Relief sculpture depicting Herakles Bringing the Stymphalian Birds to Athena. Temple of Zeus metope. Circa 460 BCE.
Metope from the west side of the temple of Zeus illustrates another Heracles labor, the killing of the Stymphalian Birds. He has just finished the task and presents Athena with the lifeless birds (have not survived). The goddess is seated on a rock barefoot.
The heads of the two figures are plaster replicas that replace the original parts that are in the Louvre museum in Paris (along with Heracles' right arm).
This photo depicts the sculpture from an angle below, closer to the way they were meant to be seen by viewers as they looked up at the temple's metopes high above the epistyle.
Exhibited in Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece.
Art Athena Classical Heracles Metopes Mythology Olympia Olympia Museum Original Photo Peloponnese Relief Sculpture