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M19.1 HERACLES & THE NEMEAN LION

Heracles & Nemean Lion | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No. Louvre G71
Beazley Archive No. 200739
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Euergides Painter
Date ca 510 - 500 B.C.
Period Late Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side A1: Heracles wrestles the Nemean lion as one of his twelve labours, strangling the beast in a choke hold.
Side A2: Theseus and the Minotaur (see other image). Theseus and Procrustes (not shown).

"I [Herakles] seized him [the lion] by the scruff of his iron neck, having thrown my bow to the ground with my broidered quiver. Then I throttled him mightily with my stout hands, reaching round from behind lest he lacerate my flesh with his claws." - Theocritus, Idylls 25.150

ARTICLES

Nemean Lion

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Theseus & Minotaur

T34.2 Minotaur