Explore the Pottery Database on The Classical Art Research Centre website.
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/index.htm (Links to an external site.)
Open the Pottery Database and select Basic Search
Narrow by “Subject -> Heroes and Myth -> Herakles -> Labours”
Pick any of the labors (Note that “labour” is the U.K. preferred spelling of our American-English “labor” and
means the same thing)
Select any vase
Write: a (minimum) two page (single-spaced) paper that addressed the following:
Date of production
Collection the pottery is now in
List at least one publication
Shape, fabric and technique
A detailed description and discussion of the image: What is the subject? How is it presented? How does this
image compare with other representations of this story?