Suggestion: Awesome.Classical Mythology

This is a branch of Image Suggestion thread for Awesome.Classical Mythology.

• Public domain images:
  • Apollo slaying Python◊ (detail from a Eugene Delacroix painting) (crop found by Amonimus)
  • Different crop◊ from the same painting also by Amonimus
• Images we wound need permission for:
  • Hercles slaying Hydra (by GENZOMAN on DeviantArt)
  • Zeus and Typhon (by tipitai on DeviantArt)

Edited by m-95 on Apr 15th 2022 at 6:42:29 AM

Ooening

I think public domain is sufficient for us to find stuff to illustrate this page with (and honestly more appropriate to take from the millennia's worth of Classical myth depictions imo).

Crop of one of Peter Paul Rubens' many takes on Hercules V. Nemean Lion:

Crop of Achilles Slays Hector also by Rubens:

Edited by Synchronicity on Apr 15th 2022 at 7:06:32 AM

I'd say lion wrestling is the most obviously awesome here even when you don't know the source material. 3.1

3.1

x6 While I like the Hercules vs. the Lion one, I feel that the Apollo vs. Python one looks more "grand" so to speak. The light shining through the top hilights that. But the Lion works too.

The most important thing for an image (given that it illustrates the trope in the first place) is clarity. Hercules vs. Lion is pretty straightforward, while the Python one has a lot more things going on, making it more difficult to understand.

Fair enough

3.1.

3.1 is good. It's got enough consensus, so it's in and tagged. Caption beyond just citing what it is?

Caption suggestion:

"Jesus Christ, it's a lion"? Nah, I think Herc has this one down.

(unless Synchronicity has a different idea for a caption)

No consensus on a caption, locking.