When we try to make sense of pictures what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century CE Roman sarcophagus - enables Katharina Lorenz to demonstrate how theoretical approaches to images (specifically iconology semiotics and image studies) impact the meanings we elicit from Greek and Roman art. A guide to Cl