiss School

The Greek Tragedians, study for 'The Apotheosis of Homer' Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Antigone with Sister Ismene Anonymous

Oedipus at Colonus, 1798 Fulchran Jean Harriet

Oedipus and Antigone or The Plague of Thebes Charles Francois Jalabert

The Abandoned Oedipus Anonymous

Hector's Farewell to Andromache Jean Antoine Julien de Parme

The embarkation of Helen of Troy Anonymous

Midas Turning His Daughter into Gold Anonymous

Phaedra and Hippolytus, 1802 Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin

Oedipus and the Sphinx, c. 1826 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Design for Aeschylus: The Eumenides, c.1919 Charles Ricketts

Jocasta kills herself, A living child is sacrificed, Mother of Thursines finds her son drowned Johannes Boekholt

Oedipus at Colonus, 1798 Fulchran Jean Harriet

An Audience in Athens during the Representation of Agamemnon by Aeschylus, 1884 William Blake Richmond

The Dream of Orestes, 19th century Francois Dubois

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia Francesco de Mura

Clytemnestra, c.1817 Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin

Oedipus and Antigone Leave Thebes, 1797 Joseph Anton Koch

Hecuba and Polyxena, after 1814 Merry-Joseph Blondel

Daughters of Danaus murdering their husbands. Hypermnestra in prison (Illustration for The Heroides by Ovid), 1485-1499 Cristoforo Majorana

Dying Adonis, 1609 Hendrik Goltzius

Illustration of Achilles and the Taking of Troy Anonymous

Medea Kills her Two Children by Jaso Rene Boyvin

Alcestis sacrifices herself to save her husband Admetus, King of Pherae, 1785 Jean Francois Pierre Peyron

Oedipus the Wayfarer or Equality before Death, 1888 Anonymous

Medea Kills Her Two Children by Jaso Rene Boyvin

Antigone from 'Antigone' by Sophocles Marie Spartali Stillman

Scene of the Greek comedy Andria Terence

Melpomene Anonymous

Medea (Médée furieuse) Eugène Delacroix

Detail of Calchas and Iphigenia from The Sacrifice of Iphigenia Giovanni Battista (1696-1770) Tiepolo

Costume Design for 'Oedipus at Colonus' by Sophocles, 1904 Leon Bakst

Tragedy Anonymous