Rostam's Seven Labours
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The Seven Tales of Rustam were a series of acts carried out by the greatest of the Iranian heroes, Rostam. The story was retold by Ferdowsi in his epic poem, the Shahnameh. The Seven Labours were seve
The First Labour
Rostam slays the dragon; 17th-century Persian manuscript
Rostam kills Arzhang in Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp
Rustam Kills the White Demon, Div-e Sepid
Labours of Hercules
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The Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes, whose name was later romanised as Hercules. They were accomplished in th
Rostam's Seven Labours
…Esfandiyār's Seven Labors, another tale from the Shahnameh with the same structure. Labours of Hercules, an ancient Greek tale of another Indo-European hero showing similarities to those of Rostam and Esfandiyār. Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis trans…
Roman relief (3rd century AD) depicting a sequence of the Labours, representing from left to right the Nemean lion, the Lernaean Hydra, the Erymanthian Boar, the Ceryneian Hind, the Stymphalian birds, the Girdle of Hippolyta, the Augean stables, the Cretan Bull and the Mares of Diomedes
Roman mosaic (3rd century CE) showing the Twelve Labours from Llíria (Valencia, Spain). Now in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional.
The Heracles Papyrus, a fragment of a 3rd-century CE Greek manuscript of a poem about the Labours of Heracles (Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2331)
The Origin of the Milky Way by Jacopo Tintoretto, 1575