Identifier: handbookofarchae00west (find matches)
Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of hischaracter are disclosed by his relation to Omphale—the hero spinningin transparent female drapery, and the voluptuous woman in heroicnudity, with club and lions hide. He is supposed to be representedin the famous masterpiece, the Torso Belvidere, whose postureentirely agrees with that of the hero reposing among satyrs.Hercules here rested on his right arm, in which he probably held acup (skyphos), and had the left doubled over his head. The mostcelebrated statue of Hercules is the so-called Hercules Farnese,which bears the name of the sculptor inscribed on it—Glycon, theAthenian. From its frequent repetition in bronze and marble, ongems and coins, it must have been universally admired in ancienttimes. It represents Hercules resting on his club. It is chiefly MYTHOLOGY OF SCULPTURE. 197 remarkable for the anatomical detail displayed in the body and thelimbs. Flaxman remarks that statues of a much earlier date havethe proportions of common men, and that a series of them may be
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found in various collections, gradually increasing to the terrificstrength of the Glyconic statue. Busts :— British Museum.Statue :— Lansdown Collection. Young Hercules. 198 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. Elder Hercules.Busts :— In the British Museum. Statues :— The Farnese Hercules, Naples. The Torso Bel vide re, Vatican. Hercules and Anteus, Pitti Palace, Florence. Small statues in the British Museum. Thkseus.In sculpture, not less than mythology, the heroic form of Theseuswas, as early as thePhidian school, fashioned after that of Hercules ;he received, however, a less compact structure of body, one whichespecially indicated activity in wrestling, a less compressed andmore graceful form of countenance, and short but less crisped hair;his costume is usually the lions hide and club, sometimes also thechlamys and petasus, after the manner of Attic ephebi. His contestwith the Amazons, and his vanquishing the Minotaur, form thechief subjects of his myth.Statues :— Theseus, Pediment

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