Click here for an extensive collection of images and literary material on the Olympian gods. Students should be encouraged to identify the gods in a variety of situations and in both pottery and sculpture. Likewise students should read passages from literature related to the gods.
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In the resources for The Universal Hero is information on the twelve labours of Heracles being used for the eastern and western metopes of the temple of Zeus at Olympia. The first diagram on this page shows how the six metopes fit well above the pronaos - six were at the front and six were at the rear.
Hercules' battle with Achelous p. 39-40 has been recorded on Greek pottery. Click here, and here, for more information and images.
