[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Bombardier]

Shoot....I thought this was to honor the C-130.....

[Charles Henrickson]

Panayiotis Valmas, the head restorer. . . .

Looks like he's restoring more than the head.

[tet68]

descriptions by the poet Pindar some 2,500 years ago

Imagine that.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[Tax-chick]

Very cool! It's neat when they find something like this, than can be linked to classical writing. Brings us all together, somehow.

[stainlessbanner]

We're still finding beads, bones and coins.

That's paydirt if your an archeologist.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

When they dig up XENA PRINCESS warrior let me know!

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't know why a Greek paper is calling him "Hercules," which is the Roman version of the name Heracles (Herakles).

The reference to Pindar seems to be to a passage in the 4th Isthmian Ode:

"In his [Herakles'] honor, above the Elektran Gates
we citizens prepare a feast
and a newly built circle of altars and multiply
burnt offerings for the eight bronze-clad men who died,
the sons that Megara, Kreon's daughter, bore to him.
For them at sunset the flame rises
and burns all night long
kicking heaven with its savor of smoke."

(Translated by William H. Race)

In Pausanias' Description of Greece (2nd century A.D.), in describing Thebes (9.11) he says, "There is a Herakleion here, with a white stone statue by Xenokritos and Eubios of Thebes, called the Champion, and an ancient wooden idol the Thebans believe is by Daidalos." There is a footnote in the Penguin translation of Pausanias to the effect that the church of Hagios Nikolaos stands on this site.

[Mentos]

I'm still burying the beads bones and coins, Herc! Beads bones and coins!

[FreedomCalls]

If you remember your Greek mythology, Hercules was considered the strongest god around. During his 11th labor, Antaeus challenged Hercules to a wrestling match. Hercules knew that Antaeus drew his strength from the ground so all he would have to do would be to hold him up in the air and he would win. So he did, and Antaeus being held upside down and completely off the ground, had to grab onto whatever he could to try to get down.

The Italian Rennaissance sculptor Vincenzo de' Rossi sculpted the event for the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence:

Who said Rennaissance art was boring?

[longtermmemmory]

coool bump!

[Constitution Day]

Mehercule!

[Cultural Jihad]

Objects discovered date from the third millennium BC to the late Byzantine era.

A google search shows: "The period known as the Late Byzantine lasted from 1261 until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottoman Turks."

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

"The illegitimate son of almighty Zeus", Herakles was, like Zeus, completely fictional. ['Civ's disclaimer service]

[Mike Fieschko]

Shrine To Hercules Unearthed

When are they getting around to the Shrine to Hercules Unchained, the Shrine to Hercules and the Queen of Sheba, the Shrine to Hercules and the Captive Women ...?

[Ichneumon]

APPanayiotis Valmas, the head restorer at the Museum of Thebes, is pictured last month brushing a tiny ancient bronze statue of the mythological hero Hercules slaying a lion.

Looks more to me like Hercules is doing the Tango with the lion...

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Thanks for posting this article. Archaelogy is a very interesting field.