Ancient Greek and Hellenistic Art: Children with Animals

Michael Lahanas

Boethus, though he is better in silver, did a child strangling a goose by hugging it, , the son of

and a even younger child with a dog, National Museum of Athens. Compare with this image of a Greek boy taken 2300 years later by the photographer Dimitris Tloupas (1920 – 2003). The image is from

At seven years of age, I carried the sacred vessels; at ten, I pounded barley for the altar of Athene; next, clad in a robe of yellow silk, I played the bear to Artemis at the Brauronia; Aristophanes, Lysistrata

and a sculpture of a young girl (right image from the ministry of Greek culture, From the archaelogocal Museum of