Chapter 13: Herakles
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♦ Throne of Apollo at Amyklai (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions)
♠ Paus 3.18.10 – Pausanisas, Description of Greece
There are also reliefs of Atlas, the single combat of Heracles and Cycnus, and the battle of the Centaurs at the cave of Pholus. Greek Text
Reconstruction of whole throne by A. Furtwängler, from J.G. Frazer, Pausanias’s Description of Greece, vol. III, Commentary (2nd ed. 1913), p. 352
♦ London, British Museum B212: Attic black-figure neck-amphora by the Princeton Painter; on shoulder: Zeus in center, Herakles on right pursuing Kyknos on the left; behind Herakles, chariot with charioteer and Athena; behind Kyknos, chariot with charioteer and Ares
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♦ London, British Museum B156: Attic black-amphora by Swing Painter with Athena, Herakles advancing to right, Zeus, Kyknos and Ares
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♦ London, British Museum B197: Attic black-figure amphora by the Painter of Berlin 1686; with Athena, Herakles drawing his sword, Zeus with arms raised, fleeing Kyknos and Ares
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♦ Munich, Antikensammlungen 1379: Attic black-figure amphora by the Painter of Munich 1379, with Athena, Herakles, Zeus with arms raised, Kyknos and Ares
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Museum Antiker Kleinkunst 1 (1939) pl. 13.2
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♦ Paris, Musée de Louvre F29: fragmentary Attic black-figure amphora signed by Lydos with Athena?, Herakles, Zeus, Kyknos and Ares?
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♦ Aigina, Archaeological Museum: Attic black-figure tripod pyxis by Amasis Painter, with Athena (named), Herakles in lionskin, hand of Zeus (named) seizing right wrist of Kyknos (named) and Ares (named)
D. von Bothmer, The Amasis Painter and his World: Vase-Painting in Sixth Century B.C. Athens (1985) p. 236
Digital LIMC (no image)
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♦ Berlin, Antikensammlungen F1732. Attic black-figure oinochoe by Lydos, with chariot and charioteer named Iolaos, and with Poseidon with trident behind horses and old man (Halios Geron) on far left (detail 1); Athena, Herakles, dead Kyknos on ground with Zeus behind him (his thunderbolt a modern restoration) and Ares (detail 2); and chariot and charioteer named Phobos, and Apollo behind horses and Dionysos on far right (detail 3)
Detail 1
Detail 2
Detail 3
E. Gerhard, Auserlesene Griechische Vasenbilder (Band 2): Heroenbilder (1843) pls. 122-123
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♦ Delphi Museum: center of east pediment from Siphnian Treasury: Artemis encourages her brother Apollo, who seizes the legs of his tripod; in center, Zeus, who seizes wrists of Apollo (on the left) and Herakles (on the right); latter strides off with tripod over his shoulder
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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, October 2024
Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, April 2022
