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Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Heracles
81. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles carries the Cercopes hanging on a pole. Metopa from the Temple С in Selinuntum.
Compact limestone of Menfi.
540—510 BCE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
82. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles fights against Amazon. Metopa from the eastern frieze of the Temple E in Selinuntum.
Limestone, marble.
460—450 BCE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
83. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles fights against Amazon (a close-up). Metopa from the eastern frieze of the Temple E in Selinuntum.
Limestone, marble.
460—450 BCE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
84. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus depicting Heracles and Charon.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
85. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus depicting Heracles and Charon.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
86. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Heracles.
Bronze.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
87. CERAMICS. Greece.
Heracles bringing Cerberus to Eurystheus.
Caeretan hydria.
Clay.
520 BCE.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
88. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Heracles bringing to Athena the Stymphalian Birds.
Metope of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
Marble. 60s of the 5th century BCE.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
89. TOREUTICS. Rome.
Patera of Rennes.
Gold. Early 3rd century CE.
Diameter 25 cm, weight 1375 g.
Inv. No. 56.94.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
90. TOREUTICS. Rome.
Patera of Rennes (central tondo).
Gold. Early 3rd century CE.
Diameter 25 cm, weight 1375 g.
Inv. No. 56.94.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
91. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Statue of Heracles.
Marble. Roman copy of the 1st cent. CE after a Greek original of the 4th cent. BCE.
Patras, New Archaeological Museum.
92. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Statue of Heracles.
Marble. Roman copy of the 1st cent. CE after a Greek original of the 4th cent. BCE.
Patras, New Archaeological Museum.
93. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Cinerary urn of a woman with a scene of a battle between the Giants and the Gods.
Travertine. 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. Bell. 134.
Perugia, National Archaeological Museum of Umbria.
94. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Young Heracles strangles the snakes.
Fresco of the Fourth style. 60—79 CE.
Pompeii, Archaeological Park, House of the Vettii (VI. 15. 1. n).
95. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Hercules strangling the snakes before the eyes of Amphitryon and Alcmene. Fragment.
Fresco of the Fourth style. 60—79 CE.
Pompeii, Archaeological Park, House of the Vettii (VI. 15. 1. n).
96. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Heracles and Auge.
Fresco of the Fourth style. 60—79 CE.
Pompeii, Archaeological Park, House of the Vettii (VI. 15. 1. t).
97. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statuette of Heracles (by cast).
Private collection, England.
98. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Hercules kills the Nemean lion. Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Marble. Greece, 5th cent. BCE.
Rome, Basilica of Saint Mary Above Minerva.
99. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Hercules kills the Nemean lion (detail). Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Marble. Greece, 5th cent. BCE.
Rome, Basilica of Saint Mary Above Minerva.
100. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with Hercules and Cerberus at the gates if Hades.
Proconnesian marble. 2nd half of the 2nd century CE.
Inv. No. S 1394.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum, III. 118.