#classicalmythology

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1724 - 1805)

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Heracles accomplished many more feats and labours during his lifetime. He served on campaigns, made war and dispatched numerous robbers and wild beasts. The are countless narratives and legends in which these doings can be found in various forms. But the hero’s death is associated with his fatal marriage to Deianeira, a match which he had decided on during his descent into the underworld, where he met her brother Meleager and promised to marry his sister. That agreement, made in a place like the underworld, proved to be decisive. It so happened that when traveling together, Heracles and Deianeira had to cross the river Euenus, where the ferryman was the Centaur Nessus, who lived nearby. Nessus rowed Heracles across first, and then came back for Deianeira. He attempted to ravish her - but Heracles, hearing her cries from the opposite bank, fitted an arrow to his bow and wounded the Centaur in the heart. Nessus decided to take his revenge. He told Deianeira that if she wanted to keep Heracles forever, she should make a potion out of his blood.

Little Venus Digital photograph 2020

Original Animal Painting: “Weeping Centaur".

Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472 - 1553)

Themis, the goddess of justice, looked after the moral order among gods and men. She protected the weak and ill-treated. Themis possessed the gift of divination, and had her own oracle at Delphi before it was taken over by Apollo, to whom she passed on her oracular skills. Themis was the daughter of Uranus and Mother Earth, and the sister of Cronus, Rhea, Mnemosyne, Oceanus and the other Titans.