P. 434 upper (with art) – Gantz, Early Greek Myth (1993)

Athens, National Museum 1002: Attic black-figure neck-amphora by the Nessos Painter, Herakles and Nessos

♠ Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.18.12

There is wrought also the single combat of Achilles and Memnon, and Heracles avenging himself upon Diomedes the Thracian, and upon Nessus at the river Euenus. Greek Text

Paestum Museum: metopes from the Heraion I at Foce del Sele, Herakles and Nessos with Deianeira

Drawing by Stephen Deck from Frances Dodds Van Keuren, The Frieze from the Hera I Temple at Foce del Sele (1989), pl. 3

Soprintendenza Archeologia per le provincie di Salerno e Avellino

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, November, 2017.

Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, November 2023.

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