Great tower of Tiryns, Greece. Birthplace of Hercules – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Great tower of Tiryns, Greece. Birthplace of Hercules
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Few stops on the stereoscope tour of Greece carried as much legend as the citadel of Tiryns, which the caption calls the birthplace of Hercules. Greek tradition more often places Hercules's birth at Thebes, but Tiryns was the kingdom where he served King Eurystheus, and its walls gave the myth a physical anchor. Those walls, built of enormous unworked stones, were so impressive to later Greeks that they attributed them to the Cyclopes. Underwood & Underwood issued this card around 1897, when such views of ancient Greek sites were popular with armchair travelers.
| Created / published | c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood (J.F. Jarvis, publisher). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mythology--Hercules; Shepherds; Photog. I.; (2); Gr.--Tiryns; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,410 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140323 |
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