Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Paus 5.11.5 – Pausanias, Description of Greece The other parts [of screens around the cult statue of Zeus in his temple at Olympia] show pictures by Paneanus. Among them is Atlas, supporting heaven and earth, by whose side stands Heracles ready to receive the load of Atlas. … Continue reading Labor XI: The Garden of the Hesperides (page 412, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Chest of Kypselos from temple of Hera at Olympia (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions) ♠ Paus 5.18.4 – Pausanias, Description of Greece Atlas too is supporting, just as the story has it, heaven and earth upon his shoulders; he is also carrying the apples of the … Continue reading Labor XI: The Garden of the Hesperides (page 411, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Stesichoros 12 SLG –Supplementum Lyricis Graecis, ed. D. Page, pp. 8-9. Oxford 1974. ♠ Stesichoros 13 SLG –Supplementum Lyricis Graecis, ed. D. Page, pp. 9-10. Oxford 1974. ♠ Stesichoros 11 SLG –Supplementum Lyricis Graecis, ed. D. Page, pp. 7-8. Oxford 1974. ♠ Stesichoros 15 SLG–Supplementum … Continue reading Labor X: The Cattle of Geryoneus (page 407, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Olympia, Archaeological Museum B 1881: bronze shield-band relief with Herakles encircling neck of Nereus? in his arms; Herakles has quiver and bow on his back, and has laid aside his club (on the left); Nereus? (here called “Old Man of the Sea”) with fish tail … Continue reading Labor X: The Cattle of Geryoneus (page 406, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Athens, National Archaeological Museum 513: Attic black-figure lekythos with Herakles and Helios; Herakles in lionskin holds club in left hand and gestures in surprise with his right hand; Helios, with radiate disc over his head, rises from the sea in his chariot with two winged … Continue reading Labor X: The Cattle of Geryoneus (page 405, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Chest of Kypselos from temple of Hera at Olympia (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions) ♠ Paus 5.19.1 – Pausanias Description of Greece Then comes the combat between Heracles and Geryones, who is represented as three men joined to one another. Greek Text Detail … Continue reading Labor X: The Cattle of Geryoneus (page 403, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Th 287-94 – Hesiod, Theogony But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious Ocean, and begot three-headed Geryones. Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns, and … Continue reading Labor X: The Cattle of Geryoneus (page 402 lower, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Il 5.628-51 – Homer, Iliad but Tlepolemus, son of Heracles, a valiant man and tall, was roused by resistless fate against godlike Sarpedon. And when they were come near as they advanced one against the other, the son and grandson of Zeus the cloud-gatherer, then Tlepolemus … Continue reading Laomedon, Hesione, and Troy (page 400 lower, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Tarquinia, Museo Nazionale RC5564: Attic black-figure neck-amphora with Herakles and Amazons; Herakles, in lionskin and with name inscribed, attacks collapsing Amazon Andromache (named) with a large sword; on the left, Amazon named Iphito attacks fallen Greek; on the right, Greek named Telamon attacks … Continue reading Labor IX: The Belt of Hippolyte (page 400 upper, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hkld 215-17 – Euripides, Herakleidai It is my claim that as right-hand man to Heracles I once sailed with Theseus to fetch the girdle, cause of many deaths, <belonging to Hippolyta.> Greek Text ♠ Lyk 1329-31 – Lykophron, Alexandra he [Theseus] went with the wild beast, the Initiate, who … Continue reading Labor IX: The Belt of Hippolyte (page 399, with art)
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