Heracles fighting Achelous, the river god | Greek vase, Athenian black figure hydria

O20.6 HERAKLES & NEREUS OR AKHELOIOS

Museum Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Catalogue Number: Boston 99.522
Beazley Archive Number: TBA
Ware: Attic Black Figure
Shape: Hydria
Painter: --
Date: ca 530 - 520 BC
Period: Archaic

SUMMARY

Herakles wrestles a fish-tailed god: either Nereus or the river Akheloios.

ARTICLESAkheloios, Nereus

 
 
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