[Hercules Wrestles Achelous] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Hercules Wrestles Achelous]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This image appears at the beginning of the ninth book. It depicts a fable within the ninth book which is the story of Hercules and Achelous. The demi-god Hercules and the river god Achelous fight each other for the right to marry a woman named Deianira. The fight between the two is depicted on a slab of stone in this image with Hercules on top of Achelous.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25027
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1819)
Image: mta_25027_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Hercules; Achelous; Mythology; Gods