Chapter 13: Herakles
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♦ London, British Museum E65: Attic red-figure cup by Brygos Painter with Silenoi preparing to assault Hera (Side A), and Silenoi assaulting Iris (Side B); on Side A, four Silenoi (named Terpon, Barbakchos, Hydris and Styon) approaching Hermes (named) and Hera (named), who flees, while Herakles in lionskin (named) strides in to defend Hera; on Side B, Silenos (Dromis) races to right, Dionysos (named) stands with kantharos, altar, Silenos (Echon) seizes right wrist of winged Iris (named), who flees, while another Silenos (Lephsis) seizes Iris’ left elbow
Photos of Sides A &B, British Museum
Sides A and B, from A. Furtwaengler, and K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder (Serie I, Tafel, 1904) pl. 47.2
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
Digital LIMC and links to entries in printed LIMC
♦ Paestum Museum: metopes from Heraion at Foce del Sele (see below for possible identifications)
Frightened woman and kneeling archer (Hera defended by Herakles or Deianeira defended by Herakles?); Paestum Museum
Woman encourages man who draws a sword (Hera defended by Herakles or Elektra encouraging Orestes?); Paestum Museum
Unfinished metope with walking Silenoi, perhaps to be finished as holding stones; Paestum Museum
Unfinished metope with running Silenoi, perhaps to be finished as holding stones; Wikimedia
Digital LIMC and links to entries in printed LIMC
♠ Il 5.392-94 – Homer, Iliad
So suffered Hera, when the mighty son of Amphitryon smote her on the right breast with a three-barbed arrow; then upon her too came pain that might in no wise be assuaged. Greek Text
♠ ΣA Il 5.392 – Scholia A to Homer, Iliad – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem I, p. 216, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1875.
♠ ΣbT Il 5.392 – Scholia bT to Homer, Iliad – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem 3, pp. 249-50, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1877
♠ Σ Lyk 39 – Scholia to Lykophron, Alexandra – Lykophronis Alexandra 2, pp. 31-32, ed E. Scheer. Berlin 1908.
♠ Panyasis, Herakleia fr 24 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 184, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
at sandy Pylos (Transl. T. Gantz)
♠ Panyasis, Herakleia fr 25 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 184, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
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#Silenoi, #Hermes, #Hera, #Herakles, #Dionysos, #Iris
Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, December 2023.
Artistic sources edited by Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Univ. of Georgia, July 2025.
