Herakles fighting Geryon, detail of a black figure amphora attributed to the E Group

Herakles (left), wearing his lion skin and raising his club with his right hand, fights Geryon (right) depicted with three bodies each in full armor and bearing shields and spears. Eurytion sits on the ground (center) holding his right side with his left hand as if wounded.

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Herakles fights Geryon while Eurytion sits wounded. Attic black-figure amphora attributed to the E Group, discovered in Vulci. Louvre N3506. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen via Wikimedia Commons.

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Date

c. 540 BCE

Medium

terracotta

Location

Louvre

Image Credit

Wikimedia Commons