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Infant Hercules and the Snakes

Infant Hercules and the Snakes. Heracles and Iphicles. (Heracles strangling two snakes in the crib ) Red figure pottery, 470 BC Musée du Louvre, Paris. BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395 BC. Hemidrachm Electrum, Dionysos , infant Herakles.

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Infant Hercules and the Snakes

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  1. Infant Hercules and the Snakes

  2. Heracles and Iphicles (Heracles strangling two snakes in the crib) Red figure pottery, 470 BC Musée du Louvre, Paris

  3. BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395 BC. Hemidrachm Electrum, Dionysos, infant Herakles MYSIA, Cyzicus. Stater, EL ca 430-415 BC Heracles and Iphicles BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 405-395 BC. AR Stater 21mm BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 370 BC. AR Nomos Calabria, Tarentum. Diobol, about 250 bc 11-12mm

  4. Hercules strangles the serpents Painting from the House of the Vettii, Pompeii. 62-79 AD.

  5. Young boy portrayed as Hercules choking the snakes Rome, Capitoline Museum Second half of 2nd century AD Marble

  6. Annibale Carracci • 1599-1600 • Louvre Paris, France

  7. Anonymous FrenchArtist • 1700 • Bronze

  8. The Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpents Sir Joshua Reynolds This painting was commissioned by Catherine the Great in 1785 the State Hermitage Museum

  9. George Washington Horatio Greenough. (1840) Centennial of Washington’s Birth National Museum of American History

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