This is the last installment in my series of posts on the Twelve Labors of Hercules in Why Myths Still Matter (see Parts 1 and 2). Here we consider the final five Herculean labors and their possible ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Paul Manship modeled many sculptures ...

In Homer, the mythical animal is merely identified as the hound of Haides: “When Herakles was sent down to Haides of the Gates, to hale back from Erebos (the Dark) the hound of the grisly death god ...

After Hercules murdered his family in a fit of madness — a tragedy engendered by the goddess Hera, who hated him — the demi-god and son of Zeus was ordered to do penance by performing 12 Labors for ...