Updated by Timothy Blake Donohoo on May 28, 2025: There are several differences between the Disney Hercules movie and the actual Greek myth, with these being apparent in the character's very name ...

Matt Ducklo (American, born 1973), Statue of Herakles seated on a rock, Imperial, 1st or 2nd A.D. Roman; adaptation of a Greek statue of the late 4th or early 3rd century B.C, Marble, Metropolitan ...

See the myth of Hercules carved into this ancient sarcophagus The Velletri Sarcophagus is a masterpiece of Roman funerary art. Fusing Asian and Greek styles, its mythological reliefs depict the ...

This sarcophagus offers an unusual perspective of the idea of death—not as an end, but as the beginning of a new path.” ...

Gods and heroes in late archaic Greek art / Karl Schefold with the assistance of Luca Giuliani ; translated by Alan Griffiths ... Pentheus -- Perseus, Bellerophon and Oedipus -- Herakles -- Theseus -- ...

A man smashed his way into the Dallas Museum of Art and damaged three ancient Greek artifacts dating to the 5th and 6th centuries B.C., museum officials said on Thursday.. The man, identified by ...

Fewer than 200 bronzes have survived from the Hellenistic and Classical ages, and about a quarter of those are on display, including some of the most moving and celebrated artworks from any age.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old statue of the Roman God Hercules at the site of the ancient Greek city of Philippi in Northern Greece. Philippi has long been believed to be one of ...

Around the corner from the Parthenon Sculptures at the British Museum, the lesser-known frieze from the temple of Apollo at Bassae depicts Greek battles of legend in panels of breathless action.