Classical Era
- The "Colossus of Rhodes", one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- The "Statue of Zeus at Olympia", one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- The "Athena Parthenos", originally housed in the Parthenon
- The "Lemnian Athena", a bronze worked by Phidias housed in the Parthenon
- The "Aphrodite of Knidos", a 4th century B.C.E marble sculpture by Praxiteles
- Paintings of the "Sack of Troy" and "Odysseus in the Underworld" in the Lesche of Knidos at Delphi by Polygnotus of Thasos, mid 5th c. B.C.E. Described in detail by Pausanias in his Description of Greece, Chapter X, 25-31.
- A colossal bronze seated Hercules, executed by the Greek sculptor Lysippus for the acropolis of Tarentum in southern Italy was taken to Rome by Fabius Maximus, 209 B.C.E., and installed on the Capitoline Hill. Later taken to Constantinople to decorate the Hippodrome, it was melted down by invading Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade, 1204 C.E.
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