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Alexander the Great as a Young Herakles at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Title
Marble head of Alexander the Great as young Hercules


Artist
Unknown Greek sculptor


Date
Hellenistic, late 4th-3rd century B.C.


Medium
Marble


Dimensions
x


Accession #
L.2014.62.3


Credit
On loan from a Private Collection



This striking head depicts a young man wearing the scalp of a lion as a helmet, the lion pelt being the signature attribute of the hero Hercules after he slayed the Nemean lion. A similar representation of a youthful, beardless Hercules in a lion-head cap was employed on coins issued by the Macedonian king Alexander the Great to allude to his descent from the mythical hero; it was later adopted in the coinage of the Hellenistic kings to represent Alexander himself.
 

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