Athena, the Stymphalian Birds and Hercules

Athena, the Stymphalian Birds and Hercules
Metope from the Temple of Zeus. 456 BCE. Olympia Museum.

• Hercules has just wiped out the awful birds and presents to his proctectress Athena the loot of his hunt.
• Athena, without helmet, is seated with naked feet on a rock (= her acropolis?), clothed with a peplos and wearing the aegis.
• This scene is without equal in all Greek art.
• All but Hercules' trunk and legs are in Paris (Louvre).

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