Heracles and Nessus
We have all heard of the great and mighty Heracles, and all of his great adventures. This one myth grabs my attention because of the particular literary representation of the myth. All the stories and myth that we have hear about Heracles have always been of his accomplishment, like when he completed the twelve labors. This particular myth got my attention because, I have never heard of the myth of Heracles death. In Greek mythology the poetic and graphic representation do not necessarily represent each other, but appreciating a Greek vase with a particular literary work in mind enhance experience. The vase paint doesn’t always tell you the whole story, but it helps picture what is actually going on in that one moment …show more content…
Which makes perfects sense because it is foreshadowing the deaths of Heracles and of Nessus. In this myth Heracles and Nessus both meet their end to each other’s hand. Heracles kills him with a poison arrow, and Nessus kill Heracles indirectly by giving his poison blood to his wife and telling her lies, and make her give it to Heracles which causes his death. So a vase that markers people grave makes perfect sense in this case. It is probably a vase made for Heracles grave once he was buried, to remind you of how great of a man he was that he could single-handed kill a …show more content…
The vase it self has tells the story of the death of Heracles, but with out the poem it would be hard to comprehend, the drawing on the vase. The best way of representing a myth would be with literature. The writer had better tools to explain what really is going on is the story, in literature they could go into the little detail. They had and unlimited amount of space to write anything they like. In pottery you only get a certain amount of space to express your work of art, and you need more then just a pen or pencil to complete your masterpiece. Sometime the minor details may be left out for the lack of space. The only big difference is that in the vase Heracles has the centaur held up with his sword on his back. Not like in the poem Heracles does not have any hands on combat with the centaur. He just kills him with one of his poison
We have all heard of the great and mighty Heracles, and all of his great adventures. This one myth grabs my attention because of the particular literary representation of the myth. All the stories and myth that we have hear about Heracles have always been of his accomplishment, like when he completed the twelve labors. This particular myth got my attention because, I have never heard of the myth of Heracles death. In Greek mythology the poetic and graphic representation do not necessarily represent each other, but appreciating a Greek vase with a particular literary work in mind enhance experience. The vase paint doesn’t always tell you the whole story, but it helps picture what is actually going on in that one moment …show more content…
Which makes perfects sense because it is foreshadowing the deaths of Heracles and of Nessus. In this myth Heracles and Nessus both meet their end to each other’s hand. Heracles kills him with a poison arrow, and Nessus kill Heracles indirectly by giving his poison blood to his wife and telling her lies, and make her give it to Heracles which causes his death. So a vase that markers people grave makes perfect sense in this case. It is probably a vase made for Heracles grave once he was buried, to remind you of how great of a man he was that he could single-handed kill a …show more content…
The vase it self has tells the story of the death of Heracles, but with out the poem it would be hard to comprehend, the drawing on the vase. The best way of representing a myth would be with literature. The writer had better tools to explain what really is going on is the story, in literature they could go into the little detail. They had and unlimited amount of space to write anything they like. In pottery you only get a certain amount of space to express your work of art, and you need more then just a pen or pencil to complete your masterpiece. Sometime the minor details may be left out for the lack of space. The only big difference is that in the vase Heracles has the centaur held up with his sword on his back. Not like in the poem Heracles does not have any hands on combat with the centaur. He just kills him with one of his poison