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Heracles holding a club and a lion's skin is a bit of a trope. Do a quick search and you'll find dozens of etchings and statues. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/

by Luc 3y ago

Heracles holding a club and a lion's skin is a bit of a trope. Do a quick search and you'll find dozens of etchings and statues. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/372746 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/372746 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lansdowne_Herakles_Getty_Museum.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lansdowne_Herakles_G... Wikipedia has an illustration of the cloak outline but the reference is to a book I don't have access to.

krisoft 3y ago
> Heracles holding a club and a lion's skin is a bit of a trope. But this one does not have a lion’s skin. Maybe a man with a club is just a man with a club. This kind of thinking would lead a historian living in 3k to identify a picture of an astronaut as the mythical hero of Ironman.