0532NOTHeraclesCacus

0532NOTHeraclesCacus_Kern

ogcma@byu

ClCv241

Mastery

MythMatters

360-view of P'zza della Signoria
Vergil Aeneid 8.185-270

Circle of Leonhard Kern, "Hercules Defeating Cacus," ivory, 164; private collection, South German

image from mutualart.com

Ivory sculpture depicting a muscular, bearded figure raising a weapon to strike a kneeling figure on a rocky base

V. Bush, "Bandinelli's 'Hercules and Cacus' and Florentine Traditions," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 35 (1980) 163-206. JSTOR URL: http://
www.jstor.org/stable/4238682

cf. 0532HeraclesCacus_Bandinelli

0532NOTHeraclesCacus_Goltzius

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.