Exquisite gold offering bowl engraved with the drinking contest between #Bacchus and #Hercules. We know this story from art but no written account of this myth has survived.
🏛️ #Dionysos and #Herakles, Drinking Contest Detail, Patera of Rennes, Roman bowl, ca 210 CE. Today in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, #Paris.
Ares-Mars embraced by his love Aphrodite-Venus with a dog at their feet. The club in his hand is usually part of the iconography of #Herakles so it could also be a fresco depicting #Hercules and Megaera or Deïaneira. Does anyone know if it's Mars of Hercules?
We take a deep dive into this classic film with the wonderfully knowledgable Professor Alastair Blanchard who’s a renowned scholar of the classics and who has a particular interest in the heroic figure of Herakles - aka Hercules - aka Hunkules 😅
Join us to explore how the tale of Hercules is reimagined by Disney!