0528HeraclesChoice_VanDenHoecke

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Xenophon Mem. 2.1.21-34

Jan van den Hoecke, "Hercules between Vice and Virtue," 1647-1651, Uffizi, inv. 1442.

Painting previously attributed to Rubens. (Rubens executed a painting on the same theme, but it was destroyed in situ in 1731.)

Venus and Adonis with Mars, Cupid, and attendants, in a dark landscape

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.