Metopes on the temple of Zeus

• 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.

The metopes on the East side

• 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

The Augean Stables

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.

StablesEarly classical

elements• Movement • Emotion• Anatomical detail• Drapery• Detail face, hair (on

Athena & Heracles)• action

Archaic• Arm positions?

Parallel?• Drapery• Poses

frontal,semi-profile

Local story

• 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’.

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,

Metopes on West side

The Nemean Lion

• 1st labour.• Young Heracles-

no beard.• Depicted after

the victory, resting and exhausted.

• An ‘after’ snapshot.

• Athena comforts him.

Cretan BullMyth – 7th Labour• Fire snorting white

bull. Wrestled and tamed by Heracles.

• 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.