Herakles, represented by a head fragment, a battered torso and well-preserved right calf, faced right to meet the Hydra, a many-headed snake which normally produced two new heads for …

As Herakles’s patron goddess Athena looks on, Atlas offers the apples to the hero, who carries the heavens on his shoulders. This relief sculpture is a metope. Metopes are square panels …

The first metope shows Athena as a young woman, comforting the tired hero who has accomplished his first Labour, against the Nemean Lion. On the third metope she received the …

Metopes, the panels on a temple between the columns and the pediment, were ideal places to decorate with sculpture; they are square, and come in sets of even numbers.

Jul 7, 2012 · THE LERNEAN HYDRA Eurystheus next sent Hercules to kill the dreaded Hydra of Lerna. This swamp monster had a huge doglike body and countless snake-like heads -- one of …

Media in category "Temple of Zeus in Olympia - Metopa (Lernaean Hydra)" This category contains only the following file. Hydre de lerne-metope ouest 2-temple zeus olympie.jpg 2,852 …

English: These pieces are in the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total.

Jul 13, 2017 · This polychromed metope once decorated the west porch of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia (c. 460 BCE); the remains are in the Olympia Archaeological Museum. It is part of a …

Read the story of Hercules and the Lernean Hydra, as told by Apollodorus, the ancient writer who collected legends in his mythology handbook, the Library. The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was …

Those on the West follow, this time from right to left: the Amazon, the Keryneian hind, the Cretan bull, the Stymphalian birds, the Lernaean Hydra and the Nemean Lion.