Chapter 15 Lecture Two of Two ©2012 Pearson Education Inc

Chapter 15Lecture Two of Two

©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

VARIOUS DEEDS


Various Deeds

• Heracles wants to remarry• Eurytus’s daughter Iolê was the prize

of an archery contest• Heracles wins, but Eurytus won’t give

her up• Iphitus, son of Eurytus and fan of

Heracles, notices that some horses are missing after Heracles leaves


Various Deeds

• Iphitus can’t believe Heracles would do this, so he visits Heracles in Tiryns

• Heracles kills Iphitus, thus violating xenia


Fig. 15.8Heracles must be purified, and goes to Delphi.

Disgusted, Apollo at first refuses to give him advice.

Heracles tries to steal the holy tripod.


Musée du Louvre, Paris; Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, New York

Various Deeds

• Zeus urges an end.• Apollo orders Heracles to serve a

woman for three years.• Omphalê buys him in a slave market,

and the two spend their in odd sexual role reversals.


Various DeedsPan

Why he wears no clothes

Cecropes (Fig. 15. 9)“Black Buttocks”

TroyAfter his releaseKilled Laomedon and all his sons, except Priam (a.k.a. Podarces)


Museo Archeologico Regionale, Palermo; University of Wisconsin–Madison Photo Archive

THE DEATH OF HERACLES


The Death of HeraclesBattles river god Acheloüs for Deinaira (Fig. 15.10).


British Museum, London; © Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, New York

Death of HeraclesBringing her back, he confront the centaur Nessus. (Fig. 15.11)

Nessus slips Deinaira a “love” potion before he dies.

They proceed to Trachis.

Heracles returns to Eurytus to get Iolê.


National Archaeological Museum, Athens; Foto Marburg/Art Resource, New York

The Death of Heracles

• Deinaira hears of Iolê and remembers the potion . . .

• Despite his agony, no one will light his funeral pyre. Finally, a shepherd, Philoctetes does, and gets the bow and arrows in thanks.

• Heracles transported to Olympus, where he lives with the gods and his new bride, Hebê


THE RETURN OF THE HERACLIDAE


The Return of the Heraclidae

• Protected in Athens• Hyllus kills and defiles Eurystheus• Heraclidae (Heraclids) take the

Peloponnese in the third generation• The Dorian Invasion?


OBSERVATIONSHeracles Kallinikos


Heracles Kallinikos

• “Glory of Hera”? • Where from?

– Boeotia? the Argolid?

• Old fashioned, even in Homer• A hero of excesses and danger


Heracles Kallinikos

• Even shot Hera and Hades• Prevails against death and is made

immortal• Heracles alexikakos• Serves humanity by ridding the world

of dangers


Fig. 15.12The Hercules of Farnese shows him exhausted from all his labors. He holds the apples of the Hesperides, the last of his labors, behind his back.


Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; © Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York

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