M19.1 HERACLES & THE NEMEAN LION
Museum Collection | Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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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