If the reception of the ancient world on film appeals to you – then we have a treat coming your way soon.

We just recorded an episode with the very erudite Professor Alastair Blanchard on the subject of Disney’s Hercules 🥳

@histodons @antiquidons #Podcast #History #ClassicalReception #Hercules #Herakles

🪷 #Antinous saw this Olympia #Zeus Temple frieze. #Athena helps #Hercules hold the world while Atlas fetches the Hesperides Apples🍎 . She uses her fingertips to help #Herakles. Moral: The gods don't do it all for you, but enable you to do it yourself! https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/05/when-it-is-all-too-much-to-bear.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous saw this Olympia #Zeus Temple frieze. #Athena helps #Hercules hold the world while Atlas fetches the Hesperides Apples🍎 . She uses her fingertips to help #Herakles. Moral: The gods don't do it all for you, but enable you to do it yourself! https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/05/when-it-is-all-too-much-to-bear.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous saw this Olympia #Zeus Temple frieze. #Athena helps #Hercules hold the world while Atlas fetches the Hesperides Apples🍎 . She uses her fingertips to help #Herakles. Moral: The gods don't do it all for you, but enable you to do it yourself! https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/05/when-it-is-all-too-much-to-bear.html 🪷

Going to the video store in Anne Carson’s “Autobiography of Red” (1998). #111Words #AnneCarson #AutobiographyOfRed #Geryon #Herakles #VerseNovel #VideoStore https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/03/going-to-video-store-in-anne-carsons.html

The Stymphalian Birds were a flock of man-eating birds of prey which lived around Lake Stymphalis in Arkadia on the Peloponnese. #Herakles had to drive them away as the sixth of his twelve labours.
#Athena got some bronze noise-makers from #Hephaistos and gave them to him. By shaking these, Herakles frightened the birds. They flew up in fear, and Herakles could reach them with his arrows.

Which is your favourite #bird story from #mythology?
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@mythology @antiquidons #GreekMythology #Heracles

Today I learned (from my colleague Emma Stafford's inaugural professorial lecture) that one tradition of #Herakles and his nephew #Iolaos fighting the many-headed #Hydra is that #Hera sent a crab to nip at Herakles's ankles to make his job even harder.

My great contribution to #Classical scholarship for today is that although the octopedal pincher looks small, it represents all the #admin jobs that Herakles had to get through before he could get anything done on the actual Second Labour, and is the main explanation for why he had to get Iolaos in to do the main job.

(Los Angeles, Getty Museum 83.AE.346, 520–510 BCE., https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103VHE)

#Hercules #Karkinos #LeedsUniversity

Herakles from Qaryat al-Faw

#hellenism #herakles #arabs #paganism #pagan #saudiarabia #history #archaeology

Going to be doing small paintings for #OCtober this year! I'm sure I have plenty to cover 31 days lol. Hope you're ready for the art journey!

#OriginalCharacter #Herakles #SmallPainting