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A maenad dances holding a thyrsus in her right hand. Copy after a Greek original sculpted in Athens at the end of the 5th century BC, traditionally attributed to Callimachus. One of four marble relief plaques, Museo Del Prado E00046. Image by Ana Belén Cantero Paz via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Hercules cleans the Augean stables by rerouting the rivers Alpheus and Peneus. Museo Arqueológica Nacional, Madrid 38315BIS. Photo by Luis García via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hercules hunts the Stymphalian Birds. Detail of The Twelve Labours Roman mosaic from Llíria, Spain. Museo Arqueológica Nacional, Madrid 38315BIS. Photo by Luis García via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0

Hercules stealing the Golden Apples from the Hesperides. Detail of The Twelve Labours Roman mosaic from Llíria, Spain. Museo Arqueológica Nacional, Madrid 38315BIS. Photo by Luis García via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Hercules capturing the Cretan Bull. Detail of The Twelve Labours Roman mosaic from Llíria, Spain. Museo Arqueológica Nacional, Madrid 38315BIS. Photo by Luis García via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0

Herakles presents the Erymanthian Boar to Eurystheus while Hermes and Iolaos look on. Black-figure amphora attributed to the Antimenes Painter, Louvre F 202.

Hercules subdues the man-eating Mares of Diomedes. Detail of a Roman mosaic from Llíria, Spain. Museo Arqueológica Nacional, Madrid, 38315BIS. Photo by Luis Garcia via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hercules fighting the Nemean lion. Ancient Roman sarcophagus, photo by Wolfgang Sauber via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Herakles captures the Hind of Keryneia. Attic black-figured neck-amphora, ca. 540–530 BC. Said to be from Vulci. British Museum 1843, 1103.80. Photo by Jastrow via Wikimedia Commons.