Chapter 13: Herakles
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♠ AP 3.2 – Antologia Palatina, Cyzicene Epigrams
Greek Text and English Translation
♦ New York, American Numismatic Society 1944.100.40224: Greek bronze coin from Tegea with Athena head on obverse, and Telephos suckled by doe on reverse
♦ Naples, Museo Nazionale 9008: wall painting from Augusteum (so-called Basilica), Herculaneum, depicting Herakles (lower right) observing a doe suckling his son Telephos (lower left); in center of painting is Arkadia personified; on upper left is a young Pan, and on the upper right the winged Zodiac constellation Parthenos/Virgo points out Telephos and the doe; flanking Herakles are an eagle and lion
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♦ Berlin, Pergamon Museum: block from Telephos Frieze from interior of the Great Altar of Zeus at Pergamon; Herakles, leaning on his club which is draped with his lionskin, witnesses the suckling of his son Telephos by a lioness
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♦ Berlin, Pergamon Museum: block from Telephos Frieze from interior of the Great Altar of Zeus at Pergamon; in center, chest in which Auge will be confined and tossed into the sea; four workmen surround the chest and prepare it; work is supervised by large, partially destroyed figure of Aleos (father of Auge), who stands on left edge of relief; above the chest, two servants of Auge and distressed Auge herself, who sits looking left, enveloped in a cloak
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Tags:
#Telephos, #Hind, #Athena, #Herakles, #Arkadia, #Pan, #Parthenos (constellation), #lioness, #chest, #Auge, #Aleos
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, December 2024
Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, November 2023.
