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H2.7 HERMES, HERACLES & NIKE

Hermes, Heracles & Nike | Lucanian red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No. Louvre K518
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Lucanian Red Figure
Shape Krater
Painter Attributed to the Primato Painter
Date ca 350 - 330 B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

The gods Hermes and Nike (Victory) attend Heracles. Hermes wears a chlamys cloak and wreath, and holds a herald's wand (kerykeion) in his hand. Heracles is seated on a stool draped with his lion-skin cape and equipped with a quiver and club. Nike is winged and holds a palm branch and frond in her hands. The scene perhaps depicts Heracles' reception on Olympos following his apotheosis.

This image is a montage of several photos of the vase.

ARTICLES

Hermes, Nike