Herakles' 11th Labor: The Golden Apples of the Hesperides - The Pistoxenos Painter’s Bobbin – Side A
Herakles’ Eleventh Labor, the hero is seizing the fully human sea-god Nereus.
Nereus is represented as an older man of gentle disposition, he is very different from the monster we are used to see according the 6th century iconography transmitted by the vase painters using the black figure technique. He has undergone not merely a change of shape but also of personality, for the cunning suggested in the earlier representations is now lacking. He is of regal appearance, with staff or scepter, wearing a long chiton and himation. He offers more than a token resistance. Herakles is well equipped; he wears the lionskin and his club is in his right hand. The Hero advances upon Nereus arresting him with the left hand.
Side B, Peleus and Tethis
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Red figured bobbin
Attributed to The Pistoxenos Painter
Ca. 460 BC
Athens, National Museum - NM 2192
Herakles' 11th Labor: The Golden Apples of the Hesperides - The Pistoxenos Painter’s Bobbin – Side A
Herakles’ Eleventh Labor, the hero is seizing the fully human sea-god Nereus.
Nereus is represented as an older man of gentle disposition, he is very different from the monster we are used to see according the 6th century iconography transmitted by the vase painters using the black figure technique. He has undergone not merely a change of shape but also of personality, for the cunning suggested in the earlier representations is now lacking. He is of regal appearance, with staff or scepter, wearing a long chiton and himation. He offers more than a token resistance. Herakles is well equipped; he wears the lionskin and his club is in his right hand. The Hero advances upon Nereus arresting him with the left hand.
Side B, Peleus and Tethis
CARC – CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Red figured bobbin
Attributed to The Pistoxenos Painter
Ca. 460 BC
Athens, National Museum - NM 2192