| Heracles of Antikythera | |
| Movement: | Hellenistic |
| Condition: | Head missing; marble eroded |
| Medium: | Marble |
| Subject: | Heracles resting |
| Year: | 4th century BC |
| Other Language 1: | Greek |
| Other Title 1: | Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ηρακλής των Αντικυθήρων |
| Height Metric: | 2.50 |
| Metric Unit: | m |
| Owner: | Greece |
| City: | Athens |
| Museum: | National Archaeological Museum |
| Website: | https://www.namuseum.gr/ |
| Catalogue: | No 5742 |
The Heracles of Antikythera (el|Ηρακλής των Αντικυθήρων) is a large ancient Greek marble sculpture of the Greek hero Heracles, found in the wreck of Antikythera among several other findings, and now housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.[1]
After spending centuries at the bottom of the sea, the sculpture is eroded with fragments missing.[2] It was retrieved gradually, its discovery made in several stages: the body was brought to light by divers who discovered the wreck of Antikythera in 1901, while his left hand was found in 2016 and his (presumed) head in 2022.[1] The body is 2.50 m. tall and its unattached head is 65 cm, making it a larger-than-life statue.
The sculpture represents Heracles at rest, leaning on his club; it is a Hellenistic copy of the Heracles of Lysippus (dated around 320 BC), of the same type as the Farnese Hercules.[2] [3]