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)
Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hesiod, Theogony 326-32 but Echidna was subject in love to Orthus and brought forth the deadly Sphinx which destroyed the Cadmeans, and the Nemean lion, which Hera, the good wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea, a … Continue reading Labor I: The Nemean Lion (page 383 lower, with art)
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
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)
Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 98.916: Tyrrhenian black-figure neck-amphora with Herakles in lionskin fighting Amazons Museum of Fine Arts Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♠ Peisandros, Herakleia fr 1 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 167, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987. ♠ … Continue reading Gaia and Pontos (page 25, with art)
Chapter 1: The Early Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Munich, Antikensammlungen 2243: Attic black-figure band cup by Archikles and Glaukytes with sphinxes (identified by inscription) E. Gerhard, Auserlesene Griechische Vasenbilder, hauptsächlich Etruskischen Fundorts (Band 3, 1847), detail from pls. 235-6 Beazley Archive Pottery Database Perseus Art and Archaeology Artifact Browser ♦ … Continue reading Gaia and Pontos (page 24, with art)