In no mood for more violence, however, Heracles ends up befriending the hydra, the Nemean lion, and others, amassing enough monstrous allies that, when the truth inevitably comes to light ...

I promised to share new books as the months roll in, and here are my June picks. Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell (June 17) ...

The Athenian artist Polygnotos took enormous care when he painted the dance between Herakles and a satyr on a ceramic wine jar. The red-figured stamnos was created around 430 B.C., probably for ...

quoting Melville on the sperm whale and then trying to convince Herakles that his penance can take the form of a lion-print T-shirt: “You wear it, you shoot yourself, I sell it, say Sotheby’s ...

According to director Peter Sellars, the first performance of Euripides' "The Children of Herakles" in Athens in ... is led on in manacles and shackles wearing orange prison garb.