Relief of Hercules and the Cretan Bull
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Relief of Hercules and the Cretan Bull
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Published 2017-04-11T16:19:48+00:00
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The marble relief depicts Hercules attacking the Cretan Bull, to which he was sent to kill as his seventh labour.
Heracles was sent to capture the bull by Eurystheus as his seventh task. He sailed to Crete, whereupon Minos gave Heracles permission to take the bull away as it had been wreaking havoc on Crete by uprooting crops and leveling orchard walls. Heracles captured the bull, and then shipped it to Eurystheus in Tiryns. The bull later broke loose and wandered into Marathon, becoming known as the "Marathonian Bull". Eurystheus then sent Heracles to bring back the man-eating Mares of Diomedes (the next task).
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| Date de publication | 11/04/2017 |
| Complexité | Very Easy |
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| Titre | Relief of Hercules and the Cretan Bull |
| Date | ca. AD 100 |
| Accession | N°invent: NC |
| Medium | Marble |
| Localisation | Mougins Museum of Classical Art |
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