Amphora with Herakles and Apollo

ca. 530 BCE (Archaic) H: 16 5/16 in. (41.5 cm) Citation Source image

One side of this amphora depicts the contest between Herakles and Apollo for the Delphic tripod. According to myth, Herakles traveled to the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi to consult the oracle, but when no answer was forthcoming, the hero seized Apollo's tripod, prompting a st...

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Walters Art Museum, 1960, by purchase.
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