Herakles – Greek mythology
Herakles as a baby, on a red-figure vase from Athens (400s BC) Herakles/Hercules You might think you already know all about Hercules (the Greeks called him Herakles) from watching the Disney [...]
Herakles as a baby, on a red-figure vase from Athens (400s BC) Herakles/Hercules You might think you already know all about Hercules (the Greeks called him Herakles) from watching the Disney [...]
Clay figurine of a centaur (half-man, half-horse). From Lefkandi, Greece If the Greeks did not produce big statues in the Bronze Age, they certainly could not afford to in the [...]
Metope from the Parthenon On the metopes, just under the roof, Phidias carved the battle between Lapiths (men) and centaurs (the Centauromachy), Greeks against Amazons (Amazonomachy), the gods against the [...]