![]() ![]() (b) Acamas and Demophon bringing back Aethra. Each of the figures has a line drawn across the left ankle. Between them the fawn of Apollo looks up at the club of Heracles and shrinks backward. Apollo strides forward, seizing with his left hand the lebes of the tripod, and with his right the club of his opponent he also is nude, and wears his hair looped up (with a tress in front of the ear), and a laurel-wreath. ![]() Heracles, nude and bearded, wearing only a fillet, moves to left with the tripod held across him in his left hand, so that the legs pass on each side of his body he turns round as he moves, brandishing over his head in his right his club. (a) Contest of Heracles and Apollo for the tripod. A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851 Walters, H B Forsdyke, E J Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893.attributed to Myson (Greek vase painter and potter, active ca. ![]()
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