Relief sculpture depicting Herakles Cleaning the Augean Stables. Olympia, Temple of Zeus metope. Circa 460 BCE.

Heracles cleaning the stables of Augean. The goddess Athena points with her hand at the spot where he should strike to create an opening at the foundations of the stable.
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.

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Art Athena Classical Heracles Metopes Mythology Olympia Olympia Museum Original Photo Peloponnese Relief Sculpture