Chapter 13: Herakles
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♦ Delphi Museum: West Pediment of the archaic Temple of Apollo with Gigantomachy (see below for fragments)
Reconstruction by M.F. Courby, from P. de La Coste-Messelière, Fouilles de Delphes 4.3 (1931) 32 fig. 7
Fragments of Gigas, Athena in aigis, Apollo in animal skin, and two horses from chariot, from Wikimedia
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♦ Delphi Museum: West Pediment of the Athenian Treasury, with battle scene, perhaps a Gigantomachy with Herakles?
Athenian Treasury from northwest
♦ Olympia Museum: pediment of the Megarian Treasury with Gigantomachy
Views of preserved remains (upper) and drawing (lower) from G. Treu, Olympia: die Ergebnisse der von dem Deutschen Reich veranstalteten Ausgrabung (Tafelband 3): Die Bildwerke von Olympia in Stein und Thon (1894) pl. 3
Reconstruction of pediment, from Museum of the Goddess Athena
Remains of pediment from Megarian Treasury, Olympia Museum, from Wikimedia
Detail of Gigas, opponent of Zeus (see his lower legs), from center of pediment, from Wikimedia
♦ Athens, Acropolis Museum: marble figures from pediment from the Old Temple of Athena Polias on Acropolis
Preserved figures from the pediment, Acropolis Museum
Helmeted figure of Athena with aigis from center of the pediment, lunging at Gigas Enkelados, of whom only part of the left foot survives, Acropolis Museum
Kneeling Gigas from left corner of pediment, Acropolis Museum
Seated Gigas from right side of pediment, Acropolis Museum
Kneeling Gigas from right corner of pediment, Acropolis Museum
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♦ Palermo, Museum Archeologico A. Salinas 3909A, 3909B: two limestone metopes from Selinus, Temple F with Gigantomachy scenes
Dionysos in pursuit of Gigas, who has fallen on one knee, from Wikipedia
Athena or Artemis bringing down grimacing Gigas, from Archaeological Park of Selinunte and Cave di Susa
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♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung F2293: Attic red-figure cup by the Brygos Painter with Gigantomachy
Interior of cup, and sides B and A, from A. Furtwaengler, Adolf and K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder (Serie III, 1932) pl. 160; from side B (in center), two Gigantes and Hephaistos (see below), Poseidon with trident and boulder (island of Nisyros), collapsing Gigas, Hermes in petasus bringing down Gigas, whose upper torso is under handle zone
From interior of cup, Selene (inscribed SELE[ ) in a chariot drawn by two winged horses, who is descending into Okeanos; she may be connected to the Gigantomachy on the two exterior sides of the cup, by indicating that the battle occurred at dawn (see below for Parthenon, east metope 14, with Helios ascending from Okeanos); photo from Wikimedia
View of exterior side A of cup, with Zeus with thunderbolt stepping onto chariot, column, Herakles in lionskin as Scythian archer behind horses of chariot, and Athena in aigis spearing Gigas; from Antikensammlung
Detail of dying Gigas, opponent of Athena, from handle zone, from Wikimedia
From side B, detail of dying Gigas, another Gigas who defends him, and Hephaistos on the attack, holding out tongs with red-hot metal; from Wikimedia
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♦ Athens, Acropolis: east metopes from the Parthenon, with Gigantomachy scenes (see below for drawings and identifications)
Parthenon, East Metope 1, Acropolis Museum
Parthenon East Metope 1, reconstruction by C. Praschniker, Parthenonstudien (1928) p. 191
Parthenon, East Metope 3, Acropolis Museum
Proposed reconstruction of Parthenon East Metope 3 with Ares attacking a giant. Graphite on paper, with permission © Katherine A. Schwab, 2003. K. A. Schwab “Parthenon East Metope 3: A New Reconstruction for Ares and the Opposing Giant,” Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-26, 2003, Eds. C.C. Mattusch, A.A. Donohue, A. Brauer (2006) 429, fig. 4.
© Parthenon East Metope drawings and identifications by Katherine A. Schwab, with permission to include here. See An Archaeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine A. Schwab [Bellarmine Museum of Art (now Fairfield University Art Museum), Fairfield University, 2014]
Parthenon, East Metope 14, Acropolis Museum
Proposed reconstruction of Parthenon East Metope 14, graphite on paper, © K.A. Schwab, 2010
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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 2025
