Hippolyte and Hercules published June 12,1938 in the American Weekly Sunday magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Mr. Dulac’s second heroic fighting woman is also an Amazon Queen who lost in mortal combat to an ancient Greek hero. Hercules, the Olympic strong man, obeyed an oracle and served Eurystheus, king of Argos and Mycenae, who gave him twelve superhuman tasks. Ninth of these was to conquer Hippolyte, the Amazon, and steal her girdle for Eurystheus’s daughter Admete. This, a gift from Ares, the god of war, gave Hippolyte her warlike power.
In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,” as he was billed on the covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly Sunday magazine. The contract lasted 30 years and Dulac painted 107 watercolors for thirteen different series until his last Arabian Nights in 1951.
Size: 9311px × 13323px
Photo credit: © Albert Seligman / Alamy / Afripics
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