The Ancient Way of Life

~ Hercules.

Place of origin: Greece

Date: 1st century В.С.

Medium: Marble

~ Ptolemaic Ruler in the Guise of Hercules.

Date: 2nd century B.C.

Culture: Graeco-Egyptian

Medium: Bronze

~ Torso of Hercules.

Place of origin: Rome

Date: A.D. 2nd century

Medium: Fine-grained marble and Carrara marble

~ Campana relief with Hercules fighting the Lernean Hydra. Culture: Roman Date: 50 B.C.-A.D. 50 Medium: Fired clay

~ Cameo with Hercules and the Nemean Lion within a Garland. Date: ca. A.D. 1220–40 Culture: South Italian Medium: Sardonyx with modern gold frame.

~ The Hope Herakles (Hercules). Place of origin: Rome (?) Culture: Roman Date: A.D. 2nd or 3rd century copy after a Greek original of ca. 370–350 B.C. by Skopas Medium: Marble

~Hercules and Cecrops. Place: Italy (?) Date: 8th century Material: bronze

~Mosaic Representing Herakles/Hercules and Hesperides.

Description: Hercules is brandishing a club with lion’s skin as a shield. He attacks a dragon, which is curled around a tree in the garden of the Hesperides. On the right is a nymph in yellow chiton and green himation holding a branch of tree with right hand, border of scrolls in white on black.

~Carved Signet Ring ‘Hercules’. Place: Bosporus Date: Late 4th century BC Place of finding: Krasnodar Territory,Taman Peninsula, between Khutor Artyukhov and Tsymbaly Mountain Archaeological site: Artyukhovsky barrow Material: gold

~Hercules. Italy, Rome, Early Imperial period Ca. 30 B.C. -A.D. 20

~Bust of the emperor Commodus as Hercules. Marble. Ca. 185 CE. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo dei Conservatori (Musei capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori)