Heracles’ charioteer Iolaus holds his arrows, while the god Hermes watches Heracles grapple with the
Heracles’ charioteer Iolaus holds his arrows, while the god Hermes watches Heracles grapple with the Nemean Lion. Attic white-ground black-figure lekythos, attr. to the Edinburgh Painter; ca. 500 BCE. Found at Gela; now in the Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas,” Palermo. Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons. -- source link
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