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Herakles Brings the Stymphalian Birds to Athena - Ancient Greece Metope from the west side of the temple of Zeus illustrates another Heracles labor, the killing of the Stymphalian Birds He has just finished the task and presents Athena with the lifeless birds (have not survived) The goddess is seated on a rock barefoot
Metope with Athena, Herakles, and Atlas from the Temple of Zeus . . . This particular metope was originally positioned high up on the east (front) side of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia It was 1 of 12 metopes carved in relief that showed the different Labors of Herakles to visitors who saw the temple located in the sanctuary at Olympia
STYMPHALIAN BIRDS (Ornithes Stymphalides) - Man-Eating Birds of Greek . . . STYMPHA′LIDES (Stumphalides), the celebrated rapacious birds near the Stymphalian lake in Arcadia, whence they were driven by Heracles and compelled to take refuge in the island of Aretias in the Euxine, where they were afterwards found by the Argonauts
Stymphalian birds - Wikipedia The Stymphalian birds are man-eating birds with beaks of bronze, sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and poisonous dung These fly against those who come to hunt them, wounding and killing them with their beaks
Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Stymphalian Birds When the labors of Heracles were represented on one of the metopes of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (c 460 BC) a different, post-climactic “narrative moment” was chosen The birds have already been killed or driven away
Temple of Zeus at Olympia, metope | Museum of Classical Archaeology . . . One of the labours is depicted here, as Herakles presents the Stymphalian birds to Athena The temple was built by a local architect called Libon, but was destroyed by an earthquake in the fifth century CE Purchased in 1884 from the casting establishment of the Berlin Museum
Hercules Sixth Labor: the Stymphalian Birds - Tufts University After Hercules returned from his success in the Augean stables, Eurystheus came up with an even more difficult task For the sixth Labor, Hercules was to drive away an enormous flock of birds which gathered at a lake near the town of Stymphalos
Sixth Labour (Stymphalian Birds) - Heracles, Classical Mythology Heracles' sixth labour involved the daunting task of expelling the Stymphalian Birds from Arcadia Faced with their overwhelming numbers, he relied on Athena's gift of a rattle, which drove the birds into flight, allowing Heracles to shoot them down