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Hercules presents Athena with a Stymphalian Bird, West Metope 3, the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, c.470 BCE-c.457 BCE, Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Photo: Joanbanjo/Wikimedia Commons.
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In western celestial cartography there is a grouping of three birds which are the constellations of Cygnus the Swan, Aquila the Eagle, and Lyra the Lyre, all found north of the ecliptic. Within each constellation, the three bright stars of Deneb Adige in Cygnus, Altair in Aquila, and Vega in Lyra constitute what is known today as the Summer Triangl...
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... is from this precinct that one of the commanders carried to Rome the 'Labours of Heracles,' works of Lysippus, which were lying out of place where they were, because it was a deserted region. 14 Rather than Hercules chasing the Stymphalian Birds with krotala or a sling, he is shown on the metopes presenting the slain birds to Athene (Fig.3). These two depictions place Hercules at different ends of the narrative of the myth-on the amphorae he is at the beginning of the myth, while on the metopes he is at the end of the myth. ...
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... is from this precinct that one of the commanders carried to Rome the 'Labours of Heracles,' works of Lysippus, which were lying out of place where they were, because it was a deserted region. 14 Rather than Hercules chasing the Stymphalian Birds with krotala or a sling, he is shown on the metopes presenting the slain birds to Athene (Fig.3). These two depictions place Hercules at different ends of the narrative of the myth-on the amphorae he is at the beginning of the myth, while on the metopes he is at the end of the myth. ...