Is it just me, or does Herakles’ expression here make it look like he’s only just realised he forgot to put pants on for his important meeting?

(source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/250814)

(By the way, the default focus for this photo was dead centre aka the penis, and I moved it to his worried little face, so…you’re welcome)

#AncientGreece #Hippolyte #Herakles #Classic #GreekMyth

Attributed to the Baltimore Painter | Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater | Greek, South Italian, Apulian | Late Classical | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bell, Malcolm. 1981. <i>Morgantina Studies: I The Terracottas</i>. p. 35, fig. 20, pl. 148, Princeton: Princeton University Press.<br/><br/>Touchette, Lori-Ann. 1995. <i>The Dancing Maenad Reliefs: Continuity and Change in Roman Copies</i>, Bulletin Supplement, Vol

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@wendypalmer Hippolyte just made a cutting remark about the size of his... bow.