Herakles Gallery

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marmarinos:Roman statue of Herakles, dated to the reign of Hadrian, or 117-138 CE. Marble. Currently

ancientpeoples:Golden armband with Herakles knotArmband inlaid with garnets, emeralds and enamels. T

Gilded statuette of Hercules, perhaps intended as a portrait of the Roman emperor Commodus (r. 180-1

lionofchaeronea:Silver stater from the ancient Greek polis of Phaistos, Crete. On the obverse, Hera

lionofchaeronea:Heracles prepares to kill Syleus, a Lydian landowner who compelled passersby to labo

Ancient Roman tombstone depicting Heracles/Hercules and Hesione, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy,

philoursmars:Marseille. Au musée d’Histoire, une expo : “Terre ! Escales mythiques en Méditerranée”,

Fragment with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Labors of Herakles, Islamic ArtMedium: Wool, linen; pl

finelythreadedsky:Euripides, Children of Herakles, tr. Henry Taylor and Robert A. Brooks

A nude, beardless Heracles. Attic red-figure lekythos, name-vase of the Group of Palermo 16; ca. 45

The head of Heracles. Obverse of a silver tetradrachm minted in Babylon during the reign of Alexand

Tetradrachm: Head of Youthful Herakles in Lion’s Skin (obverse), 336, Cleveland Museum of Art:

Herakles Epitrapezios (Hercules of the Table), 1, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman ArtThe Ro

Fragment of an ancient Roman funerary monument depicting Hercules overcoming the Nemean Lion. Now i

archibaldmotley:Athena, Herakles, and Atlas with the apples of the Hesperides

Hercules at the Crossroads, Pompeo Batoni, 1748

“[Herakleia is] a celebration of the death of Herakles by athletes in the gymnasium in Kynosar

As Heracles (left) attacks Cycnus, son of Ares (right), Zeus steps between them to break up the figh

cma-greek-roman-art:Tetradrachm: Head of Young Herakles in Lion Skin (obverse), 336, Cleveland Museu

When I’m drawing it ends like this…

Heracles battles the three-bodied monster Geryon, whose cattle he has come to steal as part of his T

Terracotta head of Hercules. Artist unknown; 1st cent. BCE. Now in the Staatliche Antikensammlunge

aridante:we should be well prepared, mary oliver // herakles, euripides (trans. anne carson) // sele

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