Chapter 13: Herakles
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♠ Th 326-32 – Hesiod, Theogony
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 plague to men. There he preyed upon the tribes of her own people and had power over Tretus of Nemea and Apesas: yet the strength of stout Heracles overcame him. Greek Text
♠ Peisandros fr 1 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 167, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
♠ Stesichoros 229 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 122, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
♠ Is 6.47-48 – Pindar, Isthmian Odes
May he have a body as invulnerable as this skin that is now wrapped around me, from the beast whom I killed that day in Nemea as the very first of my labors. Greek Text
♠ Bak 13.46-54 – Bakchylides, Epinicians
look how the descendant of Perseus brings his hand down heavily on the neck of the bloodthirsty lion with every type of skill! [50] For the gleaming, man-subduing bronze refuses to pierce the lion’s fearsome body; the sword was bent back. Greek Text
♠ Bak 9.6-9 – Bakchylides, Epinicians
the flourishing plain of Nemean Zeus, where white-armed Hera reared the sheep-slaughtering, deep-voiced lion, the first of Heracles’ far-famed labors. Greek Text
♦ London, British Museum 3204: Boiotian fibula with a man (Herakles?) stabbing a lion with a long spear (see the fibula’s right side)
H.B. Walters, Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum (1899), p. 372 fig. 86
♦ Olympia, Archaeological Museum B 1650: bronze shield-band relief with Herakles threatening lion with sword
E. Kunze, Archaische Schildbänder. Olympische Forschungen 2 (1950) pl. 53
♦ Olympia, Archaeological Museum B 1654: bronze shield-band relief with Herakles stabbing lion with sword
E. Kunze, Archaische Schildbänder. Olympische Forschungen 2 (1950) pl. 19
♦ Paris, Musée du Louvre E812: Chalkidian? black-figure neck-amphora, with Herakles stabbing the lion with a long sword, in presence of two male and two female spectators
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Artistic sources edited by Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Univ. of Georgia, March 2023
Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, December 2020
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