Heracles’ seventh Labour – the Cretan Bull

March 26, 2023
An illustration based on the metope at Olympia of Heracles fighting to subdue the Cretan Bull. Like the metope, the figures cross over, and Heracles is raising his club to hit it, although it's already been tethered by its nose and he holds the reigns. the bull is trying to escape out of the metope. The bull is huge, the same size as Heracles. Unlike the metope, Heracles is fully dressed in tunic and lion skin, and is saying 'I think a stranglehold would be better' - the myth tells us this is how he subdued the bull. By Greek Myth Comix

Read more about the myth and the metope in the accompanying post to revise for GCSE Classical Civilisation:
greekmythcomix.com/2023/03/26/heracles-seventh-labour-the-cretan-bull/

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