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Metopes on the temple of Zeus
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• Lion of Nemea, Lernaean Hydra, Hind of Ceryneia, Boar of Erymanthus, Stymphalian Birds, Augean Stables, Horses of Diomedes, Cretan Bull,Girdle of Hippolyta, Oxen of Geron, Golden Apples of the Hesperides and Cerberus.
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The metopes on the East side
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• 12th labour.• Bringing the golden
apples, fruit of immortality, from the Garden of the Hesperides
• Heracles holding up the sky for Atlas
• Atlas bringing the apples
• Athena helping out
Golden Apples
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The Augean Stables
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What a job
• 6th labour• Had to cleanse
the dirtiest stables, The Augean stables
• He has matured by now (beard)
• First depiction of this labour in art.
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StablesEarly classical
elements• Movement • Emotion• Anatomical detail• Drapery• Detail face, hair (on
Athena & Heracles)• action
Archaic• Arm positions?
Parallel?• Drapery• Poses
frontal,semi-profile
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Local story
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• Athena closes the composition.
• ‘Strong opposing diagonals formed by his arms and legs’,
• Athena's parallel arm ‘a subtle gesture of support’.
• Athena's peplos falls in ‘broad simple folds and yet reveals the distribution of her weight’.
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BirdsMyth – 5th Labour• Heracles had to expel
Stymphalian birds from Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia by scaring them with bronze castanets from Athena. Birds-bronze beaked, man-eating and large as cranes
Early Classical Elements• Hair, head inclination,
posture, anatomical details, action-profile, overlapping limbs, transparency of drapery
Comparison to Archaic Period
• Angular divisions,
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Metopes on West side
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The Nemean Lion
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• 1st labour.• Young Heracles-
no beard.• Depicted after
the victory, resting and exhausted.
• An ‘after’ snapshot.
• Athena comforts him.
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Cretan BullMyth – 7th Labour• Fire snorting white
bull. Wrestled and tamed by Heracles.
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• Two crossing diagonals.• ‘All action’• Strain apart but heads turned
towards each other.• Brings the interest back to the
centre.• Metope filled to the corners.
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