Hercules Omnibus

Only a Cerberus will do.

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Héraklès (léonté) État de l’œuvre : incomplet, il manque les armes rapportées (massue dans la main droite et bouclier (?) dans la main gauche). Dimensions : Hauteur 21,3 cm ; Largeur 9,86 cm ; Profondeur 6,4 cm Matériau : bronze Technique : coulé = fondu Date de création / fabrication : IVe s. av. J.-C. (-400 - -300)

Le héros Héraclès
Musée du Louvre

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Heracles and the Old Man of the Sea – PDF Luce, S. B. “Heracles and the Old Man of the Sea.” American Journal of Archaeology 26, no. 2 (1922), 174-192. Conclusion I have sought to show that the vases showing Heracles in combat …

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Luce, S. B. “Heracles and the Old Man of the Sea.” American Journal of Archaeology 26, no. 2 (1922), 174-192.

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Pictured: A mid-6th century Hydria featuring Heracles wrestling the sea god Triton.

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Thank you for posting about this. I'll check it out.

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Here is a PDF for the following Spanish language book.

Hércules en el Mito, la Historia y el Arte Iberoamericano. Relatos de una figura de poder y dominación [Hercules in Ibero-American Myth, History, and Art: Tales of a figure of Power and Domination]

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Here is a PDF for the following art book.

Herakles: Passage of the Hero Through 1000 Years of Classical Art

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About This is the official website for The Hercules Omnibus, an ongoing compilation of sources about the great hero. I plan to gather public domain English translations of all Greek and Roman works about…

This is the official blusky account for "The Hercules Omnibus" project. I plan to gather public domain translations for all Greek & Roman works about Heracles-Hercules in a single Google Doc/PDF. I'll also include info about his Etruscan & Germanic versions. See here.

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The Iconography of Herakles and the ‘Other’ in Archaic Greek Vase Painting – PDF Pamela Jane Lawson, “The Iconography of Herakles and the ‘Other’ in Archaic Greek Vase Painting,” PhD diss., (Harvard University, 1993). (Free PDF link above) Abstract …

Here is a PDF for the following dissertation.

"The Iconography of Herakles and the ‘Other’ in Archaic Greek Vase Painting"

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Heracles vs Sun Wukong Drawings I commissioned two artists to draw Heracles fighting Sun Wukong (孫悟空), the immortal monkey hero from Journey to the West (Xiyou ji, 西遊記, 1592 CE). Both were instructed to draw the characters as if …

I commissioned two artists to draw Heracles fighting Sun Wukong. You can read more about them here:

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Great Ancient Greco-Roman Art Resource While reading a PhD thesis, I was pleasantly surprised to learn about the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (“Iconographic Lexicon of Classical Mythology”; a.k.a. L…

I was pleasantly surprised to learn about the 'Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae' (“Iconographic Lexicon of Classical Mythology”; a.k.a. LIMC; 1981-2009), a 16-volume encyclopedia of Greco-Roman art.

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