Chapter 13: Herakles
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♦ Paestum Museum: metope from the Heraion alla Foce del Sele with Herakles slaying Alkyoneus? with a sword
Digital LIMC, Scene 22 (no image)
♦ Olympia Museum B 1801 bronze shield-band with Herakles stabbing Alkyoneus?
E. Kunze, Archaische Schildbänder (1950) pl. 8 (identified as Herakles and Geras)
♦ Olympia Museum B 1010: bronze shield-band with Herakles clubbing Alkyoneus?
E. Kunze, Archaische Schildbänder (1950) pl. 15 (identified as Herakles and Geras)
♦ Basel, Antikensammlung and Ludwig Collection BS 318: relief from terracotta band, reputedly from Sicily, with Athena putting Alkyoneus to sleep and Herakles shaking Hermes’ hand
Photo courtesy of Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection
♦ Paris, Musée de Louvre F208: Attic black-figure amphora by the Lysippides Painter, with Herakles shooting an arrow at sleeping Alkyoneus (both named)
Archäologische Zeitung (1884) pl. 4
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Paris, Louvre 3 (1925)
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
Digital LIMC (no photo of side with Herakles and Alkyoneus)
♦ Munich Antikensammlungen 1784: Attic black-figure olpe from the Keyside Class with Herakles approaching sleeping Alkyoneus with his sword drawn; Hypnos perches on right arm of Alkyoneus
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♦ Toledo, Museum of Art 1952.66: Attic black-figure lekythos by Leagros Group with Herakles with sword drawn, advancing towards sleeping Alkyoneus, above whom Hypnos hovers
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
Perseus Art and Archaeology Artifact Browser
Digital LIMC (no image)
♦ Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco 16521 (Albizzati 229): Caeretan hydria with Hermes, and Herakles with club and bow, who is stepping on Alkyoneus
Museum Etruscum Gregorianum (2nd ed.1842) pl. 16.2, as reproduced in J.M. Hemelrijk, Caeretan Hydriae (1984 text) p. 38 figs. 28-29
Digital LIMC (no image)
♦ Tarquinia, Museo Nazionale RC 2070: Attic black-figure cup; Side A with warrior, Herakles advancing with club, sleeping Alkyoneus with Seiren-formed Hypnos seated on his back, Athena, warrior; Side B with chariot race with three cattle running behind chariots; Interior: seated Dionysos
Archäologische Zeitung (1884) pl. 3
Beazley Archive Pottery Database (no image)
Digital LIMC (no image)
♦ Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 7030: Attic black-figure skyphos; Side A with Herakles wrestling old Alkyoneus or Antaios? and Athena; Side B with Hermes leading cattle
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Tarquinnia, Museo Nazionale 2 (1942)
Beazley Archive Pottery Database (Herakles’ opponent identified as Antaios)
Digital LIMC (image of Side B)
♦ Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum GR23.1864 (old number G43): Pontic neck-amphora with two warriors with spears (Telamon and Herakles?) and seated giant with rock (Alkyoneus?)
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#Herakles, #Alkyoneus, #Athena, #Hermes, #Hypnos, #Seiren, #cattle, #Antaios, #Telamon
Artistic sources edited by R. Ross Holloway, Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor Emeritus, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown Univ., and Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Univ. of Georgia, July 2024
