#herakles

You are going to live forever, Edgar.

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Mike as Orpheus

a lion's reprieve

[still image below]

Greek dinos (mixing vessel for wine and water) with ships on the inside of the rim, creating the illusion that the ships are sailing on the “wine-dark sea” (Homer, Odyssey). Additionally, other heroic scenes include Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion or Theseus battling the Minotaur.

520 - 515 BCE

[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Deianira, Wife of Hercules, Being Carried Off by the Centaur Nessus (1897)