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Myth and Meaning
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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:
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Heracles and the Hydra
ALGARDI, Alessandro
Italian sculptor (b. 1598,
Bologna, d. 1654, Roma)
Bronze, height: 32 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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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 |
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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 |
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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
copyright
2001 Janice
Siegel,
All Rights Reserved
send comments to: Janice Siegel (jfsiege@ilstu.edu)
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