A B C D E G H I K L M N O P R S T W Z Zeus, Munich, Antikensammlungen 596 There are two kinds of searches possible for this web site. The first type, which is comprehensive, involves just entering a mythological character’s name in the search box over the left menu … Continue reading Subject tags for mythological characters
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Chest of Kypselos from temple of Hera at Olympia (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions) ♠ Pausanias Description of Greece 5.19.1 Then comes the combat between Heracles and Geryones, who is represented as three men joined to one another. Greek Text Detail … Continue reading Labor X: The Cattle of Geryoneus (page 403, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hesiod, Theogony 287-94 But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious Ocean, and begot three-headed Geryones. Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns, … Continue reading Labor X: The Cattle of Geryoneus (page 402 lower, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 50406 (M472): Attic black-figure amphora with Herakles wrestling lion, his bent, useless sword beneath lion; Iolaos (on left) and Athena (on right) encourage Herakles P. Mingazzini, Vasi della Collezione Castellani: Catalogo (1930), pl. 65.1 Beazley Archive … Continue reading Labor I: The Nemean Lion (page 384 upper, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 362-69 neither hath he any memory of this, that full often I saved his son when he was fordone by reason of Eurystheus’ tasks. For verily he would make lament toward heaven and from heaven would Zeus send me forth to … Continue reading The Twelve Labors: Evolution (page 381 lower, with art)
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