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  Chapter 22: Heracles (Hercules in Latin)

Apollodorus on Heracles killing the Nemean lion

Pindar's Olympian Ode 2 (Heracles as founder of Olympian Games)
 

Pindar's Olympian Ode 2 (Heracles as founder of Olympian Games)
 

Materials on Heracles' Labors at the Perseus website:

Heracles and the Hydra
ALGARDI, Alessandro

Italian sculptor (b. 1598, Bologna, d. 1654, Roma)

Bronze, height: 32 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/a/algardi/hydra.jpg

Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1490s
ANTICO

Italian sculptor, Mantova school (b. ca. 1460, Mantova, d. 1528, Mantova)

Parcel-gilt bronze, diameter: 32,7 cm
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/a/antico/hercules.jpg

 

Hercules and Cacus, 1525-34
BANDINELLI, Baccio

Italian sculptor, Florentine school (b. 1488, Firenze, d. 1560, Firenze)

Marble, height: 505 cm
Piazza della Signoria, Florence
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/b/bandinel/hercule.jpg

 

Hercules and Cacus, 1525-34
BANDINELLI, Baccio

Italian sculptor, Florentine school (b. 1488, Firenze, d. 1560, Firenze)

Marble, height: 505 cm
Piazza della Signoria, Florence

 

GIOVANNI DA BOLOGNA
Hercules and the Centaur
1600
Marble, height: 269 cm
Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence

Hydra

Heracles Stealing the Tripod of Apollo (zoom) copyright Janice Siegel, Delphi

Heracles and Omphale

Heracles and the Centaur Nessus

Infant Heracles Strangling the Snakes (Berlin, copyright Janice Siegel)

Unknown (Berlin, copyright Janice Siegel)

The Milky Way

Nemean Lion


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